02/10/08

Polaroid is going to stop manufacturing film for their instant cameras, which they stopped making a year ago. The company, which stopped making instant cameras for consumers a year ago and for commercial use a year before that, said today that as so ...

Video of a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the topic of "Does God Exist?" (link)

New extended trailer for Pixar's Wall-E that reveals a bit more of the story and a new character. (link)

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 ...

Greg Storey : The Flying Spaghetti Monster appears in Jeff's cabinet. - Dozen's of followers are said to be making a pilgrimage towards D.C. Tags : Previously

gleuschk : NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse: February 20, 2008 - marked on my calendar Tags : 2008 NASA astronomy eclipse

gleuschk : Metaphilm - Fight Club - my favorite part is moe. Tags : calvin&hobbes comics fightclub movies psychology

adamrg : How To Tie A Tie: The Pursuit Of The Perfect Knot Tags : clothes clothing fashion howto sideblog tie tips tutorial video

nelson : Saudi oil production - Someone analyzes Google overhead imagery in great detail to divine what's going on in Saudi oil fields Tags : google maps oil peakoil saudi saudiarabia

via Google News, believe it or not

"One of the interesting differences between a liberal opensource project, and a commercial endeavor is that you don’t know who is using your stuff."

yikes!

"Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks"

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

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

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

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

BlueProximity - GNOME Bluetooth device distance detection and automatic locking tool :-): What a great idea. Of course, I keep my cell phone on my desk or in my coat pocket half the time, so I’m still screwed. This software helps you add a ...

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 ...

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.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A major challenge in public health is that people do not take their medications, a phenomenon known as 'medication non-adherence.' In the US alone, it is estimated that this accounts for 10% of all hospital visits and costs ...

Many outlets are echoing a subscribers-only report in the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo's board has decided to reject Microsoft's takeover offer. The NYTimes offers the only other independent reporting so far confirming this claim. The report says t ...

bhmit1 writes "BusinessWeek is reporting about Science Debate 2008, an attempt to put the scientific issues front and center in the US Presidential race. After 12,0000 scientists signed on in support of the idea of a debate focused on science, no cam ...

mambosauce writes "Brian Krebs, via the security fix blog is reporting that the recent PDF vulnerabilities which were patched only for Adobe Reader 8 and not 7 are being exploited via banner ads. As if there haven't been enough banner ad attacks this ...

milsoRgen noted a story about Namco Bandai is shuttering between 50 and 60 arcades in Japan and blaming the success of the Wii for the closures. "A lot of the types of games that people played at an arcade can now be done at home," said company spoke ...

The Star reports on this inventor breaking all the laws of physics as far as free energy goes. It even provoked interest from "esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn". I would like to know how this seemingly backyard ent ...

Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton competed for Democratic convention delegates across three states on Saturday, locked in a landmark struggle for the party's presidential nomination. In the first Republican contest of the day, former Arka ...

Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work, an offer the union's East Coast president said Saturday he would endorse.

A suicide bomber blasted a political gathering Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, wounding dozens and stoking fears about security surrounding this month's parliamentary election.

Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said Saturday.

Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, according to a person familiar with the situation.

An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable's owner said Friday.

A federal appeals court said Friday the Bush administration ignored the law when it imposed less stringent requirements on power plants to reduce mercury pollution, which scientists fear could cause neurological problems in 60,000 newborns a year.

Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky's official picnic food.

When 70-year-old Betty Perry was accused of neglecting her lawn, she became defiant.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Republican presidential contest in Kansas on Saturday, Fox News Channel projected, showing signs of life in a nominating race front-runner John McCain has nearly sewed up.

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 ...

Four US states hold presidential campaign votes, as Republican Mike Huckabee is predicted to win in Kansas.

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 ...

A look back at the week that was ... · This is just well ... it just is, we suppose. · Kastumi's back! Maybe? Can we just call her Kat? · Yes, that's going in your ass, so you better get used to it. · We've really got t ...

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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 ...

Polaroid is going to stop manufacturing film for their instant cameras, which they stopped making a year ago. The company, which stopped making instant cameras for consumers a year ago and for commercial use a year before that, said today that as so ...

Just received word moments ago that Consumating, the niche dating community acquired by CNET in December 2005, will be shutting down next month. In the wake of the sale of Webshots to American Greetings, it appears that CNET couldn't find a buyer fo ...

The King of Kong, continued. If you enjoyed "The King of Kong," check out the Onion AV Club's recent, impromptu, and insightful interview with Billy Mitchell. Also featured are responses by filmmakers Ed Cunningham and Seth Gordon.

Bitlet allows you to stream audio directly from a torrent.

Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University have compared the recent US subprime mortgage crisis with five downturns in industrialized economies in the past 30 years in their brief paper, Is the 2007 U.S. Su ...

Why Real Men Don't Cry [YouTube] On the other hand.

Kansas hearts Huckabee.

There just aren't enough people who have enough income to afford million+ residences. Though you feel bad for these owners, who will be losing their money and not the bank's.

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...

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Yesterday's piece on health care and the presidential election got a great response, and some of it from Republicans, using the slogans and logic I hoped they wouldn't. But that's okay, it helps me focus my rhetoric on the precise point of disagreeme ...

.... Either way, I feel on the verge of a crying jag. # 17:47 @yksin Awww... I'd better wait 'till I'm off the train, but thanks for the kleenex :) # this "too lazy to actually post an LJ entry" update has been brought to you ...

.... Neener-neener, Valentinr! Get your own valentinrI made chicken casserole for dinner tonight, yum! I've put some aside for lunch tomorrow, although there's still half a pan left. Haven't made casserole for a while now - I ....

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 ...

"you should do that one song you have about being really depressed"  

take that, Yngwie  

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  

Link to ad mashup, via hiltonjapan (thanks, DGHilton!)...

You might have seen this shaded gray squares illusion before. Squares A and B are the same shade of gray. (It was created by Edward H. Adelson, Professor of Vision Science at MIT. Here's a similar illusion with colored squares. The "blue" tiles on th ...

According to Barstool Sports, these photos of men with very dark spray tans were taken in New Jersey. Link (Via Why, That's Delightful!)...

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 ...

It turns out that the turn out of Brookline voters in the Super Tuesday primary was a whopping 63%, twice that of 2004 when that Howard Dean guy was running. No doubt this is in part due to the fact that last time, we were voting after a bunch of ... ...

For all you living room rock stars out there, Virgin Megastore along with MTV Games and 1Up is presenting the I Love Rock Band Valentine's Day Bash. If you live in NYC, Orlando or LA, you can bring your self made band to the Virgin Megastore to battl ...

A few weeks ago, Leigh Alexander made the case for media convergence in the gaming industry — now she's back making the case against. With the talk of user-driven worlds, personalized content, more media cross—overs than you can shake a ...

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

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Six Degrees Could Change The World The rise in temperature due to global warming will have a number of consequences that we have just barely started to comprehend. To make sense of it all, the National Geographic Channel is set to air “Six Deg ...

PUERTO BLEST, Argentina (Reuters) - On the shores of lake Nahuel Huapi, in the wild mountains of Argentina's Patagonia, live some of the world's most ancient trees. Known in Spanish as the alerce, the Patagonian cypress grows extremely slowly, but c ...

Yahoo's board is planning to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer, arguing that it "massively undervalues" the company, according to a Wall Street Journal report.