02/29/08

A list of the stocks that have been added to and deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1929. Got this from What I Learned Today, which has more information about the Dow (General Electric is the only remaining member of the original 11 ...

Are the suburbs the next slums? At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, 81 of the community's 132 small, vinyl-sided houses were in foreclosure as of late last year. Vandals have ...

The Riverdale Garden Restaurant in the Bronx is trying out a novel way of staying in business: they're asking for their regulars to pledge $5000 in exchange for a year of free dinners. Michael had put The Riverdale Garden up for sale for the past se ...

A long list of obsolete skills, like "tuning in TV stations by using an antenna rotor" and "cranking up or down a car window". (link)

Trailer for an amazing-looking game called Crayon Physics Deluxe; it's part Line Rider, part The Incredible Machine. Deluxe is a sequel to the more rudimentary Crayon Physics (sadly, PC-only). (via clusterflock) (link)

factoryjoe : 19.20.21. - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Richard Saul wurman, ted

factoryjoe : The LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn's new redesigned homepage with Status - LinkedIn launches a new homepage based on the lifestreaming model. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: linkedin, activity stre ...

Isofarro : Screen Readers lack emphasis - Steve Faulkner tests JAWS and Windows Eyes to see whether they support emphasis, strong emphasis, bold, italics, ins and del. The short answer is that by default, screen readers treat these no different to pl ...

Isofarro : Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat - Alastair tests the accessibility of PDFs created by Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat and finds that Word does a better job. But both tools do miles better than Open Office.

nelson : French wedding etiquette - you can be invited just for desert! Tags : etiquette france wedding

that would have been a fun class to take

Stuff White People Like continues to crack my shit up

"In general, marriages which are legally performed and valid abroad are also legally valid in the United States." So we're legal... probably. :-)

sex advice for men via craigslist... isn't the internet wonderful?

"The question is, what is the value of hosting comments on a site that is removed from the place that generated the content?"

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)

Welcome to Google Sites: I guess should shut down the company. Google has obviated us. Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of informati ...

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 ...

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.

thorwil writes "Brainstorm is a new site where everyone can submit and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. It's inspired by Dell's Ideastorm. By default, you see the ideas submitted by the community sorted by popularity. Each idea is accompanied by arrows so y ...

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered flaws in the card payment systems used by millions of customers worldwide. Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer, and Steven Murdoch demonstrated how a simple paper clip ca ...

An anonymous reader writes "The military's war on blogs, first reported last spring, is picking up. Now the Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read. One senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so 'utterly stupid, i ...

BaCa writes "Core Security has issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could severely impact organizations relying on VMware's desktop virtualization software. It involves directory traversal using VMware's shared folders, and could allow ...

dtwood writes "The bank that got WikiLeaks.org erased from DNS finally hired a PR agency and issued a press release filled with half truths and non-statements. Tynan on Tech has it, along with some brief commentary. Worth a look."Read more of this st ...

bfwebster writes "Microsoft is currently facing a class-action suit over its designation of allegedly under-powered hardware as being 'Vista Capable.' The discovery process of that lawsuit has now compelled Microsoft to produce some internal emails d ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury investigation into whether President Bush's chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.

President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. "We acted robustly," he said.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said his remark that American troops could stay in Iraq for 100 years has been distorted, yet he still suggests a lengthy U.S. presence comparable to that in Korea and other countries.

For the past two months, 24 hours a day, MIT researchers have been collecting the electronic communications of millions of New Yorkers — but not for salacious gossip or to protect national security.

The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cell phones.

AFP - An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.

For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-r ...

A mail carrier was trapped inside her car for nearly two hours at a home near Hanover after a pair of dogs attacked her tires, flattening three of them.

A man found out that February in the East Tennessee mountains isn't the best time to try hiding from the law underwater. The Blount County Sheriff's Office says James Earl Jett fled an accident in Rockford after deputies found out the truck he was dr ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, leaping squarely into the race to succeed him.

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 ...

Kenya's rival leaders sign a power-sharing deal mediated by Kofi Annan to end the country's post-election crisis.

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 ...

In case you were keeping track, we did miss our Best of Sex Advice roundup for the last couple of weeks -- but not because of laziness or forgetfulness or even neglect. Frankly, your problems just weren't that interesting! Maybe everyone was just fee ...

Google-owned YouTube reinstated a video appearing to document prisoner abuse at a Russian prison camp. The Wall Street Journal writes: Lawyer Robert Amsterdam posted the video to YouTube in December with the explanation that the 2006 footage comes ...

Google released Google Sites, allowing you or a whole team to build websites with documents, photos, presentations and more. This new service, which was spawned from the Google-acquired JotSpot suite, just works with a Google Apps account, though. ...

A list of the stocks that have been added to and deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1929. Got this from What I Learned Today, which has more information about the Dow (General Electric is the only remaining member of the original 11 ...

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 ...

"The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designe ...

What do a balding man with a unique talent, shopping carts, and Extended Validation SSL Certificates have in common? Well, this: Liberty Fillmore: The Cart Whisperer (YT). Won't you think of the carts and visit No More Abandoned Carts today?

Youtube Political Post Mike Nelson of Rifftrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame riffs on six political ads.

I Finally own a Zipp Wheel†¦ A little story of how a bike racing fan came to own a fancy, schmancy carbon race wheel during the recently concluded Tour of California. A photo of Hank's work-a-day wheel going pro. The rider was veteran America pro ...

Nancy Pelosi writes to AG Mukasey.

Don't both these guys have better things to do than try to pass the buck?

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...

Every time Twitter goes down I think of how can we create something to use when Twitter is down. — — There's a difference these days, because there's serious talk among developers about whether or how to compete. Earlier this week at lunc ...

Bloomberg op-ed in tomorrow's NY Times.  — —

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March's Inc. column is online: “Don't tell your star salespeople to take the bus and stay with relatives when they make that call in St. Louis, even though that's what you did when you started the company.” Not loving your job? Visit the ...

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 ...

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  

(I'm liveblogging from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA) Presenter: Garrett Lisi is introduced as a surfing physicist working on a grand unified theory - E8. He wants to find all the particles and forces that make a complete picture of our universe. He star ...

Wolfrum hates Diet Pepsi more than you hate anything. If you haven't tasted Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi, but would like an idea of what it tastes like, do this - keep a straw in your pocket and wander around outside until you find a pigeon or squirrel t ...

(I'm liveblogging from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA) Presenter: Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation on rethinking museums. After showing slides of works by Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, Manet, Picasso, Mondrian, Warhol, Gehry, 1948 Ind ...

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 ...

Clay Shirky is giving a small talk at the Berkman Center, before giving his bigger talk this evening. His topic this afternoon is "protest culture." [I'm live blogging, getting it wrong, etc. This is certainly far less coherent than Clay's actual pr ...

By now you've probably figured out that not one Kotaku writers, but three of us have actually played Street Fighter IV... extensively. And yet we still haven't written a single impression. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm betting they feel just as ...

It would appear that Super Smash Bros. Brawl adoration hasn't begun to ebb in Nintendo's homeland, with the Wii fighter pushing another 78,000 copies to Japanese consumers last week. It fought off a dozen newcomers to the Media Create chart, includin ...

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 ...

Wired sits down with author and president of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, and discuss his new book, green technology and the state of the U.S. economy.