02/19/08

This photo shoot of Lindsey Lohan as Marilyn Monroe only serves to underscore how unlike (and inferior) Lohan is compared to Monroe. Lohan is the Meet the Spartans version of Monroe. Some of the originals are here, lots more thumbnails here. NSFW. U ...

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 ...

joshua : ccollect - (pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync Tags : backup

joshua : Evolution of Car Logos Tags : design

gleuschk : Math Jokes - some here I hadn't seen before. (notice I said nothing about their funniness) Tags : jokes math

Andy Baio : Lawyers representing gold farmers threaten MMO blogger - nice summary; here's one archive of the original post, now removed

jonhicks : INHOUSE 08_ Tags : design inspiration

uhm, kick ass...

"I offer them here to give some insight into how Perl is viewed outside it’s core community."

"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

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What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?: This is old but interesting. Some guys play Quake 3, and, while playing, they pull the heat sinks off the CPU. One of the CPUs actually appears to melt. I’m curious if there’s a time gap in ...

Dubai Architecture-: We’ve talked before about the insanity that is Dubai. This is a simple page of captioned images of the things currently going in and planned for Dubai. It’s astonishing. I’m waiting for a bubble to burst over ...

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 Register is reporting that Mozilla's handling of a recent security exploit that affected both browsers has drawn an unhappy response from the Opera team. "Claudio Santambrogio, an Opera desktop developer, said the Mozilla team notified it of a se ...

Heartless Gamer writes to tell us that Gen Con LLC announced late last week that they have filed for Chapter 11. This move will not affect the still profitable Gen Con Indy event which wills till happen August 14-17, 2008. "This action became necessa ...

Wired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the vehicle upon which three Nobel Prizes were earned and a the next big project will boast an elec ...

DrButts writes "An inventor in British Columbia wants to be the first to launch a pop bottle rocket into space. 'This could be impossible, but the CEO of AntiGravity Research already holds the altitude record for boosting an elongated plastic pop bot ...

foobarx writes "Digital artists have created a humanoid robot which uses brainwave activity recorded during sleep to playback an interpretation of your dreams. The artists, Brendan Burns and Fernando Orellana used machine learning to find patterns in ...

Engadgets is reporting that researchers at Penn State have built a new kind of solar cell that can harvest hydrogen directly from water. "The folks at Penn State have now developed a process that more closely mimics the photosynthesis process in plan ...

Top advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of plagiarism Monday, the latest effort by her campaign to undermine the Illinois senator's credibility.

Two senators are urging the Pentagon to investigate a Marine Corps report that bureaucrats refused an urgent request from battlefield commanders in 2005 for blast-resistant vehicles.

Andy Pettitte has not spoken to Roger Clemens since giving a sworn statement which implicated his good friend in the use of human growth hormone. "I think it's put a strain on our friendship," Pettitte said in an eagerly awaited news conference Monda ...

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?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.

Reuters - It's a doggone chartbuster -- a song audible only to dogs has topped New Zealand record charts, and is looking to go global.

A cat that fled a house fire is back home in Albuquerque, N.M., after turning up some 240 miles away. The black and white cat named Miko disappeared in December, on the night of the fire.

A 1987 truck that was being traded in by an Auburn couple on a 2007 model was destroyed by fire in Durham as it was being driven to the dealership.

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Europe's major powers and the United States said on Monday they recognized Kosovo's new independence, as Serbs reacted with anger and some states warned that its secession from Serbia set a dangerous precedent.

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 ...

Belgrade withdraws its ambassador from Washington in protest at US recognition of Kosovo's independence.

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 ...

The latest nanny union contract states that all nannies must be videotaped around the clock while on duty (especially when there are no actual kids to babysit) and while it is not required, caregivers do get paid extra for taking time to masturbate i ...

Kevin Scott, former head of Google New York's search engineering group, at Friendfeed in response to another very positive article about Google writes (line breaks added for clarity, as there's no line breaks available at Friendfeed yet): Google i ...

Google employee Matt Cutts mentioned before how he tries to slow down emailing by not getting into the habit of instant replies... this way, he receives less speedy follow-up questions (which might otherwise make him to quickly reply again, leading t ...

This photo shoot of Lindsey Lohan as Marilyn Monroe only serves to underscore how unlike (and inferior) Lohan is compared to Monroe. Lohan is the Meet the Spartans version of Monroe. Some of the originals are here, lots more thumbnails here. NSFW. U ...

This week, thanks to Simon Carless at GameSetWatch, I'm going to the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco this week. I'll be writing about the conference daily and guest-publishing over at GSW. If you're going, let me know. I'll be updatin ...

Wikileaks has been plugged. Get it? Leak... plugged. Brilliant. Wikileaks, the fairly recent tool for providing both publicity and anonymity to whistleblowers leaking classified documents, has been censored! Well, it was already censored by China, b ...

potentially habitable planets and vindication for Pluto? Yesterday in Boston scientists at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) discussed how the Kuiper Belt in which the dwarf planet Pluto (formerly ...

A Day in the Life of Richard Devylder [wmv, 11.5 minutes long, subtitled] — Richard Devylder, deputy director at the California Department of Rehabilitation, was born without arms or legs. The video shows how technology enables him to navigate ...

Do you love music? Do you have at least 3 million dollars? If you answered "yes" to these questions then you may be interested in bidding on "The World's Greatest Music Collection." (single link to ebay auction)

To be clear, I don't mind politicians engaging in a bit of politics, what annoys me is either ludicrously bad politics or rhetoric which reinforces right wing bullshit about our side. Is dismissing the voters and caucusgoers a good way to woo the su ...

Do they not count either?

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...

A new service from BlogTalkRadio... — — Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you're done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that's an MP3 of the call. — — The address of the feed ...

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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 ...

nice summary; here's one archive of the original post, now removed  

historic jazz session with sublime performances and gorgeous direction  

a strange move, since people are looking for it constantly  

create a corrupted file to send in when you're missing deadline; old, but new to me  

a tactic I've never seen before, the site is still accessible by IP address or multiple mirrors  

this is wonderful, like mundane performance art  

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

Florian Kräutli's Magnetic Curtain can be rucked up into any shape due to the magnets embedded in the material -- scrunch it to suit your tastes and it stays put. Link (via Geekologie)...

Don't know where this comic originated, but man, is it ever true. Link...

I've written before about the librarian who challenges late-fine-owing patrons to get their fines erased by playing Dance Dance Revolution against her. Now the Wadleigh Memorial Library in Mass. has adopted the same measure for their Patron Appreciat ...

Ulrike Reinhard posted a nice "best of" video of our DIY Video panel. The panel was a lot of fun. The moderator was Howard Rheingold and the panelists were John Seely Brown, Yochai Benkler, Henry Jenkins and me. Comment - TrackBack

Once again our old friend job postings pops up, bringing with him rumblings of a new iteration of Microsoft's Xbox Live platform. The listing, posted back in January of this year, is for a Program Manager in Redmond Washington. Want to be involved i ...

Is a PlayStation phone in the works? Oh, absolutely. Or not. We've gone back and forth so many times with quotes from gabby Sony Computer Entertainment Europe execs that we're totally confused at this point. But the rumor that a PSP capable of making ...

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

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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. ...

Most of us are worried about increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the air - and if you aren’t yet concerned about this, you should be. However, now there is a reason for hope: researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have just a ...

While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.