02/11/08

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. Update: The trailer is offline. Awaiting the official release. (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 : "If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I would be looking at purchasing an old battleship right now, sailing it into San Francisco Bay, and lobbing some 16†³ shells on the Board members' houses in Atherton." - It's funny because it's true. Ta ...

philgyford : Impro (9 February, 2008, Interconnected) - Matt Webb's notes on the 'Masks and Trance' chapter of Keith Johnstone's book 'Impro'. Tags : acting impro improvisation keithjohnstone masks mattwebb top

Simon Willison : jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet - jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet. Handy. It helps that most of jQuery's method names are pretty much self explanatory once you've been using the library for a couple of weeks.

Greg Storey : Disney to spend 1.1B to revamp California Adventure. - Send the bill to Eisner, he's to blame. Tags : Previously

philgyford : Bristol UWE - In Pictures - Bower Ashton development gallery - My old college has got a swanky new hi-tech building. Tags : architecture bowerashton bristol building top uwe

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"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."

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

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Pushing Paper Out the Door: The only good news I’ve heard about the environment in ages. After rising steadily in the 1980s and â??90s, worldwide paper consumption per capita has plateaued in recent years. In the richest countries, consump ...

Is the next President of the United States running Linux?: This is old but interesting. There’s a huge disparity on OS between the two parties. It’s way too pronounced to be natural. It's fascinating to me that the Dems are predom ...

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.

stoolpigeon writes "Tor Books is launching a new site and running a campaign in which they are giving away e-books (free as in beer) until the site goes live. To get in on the deal, fill out the form at their site, and each week you will receive a ne ...

aquatix writes "This local root exploit (Debian, Ubuntu) seems to work everywhere I try it, as long as it's a Linux kernel version 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1. If you don't trust your users (which you shouldn't), better compile a new kernel without vmsplice." ...

DaMan writes in with a ZDNet blog entry on Windows Genuine Advantage under Vista SP1. It seems that the draconian features present in Vista RTM have been replaced by nag screens and annoyances such as repeatedly changing the desktop background to bla ...

An anonymous reader writes "Office may fall under Microsoft's own definition of adware. It links to third-party commercial add-ons, includes up-selling promos, requires cookies for certain functions, and collects technical information. While this is ...

WirePosted tips us to a story about a group of scientists who are heading to Antarctica to study organisms that thrive in climates too extreme for most other life forms. The team will be visiting a lake that has a pH "like strong Clorox," the sedimen ...

ktulus cry brings news of a device that can power portable gadgets, prosthetic joints, and other mobile appliances by harvesting energy generated by walking. Researchers are working on making the device — still a moderately cumbersome 3.5 pound ...

Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal caucuses Sunday, giving Barack Obama a slight lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton in early tallies for the party's party presidential nominee.

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams on Sunday, a staff shake-up coming just hours after presidential rival Barack Obama's weekend sweep of three contests.

The Writers Guild of America moved swiftly Sunday toward a resolution of its three-month-old strike, with guild leaders deciding to recommend the contract to members and ask them to vote on a quick end to the walkout.

You can buy almost anything online these days, but try shopping the Internet for an MRI, strep throat test or even an annual physical exam and you'll run into roadblocks.

After scouring the Internet to fill her house with only the best toys for her infant twin sons, Lori Pope hated to watch the clutter build as the boys lost interest.

SPACE.com - On the night of Feb. 20, the full moon will pass into Earth's shadow in an event that will be visible across all of the United States and Canada.

SPACE.com - Mark Wednesday, Feb. 20, on your calendar as "Lunar Eclipse Night," for if the weather is fair you should have no difficulty observing a total eclipse of the moon.

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) - White House hopeful Hillary Clinton said on Sunday she has replaced her campaign manager with a long-time aide as she fights a tight race with Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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 ...

At least 33 people die in a car bombing in the Iraqi town of Balad, as the US defence secretary arrives in Baghdad.

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 ...

While these comments from different YouTube videos are out of context and non-representative they do get a certain spirit and focusedness across: nevadavi: lol Hillary clinton! thugondarel: lol hilary paperkutz93: i thought it was gunna b barack ...

Scott Cunningham in the forum writes (link added): Google receives two short mentions in the book, "The No Asshole Rule", by Robert I. Sutton, PhD The book is subtitled, "Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't". I've only f ...

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 ...

Think Condi Is Condoleezza Rice a viable candidate for Vice President on the Republican Ticket? She has experience, she would help McCain mollify the far right with her strong faith and she is an obvious deviation from the "old white boy" ...

Biofuels worsen global warming, according to two studies published in Science last week. Current US biofuel policies would double carbon emissions over the gasoline alternative. More details: ScienceExpress fulltext pdf of study #1, powerpoint summar ...

This week I've been perseverating on Chuck Berry's great 1964 song "You Never Can Tell", so now you get to too! Unless you're over 50, you probably know it from the Thurman/ Travolta dance in Pulp Fiction, but here are some other versions w ...

The environment does terrible things to the human body and it smells. Many people go for that walk anyway. Found these while looking for video of the spacewalks from Gemini 10, 11 or 12 or any of the Apollo spacewalks (not the moonwalks), but noth ...

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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...

A Sunday morning exploration... — — I want to write a script to move podcasts from my Mac hard disk to my New Podcasts playlist on my iPod. — — More simply: A script to add an MP3 file to a playlist on an iPod. If it has to go ...

If you search for Yahoo Microsoft, this page is the second hit. I like that of course. It's generating a fair amount of flow, since the combination of Yahoo and Microsoft is a pretty hot topic. — — Keeping the topic going, I think it's pr ...

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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 ...

instead of commissioning art or buying stock photos, allows anyone to run a Threadless-like design contest for cash  

in the spirit of Be Kind Rewind's sweding method  

Google loves Obama, Microsoft loves Hillary, and Yahoo! employees hang on to their money  

"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  

Breaking cover from my paternity leave again with an important bit of news: Neil Gaiman's publisher HarperCollins have given him the green light to do a free (as in beer) web-release of one of his books and Neil's running a poll to see which one he s ...

Reports are circulating that a tentative deal has been reached in the WGA strike. Snip from NYT: The agreement would let writers claim to have bettered a similar deal achieved last month between the production companies and the Directors Guild of Ame ...

Kari in Toronto blogs: When I first heard the news yesterday, that Sheridan College had been locked down because of a gunman, I felt chills run up my spine. Someone from my work had just been sent over to the school to talk about sales, and back at m ...

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 ...

Doc has a nice post about the fact that everybody is miscellaneous (to use his phrase), and why being lumped with others gives him aggregaphobia (another nice turn of phrase). [Tags: blogs.law.harvard.edu/ doc/ 2008/ 02/ 10/ aggregaphobia/ ]

We all know about horrible movie/ game crossovers (going both ways), but what about books being turned into games? For the lit geek lurking in some of us, Insult Swordfighting has put together a very brief list of books that should be turned into ga ...

Former US Marine Eric W. Hall went missing last Sunday after leaving a relative's house in Deep Creek, Florida. According to his family he had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since returning from from Iraq three years ago. Hall had ...

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

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Our good green friends at Terry, a sustainability project in Vancouver have finally announced the winners of their Bake For A Change sustainable gingerbread house contest! The competition was meant to promote thinking on sustainability (rather than ...

What farmers choose to grow over vast tracts of land could have an effect on regional weather patterns. A NASA-funded study will attempt to figure out exactly what the impact is. Originally posted by Associated Pres ...

Bluetooth could get a lot faster next year by piggybacking on Wi-Fi technology already built into many gadgets, making it easier to transfer large amounts of music between computers and cell phones.