02/25/08

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 ...

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nelson : On game criticism - Costikyan talks about criticism vs. reviews Tags : art criticism games journalism

deusx : YTMND - uncle philTMND: Mashed Remix - "pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes" Tags : freshprince funny music odd pillowymounds potatoes ytmnd

Andy Baio : Map of social network popularity around the world - Asia loves Friendster, Russia loves LiveJournal, and Orkut still dominates Latin America

Greg Storey : Ralph Nader to run for President. - Is this good or bad news? Tags : Politics

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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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Windmill going wild and finally break: For all our talk about the safety and cleanliness of wind power, this video is pretty interesting. Some really strong winds in Denmark spin this windmill until it self-destructs. Fascinating.

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) ...

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.

HockeyPuck writes to let us know that Microsoft has decided to stop making HD DVD players for the Xbox 360. No word on supporting Blu-ray on the platform though. "Microsoft said Saturday it would continue to provide standard warranty support for its ...

NegativeK writes "I work at a local comic and games shop, and I've been kicking around what it would take to implement a barcode scanner and more detailed inventory control. Currently, the setup is a low-tech register that tracks general areas of sal ...

Cory Doctorow sounds the alarm over a Library of Congress deal with Microsoft that will have collections locked up in Silverlight. I'll double the Microsoft deal and offer them $6M in perl scripts and an infinite value of free OS software if they let ...

ozmanjusri brings us a Wired report on Apple's efforts to patent the multitouch gestures used on their laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The article discusses concerns over how this could affect the standardization of certain gestures in developing ...

Multiple readers have written to tell us of news that Pakistan has ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/ movies." This follows increasing unrest in Pakistan over a Danish newspaper's reprinting of cartoo ...

An anonymous reader writes "Financial institutions and companies in the securities/ futures business are reporting sizable increases in the amount of losses and suspicious activity attributed to computer intrusions and identity theft, says the Washin ...

Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but leaving the island's communist system unshaken.

Even buckets of rain couldn't put a serious damper on Hollywood's glitziest show of the year.

Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.

Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray.

Pakistan's government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.

Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.

For as long as he can remember, Brad Williams has been able to recall the most trifling dates and details about his life.

The determination of an angry snowmobile owner — plus miles and miles of tracks in the snow — have led police to a suspected chop shop for stolen snowmobiles.

A man fighting with his girlfriend clung to a car roof and punched her through the window as she drove more than a mile on a busy road, hitting several other cars, police said.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharpened their attacks on each other on Sunday as they headed for showdowns in Texas and Ohio on March 4.

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 ...

Cuba's National Assembly unanimously votes to confirm Raul Castro as president to replace his brother Fidel.

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 Winners of the 10th Annual Independent Games Festival were announced Wednesday night at this year's GDC. Finalists in the Student Showcase included Crayon Physics Deluxe (previously), Flip Side and Empyreal Nocturne, as well as a 2-D platformer ...

Design and the Elastic Mind is a MOMA exhibit of cool objects, gadgets, websites and ideas. Some personal favorites are The PainStation, The Religious Helmet, Body Modification for Love, The Minutine Space and Lightweeds.

When F1 was sex and drugs and rocky roads. Starring, of course, James Hunt. And Jody Scheckter's iconic 6-wheeled Tyrrell P34. And your crash of crashes, Niki Lauda at Nurburgring 1976. Despite falling into a coma and suffering extensive facial ...

The Amber Room found? German treasure hunters using electromagnetic pulse measurements are "90% sure" the Russian "Eighth Wonder of the World" was buried by the Nazi's in a man-made cavern 20 meters underground near the village of ...

McCain's got some problems.

As I wrote before there's been a lot of insidery campaign stories about the Clinton camp and not so much from the Obama camp. More than that, there really hasn't been a lot of analysis (that I've seen) about how team Obama achieved what they did.Cam ...

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...

Just made a few changes so this is just a test. Please ignore.  — — Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) on This Week, making a lot of sense about Cuba.   — — Frank Rich's scathing postmortem of the Clinton campaign.   ...

I have a neat little app that runs in the OPML Editor that, every five minutes, gathers all the new twits from people I'm following, and runs them over a set of "callback" scripts, that can do whatever they want to with them. The first one I wrote lo ...

....Third, booth design. www.ibuy-sell.com survey found at present, many also show the proportion of special decoration for the main propaganda points. The exhibitors are also increasing emphasis on special decoration. However, special ....

.... Most of you know that recently realesed was the Heroic Map Pack. Now you get more with the Legendary Map Pack. I've included is a screenshot of one of the new maps called Ghost Town. This post may be Copyright © 2008 reaper644. Hosted by ...

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 ...

Asia loves Friendster, Russia loves LiveJournal, and Orkut still dominates Latin America  

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  

Metropolis, a German/ French documentary series from Arte.tv, shot a short documentary with me about online freedom and surveillance, and science fiction. They've put the episode online as a free, remixable, Creative Commons licensed download. Link.. ...

Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels, a nighttime job-site on the streets of London near Liverpool street station, workers pulling out London's hundreds of miles of leaky Victorian waterworks and replacing them with modern, less-leaky ...

Dav sez, "A friend of mine in Tokyo has built an incredible bookcase that completely surrounds his bed. It's like an igloo made of books. You have to see the photos." 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 ...

At the end of his very entertaining talk at the NFAIS meeting, Bryan Alexander put up the usual slide with his email address and blog site, and said lightly, "It is of course required by law that the very last thing in every presentation be a URL."Ni ...

I just got off the phone with Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello who called to talk about the back-and-forth going on right now between Take-Two and EA over Riccitiello's multi-billion dollar offer for the company. I also, coincidentally, received ...

Up from the terrifying depths of 4chan comes this terrific Professor Layton desktop. No don't worry, I didn't sully my hands raking through the 4chan muck. Thankfully the BBPS' Dan Zuccarelli has done all the work so all we have to do is enjoy it. Th ...

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 ...

As a lesson in anatomy, Kevin Kelly and his son reassemble a chicken skeleton from the bones remaining after a chicken dinner. See the results on Wired.com's Geek Dad blog.