02/18/08

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 : Fantasy league typography. - More please. Tags : Typography

deusx : Ultrafit: Tapping his way along the Appalachian Trail - "With the help of a voice-enabled GPS, Minneapolis attorney Mike Hanson, who is blind, is training for the hike of a lifetime." Seems inspiring, yet ill-fated. Tags : appalach ...

deusx : No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock - "BioShock may have been conceived as a study in nuance, a place for gamers to discover and explore at their own pace, but its dip into the ethical morass of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophies ...

Linkorama : The Power Paradox - True power requires modesty and empathy, not force and coercion, argues Dacher Keltner. But what people want from leaders–social intelligence–is what is damaged by the experience of power. Tags : intelligence leade ...

jcgregorio : draft-ietf-simple-xml-patch-ops-02 - In addition to them, with basic , and directives a set of patches can then be applied to update an existing XML document. Tags : patch

"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.

castrox writes to tell us that The Pirate Bay's legal concerns are continuing to grow. Prince and the Village People are planning to sue the popular torrent site with the help of the Web Sheriff law firm. John Giacobbi of Web Sheriff has also asked S ...

Euler points out a story about art created through mathematics. The Science News article covers selections from a recent exhibit, where over 40 artists gathered to show their work and the math behind it. The rest of the pieces are also viewable at th ...

Tendraes brings us a story about legal experts who are warning that Microsoft's "covenant not to sue" over use of the OOXML specification is both ambiguous and untested. Developers wishing to make use of OOXML are unlikely to understand the complex l ...

tringtring alerts us to news that the National Science Foundation has requested $20 million in funding to work on "Science and Engineering Beyond Moore's Law." The PC World article goes on to say that the effort "would fund academic research on techn ...

An anonymous reader brings us a whitepaper from Codenomicon which discusses the state and future of wireless security. They examine Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and also take a preliminary look at WiMAX. The results are almost universally dismal; vulnerabili ...

mmtux writes: "As technology becomes more advanced, I am increasingly worried about privacy in all aspects of my life. Unfortunately, whenever I attempt to discuss the matter with my friends, they show little understanding and write me off as a hyper ...

Revelers fired guns, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed independence in defiance of Serbia and Russia, which condemned the declaration of the world's newest nation.

The middle-class Chicago suburbs that send their sons and daughters to Northern Illinois University struggled Sunday with the closeness of the country's latest massacre — this time the gunman grew up among them, in a community some consider "Mayberr ...

A suicide bomber penetrated a crowd watching a dog-fighting competition in the Taliban's former stronghold Sunday, killing up to 80 people in one of the bloodiest bombings since the regime's 2001 ouster.

The Cornell University junior was in his dorm between classes when the text message came in from a friend. Check out JuicyCampus.com, it said.

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?

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?

A penny saved is not necessarily just a penny earned: One man's collection of rare American cents has turned into a $10.7 million auction windfall.

A penny saved is not necessarily just a penny earned: One man's collection of rare American cents has turned into a $10.7 million auction windfall.

A skittish kitten that scampered out of its carrier on a subway platform has been found after 25 days in the underground tunnels.

PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Kosovo Albanians declared independence on Sunday, confidently awaiting Western recognition for their state despite the anger its secession provoked in Serbia and Russia's warnings of fresh Balkan unrest.

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 ...

Kosovo's parliament declares independence from Serbia, to jubilation in Pristina but angry protests in Belgrade.

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 ...

Kosovo is technically part of Serbia, but it's been governed by the U.N. since 1999, after NATO militarily intervened to stop Slobodan Milosevic's brutal suppression and expulsion of ethnic Albanian separatists. Now that it has declared its independe ...

Dubai's 5 Star Injustices This is a tale of a beautiful creative girl and her partner Cat Le-Huy. — — "31-year-old Cat Le-Huy, Head of Technology at Endemol UK, was detained and arrested during a tourist visit to Dubai for carrying m ...

Prince Rupert's Drops are quickly cooled teardrop shaped glass pieces that have amazing physical properties. While tough on the big end, they will explosively shatter if broken on the small end.

The Subprime Primer. An entertaining, lo-fi, comic-book style explanation of the complex Subprime Mortgage mess.

We can tell them that torture is wrong, too. Then we can all have a good laugh.Of course the lesson of all of this is might makes right, and the imperial power can do what it wants while making rules up for the little people. Nobody could predict th ...

That's one way of putting it. Some people may just need to find a new line of work.

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...

Last summer, when I was exploring the edges of Twitter, and building a voicemail service that hooked into Twitter with BlogTalkRadio, and then hooking my digital camera up to Twitter through Flickr, it seemed inevitable that Twitter would eventually ...

Last night a bunch of us on Twitter watched the C-SPAN broadcast of the Democratic Party dinner in Milwaukee where both Clinton and Obama spoke. — — Clinton was unusually good, but as Frank Rich says in today's excellent NY Times column, ...

.... me. 21:31 Just got a paper cut. Ow! That'll teach me to open snail mail, I guess. XD 22:09 www.justanyone.com/ allanguish.html 22:50 Oh, right. Since I use this thing to record my sleep "patterns": slept from 6-9. Automaticall ...

.... i've always known that humans are ugly creatures. and you are uglier than what i thought you really are. fuck people with spilt personalities. credits: deviantart....

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 ...

this is wonderful, like mundane performance art  

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  

Ed. Note: the following essay is by periodic BB contributor Jasmina TešanoviÄ�; as I format this post and prepare to hit "publish," Jasmina sends a second email: "Update: groups of hooligans have thrown stones on American and Slovenian (presidi ...

Susannah Breslin writes, Ellen Forney is a Seattle-based artist, cartoonist, and illustrator who has a new book out, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger, from the boys at Fantagraphics. (Her last book, I Love Led Zeppelin, was ...

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 ...

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Kotakuite Tim R. loves PixelJunk Monsters. He loves it so much that he emailed creator Q-Games begging for a sequel or expansion. He soon received an email back from a Q-Games employee that revealed an expansion is already in the works. Thanks for t ...

All hail the Enlightenment — Thomas Freeman has an interesting look at science and attitudes towards science in Half-Life and Portal. What do such attitudes spell for future releases? For the last few years, the buzzword for game engine desig ...

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

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Japanese Tea Houses are among the most beautiful and serene structures on the planet, and are usually minimalist in design and modest in size. Kengo Kuma has built an inflatable one for the garden of the Museum f�r Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt. Accor ...

With several panels dedicated to biofuels at the AAAS annual meeting, the sustainability of growing a large percentage of our transportation fuel is emerging as a major theme of the conference. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston. ...

What is the future of the global food system? In this speech delivered at the AAAS annual meeting, Cornell Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, argues that the food system is broken and needs to be fixed. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.