02/09/08

Speaking of podcasts, The New Yorker has a couple of interesting ones on iTunes: readings from the Fiction section and from the weekly Comment essay in Talk of the Town. (link)

Radiolab has been getting some love from quite a few of the sites I read (Snarkmarket originally turned me on to the show), so I thought I'd offer mine as well. I don't listen to the radio or to podcasts, but lately I've made an exception for Radiola ...

Jason Polan, who you may remember from the series of drawings he did of every piece of art in the MoMA, has a unique 20x200 offering available. The larger editions are drawings and copies of his hand while the $2000 edition of 2 is described thusly: ...

Surprisingly, the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Disorder is a real, no-fooling psychological behavior. Here's an abstract from Neurology magazine briefly describing it: The "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" were described by George Beard in 1878. They had a ...

Why I love Wikipedia, reason #4193: the entry for buttock cleavage. Also called the "coin slot", "builder's bum", "plumber's butt", or "Dagenham smile". (link)

factoryjoe : Why I'm excited about the Google Social Graph API - Bokardo - "The truth is that Facebook, Amazon, or even Twitter never had a good glimpse of my true social network anyway. Therefore, they had an incomplete social gr ...

factoryjoe : The danger of social markers made public (more on the Social Graph API) - Bokardo - 'But I'm reminded again by the age-old saying: "the best way to prevent secrets from getting out is to not have any in the first pl ...

Andy Baio : TorrentFreedom to offer completely anonymous and unrestricted BitTorrent - built on top of OpenVPN, the pay service bypasses any firewall and keeps no identifying logs, including billing

Andy Baio : Previously on Lost - band recaps each episode in song

jcgregorio : Mythbusting the †˜Google generation' report « Jon Udell

it's a webcam aggregation and broadcast thingy...

"Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says" hahaha... someone needs a tin foil hat!

"File copying is not as easy as it might first appear..." huh? Does linux deal with all this shit?

"...as I look to my left I see the dark shape of (what I immediately recognise as) a Justice Department MD-80 bearing down on us as it crosses 27R inbound from runway 29, exiting at our location..." sounds like, uh... fun?

"uch warnings make sense in traditional software development, but they make little sense on the web because the warning would be displayed on the wrong end of the network." yep...

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

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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.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the College Opportunity and Affordability Act passed through the House today with a vote of 354-58 and the anti-P2P provision is intact. That provision would require univers ...

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Intel is being sued over a patent infringement alleged to be in the Core 2 Duo microprocessor design. 'The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is charging Intel Corporation with patent infringement of ...

Lucas123 writes "Yahoo this week opened up a new monthly Web Hosting service for small and medium sized businesses that allows unlimited hosted storage capacity and bandwidth for $11.95 a month. Yahoo had been charging $12 a month for 5GB of disk spa ...

An anonymous reader writes to tell us CNET is currently running a story asking 'Is Linus Torvalds even speaking for Linux anymore?' It examines both Torvalds' recent public statements on other operating systems and his current approach towards Linux. ...

Tom's Hardware has a detailed benchmark and analysis of Intel's new Skulltrail offering, taking a look at 8 vs 4 cores. The comparison uses games, A/ V applications, office applications, and 3D rendering tools to help demonstrate benchmarks. "We were ...

Techdirt points out that while there have been many lawsuits over someone's Google-rank, a Chinese professor is suing Google and Yahoo for removing all mention of him in China. "Google and Yahoo, of course, have agreed to play by local rules in China ...

President Bush, dispensing hugs freely as he comforted tornado survivors Friday, acknowledged the "incredible sadness and worry" he saw in their eyes and said the nation stood ready to help.

Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Guantanamo detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for men held in isolation 22 hours a day.

The heck with Congress' big stimulus bill. The way to get the country out of recession — and most people think we're in one — is to get the country out of Iraq, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.

Yahoo Inc.'s board reportedly called a special meeting Friday to discuss the slumping Internet pioneer's first response to Microsoft Corp.'s week-old takeover bid, setting the stage for a quick resolution or months of acrimonious wrangling.

Some call it "Wiihabilitation." Nintendo's Wii video game system, whose popularity already extends beyond the teen gaming set, is fast becoming a craze in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injur ...

AFP - With no clear winner after months of wooing voters, the tight race for the Democratic White House nomination may leave the choice between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to "super-delegates."

If you're sad and shopping, watch your wallet: A new study shows people's spending judgment goes out the window when they're down, especially if they're a bit self-absorbed.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man with a mustache who is pulling in front of female drivers and then jumping out of his vehicle while wearing women's underwear, a garter belt and black high-heel boots.

Workers responding to neighbors' complaints of a bad smell coming from an apartment in western England discovered a body that lay decomposing on a couch for years while another resident lived there, officials said Friday.

LAFAYETTE, Tennessee (Reuters) - President George W. Bush toured tornado-battered parts of the U.S. South on Friday and pledged to help the region rebuild after the worst rampage of twisters in nearly a quarter-century killed 58 people.

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 ...

President Putin says a new arms race is under way and that Nato is not listening to Russia's concerns.

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 ...

How would we like to celebrate the end of this long sleepless election-filled week? The same way we want to celebrate everything—a champagne-fueled all-girl orgy. Of course, we don't have five sexy hot female pornstar legends on hand (or even c ...

Why do you think Google obfuscates their client side code before serving it to us... like much of their JavaScript or HTML? Here's a quote from a typical JS file of theirs, missing line breaks, self-explanatory variables and so on (which we can assum ...

The World Press Photo organization announced the winning photos of 2007. You can also see the winning entries since 1955. [Via Spiegel.] Update: Their photos are slightly small, so I created a gallery with bigger versions of the photos. [Hat tip t ...

Speaking of podcasts, The New Yorker has a couple of interesting ones on iTunes: readings from the Fiction section and from the weekly Comment essay in Talk of the Town. (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 ...

Lego Eddie Izzard (full set here).

Images of Asia l India then and now video l Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896 - 1920.

The Belgian version of Russian roulette.

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While the "pimped out" comment was bad, in and of itself it's the kind of thing I could give a pass on based on the fact that sometimes stupid shit comes out of your mouth on live TV. It wasn't something he should have said, obviously, but there pro ...

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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...

I hope the Republicans come prepared to debate health care this year, and they leave the platitudes and slogans home. — — Enough of us have been seriously sick, or know someone who has, or have family members who have been or are now. Th ...

— — McCain loves him some baggage. — —

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....Mitt Romney has many, many faults, but he's not dumb. And after a successful career in the private sector, he probably learned very well that it's a mistake to throw good money after bad. So, he's exiting stage right.....

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 ...

band recaps each episode in song  

built on top of OpenVPN, the pay service bypasses any firewall and keeps no identifying logs, including billing  

what an odd site; Singapore e-zine posts rare bootlegs weekly  

I'd only seen this used for evil before  

including the original animation that inspired the game; there's much more FROM DMA, too  

all new galleries get keys appended to the incremented URLs  

Usenet legend's brilliantly funny writings  

My four-year-old daughter's pre-school visited a nursing home. When they got back to class, they teacher asked them to describe what old people look like. Here are their answers. Q: What do old people look like? A: Very old. Their stomach is very big ...

On Afrigadget today, the story of an organization working with people in Africa to build bicycles from a locally-available and sustainable resource -- bamboo: The Bamboo Bike, an endeavour that aims at building bicycles in a sustainable fashion using ...

Showstudio blog has an item up today about an interesting fashion advertising experiment: [L]ast night the mighty PRADA unveiled 'Trembled Blossoms', a showstopping fashion film, at their 'SoHo Epicenter' store in New York. Directed by the performanc ...

I'm leaving today for the 24/ 7: A DIY Video Summit. My sister Mimi blogs:We are in the early stages of a fundamental transformation in how we create, share and view video. This transformation is enabling a new media ecology that can support widespre ...

The Berkman Center has an amazing string of events set up this spring, in part as a celebration of the Center's tenth year. You can see the list here. And don't forget Monday evening's performance by and conversation with Brad Sucks, a thoroughly we ...

I'll be playing a very realistic driving in a matter of hours, a sort of Need For Speed Most Wanted recreating using a rented Chevy Impala controller. It should be very, very exciting following the blue line from Vegas to LA. When I finally get home, ...

Here's something disconcerting if it pans out as true: Siliconera reports that Echochrome will cost more than double for a UMD PSP ($37) version than a downloadable PSN/ PS3 version ($17) when released on March 19th in Japan. While we've seen similar ...

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

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Last week EcoGeek stumbled across a little story about some little antennas that could, just maybe, revolutionize not just the solar industry, not just the energy industry, but the whole entire world. Well, we thought there was a bigger story there t ...

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 ...

Wired Science gets a sneak preview of the Discovery Channel's new interactive website for watching global warming in action.