02/15/08

If you've already seen King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, I'd suggest reading Jason Scott's pair of posts about the movie. In The King of Wrong, Scott suggests that the filmmakers left out crucial details and fudged others in order to make the actu ...

Demo film of the Polaroid SX-70 made by Charles and Ray Eames but set to a soundtrack of The Cramps performing Garbageman. Wot? (via spurgeonblog) (link)

In an anonymity experiment, Catherine Price attempts to recover some of her privacy by living off the information grid. Pay for everything in cash. Don't use my regular cellphone, landline or e-mail account. Use an anonymizing service to mask my Web ...

Photos by Taryn Simon of hidden and unfamiliar places in the US, like the marijuana crop grow room at the National Center for Natural Products Research in Mississippi. Here's a somewhat overlapping selection of photos at Wired and another at The Morn ...

The first trailer for Indiana Jones and the Unfortunately Titled Movie Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is available...in HD even. (link)

jonhicks : Silverback app coming soon! - A Clearleft production on the way. Yeah I know it's another one of those mysterious signs up pages with no hint of what it's all about! Tags : apps osx sidenotes

Jeremy Zawodny : I love you but you love meat - I love you but you love meat: "In my experience, adaptation (and embracing of cuisine) is a very good predictor of the longevity of a relationship." Tags : links

Greg Storey : 16.4% of all Xbox 360 consoles has a hardware defect. - Is there anything at Microsoft that's not failing? Tags : News

factoryjoe : TripIt Blog: hCalendar Microformats and TripIt - TripIt adds support for hcalendar! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: hcalendar, tripit, microformats

Andy Baio : Quake II ported to the Nintendo DS - impressive feat; from the same guy who ported the first Quake joshua : The Home of Quake2DS Tags : dev ds games

"In my experience, adaptation (and embracing of cuisine) is a very good predictor of the longevity of a relationship."

well, there's the nail hitting the head...

in case you were wondering... heh

it's like FriendFeed but different... and it looks like it's watching me already

cool use of the MyBlogLog API by Kent Brewster

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

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

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Stupidity or just refreshing honesty?: Good for a laugh this morning. But I don't think the scammers quite thought this through to the end, as you might notice looking at the URL that the "Log in" button links to - stupidity or just refresh ...

Video: New Android UI Shows iPhone-like Animations: These shots of the Google Android interface from Gizmodo make me feel less bad that I can’t get an iPhone in Sioux Falls. […], today’s release of the refreshed Android SDK show ...

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.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have a bright idea — at least at first sight. They want to create a sustainable transportation system by using hydrogen-powered cars. They would like to create an i ...

AmIAnAi writes "Just when you thought it was all over, the SCO story takes a new twist. SCO has received $100 million financing from Stephen Norris Capital Partners to get them out of Chapter 11 and go private 'The move gives Stephen Norris, whose na ...

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers are working out the perfect strategies for worms to spread through networks. Their goal is to distribute software patches and other friendly information via virus, reducing load on servers. This raise ...

ericatcw writes "According to ComputerWorld, with two hours of free Wi-Fi soon to arrive at Starbucks consumers should expect more hotspots to go free as well as more attractive bundles from the likes of AT&T, Verizon and providers. While T-Mobil ...

A user writes "US officials say that the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March. We discussed the device's decaying orbit late last month. The Associated Press has learned that the option pr ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "After the recent draft legislation in the UK, which would create a 'three strikes' policy to cut off anyone accused of online piracy, the ISPs are asking for liability protection when users are wrongly id ...

Republican campaign dropout Mitt Romney endorsed John McCain for the party's presidential nomination and asked his national convention delegates to swing behind the likely nominee.

A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 15 people, authorities said.

President Bush has ordered the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to attempt to destroy a broken U.S. spy satellite — and thereby minimize the risk to humans from its toxic fuel — by intercepting it just before it re-enters the atmosphere, officials sa ...

Yahoo Inc. hopes media conglomerate News Corp. can rescue it from a Microsoft Corp. takeover — or at least prove the slumping Internet pioneer is worth more money than its unsolicited suitor wants to pay.

Here's the formula for the gadget of the year: A device that delivers Internet video on the TV.

It was the stereotypical firefighters-try-to-rescue-cat story, but with a twist. Firefighters from the South Florida city of Weston spent a sopping hour in pouring rain Tuesday trying to extract a kitten squeezed in the undercarriage of a stranger's ...

Security officials on Thursday reported uncovering plots to kill President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and bomb foreign embassies, just as opposition leaders were calling for more protests urging the unpopular Philippines leader to resign.

A Swedish preschool has been criticized for banning its children from wearing striped and spotted clothing since the patterns give one of its teachers severe migraine attacks.

Three couples got the Valentine's Day wedding they craved on Thursday, marrying at a White Castle in the restaurant chain's home city.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney endorsed one-time rival John McCain on Thursday and urged Republicans to unite behind him in a move that could help McCain with disgruntled conservatives.

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 ...

US President George W Bush defends his decision not to intervene in Darfur's "genocide", in a BBC interview.

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 ...

Chipping icicles off of a frozen rooftop isn't high on our list of erotic activities, but if you're into Nordic babes then we guess freezing temperatures aren't really a deal breaker when it comes to getting horny. It might take a little longer to ge ...

German Spiegel opened up the archives to their weekly magazine dating back to 1947, making the full content searchable. While the search engine for the so-called "Spiegel Wissen" site (Spiegel Knowledge) is very badly implemented for a variety of rea ...

Google is all dressed up for today's occasion, Valentine's Day. It's the day where in many cultures couples and wanna-be-couples are expected to send a greeting to their loved one, causing sales spikes for greeting cards companies and probably chocol ...

If you've already seen King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, I'd suggest reading Jason Scott's pair of posts about the movie. In The King of Wrong, Scott suggests that the filmmakers left out crucial details and fudged others in order to make the actu ...

Looks like Digg found a copy of the Tetris valentine I've been hosting on my server since February 2006. The original was created by Mitch at the wonderful 4 Color Rebellion gaming blog, but when I tried to redirect the requests to their original en ...

The Day of Purity is a day when youth can make a public demonstration of their commitment to remain secularly pure, in mind and actions. ... When you stand up for sexual pruity you send a message to parents, churches, communities, legislators, and th ...

Spartacus Roosevelt Hour Podcast is a weekly hour of obscure noise, glitchy electropop, fake nostalgia, bastardized exotica, tweaky lounge, creepy ambient and musical non-sequiturs. Also, it features an Alabaman with a Skype account named Spartacus R ...

"A lot of people won't lick a magazine no matter how good it tastes." You think? And yet this is not the first time it's been tried.

Happy VD: A Valentine for Adolf

I admit I'm entering the non-stop eyerolling phase of primary season. We have two candidates who are different but not that different when it comes to policy. Those differences are real, and they could be highlighted and debated in a serious way. ...

Congressman Reyes writes to President Bush.Washington, DC - Congressman Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent the following letter to President George W. Bush today regarding the Foreign Intelli ...

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...

If you're a regular user of Twitter you're probably quite familiar with this image. — — — — They've tried lots of variants, making it funny, or cute, with pictures of LOL Cats, doing cute things with screw drivers, but the pi ...

Those little devils who keep the gears turning inside the Twitter machine added a toy that's got the community sending public love missives whizzing around. You can figure it out yourself, or you can cheat and read this howto. — — @lovely ...

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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 ...

impressive feat; from the same guy who ported the first Quake  

love in a backwards world  

"I love everything about you... except the things we've already discussed"  

it shouldn't be a surprise that romantic love is chemically similar to OCD  

their Tetris valentine from 2006 became a cult favorite  

World of Warcraft hits the 10M subscription mark and still exploding  

the band formed at CERN next door to Tim Berners-Lee's office  

(Click on images to biggify) Paintings of iconic musicians made from colored disks at Buzz Coffee in Los Angeles (323-656-7460). I can't remember the artist's name, but they are selling for $1000 each....

Earlier this week, I pointed to reports that John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, was said to be planning legal action against with a young singer-songwriter named Lennon Murphy, who sought to trademark the name of her band, "Lennon." Ms. Ono tells Boing B ...

Virtual China spotted this hand-drawn Chinese diagram of how to cook chicken with beer. Warning: Don't add any salt!!! Link...

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 ...

Here is an extract from the summary of FreePress.net's filing with the FCC protesting Comcast's throttling of bittorrent, a clear violation of Net neutrality (and possibly of laws against impersonation, although that one seems like a stretch to my no ...

It's official, Activision is bringing back the Vigilante 8 franchise, with developer Isopod Labs bringing a remake of the decade-old original to Xbox Live Arcade this Spring. The vehicular combat classic will return with a heavy multiplayer aspect, s ...

It's absolutely no surprise that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has already moved over a million copies in Japan, so it won't come as a shock to see it holding strong at number one in its second week. What also makes a bit more sense is the appearance of Fa ...

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

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The movie, which was made for mobile phones, shows the actress dressed up as various insects doing what comes naturally. Spiegel | Berlinale | Interview w/ Rossellini including some scenes Originally from Archinect.com Feed ...

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 ...

We pick out 10 gadgets we'd rather spend time with on Valentine's Day.