02/24/08

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 ...

jonhicks : The first Photoshop icon. - 24hr photo. Tags : icons sidenotes

nelson : Stephen Colbert, WoW - A rumoured unused trading card Tags : colbert funny games wow

Greg Storey : Designing for Disagreement. - Be sure to click on the poster, it's fantastic. Tags : Design

nelson : High alcohol wines - Brief article about the trend towards 15% wines Tags : alcohol drinks wine

Jeremy Zawodny : Bulldog Protects Computer [nsfw video] - Bulldog Protects Computer [nsfw video]: heh Tags : links

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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?"

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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.

A number of readers wrote in about the launch this morning of a Japanese H-2A rocket carrying a Kizuna ("Winds") satellite into orbit. Kizuna is intended to provide "super high-speed data transmission" for Japan and Southeast Asia. The news stories o ...

Troed writes "Tools for removing DRM from iTunes-purchased songs (myFairTunes7, QtFairUse6) have been available from the Hymn Project Web site for some time. These are legal in many countries. But on the 20th Apple sent a Cease and Desist note to Hym ...

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Washington Post's Security Fix blog, cyber criminals are populating the Internet with Web sites designed to exploit several recently-discovered security holes in a half-dozen widely used ActiveX plug-ins f ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Microsoft is now saying that Vista SP1 disables some 3rd party applications. The KB article on SP1 incompatibility states: 'For reliability reasons, Microsoft blocks these programs from starting after you ...

doconnor writes "JPL announced that Ulysses' mission will be ending after 17 years. The power generated by the decay of a radioactive isotope has been slowly decreasing. To conserve power its main transmitter was shut off. Unfortunately due to a faul ...

sigzero writes "Short but sweet: RMS is stepping down as Emacs Maintainer: 'From: Richard Stallman, Subject: Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team, Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:22 -0500 Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing ...

Serbia's hard-line leaders on Saturday called the U.S. "the main culprit" in the violence that has broken out since Kosovo declared independence.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that a pair of mailings sent to voters by rival Barack Obama's campaign criticizing her health care plan and trade views are false, misleading and a betrayal of his pledge to practice a new style of polit ...

They are called "Raulistas" — top military men who manage much of Cuba's economy and populate the upper reaches of power. On Sunday, these men will likely ensure that Raul Castro not only succeeds his brother Fidel as president, but remains in firm ...

Can looting be patriotic? Two women who took part in the Belgrade riots to protest Kosovo's independence seem to think the two go hand in hand. A video clip now on the Internet — entitled "Kosovo for Sneakers" — shows two girls going from shop to s ...

A federal judge said Friday that consumers may go ahead with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. over the way it advertised computers loaded with Windows XP as capable of running the Vista operating system.

Sen. Barack Obama's refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin along with a photo of him not putting his hand over his heart during the National Anthem led conservatives on Internet and in the media to question his patriotism.

As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history.

The Florida Marlins are looking for some footloose fat men. The National League team is creating an all-male, plus-size cheerleading squad to be dubbed the Manatees. Tryouts were scheduled for Sunday.

Runaway brides — and grooms — in Mexico City could get stuck paying for the limo and flowers under a bill proposed by a local lawmaker Friday.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton slammed rival Barack Obama on Saturday for campaign leaflets on her health-care plan that she called "blatantly false" and accused him of using Republican tactics in their contest for the Democratic U.S. preside ...

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 ...

Any escalation of Turkey's incursion against Kurdish rebels in Iraq could destabilise the region, Baghdad warns.

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 sometimes the popular girls are that way for a reason ... · Alison Angel (kindgrils.com) · Amanda Hanshaw (novoporn.com) · Amy Reid (badgirlsblog.com) · Cali Logan (sexyandfunny.com) · Carli Banks (dailynin ...

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 ...

the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us A frightening story about a secret Pentagon report to the President leaked and published February 22, 2004. On February 23, 2008 the Web goes wild. 1400 Diggs and still rising. 245 points on Red ...

Retro Sabotage is a collection of recreations of classic video games. Or is it? Hint: It's not, but to explain them would be to spoil it. If a button needs to be pressed, it's the space bar unless it's explained otherwise. My advice is to try the ...

Since 1993, Pete Tong has been hosting the Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1. A group on imeem seems to have uploaded them all. Tracklistings here. Some of the best of all time: Carl Cox - 1996 (tracklisting), Paul Oakenfold - 1994 - (The Goa Mix) (T ...

Playing Kreigspiel on a LAN. Guy Debord created a board game in 1977 called Kriegspiel, a war game ostensibly based on the principles of Clausewitz as articulated in On War. An online version of this game was recently created by the Radical Softwar ...

Note to Pundits: You know, Barack Obama does have a Web site with an extensive "issues" section. It's true. It's not even that hard to find!

If you travel to the comments section of basically any local newspaper article about the primary campaign, you'll find people putting forth the notion that Obama is a Manchurian Muslim candidate who hates America.Whether they believe this stuff or co ...

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...

My mind is buzzing with lots of interesting little projects/ ideas. — — 1. I want to find a way to flow some of my Twitter updates to Scripting News, into a Today's Links section, or Random Questions for the day (like the post you're read ...

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 ...

.... in the next couple of weeks.  What do you think about these tests.  Do they prove you have the required knowledge to succeed in life��..to go to college��.that your teachers have prepared you? This post may be Copyright © 2008 Ms. Sprague ...

.... and the city of St. Louis to address a clerk assigned to the quota, these cheese powder divided into many small packets, macaroni into the box, and then ask Associa??o dos Merceeiros way to a packaging sales, what he called the "Kraft Dinner� ...

Neil Davidson has posted a preliminary list of some of the speakers for this year's Business of Software Conference. “So far I've lined up (in no particular order) Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Richard Stallman, Dharmesh Shah, Jason Fried, Steve Joh ...

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 ...

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  

A leaked Pentagon report warns Bush that global climate change is real, coming soon, and will destroy the world with war, privation and massive upheaval: A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major ...

Oric sez, "The director of a Norwegian museum claimed yesterday to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War." William Hakvaag, the director of a war museum in northern Norway, said he found the drawings hidden in a p ...

John's been spelunking in filmstrips from the Goodwill, putting up high-res, color-corrected scans of strips ranging from "a 1935 travelogue of Alaska, A very racial one called "The Jap His Honorable Self' and much information about WWII-era Philippi ...

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 ...

The Boston Globe today is running an op-ed by me on Net neutrality. (It grew out of conversations with David Reed and Yochai Benkler, but they are obviously not responsible for what's wrong about it.)* * *This Monday, the Berkman Center is hosting a ...

There's a fun article over at the Escapist talking about the B-list in games, film, and other entertainment (looking in particular at Conan, both the original pulp fiction incarnation and the 2007 game from Nihilistic); the author's contention is tha ...

Luc Bernard, the mind behind the upcoming Wii-Ware title Eternity's Child is already hard at work on a new and what is sure to be a very controversial game or the DS. Imagination Is The Only Escape is the story of a young Jewish boy living in France ...

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 ...

In a surprise decision that could represent a shift in standards for assessing the effectiveness of cancer medicines, the FDA clears Avastin for use in treating breast cancer. The federal agency is judging the drug's effectiveness based on measuremen ...