02/14/08

The Adam Baumgold Gallery is currently showing a series of drawing by Chris Ware, Drawings for New York Periodicals. His series that ran in the NY Times and his Thanksgiving New Yorker covers are included. Feb 1 - Mar 15, 2008. (thx, evan) (link)

Regarding the graph of technological adoption I linked to the other day, I wrote the graph's creator** a little note, wondering if he'd done a version comparing the adoption rates directly (like this home run leaders chart). He hadn't, but he whipped ...

Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson speculates about the Tyrannosaurus rex's sexual equipment. We now have a robust understanding of how sexual pressures -- the pressures to find, impress, and seduce a mate -- influence the evolution of males and f ...

Not much to say about this but this "I Love You, but You Love Meat" headline is best said aloud in Barney's singsong voice. Ok, there's a bit more to say. When Meg and I first started dating, she was an almost-vegan (she ate fish and maybe eggs (I f ...

The quintessential modern parental dilemma: What do you do with the kids when mommy and daddy need to meet up with their WoW guild to do raids? We have two small children who need to eat dinner and raids start at 5pm. Ack! How are we going to make d ...

43folders : TrackMyShipments | home - via del/ abennett27

jcgregorio : ResumableHttpRequestsProposal - google-gears - Google Code Tags : http

43folders : Macworld Encore: Merlin Mann / "Living with Data"

joshua : SF's Burgers Are Better Than Yours - places to check out Tags : food sf

joshua : Avoiding RJ-11 - on home wiring and/ or structured cabling Tags : home voip

cool use of the MyBlogLog API by Kent Brewster

How Susan is feeling the support from others via technology

very cool!

congrats to Jim & James

it is actually calcium flow?

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)

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. This episode features two interviews: a hard-bitten drifter and a woman who feels forever let down by her husband.

Stanislav_J writes "It happens to the best of us: you drop off your laptop at the local branch of some Super Mega Electronics McStore, go to pick it up, and they can't find it. Lost, gone, kaput — probably sucked into a black hole and now breed ...

eweekhickins writes to share an article in eWeek highlighting the forgotten risks that a multifunction printer could possibly offer. Brendan O'Conner first called attention to the vulnerabilities of these new devices at a Black Hat talk in '06 and wa ...

An anonymous reader writes "TrustBearer Labs has announced a new service that lets you use various hardware based security tokens like smartcards and biometric devices with OpenID. A hardware based connection to OpenID allows higher levels of securit ...

coondoggie writes to mention that the US Department of Energy is planning to fork over close to $21 million for 13 projects promising to advance solid-state lighting research and development. "SSL lighting is an advanced technology that creates light ...

stoolpigeon writes "The X Window System has been around for over twenty years and is the display system for an incredibly wide range of operating systems. With the number of Linux users growing, there are more people working with X than ever before. ...

Disney has announced that they are going to take another stab at showing us the "House of the Future". The 5000-square-foot house will appear normal from the outside but will house gadgets like lights and thermostats that automatically adjust when so ...

The checks aren't in the mail, but they will be soon. President Bush signed legislation Wednesday to rush rebates ranging from $300 to $1,200 to millions of people, the centerpiece of government efforts to brace the wobbly economy. First, though, you ...

The Senate has joined the House in voting to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods.

Under oath and sometimes blistering questioning, Roger Clemens stuck to his story Wednesday. So did his chief accuser and former personal trainer, Brian McNamee. And after a 4 1/ 2-hour hearing, Congress settled for a draw in the he-said, he-said bet ...

Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible Internet partnership with media conglomerate News Corp., its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid or pry a better offer from the unsolicited suitor, a person familiar with the situation said Wednes ...

Someday, your shirt might be able to power your iPod — just by doing the normal stuff expected of a shirt.

Start dancin', Snoopy. You're out of the Westminster doghouse. At long last, a beagle is America's top dog. Baying and barking to his heart's delight, Uno lived up every bit to his name Tuesday night, becoming the first of his breed to win best in sh ...

The man who served as national manager of former President Clinton's 1992 campaign endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday. David Wilhelm, who led the campaign and later became chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Obama had the unique ...

The message on the postcard to a "Miss Margaret McDonald" was short. Its path to the intended address was much longer. Nearly 79 years after it was sent, a postcard of Yellowstone National Park's Tower Falls arrived in a Boston mailbox recently with ...

A Bensalem woman has been walking around in the snow with a bucket of bagels and goat feed trying to locate her lost pet Buckwheat. Iris Star said Buckwheat apparently worked her way through a metal cattle fence on Saturday and wandered off from the ...

JANESVILLE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Buoyed by a string of eight consecutive victories, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama bashed rival Hillary Clinton over the ailing U.S. economy on Wednesday and also took aim at Republican front-runner Jo ...

Much criticism is thrown in the direction of teacher unions.  Steve Jobs, one of the recent critics, blasts ""I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way,"  "This ...

Senior Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh - a wanted fugitive - is killed in a blast in Syria, the group says.

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 ...

Hey, remember the VCR? For any youngsters who might be reading this, those "tracking" symbols at the beginning of this clip indicate that it was recorded on something known as "video tape," an ancient magical invention used to visually steal people's ...

TechCrunch reports, "Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division ... has accepted a position with Google, we've confirmed via a source at Yahoo." Mike Arrington says this is a blow for Yahoo as "Most new products (at least the ...

The Baltimore Sun writes: "A Baltimore police officer was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor ... the officer ... puts the boy in a headloc ...

Richard Mosse's Air Disaster, a series of photographs of air disaster simulations, on-the-ground training exercises for airport fire-fighting crews. BLDGBLOG has a short interview with the photographer. The firemen have put out the fire in seconds. ...

As I mentioned yesterday, I got slightly obsessed with researching oscilloscope hacks yesterday, after seeing this jaw-dropping graphic demo released at Assembly 2007: The author released the audio files (FLAC and WAV), allowing other people to tr ...

Think you've had clumsy moments? Ten bucks says you've never had one quite this bad.

Welcome to the BIL Conference Wish you could go to TED but don't have the money? Try BIL! As described on their site "an open, self-organizing, emergent, and anarchic science and technology conference. Nobody is in charge. If you want to come, j ...

"Men were picked up and hurled against buildings, horses and carriages sent flying here and there, and falling wires full of deadly fluid added to the horror of the scene,"The St. Louis tornado of 1896, one of history's deadliest. Photos. ...

Politics of Hate: What's happening to the city of Mumbai

A brief history of crime.Signed,Not Atrios

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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'm a lifelong baseball fan, and I don't care if Roger Clemens took steroids, or if he is lying or if McNamee is lying. — — News is stuff that's important. If it's national news, it's stuff that is important to everyone in the nation. Wh ...

Yesterday while we were waiting for returns from the Potomac Primaries, some disturbing things started showing up on the wire. Layoffs at Yahoo, long planned, were now happening. People we knew were leaving. This morning we have a better idea of how ...

.... sushi place going in near work! yes! # 14:24 need eyedrops. contacts are vacuum-sealed to my eyes. # 14:40 have a giant sign that says "county jail" on my desk. # 20:34 cleaning out the fridge; making quiche # Automatically shippe ...

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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 ...

collection of TV signoff videos  

 

very long, absolutely essential reading; gives tremendous insight into the repercussions of documentary filmmaking  

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  

All of us here at Boing Boing idolize David Byrne -- so reading this post today on his blog is, for us, like a rainbow unicorn delivering a giant vanilla cupcake with a million sprinkles of awesome on top. Mr. Byrne wrote: There's free Wi-Fi at the ...

WFMU has a third post (part one, part two) about bands that made songs that sounded like (or attempted to sound like) The Beatles. This time it's The Manchesters versus The Beatle Buddies. Even though these songs are much worse than anything The Beat ...

(Click on image to biggify) You'd be forgiven for mistaking the Hamster's Lunch as a lunch for hamsters. No, it's intended for human consumption. You can buy a box at Coco's in Los Angeles, where nearly every product on display includes a helpful exp ...

Hello Kitty MMORPG goes betaSanrio Digital's "Hello Kitty Online" accepting players for closed beta Hong Kong - February 12, 2008: Sanrio Digital (www.sanriodigital.com) today announced the closed beta launch of "Hello Kitty Online", a Massively Mul ...

Let me disambiguate that title: Reuters is offering a Web service, called Calais, that will parse text and return it in a form (RDF) that can be utilized by Semantic Web applications. It uses natural language processing (from ClearForest) to find str ...

We featured artist Alexandria Neonakis' art last Valentine's Day, but her new series, bringing the best of romantic hokeyness to Team Fortress 2, is even more deserving of some special attention. If you've found yourself without a V-Day card to your ...

Watch live video from kotaku on Justin.tv We just received preview code for God of War: Chains of Olympus... embargo-free preview code for God of War: Chains of Olympus. I haven't even had a chance to slap it in the PSP, but once I do I'll be streami ...

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

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Let’s face it- Valentine’s Day isn’t really about the romance anymore- it’s about the chocolate, the Hallmark cards, and of course, the sexy lingerie. But sexy and sustainable aren’t mutually exclusive- in fact the most ...

Every once in a while it's nice to pretend. Personally, I'm still a huge fan of building fake cities in Maxis games and making everything as beautiful and sustainable as possible. But Greenpeace has done me one better, in their marvelous Flash Applic ...

An MP3 player that controls acne?! Tokyo's 1.2-ounce mpion packs 128 megs of music, while positively and negatively charged ions released by the player supposedly neutralize breakouts.