02/13/08

Nice design of a lens cleaning tissue packet. Firstly, there's a thumbprint placed at the bottom where they want you to put your thumb so that the tissues don't fly away in the wind when you open it up. The thumbprint is in blue, as if it had been m ...

Spore will be out for the PC, Mac, Nintendo DS, and mobile phones on September 7. (link)

Math and science-themed tattoos. More info here. (via random foo) (link)

How nine cities from around the world are cutting their energy usage. For cities, the motivation is twofold. All the hand-wringing over climate change has prompted more cities to do their part to contain greenhouse-gas emissions that most scientists ...

Jürgen Stumpf owns three wine bars in Berlin that operate on the honor system. For the price of 1 euro (about $1.50), you rent yourself a glass and get to sample as many of the wines as you want. At the end of the night you throw some bills or ...

Matthew M. Boedicker : Sims prototype code by Will Wright - (via games.slashdot)

Matthew M. Boedicker : What, Me Exercise? - (via del.icio.us/ popular)

Ethan Marcotte : Senate Moves to Shield Phone Companies on Eavesdropping - God. DAMMIT. ∞

wearehugh : How 404 pages work in Google Toolbar Beta 5 Tags : google

Greg Storey : Leopard Graphics Update 1.0. - Why is this stand alone?! Tags : Apple

some excellent pictures

'"Ninety percent of our clients are asking for Yahoo talent, particularly in the last two weeks," said Bruce Brown, managing partner at executive search firm Daversa Partners.'

"Ever wonder what the inside of a wing looks like? During the winter of 2002/ 2003 my friend and excellent mechanic Rob Regan did a metal spar conversion on a Citabria."

"Please use this M&M for breeding purposes." that is excellent

"Poison pills are defence mechanisms companies put in place to fend off unwanted takeovers, typically working by giving shareholders the ability to buy stock at a bargain price in the event a predator buys a stake above a certain level."

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

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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.

CorinneI writes "At the Mobile World Congress show, four mobile processor vendors demoed pre-production devices running versions of Google's Android OS — a Linux-based, open operating system for mobile phones that will sport Google applications ...

blackbearnh notes that this week marks the 10th anniversary of the Open Source Initiative. He points us to O'Reilly's ONLamp site, where Federico Biancuzzi (who frequently interviews notables in the Open Source community for O'Reilly) has a collectio ...

pcause writes "A recent study finds that 6% of Web users generate 50% of the click-throughs. Worse news for advertisers: these clickers are not representative of the population as a whole, most have incomes under $40K, and their clicks are not relate ...

Ktistec Machine writes to let us know that the telecom companies are one step closer to getting off the hook for their illegal collusion with the US government. Today the US Senate passed, by a filibuster-proof majority of 67 to 31, a revised FISA bi ...

After several delays and much anticipation, Spore looks like it will finally be coming out this year. EA has announced a September 7th release date for the game. The only confirmed platforms so far are Windows PCs, Macintoshes, the Nintendo DS and va ...

Dr. Eggman writes "In an interview with the Star-Telegram, the Air Force's chief scientist, Mark Lewis, talks about the USAF's latest research direction. The service is working on hypersonic missile and bombers for the purposes of reconnaissance and ...

Democratic rivals Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton squared off Tuesday in primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, home to the White House, their long-sought prize. With 168 delegates at stake, Obama hoped to erode i ...

If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts s ...

President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation.

The company behind the BlackBerry smart phones says Monday's three-hour outage was caused by an upgrade designed to increase capacity.

Undeterred by the threat of a hostile takeover, slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven Networks Inc. for $160 million.

Frank Oresnik's trusty pickup truck — he calls it "the old girl" — passed the 1 million-mile mark with a camera crew filming the event and a public-radio audience listening in. "I can't tell you how much fun it was," he said. "It was really humblin ...

Homeowners threatened with foreclosure would in some instances get a 30-day reprieve under an initiative the Bush administration announced Tuesday. Critics attacked the proposal as far short of what is needed to resolve a serious financial crisis tha ...

An 89-year-old woman used an ax to break into her own home after she locked herself out on a patio hemmed in by deep snow. "I had to bang the glass four times with the ax before it broke," said Geraldine "Gerry" Palmer, who turns 90 this weekend.

Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the sky about 20 fee ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six top mortgage companies on Tuesday launched a program aimed at staving off foreclosure for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more affordable loan terms can be worked out.

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 ...

Turnout is said to be high in three more US primaries, with Barack Obama seeking to win Democratic races.

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 ...

Infantilization may be the one fetish that "squares" are most taken aback by when they first learn of it. To be fair, we don't see it that often in porn, so it is a bit misunderstood—even we wouldn't claim to be experts on the subject, but we s ...

Just for fun mostly: please redesign the Google logo and post the result as a 400xSomething pixels image in the forum. The winner, decided by general feedback in the comments and/ or our pick, will get the DVD "Biography - The Google Boys" or the bo ...

Before, around December 2007 (21 street view icons in sight here) Today (30 street view icons in sight here) Google Maps rarely loads for me so I can't see it on this computer*, but the Google Earth Blog reports that several new cities have rec ...

Nice design of a lens cleaning tissue packet. Firstly, there's a thumbprint placed at the bottom where they want you to put your thumb so that the tissues don't fly away in the wind when you open it up. The thumbprint is in blue, as if it had been m ...

While researching oscilloscope art -- more on that tomorrow -- I stumbled on the MovieTone Digital Archive, an incredible and underrated online resource for vintage British newsreel footage from the 1930s to the late 1970s. Amazingly, it seems vir ...

Are you a Type A personality or Type B personality? There are lots of tests online to find out. Type A and B personality descriptions always remind me of the supposed left brain / right brain differences, but according to the Wiki, the difference ...

Lightning strikes world's largest Jesus. Masonry + nature + photography = awesome.

British internet users face ban for illegal downloads. A draft copy of a Green Paper produced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was leaked to The Times newspaper which detailed how the government was considering introducing legislation t ...

The awesomeness of 70s porn dialogue and non-sex scenes. All YouTube links, all more or less NSFW. Bat Pussy rides to the recue on a Hoppity Hop. The Swedes do their version of an animated Snow White. "Can I see your thing now?" More Swedis ...

Glad Paulson realizes it.

I was worried that McCain would manage to adopt Lieberman's blurring strategy on Iraq ("No one wants to end the war more than I do...") kind of rhetoric. It appears he can't.Come November it'll have been two years since The Wise Old Men Of Washingto ...

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...

Michael Markman asked his rep to support Senator Obama, because his district went for him in the Washington caucus last Saturday. The response he got is one we've heard frequently. What about Kennedy and Kerry, will they vote for Clinton because Mass ...

Here's the Wikipedia list of Democratic super-delegates. — —

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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 ...

Nickelodeon meets The Godfather  

some fascinating history; I totally agree with him about the innovative design  

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  

I just bought a copy of Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days, a lovely two-CD compilation of old wax and vinyl recordings from the 1920s-1950s. The collection is exquisitely packaged by Dust-to-Digital in a clothbound, full-color book of be ...

Aubrey de Grey, founder of the Methuselah Foundation ("dedicated to the defeat of human aging") did a nice job of explaining rejuvenation research on the Colbert Report last night. (Via Gerry Canavan)...

The Comics Reporter has a nice obituary about comic book writer Steve Gerber, who died Sunday at the age of 60. He's best known for creating Howard the Duck. Steve Gerber's role as one of the best and emblematic writers of his generation can't be ove ...

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 NY Times reports that Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote next week on a proposal that would require faculty to deposit a copy of their articles in an open access Harvard repository even as they submit those articles to academic jour ...

The one version of the PlayStation 3 that currently supports PlayStation 2 software—via emulation of the "Emotion Engine"—looks like it's about to go the way of the dodo. Exactly how crushed should those of us be, should we want to experi ...

The follow-up to PSP racer Wipeout Pure arrives in North America today, says the official PlayStation blog. Wipeout Pulse—aka wipEout PULSE, if you're a capitalization fetishist—looks to not just toss out a new collection of tracks and pr ...

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 ...

Wired.com's Dylan Tweeney interviews prolific blogger Nick Denton -- now the proud owner of 14 weblogs -- for the 15th anniversary of Wired Magazine.