02/12/08

Obituary of Charles Fawcett, who led an "unlikely" and "unbelievable" life. In Paris Fawcett also took part in the rescue of a group of British prisoners-of-war who had been placed under French guard in a hospital ward by the Germans. By impersonati ...

Did you know that Paris Hilton has a movie out? Yeah, no one else cares either. The Hottie & the Nottie opened this weekend and took in only $230 per screen. That means that, based on an $8 average ticket price, 29 paying customers showed up at ...

In a map of the Republik van Nieuw Nederland, Paul Burgess imagines that the Dutch never gave up their New World possessions and a republic formed centered around New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam never gave way to New York. The Dutch kept the whole of t ...

The milkshake line from There Will Be Blood came from a transcript that PT Anderson found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal. Anderson concedes that he's puzzled by the phenomenon -- particularly because the lines came s ...

Starbucks is switching from T-Mobile to AT&T as their wireless provider. Access will be cheaper and Starbucks Card holders will get a couple hours of free wifi a day. (via fimoculous) (link)

nelson : loom.cc - Some crazy abstract data store that's useful for anonymous transactions, egold, etc Tags : cryptography egold finance loom

Rod Begbie : Spongebob Voice-Overs - The actors who do the voices for Spongebob et al were worred about being typecast, so they made this film. Quality! Tags : funny spongebobsquarepants video

Khoi Vinh : NYT: A Tight Grip Can Choke Creativity - Joe Nocera on J. K. Rowling, copyright and fair use. Tags : Four Star

Jeremy Zawodny : Using Multiple Monitors with Windows XP - Using Multiple Monitors with Windows XP: some useful tips in here Tags : links

nelson : anonymous vs scientology - it's like the yippies, only fighting CoS instead of The Man Tags : anonymous chanology protest rickroll scientology v

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Tim Berners-Lee’s original NeXT machine — first Web server: I love this. That’s Tim’s handwriting on the first computer on the Web (this is the computer that Tim used to invent the WWW).

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 ...

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.

bushwhacker2000 writes to tell us that the EU may soon be requiring travelers to provide biometric data before crossing into Europe. They are trying to soften the blow by offering "streamlined" services for frequent travelers but the end result seems ...

coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA has taken the next step in a program that aims to utilize artificial intelligence for the purposes of air traffic control. "GILA will also help Air Force planners use and retain the skills of expert operators, ...

NewShinyCD writes "Sources tell Valleywag that startup Ustream.tv is in advanced discussions with Microsoft to acquire the lifecasting service for more than $50 million, but there are other companies in the bidding as well. Ustream is currently raisi ...

Brian Ribbon writes "In the latest sensationalist article about pedophiles on the internet, the director of a Spanish vigilante organization has claimed that the internet 'creates pedophiles'. While conflating pedophilia with child sexual abuse, the ...

TechDirt is reporting that the recent block placed on The Pirate Bay torrent site is not only relatively ineffective, but actually driving more traffic to the site because of the attention. "The news from The Pirate Bay appears to confirm this suspic ...

narramissic writes "It sounds like a headline straight out of The Onion, but security researchers from IBM Internet Security Systems, Juniper, nCipher and elsewhere are warning that the use of data encryption could make organizations vulnerable to ne ...

The Pentagon has charged six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Officials said Monday they'll seek the death penalty in what would be the first capital trials under the terrorism-era milita ...

A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were charged Monday in separate spy cases for allegedly handing over military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said.

Pakistani forces captured and critically wounded a senior Taliban militant on Monday, the second successful targeting in two weeks of a terror suspect as the government faced growing Western pressure to crack down on cross-border attacks into Afghani ...

An outage has disconnected BlackBerry smart phones across North America.

Yahoo Inc.'s rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid left investors guessing the next move in a tense mating dance that may hatch a more imposing challenger to Google Inc. or disintegrate into a bruising brawl.

Kim Sjostrom wanted a real-life version of the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which played in the background as friends fixed her hair and makeup before her own marriage ceremony.

AFP - Immigration will drive the population of the United States sharply upward between now and 2050, and will push whites into a minority, projections by the Pew Research Center showed Monday.

Bella, a 3-year-old golden retriever/ collie mix who was once rescued as an abused puppy, returned the favor to her owners by alerting them to a house fire. With help from Maddie, a 6-month-old golden retriever, Bella helped get Sue Feuling and her 9 ...

Monday mornings are hard enough. Imagine finding 50 chickens running loose in your high school. Workers arriving about 5:30 a.m. to open Northeast High School in Philadelphia found dozens of hens and roosters wandering around the hallways. The birds ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday charged the alleged planner of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and five others with murder and conspiracy and asked that they be executed if convicted.

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 ...

The Pentagon announces charges against six Guantanamo Bay inmates over the 9/ 11 attacks.

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 ...

You might not be familiar with the name Shylar Cobi, but porn cognoscenti have long known that he's been a driving force behind the behemoth that is Vivid Video. So when he decided to direct his first feature film for the company, he went for it in a ...

Today I acquired a set of color pencil devices. You can get them in certain specialized shops. Note the device color range greatly varies by manufacturer; mine wasn't even in the 6 bit range, producing only up to 24 colors when displayed. Invitations ...

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 ...

Obituary of Charles Fawcett, who led an "unlikely" and "unbelievable" life. In Paris Fawcett also took part in the rescue of a group of British prisoners-of-war who had been placed under French guard in a hospital ward by the Germans. By impersonati ...

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 Twenty Worst Foods in America. There's something for everyone!

Zednik stable after carotid artery severed in Panthers-Sabres game. (NSF Hemophobes) In an awkward coincidence, the Sabres were involved the last time time this happened in an NHL game when Clint Malarchuk nearly bled out in his goalie crease in 198 ...

Yeah, that's right. It's just a video of a guy putting a meathook through his nose & back out his mouth.

If you have missed knowing about the 'declaration of war' from Anonymous, Jess Lee does a good job of summarizing the story. In short: some people don't like the Church of Scientology and have been waging a virtual war on the Church's various electro ...

I'm not a superdelegate, but the path to the Pennsylvania primary does run through my roof deck so I expect all of the best campaign surrogates to give me quality time.**Not really.

Surveyusa email tells me this:Eve of VA GOP Primary, Huckabee Closes-In On McCain: Big movement in Virginia following Mike Huckabee's strong showing over the weekend in Louisiana, Kansas and Washington state. On the eve of the Virginia Republican Pri ...

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...

Continuing the thread from yesterday. — — I got absolutely nowhere, some people suggested I use a smart playlist, missing the point that I'm a developer working on a podcatcher, not a user trying to use iTunes as a podcatcher. I'm sure it ...

According to Tim Bray, and he ought to know, today is the 10th birthday of XML. — — XML is good basic technology that we've built lots of stuff on. — — It's certainly not perfect, but nothing is, it's a good example of Less ...

.... to "but you told us to only use Firefox"! This computer not so bad, hiccup/ reboot, fine now. # 19:42 @MarinaMartin The best time to reply to your post is between the time I read it and before it slips my mind. # Automatically shipp ...

.... against then-president Fujimori, who had ordered the massacre and torture of the survivors (Feria included). News Contact: Alyson O'Mahoney, aomahoney@one life Pantel Deluxe to live news .com Phone: +1-914-241-0086 (9/ 27/ 07) And some infor ...

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 ...

DIY power meter measures output of your electrical devices  

parody of the will.i.am "Yes We Can" video  

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  

The US government is pressuring 27 European Union nations to agree on new transatlantic air travel security measures which include armed guards on all flights from Europe to America operated by US airlines. Snip: The demand to put armed air marshals ...

Eric Steuer tells BB, Meanest Man Contest has a new video out. It's for our song "Throwing Away Broken Electronics" and you can see it here: YT video Link. The video was directed by the amazing Greg Tuzin of *ontheflyfilms. Check out his work here. Y ...

Men's Health has awarded the Outback Steakhouse with the Worst Food in America, for its "Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing." 2,900 calories 182 g fat, 240 g carbs Even if you split this "starter" with three friends, you'll have downed a dinner' ...

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 ...

Remember Grokster? It was an attempt to be Napster without having a centralized database of songs and users. It was shut down by a unanimous Supreme Court decision.Go to Grokster.com now and you are not only told that Grokster is no more but that you ...

Circuit City isn't doing well when compared to the current success of the software world. But they have a plan. Over the last year, the company has run a trial testing the waters of selling used games. And they found that the plan worked out pretty w ...

It looks like Microsoft may add one more title to its Platinum Hits line of budget games—Halo 2. Curiously missing from the line of best-sellers and still ringing up for $29.99 US at many retailers, the "Best Selling Xbox Game Ever" may finally ...

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

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If you want to build a wind farm in Minnesota right now, you're in for a nasty surprise. A 612 year nasty surprise in fact. digg_url = 'digg.com/ environment/ 612_Year_Waiting_List_for_New_Wind_Projects'; The Midwest Independent Transmission System ...

I don't know about you, but I've been feeling downright un-bionic lately. What I need is a good on-board power source that will whir and buzz and make me really feel like I'm worth at least $10 million. Thankfully a group of US and Canadian scientist ...

The organizers of Science Debate 2008 have sent invitations to the leading presidential candidates in both parties for an April 18 debate that will focus on hot-button science issues like evolution, climate change and stem cell research.