03/01/08

Ed Levine says the best gelato in NYC is being served in a tanning salon. My favorite banh mi (and perhaps the best baguette in town) can be found in the back of a jewelry store. Any other odd places to find good food? (link) (Comment on this)

Did you know that there's a teensy museum on the moon? Now I find out there was already an entire Moon Museum, with drawings by six leading contemporary artists of the day: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, Forrest "Frosty" Myers, Clae ...

Apperceptive, the little engine that runs a large chunk of the professional blogosphere, gets a nice shout-out from Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall. One other point I should note: because of our size and resources, we've never been able to field ...

Around All-Star time a couple of weeks ago, Nike released a shoe called the Nike Trash Talk, "the first Nike performance basketball sneaker completely produced from manufacturing waste". The shoe, worn by Steve Nash in a recent game, looks a bit like ...

A look at the New Yorker magazine from the 1930s and 40s: the covers, the writers, the advertising, etc. (link)

nelson : comScore clarification - Detailed reading of the Google CPC report that showed a possible decline Tags : ads advertising comscore cpc google metrics

factoryjoe : How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008 - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft - Thoughts on how open source influenced Windows Server 2008. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks T ...

wearehugh : MSN Toolbar Beta - "When you use any other search engine to find something, Live Search will also generate results" == MS gets your Google/ Yahoo search history Tags : evil microsoft toolbar

Linkorama : What's Most Important for Success in Enterprise 2.0? - I spoke earlier this week at the FASTForward conference in Orlando, and used the opportunity to toss out some conjectures about the factors that differentiate successful Enterprise 2. ...

nelson : More Abu Ghraib - Yet more images of American torture Tags : abughraib iraq politics torture

somehow I missed this originally... damn that guy can be funny

just what it says it is...

and ISO editor for Linux and Windoze

that would have been a fun class to take

Stuff White People Like continues to crack my shit up

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)

Here’s my second installment in a series of audio posts for Windows Mobile (if the audio widget doesn’t come through in RSS, you’ll need to visit the permalink for this post). This one is a bit longer, and digs in a little deeper a ...

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 ...

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.

SpaceAdmiral writes to mention that NASA has some new high-resolution radar maps of the Moon obtained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The new images have also been used to create a simulation of the Moon's day and a movie of a Moon landing from the ...

yorugua writes "Furniture trembled as Steve Ballmer was to be interviewed by InformationWeek. He then went on to talk about Linux: 'How does Microsoft beat Linux? The same way "you beat any other competitor: You offer good value, which in this case m ...

netbuzz writes "Lawyers for the Swiss bank that got the plug pulled on Wikileaks.org have dragged a Stanford grad student/ human rights activist into the case because he moderated a discussion group about Wikileaks on Facebook. He has no relation to ...

eldavojohn writes "I've been charged with making a specific user interface style guide for a suite of software by my employer. I'm not quite sure where to start. So I turned to my favorite search engine only to be brutally disappointed with what is o ...

Wired has an interesting editorial on the latest resurgence of the old days of phone phreaking and the latest phreak that is rising into the FBI crosshairs. The most recent hoax, "swatting", involves malicious pranksters calling police with reports o ...

We ran an article about the new Air Force Cyber Command and its recruiting efforts on February 13, 2008. Now Major General William Lord, who is in charge of this effort, has agreed to answer Slashdot users' questions. If you're thinking about joining ...

Vials found in the motel room of a man hospitalized in critical condition tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, authorities said Friday. There was no indication of any link to terrorist activity, Las Vegas police Deputy Chief Kathy Suey said at ...

Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday of trying to "play on people's fears to scare up votes" with a television ad showing sleeping children and asking who would be more qualified to answer a national security emergency ...

Fidel Castro said Friday he helped choose candidates for Cuba's new government, but he asserted that his brother Raul is fully in charge as the new president. In his first comments since his brother assumed the presidency last weekend, the elder Cast ...

Mike McCue hasn't talked to Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang since Microsoft Corp. ambushed the Internet pioneer with an unsolicited takeover bid a month ago.

A divided Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the nation's first felony conviction for illegal spamming on Friday, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming law does not violate free-speech rights.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has raised the possibility of a challenge to Texas' primary and caucus rules just days before the contest, drawing a warning against legal action from the state's Democratic Party.

Vials found in the motel room of a man hospitalized in critical condition tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, authorities said Friday. There was no indication of any link to terrorist activity, Las Vegas police Deputy Chief Kathy Suey said at ...

The robber of a convenience store left behind an unusual clue — a W-2 form. The man robbed a Git-N-Go store in Des Moines early Friday after telling a clerk he had a gun. He left the store with about $115 but at some point took off his hat and jacke ...

Birthday candles may be in short supply in Middletown, where two, unrelated women have turned 104 just three days apart. Marjorie Hunt celebrated her big birthday Monday in the southwest Ohio city, at the retirement community where she lives.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's experience in handling a national security crisis on Friday as polls showed her losing ground to Obama before Tuesday's contests in Texas and O ...

"Are you aware, by any chance, that honeybees have stingers?" the woman asked as I placed the order for my first bees. I was. "And that they use them?' That too, yes. "And you still want to do this?" Yes. Yes, I did. She smiled and ran my car ...

Turkey's military says it has withdrawn troops from Iraq after an operation against Kurdish PKK rebels.

I’m delighted to say that online bookstores are shipping copies of Here Comes Everybody today, and that it has gotten several terrific notices in the blogosphere: Cory Doctorow:Clay’s book makes sense of the way that groups are using the ...

newVideoPlayer("Blow_Job_School.flv", 463, 387,"");Look, not everyone is born an expert when it comes to certain sexual arts: you can't just show up for your first important blowjob and expect to nail it on the first try. And guys, do you think that ...

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. ...

Ed Levine says the best gelato in NYC is being served in a tanning salon. My favorite banh mi (and perhaps the best baguette in town) can be found in the back of a jewelry store. Any other odd places to find good food? (link) (Comment on this)

It's almost been five years since the Santa Monica Farmer's Market tragedy, when an 86-year-old man accidentally took the lives of ten unsuspecting people with his burgundy Buick LeSabre. I was there, and documented the aftermath in real-time. This ...

Drummer Buddy Miles has died. Another wonderful musician - one who played with Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies - died far too young.

Go way back into time with a deliciously analog collection of mastermixes from 1980s-era soul radio from London. [previously, semi-related]

Boston Mayor Tom Menino is running for president. Here's why he'd be a better president than Mitt Romney. And he's done vocals for a techno track.

Riding the Waves of interest in MVC web frameworks such as Rails, Django, TurboGears, and Cake, comes the latest entrant: Ruby Waves. Interesting features include request lambdas, hot patchable, nestable templates, app reusability, and decoupled con ...

Another exciting trading day.

The glamorous life.

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...

The first time this year I heard Lakoff talk I asked how the Republics would attack Obama. Without hesitation he said three words: Barack Hussein Obama. — — From his confidence I gathered that this was like asking if the 49ers would use ...

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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 ...

they changed the username, but it's still in plaintext in the source!  

elegantly designed, with the simplest signup process I've ever seen  

no video online that I can find, but the audio sounds like the sketch fell flat  

41.666 days later...  

regret the error, indeed  

common for open-source projects, but I've never seen this done for a web startup  

I'd seen the Wired one, but not the rest  

In November, 1969, the New York Times reported on the existence of a secret, miniature art museum that had been smuggled onto the surface of the moon on Apollo 12: ...according to Frosty Myers, the artist who initiated the project, the Moon Museum wa ...

(I'm liveblogging from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA) Presenter: Technology hacker Joshua Klein built a vending machine that teaches crows to deposit coins they find into a special vending machine that dispenses peanuts. He has been studying crows for ov ...

(I'm liveblogging from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA) Chris Anderson: If someone takes an obscure area of nature and spends a lifetime studying it, it can be applied to the world at large in interesting ways. Case in point, mycologist and author Paul Sta ...

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 ...

From the NY Times article on Prince Harry being withdrawn from combat: As a result, the chief of the defense staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, decided "to withdraw Prince Harry from Afghanistan immediately," the ministry said.

International bookstore Borders has decided to try their hand at selling video games. The retailer currently carries a selection of DVDs, CDs, and PC game titles as part of their On Demand service at its Oxford Street store in London, England. Commer ...

Here are a slew of screens from EA's upcoming free web game Battlefield Heroes. To catch the promo video if you missed it, be sure to hit up our impressions of the game. Oh, and while you're at it, don't miss our eyes-on of Mirror's Edge, either. Ser ...

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

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National parks and remote areas such as the Alaskan wilderness show evidence of heavy pollution by pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants, a federal study says. Originally posted by Associated Pres ...

OK, you might have to be (like me) a gigantic dork to have hours of fun with this Google Maps powered Clean-Tech startup map. But even for people who are just slightly curious, it should be fun. Earth2Tech created the map which contains all the major ...

Next time it rains, blame bacteria. According to a study published this week, airborne bacteria are the most common particles that let ice crystals -- the precursors of raindrops -- form in clouds.