02/16/08

Gelf Magazine enlisted the help of ZEUS, an football game analyzing computer, to see which NFL coaches called the worst plays at critical times during the 2007 season. On average, suboptimal play-calling decisions cost each team .85 wins over the co ...

Interview with book cover designer Peter Mendelsund. I will read any interview in which the subject replies "I still don't know" when asked how they got their job. I really like what I've seen of Mendelsund's work (sorry...his site resizes the browse ...

Adam Shepard had $25 and the clothes on his back. As a challenge, he set himself a year to get an apartment, a car, and $2500 in savings. To make his quest even more challenging, he decided not to use any of his previous contacts or mention his educ ...

Lately I've noticed a pattern of people building Single Serving Sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing. Here are a few examples: Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle showcases all the lovely things ...

Rex Sorgatz interviews Adrian Holovaty about Everyblock, a site that "aggregates piles of local information, like restaurant reviews and crime stats, which are then displayed block-by-block". On a completely different note, it's been a challenge to ...

factoryjoe : USA Spending API Documentation - The API consists of two methods, fpds.php and faads.php, that allow access to the data to the Federal contracts and Federal assistance databases respectively. All data present on USAspen ...

Jeremy Zawodny : FriendFeed - Usage Statistics - FriendFeed - Usage Statistics: oh, statistical porn for my friendfeed... fun. Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoos won’t work for Microsoft - Yahoos won’t work for Microsoft: "I estimate that 1 in 10 Yahoos will refuse to work for Microsoft." Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Photo Gallery - Will Ferrell & Heidi Klum - 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Photo Gallery - Will Ferrell & Heidi Klum: ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahaha Tags : links

Andy Baio : Oscillofy, turn any image into sound - inspired my my oscilloscope hacks entry

an excellent follow-up to Inbox Zero. Merlin rocks.

congrats to Jeff on his new gig!

holy crap... that's a really funny video

"This tool modifies which programs run at startup, edits certain configuration files, and simplifies controls over Windows services." you learn something new every day, don't you?

oh, statistical porn for my friendfeed... fun.

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Partners fund SCO Group’s next lease on life: Why would someone do this? Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners said Thursday it and unnamed Middle Eastern partners will fund The SCO Group with up to $100 million to take over the financi ...

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 ...

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.

The Super Bowl Commercials are my favorite part! Here are my picks for my favorite commercials.

At the Newsweek blog LevelUp, journalist N'Gai Croal wrote this week about the sometimes-precarious position of videogames in popular culture. The frustrations of legislators, lawyers, and 'pro-family' groups aside, the popularity and record sales of ...

bosoxsux writes "Rogue DNS servers are an increasingly popular tool for scam artists, according to a new report. Their numbers are on the rise, in part because they're difficult for antivirus software to deal with. 'There are now approximately 68,000 ...

ethericalzen writes "An article from BBC News online states that ISPs in the UK are resistant to the government's desires for monitoring their users' data. The government seeks to have ISPs turn off the access of users who are 'persistent pirates'. T ...

mikesd81 writes "The Register has a story saying that one of the world's biggest porn producers wants Google and other search sites to put up barriers between kids and adult entertainment. 'Steven Hirsch, the co-chairman and co-founder of Vivid Enter ...

Dotnaught writes "Frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors in the salivary glands than those who don't use cell phones, according to a recently published study. The study, led by Tel Aviv University epidemiologist Dr. Si ...

Ian Lamont writes "The New York Times, and the Tribune, Gannett, Hearst companies have launched their own ad network, called QuadrantOne. It will let advertisers place ads on media sites in 27 major markets, and let them target readers by content typ ...

If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field.

Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes.

John McCain's embrace from the Republican establishment, once hard to imagine, is nearly complete. Former President George H.W. Bush's endorsement Monday will effectively give the future presidential nominee the stamp of approval of the Bush family � ...

TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna?

Coupons days are here for owners of outdated analog televisions.

Reuters - Activision Inc on Friday unveiled a new "Guitar Hero" video game focusing on the rock band Aerosmith, taking the billion-dollar franchise in a new direction.

If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field.

A man faces assault charges after allegedly spraying bar patrons twice with bear spray. Kodiak police charged Daniel Pement after the incidents Saturday and Sunday at the B&B Bar.

If one bride felt lighter than air in her wedding gown, her groom certainly felt like air itself as 19 couples renewed their vows near Columbus.

DEKALB, Illinois (Reuters) - A man who killed five students and himself during a shooting spree at an Illinois college had stopped taking medication and become erratic in the last two weeks, buying two guns used in the bloodbath just six days ago, of ...

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 ...

Kenya's rival political parties agree to set up a panel to review disputed elections, Kofi Annan 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 ...

As many of you are no doubt aware, one of the worst things about winter (lesbian icicle orgies notwithstanding) is how short the days are and the relative lack of sunlight we're exposed to, meaning that seasonal affective disorder becomes a real prob ...

There's a problem with presentations by web agencies done for clients, and it leads to the problem of overly complicated interfaces on the web. We can define the Presentation Paradox as this: The effectiveness of a presentation is inversely propor ...

In October 1996, German Spiegel mentioned web search engines for the first time (I'm using the homemade search tool to dig through their archive). The article shows how much of a need there was for a good search solution. One approach to organizing t ...

Gelf Magazine enlisted the help of ZEUS, an football game analyzing computer, to see which NFL coaches called the worst plays at critical times during the 2007 season. On average, suboptimal play-calling decisions cost each team .85 wins over the co ...

It didn't take long for online sleuths to identify the man behind the shootings at Northern Illinois University yesterday. Early this morning, before the police or the Associated Press released his name, online sleuths identified the 27-year-old man ...

Typewriter Ribbon Tin Collection. People collect all sorts of things.

"In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings." Introduction to the book which arose from hi ...

Desperate for money? Short on good sense? Bull Poker might be for you! Last one to get up from the table and run for his life wins the pot! All YouTube links. Warning: Some gore and blood. Bookmark this post for the inevitable "How can I ...

The 5 Most Badass U.S. Presidents of All-Time. Just in time for Presidents' Day weekend. In ascending order of badassitude: Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, John Quincy Adams, George Washington and your number 1, Theodore Roosevelt. Honorable men ...

End of the week and I'm outta gas.

Your candidate's campaign is a CULT!!!

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...

One of the neatest gadgets I've bought in the last year is a high-def receiver to work with the EyeTV software. It plugs into a USB port on my Mac, and it receives digital high-def programming over the air. — — I put it in my upstairs st ...

Valleywag is mostly puff pieces. I guess they're writing about people who, for one reason or another, they don't want to offend. — — Typical of business press. Don't screw your sources or else they'll dry up. Don't speak ill of Steve Jobs ...

.... 07:10 First significant snowfall of the season in NYC overnight, and now it's raining. This winter sucks. # this "too lazy to actually post an LJ entry" update has been brought to you by LoudTwitter ....

....You can also watch the new teaser trailer in High Definition on Yahoo! Movies. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters on May 22nd 2008.....

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 ...

inspired by my oscilloscope hacks entry  

excellent interview addresses a bunch of questions I had about the site  

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  

The Rinspeed sQuba is an amphibious electric vehicle inspired by the submersible Lotus Esprit that Q gave to James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me. There's only one sQuba in existence and it cost more than $1.5 million to engineer and build. "For safety ...

Freak Angels: the latest from Warren Ellis, with Paul Duffield, version 0001 is now online and it's lovely....

The Cambridge University Library's tower has long been rumored to be packed with vintage pornography books from the Victorian era. Now, a million dollar grant is funding the online cataloging of the 170,000 publications in the 17 floor tower. Turns o ...

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 ...

Ryan Terry is an illustrator and a Flash guy. His home page is like one of those poke-n-play CD illustrated books for kids, except better. His previous one is at least as good. (Thanks to Marc Nathan for the link, via Twitter.[Tags: ryan_terry flash ...

By: Brian Crecente The sunken city of Rapture, a world of art deco aesthetics, neon sales pitches and looming architecture, is home to more than just murderous splicers and lumbering Big Daddys, it's also a surprising breeding ground for introspecti ...

Dead Head Fred has walked away with the first ever WGA (Wrter's Guild of America) Videogame Writing Award. While skeptics like me worry that this award might just be a WGA maneuver to eventually get their hands in the small pockets of video game writ ...

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

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The greatest emerging threat to Amazon rainforests and communities is industrial soy plantations. Huge mechanized, soy monocultures destroy tropical ecosystems, accelerate climate change and cause human rights abuses primarily to produce agrofuel and ...

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 ...

The weapon that the Pentagon wants to use to shoot down a failing satellite is well-tested. But its one weakness could pose a problem, as the military tries to take that satellite out.