02/23/08

Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull redone in the style of a circa-1980s movie trailer. If adventure has a name, it must be: Indiana Jones. (link)

Proust Was a Neuroscientist is the story of how eight writers and artists anticipated our contemporary understanding of the human brain. From the preface: This book is about artists who anticipated the discoveries of neuroscience. It is about writer ...

An annotated list of the top ten cinematographic moments in film in 2007: part 1 and part 2. The shot that stuck out in my head the very first time I saw the film spoke to me so deeply that I referenced it in my initial review: "A few years trickle ...

1. See a map of the world made out of musical notes. 2. Now, listen to the map. Update: I misread the text associated with the second link...the music does not correspond to the notes on the map. But anyone wants to give it a shot, send along an MP ...

The programmers profiled in the 1986 book, Programmers at Work...where are they now? Bill Gates. Then: founder of Microsoft, popularizer of the word "super". Now: richest guy in the world. After a stint in the 90s as pure evil, semi-retired to focus ...

Rod Begbie : CoverSutra - Got this as part of MacHeist recently, and dismissed it as "pointless eyecandy". I couldn't be more wrong -- While it is graphically-lovely, it allows for keyboard control of iTunes (including tasks like rating tracks) and ...

veen : Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb - "Is cloud computing a bad idea? Of course not. It is a wonderful, powerful idea. In this post, we explore the ideas behind cloud computing and argue that it will be an integ ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu - Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu: they are, of course, not free... maybe Microsoft will finally open up here too? Tags : links

factoryjoe : Digital Identity: From Silos To Usercentric » SlideShare - Presentation for cultuurlab.be/ conference/ , FEb 14th. (Conference on "culture in a networked society") Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks ...

Linkorama : Are You a Times New Roman or a Tahoma? - So, we're making a documentary about fonts. Tell us your font tales: Do you have a favourite font? One that you can't stand? Why? We want to hear from you, the font of all wisdom. (Ouch) Tags : doc ...

Dear Bill Gates, pleas shit or get off the pot. Thanks, Jeremy.

if I ever need some boots to wear a lot...

they are, of course, not free... maybe Microsoft will finally open up here too?

"So would Microsoft stand to own a search engine that is based on an open source Java technology?"

"The pieces are all there. Now all we need is the first enterprising individual to prove it can be done."

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Two years ago, we posted about C’etait un Rendezvous, a short movie shot in 1976 showing a supposedly breath-taking drive through Paris in the early morning. We said this: The entire film is shot from the bumper of the Ferrari (a 275 GTB) ...

Control video games with your mind: It’s interesting to see something like this actually hit the market. It’s like something out of a sci-fi movie. I can’t help but thinking that this is a big step forward for people with disabili ...

Forget best picture. How can any of us judge what should win the Academy Award for best editing? Hollywood editor Mark Helfrich walks us through well-edited scenes from this year's five Oscar-nominated films.

Mark writes "Big Blue inadvertently revealed details about its new z10 Enterprise Class mainframe set to launch on Feb. 26, as well as details on z/ OS v1.10, a new version of the mainframe OS due out in September. 'According to an internal IBM docum ...

An anonymous reader writes "National Geographic has a fascinating article on the God Particle, which can help explain the Standard Model and get us closer to explain the Grand Unified Theory. The obligatory Star Wars-angle summary is even better: 'CE ...

eldavojohn writes "How much would you pay to be the leading video media technology right now? Is $400 million too much? Sony didn't think so and this article speculates that's how they won the Hi-Def format war. 'With billions of dollars in global sa ...

coondoggie writes to mention that the first ten teams racing for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize have been announced. The competitors will try to be the first team to land a privately funded robotic spacecraft on the moon capable of traveling at ...

Tom's Hardware is reporting that the Optimus keyboard that everyone was so anxious for (although maybe less so when they saw the price tag) started shipping this week. "According to an announcement made on the Optimus project blog, keyboards are now ...

Cornell's Duffield Hall has acquired a new electron microscope that is enabling scientists to see individual atoms in color for the very first time. While old electron microscopes can be compared to black and white cameras, this new scanning transmis ...

A winter storm blanketed much of the Northeast on Friday, delaying flights at the region's major airports and causing havoc during the morning commute.

An American Airlines flight to Chicago landed safely in Miami on Friday after being diverted with nose gear trouble.

Violent protests rocked Serb-dominated northern Kosovo on Friday, as mobs chanting "Kosovo is ours!" hurled stones, bottles and firecrackers at U.N. police guarding a bridge that divides Serbs from ethnic Albanians.

Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp.

U.S. and European customs officers seized more than 360,000 counterfeit computer chips and network components in a joint operation late last year, officials said Friday.

It began with a simple act of kindness to save an abused, injured dog from becoming one more victim in the Iraq war.

The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters — straight to Barack Obama.

A woman faces several charges after police said she climbed into a ladder fire truck at a Merrimack fire station and refused to get out.

Seventy-two small fish were briefly launched into space by researchers Thursday, hoping their swimming patterns would shed some light on motion sickness.

DALLAS (Reuters) - Sen. Hillary Clinton fended off questions about the future of her presidential bid on Friday, insisting her remarks at a debate were not a farewell but declining to promise she would stay in the race after must-win votes in Ohio an ...

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 ...

Turkey says five of its soldiers and dozens of Kurdish rebels have been killed in its ground assault in northern Iraq.

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 ...

And while we're talking hot schoolgirls today ... allow this post to be your (and our) introduction to the fabulous "Russian Institute," the kind of posh all-girls boarding school where everyone speaks French, looks like they just stepped out of a t. ...

From the YouTube caption: "A video that Saatchi Moscow created and produced for Google to attract more Russian people on GMail." Gmail designer Kevin Fox comments, "Oh my god I want to kiss this video." Note the Google homepage has been turned into a ...

The information age we live in is currently in transition from desktop applications to web applications. During that transitional phase, some oddities occur -- like the clash of context menus. In the screenshot below, you can see what happens when yo ...

Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull redone in the style of a circa-1980s movie trailer. If adventure has a name, it must be: Indiana Jones. (link)

At the risk of turning Waxy into a Jonathan Coulton fan site, he performed a short set at the Valve Software's Steam Party capped by a finale of "Still Alive" performed on Rock Band, backed by the Harmonix developers on guitar and drums. I'm pret ...

Each year since 2005, SXSW released a torrent of songs for people to sample their showcased artists. It's a terrific source of new, eclectic music. This year, a fan found out they weren't planning to do this, so he took matters into his own hands: ...

How to act on an internet forum. Yup, just a single link to a video – informative on how to behave nevertheless. Even here on Metafiler. Covers feeding trolls, Godwin's Law, fanboys, teenagers, increasing your post count, Admin respect, caps, lur ...

The Nautilus House is pretty awesome. A little more.

ICANN accreditation yanked, RegisterFly rebrands and tries again. Though partner Robert O'Niell claims otherwise, it looks like former CEO Kevin Medina is still in the picture. Without accreditation and their former registrar partner, eNom, Registe ...

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It's so rare that criticism of the press from the left in any way actually makes it into the mainstream media.

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...

During the debate my friend Lance Knobel wrote a post wondering if perhaps Hillary Clinton was conceding the nomination to Barack Obama. — — By the end of the debate, I too thought that's what had happened. — — Maybe we can ...

Lots of leads for the MP3s of campaign conference calls after yesterday's piece, but so far not one actual MP3 has been squeezed out of MSM or the campaigns. — — I made official inquiries through the Obama and Clinton websites, no respons ...

....Have been browsing around looking for a good example of an blogger using CommentPress in action on Edublogs and lo and behold, check this out.....

....To bring you up to speed, the New York Times ran this article on John McCain alleging that he had an inappropriate relationship spent too much time at the same public events as a female lobbyist. I'd note, of course, that ....

Some readers were kind enough to point out in the comments that there are a couple of open source projects that integrate with Remote Desktop. I guess news analysis that appears within hours of a story breaking is never very good. The whole business ...

A well-meaning, but rushed, journalist named Ben Charny interviewed me this morning about Microsoft's interoperability press release. He made a ridiculous number of mistakes. That's the nature of the wire reporters on deadline. Here are some correct ...

if true, College Humor secured digital rights, so good news all around  

and a low quality ripoff, too; Jess Fink has a right to be irritated  

SXSW won't release a torrent this year, so Greg made one himself  

the inventor of the technique didn't get credit or money for it, but he doesn't mind  

he's eloquent, grounded, and philosophical about his fame  

supremely brilliant browser-based RPG parodying Internet culture; more about the creators  

very entertaining videos created for the awards show  

Sighn says: I just want to let you in on a project I'm working on. A hand cut edition of 1 million. No joke, this will probably take the next 30-60 years to finish. I am now planting a tree for every piece sold off my site. I'm also planning a 24 cut ...

The Day After Jasmina TešanoviÄ� 22.2.2008 The day after: the streets are suspiciously clean. The local government has taken care to obscure the shame of the rioting, because obviously, it has echoed around the world and Serbia is once again th ...

Donnie Hoyle teaches patch tools and levels in episode 7 of his funny "You Suck at Photoshop" tutorial. Link...

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 ...

I can't remember a primary like this one. [Tags: politics obama clinton hillary ]

newVideoPlayer("R6V2_weapons_gawker.flv", 463, 280,"");This trailer features the various new ways to put metal through people's bodies at high speed in Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. It plays a lot like marketing materials for gun runners. Two diffe ...

Codemasters' Connect '08 event at the Omega Sektor in Birmingham England is coming March 14th and 15th, and they've lined up some truly amazing freebies for visitors to their MMO showcase. Probably the coolest item is for RF Online players. They've h ...

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 ...

Wired.com takes a look at some of the real-world scientific applications of the latest gaming gear on display at the Game Developers Conference.