02/17/08

Apparently, the Dribble-Drive Motion offense is all the rage in the high school and college basketball. The DDM is: a high-scoring scheme featuring four perimeter players and a host of innovations. Unlike Knight's classic motion offense (which is ba ...

Gelf Magazine enlisted the help of ZEUS, a 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 cou ...

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 ...

Greg Storey : On the American truffle initiative. - It will be the same as it is with wine, good but different. Tags : Previously

Greg Storey : Stupid drivers: The collection. - Nothing to add. Tags : Internet

Greg Storey : Weeklong boycott of Ebay to start on Monday. - Will be interesting to see if there is enough solidarity to make an online strike effective. Tags : Previously

43folders : Six Principles for Making New Things - "When I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for generating a contemptuous initial reaction."

factoryjoe : dotherightthing.com » Popular Stories - Reviews of companies doing the right thing. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned

"Because geeks who are big on LAMP and open standards are going to love working for Microsoft."

I don't know why, but this made me literally laugh out loud today... heh

I like the idea of a public health dashboard like this

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

congrats to Jeff on his new gig!

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I spent some time this morning looking at PureEdit. It bills itself as a CMS, which is a classification I don’t know that I can agree with completely. For the record, I only watched a couple of screencasts and browsed through some of the code ...

EBay seller boycott set to start Monday: I know there have been eBay boycott’s before, but this one seems to have some real heft behind it. CNN has been reporting on it regularly, and there’s more push behind this one than I’ve eve ...

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.

Jabbrwokk writes "Michael Geist reports legislation to create a Canadian version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been delayed again, possibly because of massive public outcry, and possibly even because of opposition from the industry itse ...

Hugh Pickens writes "The IOC has given athletes the right to blog at the Beijing Games this summer, a first for the Olympics. They're allowed, as long as they follow the many rules it set to protect copyright agreements, confidential information and ...

coondoggie writes "Earlier this week researchers unveiled a system to identify and eradicate botnets in the wild. While currently only a prototype, Georgia Tech's BotSniffer would use network-based anomaly detection to identify botnet command and con ...

Andrew Feinberg writes "A California State Senator is seeking to mandate climate change as part of the standard science curriculum. Other members of the legislative body seek to teach an opposing view. 'Simitian noted that his bill wouldn't dictate w ...

The Narrative Fallacy writes "This week Cringely offers up a speculative piece asserting that Microsoft might not really care if its bid to buy Yahoo succeeds or not — Bill Gates just wants to disrupt Yahoo and poach the company's employees. 'M ...

Parallax Blue writes "Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane. The self-mad ...

Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, picked up a total of 50 GOP national convention delegates from Michigan and Louisiana Saturday.

A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing eight people and injuring at least five, police said.

President Bush is betting Congress will hear him better from the heart of Africa than it does from down the street in Washington.

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?

The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey's television show that the e-book edition would be available for free on h ...

The advice made her head spin: Have the lump removed. No, let them take the whole breast. Chemo? Radiation? Everyone seemed to have an opinion.

A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing eight people and injuring at least five, police said.

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.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday threw his weight behind a power-sharing deal to end a bloody political crisis in Kenya as he flew into neighboring Tanzania on an African tour.

The herstory of Valentine's Day can be traced to St. Valentine of Jerusalem, the first priest of the  Catholic church. Saint Valentine was, conicidentally both born and martyred on February 1st. It might be difficult to understand how this man's ...

A bomb kills 37 as supporters of murdered Pakistan ex-PM Benazir Bhutto's party meet two days before elections.

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 ...

Because even Millard Fillmore liked a nice set of funbags too ... · Abbey Brooks (100bucksbabes.com) · Anita Dark (z0d.com) · Anna Song (bigboobsalert.com) · Calla (labatidora.net) · Carmen (artinude.com) · ...

Avinash Kaushik posted a very positive wrap-up of the last 11 months working at Google. Among the ten insights he found to be true at Google are "micro efficiencies" like the conference room being wired up for everything you'd need, learning or "brai ...

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 ...

Apparently, the Dribble-Drive Motion offense is all the rage in the high school and college basketball. The DDM is: a high-scoring scheme featuring four perimeter players and a host of innovations. Unlike Knight's classic motion offense (which is ba ...

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 ...

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Motto: "The Hitherto Impossible in Photography is Our Specialty." Meet George Lawrence. Saying that "he took pioneering aerial photographs using kites" doesn't quite do Lawrence Captive Airship justice. Dubbed the Lawrence Captive Airship i ...

Has Blu-ray won the war? Toshiba has halted production of HD-DVD players and recorders. This on top of announcements by Netflix, Walmart, and Warner Bros. to not support the HD-DVD format. (It was less than a year ago that Walmart seemed to crown HD ...

Poker hand simulator. Get a feel for the odds before you bet the farm.

Indeed it has.Bush Regains His FootingBy David S. BroderFriday, February 16, 2007; A23It may seem perverse to suggest that, at the very moment the House of Representatives is repudiating his policy in Iraq, President Bush is poised for a political co ...

Joe Klein do anything stupid today?Some days I just got nothin'.

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...

Most conferences are brain-numbingly boring, right? — — All the good stuff happens out in the lobby. — — Right??? — — Want to fix conferences? Easy! — — Just move the speakers out into the lobby. — ...

Talking on the phone with Steve Gillmor. — — Another call comes in. — — "Hold a sec Steve." — — Pause. — — "Never mind, it's just Scoble." — — We had a good laugh. — — I said it ...

.... was ever a time when I thought Rush Limbaugh would ease off or back down from a statement he has made regarding political candidates, so it is no surprise his public "battle" with John McCain continues. MSNBC today has an article stating tha ...

....Now, it appears circumstances have pushed Lewis in the other direction.....

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 ...

creating a ray-traced animation in only 512 characters; see the other rounds  

this meme is his new bicycle  

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"  

A balloon artist visits a nursing home, shapes crazy hats and bracelets and geegaws out of balloons, and makes a lot of elderly people very happy for a while. That's it. No catch, no irony. Video link. (thanks, nirvan) Update: From the comments threa ...

A 14-day-old Samoan infant died in DHS detention at Honolulu airport earlier this week, and American Samoa's delegate to Congress is calling for an investigation: The baby had been flown to Honolulu for emergency heart surgery. He died while detained ...

Kotaku has a doozy of a post up today -- Yaron Brooks, the president of the Ayn Rand Institute, talking about the use of objectivism in the first-person-shooter game Bioshock: BioShock may have been conceived as a study in nuance, a place for gamers ...

A few weeks ago, Stewart Brand emailed me asked if I was still playing World of Warcraft and if I had read DAEMON. I was still playing World of Warcraft and hadn't read DAEMON. A few days later, thanks to Amazon, I was reading DAEMON. Years ago, I r ...

The very odd journal WordWays (which really ought to become a Web-based journal, imo) in this issue runs a piece by A. Ross Eckler that anagrams the various candidates' names. These are in order of the longest words that can be formed from the letter ...

Due to Monday's holiday (that's President's Day here in the US), the announcement of this week's Rock Band DLC has come a little early. Armchair musicians will be able to download three new songs from Rock Band alums Weezer, Garbage and Stone Temple ...

Chris Dahlen has an interesting post up on the issue of cheating in video games, in particular whether game reviewers can (or should) cheat. Of course, anyone is capable of cheating their way past a tough spot, but should reviewers be held to a high ...

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

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With an installed peak power capacity of 20 megawatts, world's largest photovoltaic solar power farm has opened in Spain. This farm surpasses the solar farm at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada which is rated at 14 megawatts. The new solar farm con ...

Big Money seems to be getting the message: after Al Gore told an audience worth $20 trillion in capital that its polluting investments should be considered "subprime", US institutional investors pledged last Thursday to invest $10 billion over the ne ...

The Democratic Party's pick for presidential candidate may be decided by 795 party members with no obligation to respect the views of rank-and-file voters. Now thanks to collaborative software and lots of volunteers, voters can find out who they are, ...