02/21/08

O'Reilly Media and Wolfram Research are going to be collaborating on a web version of Mathematica. Called "Hilbert" after the influential German mathematician, David Hilbert, the newly licensed software will be browser accessible and, utilizing AJAX ...

Photos of kids with their science experiments, including Juicy Beans, Garlic: The Silent Killer, and Extreme Wood. (link)

Jourdan Dunn was the first black model to walk the catwalk for Prada since Naomi Campbell in 1997. "Wow, it's been a while" is right. (link)

Ok, now we're getting meta up in this piece. Scott took all the Single Serving Sites in my list and made a Single Serving Site that cycles through them. Here's a SSS that lists other SSS. Additionally, there's a Wikipedia entry. (link)

Interview with a man who cut off his right hand in a staged accident because he felt that having "two hands was a defect in my body". So it's irrational, but is it insane? It's true that a major amp makes your body less functional, so how can it be ...

jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | XML 2.0 - "I make it fit!" Tags : self

jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Considering PATCH Tags : self

gleuschk : village voice > news > Iron Chef Boyardee by Robert Sietsema - quote: "Iron Chef America is more bogus than even I had imagined." Tags : food ironchef ironchefamerica tv

gleuschk : Japan : Suggested Itineraries : In One Week | Frommers.com - pretty much what we're thinking Tags : japan kyoto tokyo travel

gleuschk : Kyoto Travel Guide - another bullet-point list Tags : japan kyoto tourism travel

lots of tips for ubuntu and xubuntu users

a slim and fast ubuntu-based distro

another slim and fast ubuntu-based distro

Jakob Nielsen's advice

a decent look at cloud vs. traditional "local" computing

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.

holy_calamity writes "Academics researching how technology addiction affects businesses and employees say 'habit-forming' gadgets like Blackberries should be dispensed along with warnings about the effect they can have on your life. 'We don't want to ...

ScienceDaily is reporting that a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is part computer, part robot, and part child. Part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibit "WizKid" is able to focus on human faces and follows your movement al ...

dangerz writes "CNN has fired one of its producers because of his personal blog. Chez Paziena, the ex-producer, has stated that he started the blog 'mostly to pass the time, hone my writing skills, resurrect my voice a little, and keep my mind sharp ...

eldavojohn writes "Are you one of the few who boarded the HD-DVD Titanic ship headed to the bottom of ocean to join BetaMax? Fret no longer, friend, simply convert those and pretend like you never invested in the wrong technology! All you need is a W ...

stoolpigeon writes "The O'Reilly School of Technology is teaming up with Wolfram Research to provide on-line math courses using an AJAX version of Mathematica. O'Reilly has posted an and interview with Scott Gray, the director of OST, that has more d ...

S point 2 writes "Google has announced that they have hired Codeweavers, maker of the popular Wine software to make Photoshop run better on Linux. 'Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we'r ...

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton must win 57 percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates to erase Barack Obama's lead, a daunting task requiring landslide-sized victories by a struggling presidential candidate.

The Pentagon counted down Wednesday toward a dramatic nighttime effort to shoot down a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite, using a souped-up missile fired from a ship in the Pacific. Foul weather threatened to delay the operation.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said President Bush should veto a measure that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.

Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will make Xbox 360 video games developed by players available for download through the console's online service.

Tremble, cable: Apple has its sights on you. Tremble, Netflix: Silicon Valley's brightest is out to get you, too.

Reuters - Cutting calories helps people lose weight, but doing so by filling up on whole grains may be particularly heart-healthy, new research suggests.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that individual participants in the most common type of retirement plan can sue under a pension protection law to recover their losses.

First she waited 45 minutes to place her order. Then she waited more than an hour for the food. Then she saw the bill. Clare Watkin was out with a group of friends Friday at an Italian steak restaurant in the English town of Lichfield, about 125 mile ...

A Danville family has received an $8,000 water bill for house they say they haven't lived in for more than two years. The granddaughters of Lurlene Gray say they are stuck with the high bill that covers part of January and February.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton ridiculed rival Barack Obama as all talk and little substance on Wednesday, trying to slow the momentum that has given him 10 straight victories in the race for the party's presidential nomina ...

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 ...

Benazir Bhutto's widower rules himself out as prime minister despite his party's success in Pakistan's election.

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 ...

We were sort of hoping that Isabella Rossellini's bug sex instructional manuals would've looked a little more like director Philip Mond's 2006 instant entomological porn classic "Insexts", but it turns out that not everyone can pull off hardcore inse ...

If you don't want images included on your page to appear in Google, you can use the noimageindex value in the head portion of your HTML page, as shown below (note this value is not new -- quite the opposite, it's been around for years -- though it's ...

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 ...

O'Reilly Media and Wolfram Research are going to be collaborating on a web version of Mathematica. Called "Hilbert" after the influential German mathematician, David Hilbert, the newly licensed software will be browser accessible and, utilizing AJAX ...

I'm already overwhelmed at my first GDC, and from what I've heard, things don't even really get moving until tomorrow! The first two days are dominated by a number of excellent summits and tutorials, but apparently, the real action doesn't start unt ...

Elizabeth Cotten [previously] sits down and talks with Pete Seeger. She plays the "Wilson Rag," "Mama, Your Papa Loves You," and Pete joins her for "Freight Train." (Lyrics are provided for "Freight Train," s ...

The Moth: Listen to Stories

"Iron Chef America is more bogus than even I had imagined." Iron Chef America is a strange beast. The trans-Pacific knockoff of a beloved and quirky Japanese cooking game show (wikipedia) didn't have a very successful first attempt at loc ...

Five myths about torture In a Washington Post column, Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Democracy, explains why five beliefs about torture are wrong. In a Harper's interview, he answers six questions. "Yes, torture does migrate, and there are ...

Obama's raising a lot of it.I know some people find the "who's raising the most money" thing one of the more annoying things about political coverage, but I actually think it's pretty important. Getting the support of lots of donors greatly diminish ...

As someone (sorry, forget who) suggested in comments, it appears that McCain will chase Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, unless of course those gates are in Pakistan.Truly weird.And he's against torture but for waterboarding, which isn't torture ...

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 had dinner on Sunday night with an old friend, Andrew Grumet, who now works at PodShow. I met Andrew when we were both in Cambridge, MA. He was one of the people who showed up at Berkman when we started the bloggers group that meets every Thursday ...

They talk about them all the time on the news shows, every day the major Presidential candidates have conference calls with reporters. — — It seems much of the real action in the campaign happens here, but we (voters, taxpayers, citizens) ...

.... though I find I have to insist on using the blog actively by making it part of the grade (which runs counter to my blog-purist instincts); 3) it's a way for me to organize my own class preparation & materials. I'm using the hosted WordPr ...

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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.

like a freeform Crayon Physics  

Will Wright's prototype code from 1997  

switching to periodic updates, which makes more sense for a cartoon like his  

he felt it was a birth defect, so staged an accident with a power tool  

good research into this cleverly-designed viral campaign  

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

historic jazz session with sublime performances and gorgeous direction  

The Sagan Appreciation Society is petitioning for the US Postal Service to issue a postage stamp honoring astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan. An article last week in the Ithaca Journal says the petition should be available online at the Society ...

An historic stretch of Toronto's Queen Street West -- the corner of Queen and Portland -- burned to the ground today in a massive fire. This corner was home to the brilliant Suspect Video and the legendary Duke's Cycle, which had been in the same fam ...

This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot -- now I want to own one! The ...

From Larry This site hosts this video to explain the launch of two exploratory projects -- first, a Change Congress movement, and second, my own decision whether to run for Congress in the California 12th. I have decided I want to give as much ener ...

Civilization's first foray onto consoles is just a few short month's away, as 2K Games announces the official release date for Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution. Beginning June 3rd, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS owners will finally get a ...

When I first started playing City of Heroes, NCsoft's MMO developed by Cryptic Studios, my very first thought was, "Wow, this is like an online version of the Champions RPG!" Well now Cryptic officially announces their next MMO, Champions Online - an ...

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

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Speed of climate change makes glasshouses bulwarks in the battle to preserve biodiversity. Originally from Christian Science Monitor | USA, ReBlogged by Leah Gauthier on Feb 20, 2008 at 09:03 AM

Cuba has the potential to make 3.2 billion gallons of ethanol a year, a figure that would make it the world's third-biggest producer. Reaching that target would require a massive infusion of foreign capital, but with Cuba quietly modernizing its etha ...

Investors give Tesla Motors another $40 million to get the Roadster rolling down the assembly line and ramp up development of the company's next car.