02/26/08

On view at MoMA through May 12, 2008: Design and the Elastic Mind. In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working acros ...

According to Wikipedia, a rent party is: a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent. The rent party played a major role in the development of jazz and blues music. Further readi ...

The NY Times launches TimesMachine, an alternate look into their vast online archive. It's basically an interface into every single page of the newspaper from Sep 18, 1851 to Dec 30, 1922. The advertising on these old pages is fascinating. (link)

Jad Abumrad from Radio Lab curates The Morning News' Video Digest and selects clips from movies with good music. (link)

You know what's dumb about the "SoAndSo Company is the Next Google" headlines. But do you know what's *really* dumb about the "SoAndSo Company is the Next Google" headlines? Before Google became the company whose success everyone was chasing, it was ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby - Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby: "I believe the term first arose in the Python community, as a derogatory term for a practice which that community tended to frown on. The Ruby community, on ...

Linkorama : Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies – the shifting of costs from one product to another – but on the fact that ...

Linkorama : The Pulse of Open Source - Welcome to The Pulse of Open Source. This is the stream of collective consciousness from the open source community on Twitter. Tags : opensource twitter

Jeremy Zawodny : I RUN [pic] - I RUN [pic]: heh Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : THIS wuz BAD idea! [pic] - THIS wuz BAD idea! [pic]: heh Tags : links

"I believe the term first arose in the Python community, as a derogatory term for a practice which that community tended to frown on. The Ruby community, on the other hand, has embraced the term and the practice with enthusiasm."

basically, "we're better because we're better..." that's a bit odd

Kevin has good luck with MySQL on properly tuned SSDs

'Yang alludes again to open platform for Yahoo....but gives no details. Mentions "social aspect" - namechecks the social graph, says it's still early.'

yup

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)

The Clbuttic Mistake: Absolutely love this. “Apple made the clbuttic mistake of forcing out their visionary - I mean, look at what NeXT has been up to!” Hmm. “clbuttic”. Google “clbuttic” - thousands ...

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.

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.

Croakyvoice writes "Fans of Homebrew on the Nintendo Wii can celebrate with an explosion of releases today, in just a few hours there has been a release of a proof of concept version of Linux for the Wii, an MP3 Player, the Super Nintendo emulator Sn ...

micheas writes "Larry Lessig has decided that running for U.S. Congress himself in a special election would be too risky to his Change Congress movement and has decided not to run. 'With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would ...

Gallenod writes "The Denver Post is reporting that the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of a Federal judge who threw out and reversed a jury decision in favor of a patent infringement claim and ordered the plaintiff's lawyer ...

Michael J. Ross writes "Web 2.0 applications and sites commonly employee a number of technologies: PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript/ Ajax, microformats (standard formats for HTML data), tags (keywords for categorizing site content), and Web feeds ( ...

Daily Tech is reporting that details about Intel's new processor models were leaked over the weekend. Both the six core Dunnington and Nehalem architectures were featured in this leak. "Dunnington includes 16MB of L3 cache shared by all six processor ...

kyle6477 writes to share that Microsoft is hoping to change the way advertising is thought of, and ultimately valued, online. Their new Engagement ROI tool tries to track a user's ad clicking habits and distribute the credit over all of the ads that ...

John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can't, "then I lose. I lose," the Republican said. He quickly backed off that remark.

The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 — the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped.

President Bush on Monday lobbied again for an intelligence law allowing government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, as the tone of the dispute between the White House and Congress over terrorist surveillance grew increasingly sharp.

Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries.

Video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. on Monday urged the publisher of "Grand Theft Auto" to quickly accept its unsolicited $2 billion takeover bid, saying it's only a matter of time before it declares "game over" and pulls its premium offer.

Time.com - Americans are a religious people, but they switch religious groups with surprising frequency, a major new survey finds

Sales of existing homes fell for the sixth straight month in January, dropping to the slowest sales pace on record. Median home prices were also down and many analysts predicted further price declines in the months ahead given high levels of unsold h ...

An apparently drunk man picked the wrong place to tinkle. Appleton police arrested the man Friday afternoon after he reportedly relieved himself in front of the police department.

Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol — the entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fiber shoes, a police spokesman said Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to lead U.S. foreign policy even as Obama gained ground on her in the battleground U.S. state of Ohio on Monday.

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 ...

Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders voice optimism that they can make progress towards reunifying the island.

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 ...

Stop us if you've heard this one before. A man goes to a doctor and the doctor tells him, "I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that you've been in a massive car accident, all the bones in your legs are broken, you received a tr ...

Sergey Brin's entry on Wikipedia dates back to 2002. Checking the Wikipedia history function, you can retrieve any state the page was in. Including its modest start with nothing but the words "One of the founders of Google internet search engine." Ch ...

Clicking a placemark expands the info box with more information, as shown on Wikipedia The Wikipedia, YouTube and Panoramio layers (or "mapplets") on top of Google Maps may be a bit of visual overload, but are interesting to explore nevertheless. ...

On view at MoMA through May 12, 2008: Design and the Elastic Mind. In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working acros ...

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 ...

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts (pdf), a recently-updated paper on the Cornell arXiv peer-review site. By Hrvoje NikoliÄ� of the Rudjer BoškoviÄ� Institute in Croatia. Note: the presence of a paper on arXiv does not necessarily mean i ...

"What we are now seeing is the break up of Bretton Woods mark 2." The Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliot, on growing fears of a global depression. [single link op-ed alert]

Sonic Youth fan? Got a spare 5 million dollars? Then you can be the proud owner of the original art for 'Daydream Nation' - Kerze by Gerhard Richter.

Building a landmark. Nearly 135 years after first rolling up Clay Street, San Francisco's famous cable cars are still using an elegant, yet antiquated system of understreet cables and two types of unpowered cars to move delighted tourists and patient ...

enjoy

But it will continue forever. But the Iraqis will handle everything. But our troops need to stay there anyway.McCain is very serious!!!

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...

New Gallup national poll, Obama 47, Clinton 46.  — — More test posts coming, adding new features to my new toy.  — — Just made a few changes so this is just a test. Please ignore.  — — Kay Bailey Hut ...

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 ...

From my February column in Inc. Magazine: “The bureaucrats in Washington had forgotten Newton's first law: An object in motion tends to remain in motion.” Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, gr ...

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 ...

too bad the Pulitzer excludes independent journalism outside of newspapers, online or off  

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  

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we got an exclusive look at some screenshots from "D&D Insider," the software designed to let you play the latest Dungeons & Dragons version (4.0!) with friends over the internet, ten post-apocalyptic survival vehicles, s ...

The Cuarto Derecha blog is a good source of interesting and surprising photos, like this one of a smoking pistachio nut. I don't understand Spanish, but I'll bet the stories are interesting, too. Link...

The Star Tribune reports that dozens of bars in the Twin Cities are holding "theater nights" and declaring everyone in the bar to be an actor. By law, performers are allowed to smoke during theatrical performances. (The law in California is similar. ...

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 ...

NOTE: I am live-blogging. Not re-reading for errors. There are guaranteed to be errors of substance, stand point and detail. Caveat reader. McDowell: Does BitTorrent run differently on different types of network infrastructures? BT: The engineers do ...

We don't like Toshihiro Nagoshi's games quite as much as we like the man. Sure, Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza (aka Ryu Ga Gotoku) are fantastic Sega franchises, but we're far more impressed with Nagoshi's transition from run of the mill developer to a ...

We've already heard EA's story recounting why they're interested in acquiring Take-Two, but analyst Michael Pachter gives the real scoop. And unlike many have claimed, Take-Two's appeal has very little to do with GTAIV, which he calls "gravy." It's a ...

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

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So you are having a kid and the house is too small. Or mom is moving home and you need another room. So why do people have to move under such circumstances? When your hard drive is full you can plug in another, because they are all designed to be mo ...

The lucky sunny state of Arizona is about to become home to the world’s largest Solar Plant! Thanks to a just-announced contract between Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the enormous solar plant called Solana will power u ...

A new pact means anyone with a broadband connection can watch live shows by Universal Music artists like DJ Shadow and Feist for free, straight from a pair of high-tech Amsterdam clubs.