02/20/08

A list of 22 film remakes that are dramatically different than the originals. (link)

A map of a family's movements around the living room while watching TV for an hour. Would be nice to see an animation of the same data. (link)

Kooky video by Chip Kidd in which he does impressions of people interpreting odd bits of text. The Wicked Witch of the West reciting Psalms 23 is my favorite. The video is in support of Kidd's new book, The Learners, out today. (via towleroad) (link) ...

Thanks to an avalanche of email, I've added a bunch of new items to the Single Serving Sites listing. Now please stop emailing me suggestions!! ;) (link)

The conventional theories in economics and politics contend that people act rationally. Elizabeth Kolbert reviews a pair of books that suggest that's not really the case. Some of these heuristics were pretty obvious -- people tend to make inferences ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Meet the Fource - Meet the Fource: this is microsoft on acid, apparently... yikes! Tags : links

factoryjoe : Phat Phonts - Home - A new type foundry. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fonts

Greg Storey : Lord British hath lost his ability to lead. - Egos and MMOs don't go well together. Tags : Playing

Greg Storey : "Clearly someone in the administration who has the instincts of a cowboy has decided this is the perfect excuse to rattle our sabres and show the Chinese that we have the same capabilities." - Penis size is everything. Tags : News

Linkorama : Senior Software Engineer - Socialtext is hiring Tags : jobs socialtext

this is microsoft on acid, apparently... yikes!

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

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

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

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Single Serving Sites: Kottke put together (he was kind of forced to put together) a great list of single purpose Web sites — one page sites that do something interesting. Think “Is It Christmas?” Lately I’ve noticed a pat ...

Microsoft DreamSpark: Microsoft is trying to hook new developers young by getting them in college with free development tools. DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at n ...

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.

alphadogg is one of several readers to note the opening of the Mozilla Foundation's new subsidiary, Mozilla Messaging, charged with developing the free, open source Thunderbird email software. Mozilla Messaging will initially focus on Thunderbird 3, ...

crocoduck writes "Right before the deadline passed for filing comments in the FCC investigation of Comcast's traffic-management practices, telecoms and other cable companies submitted a slew of comments defending Comcast's actions to the FCC. 'Just a ...

Firmafest writes to let us know that 'DVD Jon' Lech Johansen's company has released an open beta of DoubleTwist, a desktop application that allows the user to copy media to any device. There's a Facebook app too. The software is available for downloa ...

An anonymous reader writes "The Church of Scientology can delete auctions from eBay with no supervision under the VeRO program, and has used this to delete all resale of the e-meters Scientologists use. This is to stop members from buying used units ...

draevil writes "Britain's National Consumer Council has completed an investigation into the practice of software End User License Agreements(EULAs) with the conclusion that many consumers are signing away their legal rights and agreeing to unfair ter ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "For a long time now, lawyers and any serious law students have been bound to paid services like LexusNexis for access to case law, but that is slowly changing. Carl Malamud has posted free electronic copi ...

Fidel Castro's retirement has many Cubans looking to his brother to let more people open businesses, own homes and even travel abroad. But since Raul Castro is already 76, they realize it will probably fall to his successor to ultimately fulfill or f ...

The Bush administration is ruling out any changes in its Cuba policy — including lifting a five-decade trade embargo — after Fidel Castro's resignation, deriding his brother and heir apparent, Raul, as "dictator lite."

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton squared off in a scrappy Wisconsin primary and in laid-back Hawaii caucuses Tuesday, their struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination veering toward the negative.

Universal Studios, one of the two major studios that was putting out HD DVDs, will focus its attention on the rival Blu-ray movie disc format.

Hewlett-Packard Co. started its fiscal year with a first-quarter profit above analyst expectations and predicted its performance will improve in the months ahead, providing a ray of hope in the gathering economic gloom.

Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is bringing in a new celebrity: popular TV chef Emeril Lagasse.

Students in a University of Michigan biology project had been assigned to grow herbs, vegetables, annuals and perennials. Police are trying to find out whether someone's green thumb also was being used to grow pot.

A South Carolina man is thankful for a DVD that ended up taking a bullet for him. Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy says he was leaving a Waffle House restaurant in Walterboro on Saturday morning when two men ran in fighting over a ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that made him an icon to leftists and a tyrant to his foes.

I was reading LWN where there were reports of security holes in a dozen different packages based off Mozilla's Gecko. Someone complained about the lack of a universal library that they should all use so that users would only need to update the librar ...

Washington says Cuba should move to democracy after Fidel Castro says he is retiring, but its embargo stands.

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 ...

Got two tickets to the Academy Awards and a penchant for cuckoldry? This Craigslist ad posted by a man and his very willing girlfriend has (sadly) been taken down, but it would have been right up your alley. Heck, bring a video camera and you could'v ...

Proponents of simple homepage design will hope this domain squatter's choices on the Belarus domain are no peek into the Google future (considering Google is already reportedly experimenting with video ads in search results and all). [Thanks Paul va ...

According to a Google search for "I lost all my" and variants, people are currently looking for the following things: all their files the feeds on the Google homepage their Google traffic, because they didn't back up their site all their musi ...

A list of 22 film remakes that are dramatically different than the originals. (link)

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 ...

Spiders in Antartica

The Wager: "I'll bet you that video games will never become a significant form of cultural discourse the way that novels and film have. I'll bet you that fifty years from now they'll be just as mature and well-respected as comic books are today, ...

Encephalon: Briefing the Next US President on 24 Neuroscience and Psychology Issues. Encephalon, the neuroscience blog carnival has returned after a brief hiatus and is being hosted at Sharp Brains. [Via Mind Hacks, which will host the next edition. ...

Texas Beyond History is a comprehensive web site covering the last 10,000 years of human occupation of (what is now called) Texas. A small section of the site was previously posted on Metafilter. via archaeolog.

Off to drink liberally soon. There may even be a special guest there!And did I really just see Jeri Ryan at my gym?

The hot topic on MSNBC is the fact that Cindy McCain made a political jab, or whatever we're calling it these days, against Michelle Obama.And this is the stuff that matters.MAKE IT STOP.

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...

I'm working today on getting the first release of podcatcher.root out to FlickrFan users. — — In the meantime, the BlogTalkRadio people are responding to support questions and updating the service in response to feedback in the comments ...

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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.... it should be... # 11:55 @Parizadhe Freecycle = www.freecycle.org/ # 12:52 I just remembered that part of my dream was in a strange Marilyn Monroe lookalike world. o.O # All the minutiae you didn't want to know. In 140 character chunks!Co ...

Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that's not all there is to it! This document includes the follow ...

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.

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  

Russian artist Andrey Kuznetsov has created a series of Russian folk-art woodcuts inspired by science fiction films like The Matrix, Star Wars and War of the Worlds. These are just...inspired. Link (via IO9)...

The Perucci Brothers, a pair of kinetic artists, created this insanely elaborate domino run for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. I've never seen anything that comes close to this for sheer, audacious, obsessive domino nerddom. Link (Thanks, Jas ...

Wikitravel, the collaborative wiki project that compiles guides to cities and countries around the world, has spun out Wikitravel Press, which will publish hardcopy editions of the Wikitravel guides. Each copy will be printed on demand, using a recen ...

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

The International Film Music Critics Association have announced their 2007 award winners, and this year sees the debut of their Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media award, which recognizes the increasing importance of music in ga ...

First announced back on Halloween of last year with a whimsical greetings card, German developer Daedalic Entertainment is finally ready to show us exactly what their upcoming point-and-click PC adventure game The Whispered World is made of. The game ...

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

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Last week Al Gore warned Wall Street movers and shakers to rethink their investments in carbon-intensive businesses. Carbon won't be free forever and a business's carbon footprint will soon be priced into its value. "Subprime carbon assets" are poise ...

Tuna populations worldwide are falling dramatically, researchers warn, although creating 'highways' for juvenile fish could help avert disaster Originally from New Scientist - Latest Headlines, ReBlogged by Leah Gauthier ...

The new ultraportable Asus PC is a pint-sized powerhouse.