02/08/08

A list of Cartoon Girls I Wanna Nail. And it's on Geocities, no less...I had no idea that was still around and operational. Maybe this is the only page left, the end result of Yahoo's $3.6 billion investment. (link)

Why take the hands-off approach to management? Taking someone else's idea and increasing the quality by 5% occurs at the price of a 50% decrease in their commitment to execution. More at the Harvard Business blog, which adds: One of the greatest l ...

Rebecca Mead on young composer Nico Muhly in the New Yorker. When Muhly composes, the last thing he thinks about is the actual notes that musicians will play. He begins with books and documents, YouTube videos and illuminated manuscripts. He meditat ...

NOTE: don't read any further if you haven't watched episode 6 of The Wire's 5th season. SPOILERS. I've been meaning to write a post on my thoughts about season 5 of The Wire but luckily Heaven and Here beat me to much of what I was thinking. The hig ...

What do you get when you cross an ouroboros with a Möbius strip? M.C. Escher knew: The dreaded Mouroboröbius! Feast your eyes on this bit of loveliness. (link)

Greg Storey : Goodbye Mitt. - Don't let humility hit your ass on the way out. Tags : Politics

Jeremy Zawodny : A Microsoft secret plan for Yahoo's open source? - A Microsoft secret plan for Yahoo's open source?: now that's just funny... on multiple levels! Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : Wither Dreamweaver - Wither Dreamweaver: "I’m utterly appalled by how bad Dreamweaver CS3 is." Tags : links

wearehugh : HDR - a photoset on Flickr Tags : flickr hdr

wearehugh : Scientists Glue Wii Remote Parts to Flying Lemurs : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti - blogspam, but linked solely for the best headline ever Tags : science

"I’m utterly appalled by how bad Dreamweaver CS3 is."

now that's just funny... on multiple levels!

some good advice in there, really

I sorta maybe half buy this argument... you?

excellent cat advice from The Humane Society of the United States

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Turning physics on its ear: Could this be a perpetual motion machine, finally? […] they have demonstrated the Perepiteia to a number of labs and universities across North America, including the University of Virginia, Michigan State Univers ...

Once, sure. Twice, Maybe. Three? Four!?!: A good roll-up of news and theories about all the Internet cable cutting going on lately, full of good links. On a related note, Iran has recently announced plans to move to trade oil with the Euro rather ...

Two microphones, a card table, NPR's Alex Chadwick, and intimate stories from passers-by. In this episode, a young woman tells Alex about her journey forward from her difficult teen years.

The Super Bowl Commercials are my favorite part! Here are my picks for my favorite commercials.

dhavleak writes "Wired has an article from Bruce Schneier on the intersection of security technologies and vendor lock-ins in IT. 'With enough lock-in, a company can protect its market share even as it reduces customer service, raises prices, refuses ...

coondoggie passed us a NetworkWorld article about an initiative by the Senate to transform the Do Not Call list into a permanent institution. Originally individuals on the list were to have their place on the list revoked; up to a third of the people ...

Septimus writes "At this weeks ISSCC, IBM announced that the Cell CPU used in the PlayStation 3 will soon make the transition to IBM's next-gen 45nm high-k process. 'The 45nm Cell will use about 40 percent less power than its 65nm predecessor, and it ...

Mac writes "PC World ran the final version of Windows Vista SP1 through a first set of tests last night. Here's the bottom line: 'File copying, one of the main performance-related complaints from Vista users, was significantly faster. But other tests ...

Don't squeeze the Sherman writes "At a conference last week, RIAA president Cary Sherman said he didn't support mandatory filtering by ISPs, but in a video clip posted by Public Knowledge, Sherman offers a far more troubling 'solution': installing fi ...

An anonymous reader writes "A company called Modu has come up with an innovative take on a mobile phone. Instead of giving you the finished product, you get a base unit and a choice of 'sleeves', which you can plug the base unit into and turn it into ...

John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering campaign. "I must now stand aside, for our party and our country," Romney told conservatives.

The Senate passed an economic rescue plan Thursday that would speed $600 to $1,200 in rebates to most taxpayers and $300 checks to low-income people, including disabled veterans and the elderly.

CIA Director Michael Hayden cast doubt on the legality of waterboarding on Thursday, a day after the White House said the harsh interrogation tactic has saved American lives and could be used in the future.

The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.

The CEO of the world's largest philanthropy would have stepped aside two years ago if co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates hadn't asked her help to manage its growth after billionaire Warren Buffett asked them to give away his money as well, Patty Stones ...

Reuters - In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise.

John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering campaign. "I must now stand aside, for our party and our country," Romney told conservatives.

A Canadian woman narrowly avoided getting hit by several chunks of ice that crashed through her bedroom ceiling Thursday, likely dropped from a passing airplane, officials said.

A traffic judge apologized to a man who had been hounded for 17 years by officials trying to get his similarly named twin brother to resolve $1,800 in unpaid tickets and fines.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney ended his struggling U.S. presidential bid on Thursday, clearing the way for John McCain to become the all-but-certain Republican nominee and begin mending fences with disgruntled party conservatives.

While sitting in the company of three male friends last weekend watching Hustler's "Campus Confessions" (excellent btw), it came to me that enjoying porn with and in the company of other men is a delicate business. One wrong move can ruin, what was u ...

Mitt Romney "steps aside" in his bid to become the Republican party candidate for the White House.

I’ve written a book, called Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, which is coming out in a month. It’s coming out first in the US and UK (and in translation later this year in Holland, Portugal and Brazil, K ...

Until his first trip to decadent Rio de Janeiro in 2003, sex tourist and freelance writer Joe Diamond thought Copacabana was just a song by Barry Manilow. But after several return trips as well as stops in brothels and assorted subequatorial fleshpot ...

Ask has launched a service called BigNews, Search Engine Land reports. It's a bit like Google News -- automatically aggregating stories from thousands of sources -- but emphasizes a "BigFactor" score assigned to every story. (The BigFactor number loo ...

Not sure since when Gmail is supporting the Shift key in certain situations, but I find it very useful. The following two examples work in the normal version of Gmail -- not the basic HTML one, but the one with all features: Hold down the Shift ...

A list of Cartoon Girls I Wanna Nail. And it's on Geocities, no less...I had no idea that was still around and operational. Maybe this is the only page left, the end result of Yahoo's $3.6 billion investment. (link)

I'm working on redesigning Waxy today, so no huge article. Instead, a roundup of brand new updates to posts from my first week of full-time blogging. Colin's Bear Animation Colin emailed to let me know that his inadequate former professor no longe ...

Interested on how the gummint is using Spectral Sensing Technology do defend us from attacks? You'll feel much safer after viewing the Futuristic Sensor System Dramatic Research Presentation of the 2008 International Symposium on Spectral Sensing R ...

The yearly Best of Baltimore awards released by Baltimore City Paper have been providing a guide to Charm City for over a decade. You can find the best independent bookstores, theater, nachos, and plumbers. Or perhaps your tastes run more exotic-- ...

Cleveland is dying, and it is beautiful. A collection of stark photographs of Cleveland as it is dying before our very eyes.

The Feel Tank. "We are a feel tank, but this does not mean that we do not think. We are governed by outrage that the desires and demands for a less bad life and a better good life continue to go unrecognized."

[insert link to discussion of your pet issue here]

Bush and his GOP Daddies continue to maintain we live in an electoral dictatorship, where the president and his people are above the law.And the Villagers don't care.

Something Awful eschews humor in this week's Comedy Goldmine for gibbering madness. "I know you were coming here expecting to laugh at the Comedy Goldmine this week. Well, you're screwed....

"It's the Bizaro Ethel Merman." "She's like a garbage bag full of fighting Muppets back from the dentist." "It's like the little exorcist girl stung by bees." "The first time...

A short film in which a Paris Hilton-esque socialite is revealed to be the architect of her own loopy attempts at notoriety, and who will go as far as she...

In a year the Democrats should win the White House in a walk, we've got a perfect storm that could put a Republican there. — — With the Republican nominee all but decided, the Democrats are split down the middle across racial, gender and ...

We know who they go after, but who won't they touch and why? — — It would be easy to put together a scorecard and a list of Web 2.0 luminaries who haven't graced their pages. — — We might find out who's sleeping with the edito ...

.... if i can stave off sleep # 10:26 Yay, good book. and i said a couple of hours # 18:43 8 hours later, i am full of fail # 19:51 hrm, i may get completely wasted tonight # 20:44 listening to my Mika station on Pandora # Automatically shipped ...

.... Valentines, yes :o ? Get your own valentinrNot much else new except school crap. Also, caught up with Reborn a few days ago (love Squalo <333) and watching Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Must find the 2nd season episodes that've ....

I'm heading out to Tokyo tomorrow in advance of next week's Shoeisha Developers Summit. See you later! Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

You know what I really like? TripIt.com. It's amazingly simple. You take all those travel confirmation emails that you get from your travel agent, hotels, car rental agencies, etc, and you just forward them to plans@tripit.com. That's all you have to ...

I just found out the followup to his 1991 debut was announced right before my entry; nice timing!  

they hired and paid Leslie Neilsen to voice act, but political issues derailed the game  

holy cow, that's some mighty big guns  

the designer of the first Apple logo gave up 10% of the company for an $800 payout  

debuting at SXSW Film with a huge chiptune concert? count me in  

very surprising, considering the rampant homophobia on Xbox Live  

what hath Antares wrought?  

Pressure Printing has two beautiful new framed color prints of paintings by Glenn Barr and Amy Crehore. Link...

DIY splatterpunk film directors take note, Erik Beck from Indy Mogul posted an Instructable on making a cheap yet effective decapitation effect for your next slasher movie. The ingredients include: a test dummy, fake head (we used styrofoam), foam, l ...

During WWII, group of American pilots founded The International Association of Turtles in an English pub. The basic rules for membership:"You must think with a clean mind and you must be willing to stick your neck out for yourself and for other peopl ...

For the 22nd time, Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for computer-based art, calls for entries in the categories Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, Digital Musics, the Media.Art.R ...

Brookline's public wifi had so much promise. But tonight, when I was sitting in the high school auditorium trying to connect, I found out that the system is only available by the month, which means that it competes with the local wired Internet provi ...

DDR might not still be all the rage with Wii Fit around, but its health benefits are legitimate according to the American Council on Exercise (ACE). We just came across and interesting study from late 2007 testing people ages 12-25 in which ACE calcu ...

I posted the music video for the Simlish mix of Natasha Bedingfield's Pocketful of Sunshine a bit earlier today. Now Electronic Arts has released the full soundtrack for their upcoming FreeTime expansion pack which includes Simlish mixes recordings o ...

Coney Island is pretty quiet this time of year. I like it better this way.

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The Natural World Museum (NWM) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have revealed plans to bring their innovative and highly celebrated art exhibit, "Melting Ice / A Hot Topic: Envisioning Change", to the Principality of Monaco in hon ...

The gorgeous Greta Garbo was from Sweden. Uma Thurman, Candice Bergen, and the wide-eyed Gyllenhaall sibs all trace their pretty genes back to that icy country, too. We've got to say, as a people, the Swedes are pretty smokin'. ...

German scientists are using a tattoo gun to deliver potent DNA vaccines, which may be medicine's best defense against fast-moving diseases like bird flu.