02/28/08

They don't make 'em like they used to. Sort of. According to Wikipedia, there are seven different versions of Blade Runner, from a 113-minute workprint version shown to test audiences in early 1982 to the "Final Cut" supervised by director Ridley Sco ...

Interview with Susan Bradley, who did some graphic design and designed a typeface for Pixar's Ratatouille. I enjoyed her response when asked about "one thing everybody should do today": Something backwards or something analog you'd normally comput ...

Ollie and I invented a new game last night. Actually, it's more fair to say that he invented it and I followed along. The playing field consisted of two couches facing each other with a coffee table in between. All the furniture was raised off the gr ...

When you die, become an intellectual property donor. Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intell ...

There was a big bust in Chinatown yesterday...32 vendors selling counterfeit watches, sunglasses, and handbags were shut down. All up and down Canal St today, not only are the busted stores closed but all the other shops selling fake goods are shutte ...

Khoi Vinh : Experimenta - Beautiful minimalist design work from New Zealand. Link Aisle One. Tags : Three Star

nelson : Clinton vote manipulation - Clay Shirky calls out DelegateHub, a Clinton argument for counting the invalid Michigan and Florida elections Tags : clinton democrats politics

Linkorama : Wiki improves internal communication at PR firm - Nearly three years after launching it, Eastwick Communications' wiki continues to engage employees–and reduce costs and paper Tags : casestudy collaboration pr socialtext wiki

Linkorama : Esther Dyson on The Coming Ad Revolution - Esther is going to invest in Dopplr, because sociality changes the way that advertising works: Tags : ads advertising commerce dopplr social

nelson : Google AuthSub - third party authentication for Google web apps Tags : api authentication google

agreed... the simulators can be quite useful

'neither one of them has anything to do with anyone or anything being "open," and by trying to cling to latest meaningless buzzword Yahoo manages to totally obscure the functionality of the tools they’ve created.' true, unfort ...

kick ass

"Humans are creatures of habit, and Google was the best search at the time when most formed their internet search habits."

"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."

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Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

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Public Domain Donor: An absolutely fascinating concept. There’s a sticker for the back of your driver’s license. Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 ...

Action Streams: An interesting new plugin from Movable Type that will aggregate your actions from 75 different social networking services and publish them as a feed from your MT install. The Action Streams plugin is an amazing new plugin for Mova ...

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.

coondoggie writes to tell us NetworkWorld is reporting that one researcher seems to think that a military robot arms race may be imminent between both governments and terrorists. "We are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot ...

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the ...

Robert writes to mention that Germany's highest court has imposed limitations on the amount of spying governmental bodies can do on a suspect's computer. The ruling comes in response to a state law on North Rhine Westphalia that had allowed secret se ...

jsuda writes "The preeminent general reference source for Mac OS X has always been the Missing Manual Series written by David Pogue. The latest iteration in the series is its Mac OS X Leopard Edition, completely revised, and it is the biggest, most c ...

hightower_40 writes to mention that a small Alaskan village has sued two dozen oil, power, and coal companies, blaming them for contributing to global warming. "Sea ice traditionally protected the community, whose economy is based in part on salmon f ...

Wandering Wombat writes "The largest structures in the universe have been, if not directly found, then at least detected and pounced upon by scientists. 'The most colossal structures in the universe have been detected by astronomers who tuned into ho ...

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain mocked Barack Obama's view of al-Qaida in Iraq, and the Democratic contender responded that GOP policies brought the terrorist group there. The rapid-fire, long-distance exchange Wednesday underscored that ...

An investigation into allegations the Marine Corps delayed sending blast-resistant trucks to Iraq also will examine whether the Marines were negligent in delivering a laser to divert drivers and people from checkpoints and convoys, according to a mem ...

A former police officer was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with a chance of parole after 57 years for killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child.

The European Union's longest-running fight with Microsoft Corp. neared an end Wednesday as regulators imposed a record $1.3 billion fine on the world's largest software company for failing to fully comply with a 2004 antitrust order.

The organizer of a federal hearing at Harvard Law School on Comcast Corp.'s treatment of subscriber Internet traffic on Wednesday said "seat-warmers" apparently hired by the company prevented other attendees from getting in.

Reuters - A photograph of the boy with the "beautiful brown eyes" who Anne Frank recalled as her "one true love" in the diary she wrote whilst in hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is to go on display in Amsterdam.

William F. Buckley Jr. died at work, in his study. The Cold War had ended long before. A Republican was in the White House. The word "liberal" had been shunned like an ill-mannered guest.

A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.

Call this family the mailbox vigilantes. Fed up that their mailbox was smashed four times in two weeks, Greg Fisher and his son set up a middle-of-the-night stakeout to catch the vandals — and it worked. Four teens were caught after a high speed cha ...

TYLER, Texas (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama faced off on Wednesday in a possible prelude to a U.S. presidential election battle, tangling over whether Iraq would be prey for al Qaeda if U.S. troops are withdrawn.

With the recent changes to Kuro5hin, most turn-based games of complete knowledge can easily be played directly in the comments. This article does not cover games with an element of chance (such as card games), games of partial knowlege (like battlesh ...

Four hostages are set free by Colombian Farc rebels, in a deal brokered by the Venezuelan president.

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 ...

Your mother probably warned you to stay out of the bad side of town, particularly if the bad side looks like an abandoned missile silo and clearly belongs to a gang that consists of exactly one woman who is into domination. Believe it or not, if you' ...

Gus Allen sent in this item about the Titan tower: A new condo tower in Houston, Texas, has just released its floor plans. The tower is called the Titan, and the floor plans are named after various "industry titans" -- such as "Vanderbilt," "Rocke ...

Hebrew and Arabic Google will now more dynamically adjust from left-to-right/ right-to-left typing, depending on what language you enter, Google announced. For instance, if you go to Google Egypt and enter "hello world," the text will be left-aligne ...

They don't make 'em like they used to. Sort of. According to Wikipedia, there are seven different versions of Blade Runner, from a 113-minute workprint version shown to test audiences in early 1982 to the "Final Cut" supervised by director Ridley Sco ...

Excerpt of a letter sent to a grade-school friend in September 1993. I was 16. I got a new computer...an IBM 386. It's a beauty of a computer, but I sunk all of my money into it and my parents still had to help pay it off... It has an 80 meg Hard D ...

"While we are generally horrified by monstrosities in the case of human beings, we love them in fruit" - Giovanni Battista Ferrari (naturalist, "discoverer" of the blood orange and the cure for scurvy). Illustrations in Ferrari' ...

Ready, kids! Unsatisfied with your kids slow adoption of very important homeland security adjustments? Buy them the Playmobil Security Check Point! How does this stack up against increased TSA checks of toys?

The ultimate in nerdy tattoos? "Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that ope ...

A church in Tampa, FL has issued a 30-day sex challenge: If you're married, have sex every day (PDF of daily workbook). If you're not married, don't have sex at all (PDF of daily workbook). There's a blog, there's a billboard, there's a lot of pre ...

So none of the normal rules apply to him.

It really is fascinating that McCain is going to run on how awesome Iraq is, and every Republican in Congress will be forced to do the same. There will be no declaring victory and going home, or promises to do so in a Friedman or so, just a promise ...

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 started a chatroom for tonight's Democratic debate. — — irc:/ / irc.freenode.net/ #ohioDebate — — The debate starts at 6PM Pacific. — —

Warning: Spoilers follow... — — The best TV show ever, imho, is The Wire on HBO. — — I'm such a fan, I've bought all the DVDs and watched the series in its entirety three times. After the last season, the fifth one, which is w ...

.... feel very comfortable when I wake up. I don` t know every body`s hobby, but I think it will differentfor everyone. I like my hobby very much. Maybe I will change my hobby in the future. This post may be Copyright © 2008 peggielove1214. Ho ...

.... # 07:23 @encarna Oof! Hope everyone gets to feeling better & you can take a nap! # 20:00 thinking that coming home at night is SWEET # 20:03 @yksin Any day! # this "too lazy to actually post an LJ entry" update has been brough ...

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 ...

among other things, she designed the hand-drawn type in the Ratatouille titles  

a college professor uses a clever technique to focus attention  

great little short film about the afterlife from Juno's director  

just stumbled on this 1997-era snapshot of Word, apparently captured by net Yoshi Sodeoka  

love in the early digital age, originally delivered to subscribers as a series of emails in real time  

BigO removed the files, but you can download the MP3s or FLACs here  

surprisingly good, tries to identify running themes in Internet memes  

This little gem on YouTube is described by its creator, Ole-Magnus Saxegard, as... [An] animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day. (...) This was a student project, hence the "unfinishedne ...

Yesterday on Boing Boing, we shared first-hand reports from the guys at Miro that Comcast hired goons to fill seats and cheer at an FCC hearing over net neutrality at Harvard. Today, Jordan at Valleywag points us to this update: The FCC is considerin ...

Photographer Dave Bullock shot a totally NSFW* gallery of UCLA nanotech lab photos for Wired. week at UCLA. "I was given a really interesting tour of Dr. Omar M. Yaghi's laboratory where he and his students have created some amazing nanotechnology th ...

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 ...

1995-6 I was VP of strategic marketing at Open Text, right when it went from search engines to intranet collaboration software. I'm at a CIO ass'n meeting in Waterloo, Ontario, where Open Text's exec chair, and my old boss (and current friend), Tom J ...

While Home for the PlayStation 3 may have generated plenty of buzz for Sony at last year's Game Developers Conference, its late arrival and the setting in of reality may have made it put a damper on the hype surrounding the service. We've had our dou ...

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has been dropping some none-too-subtle hints that the company is interested in another Road Rash. He name-checked the bloody motorcycle racing classic at DICE during his talk and recently in a GameDaily interview ...

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

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From "Big Foot: In measuring carbon emissions, it's easy to confuse morality and science." OK, most New Yorkers probably know this: "Paying attention to the emissions associated with what we eat makes obvious sense. It is certainly hard to justify ...

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 Centers for Disease Control tracks influenza, but not the common cold -- and a particularly nasty form of the cold seems to be spreading in the United States. Help us figure out how widespread it really is with this poll.