03/02/08

As of today, David Watanabe's excellent NewsFire RSS reader for OS X is completely free. I love NewsFire. (link)

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 ...

veen : Pirate code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure." Tags : history

Jeremy Zawodny : Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD: this may come in handy someday Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : TED | Talks | Steve Jurvetson: The joy of rockets (video) - TED | Talks | Steve Jurvetson: The joy of rockets (video): makes me want to build one! :-) Tags : links

nelson : BBC on Prince Harry - A blog is a perfect way to explain their thinking behind the embargo Tags : afghanistan bbc journalism media military news princeharry

nelson : Prince Harry agreement - How the British press agreed to am embargo Tags : afghanistan embargo media military news press prineharry war

you have no idea how strange and amusing this is at the same time

this may come in handy someday

makes me want to build one! :-)

congrats to Matt on a sensible plan that seems to work

a cool use of YUI

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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.

PC Magazine was finally able to get ahold of an Acer Ferrari 1100 to review, and the results are less than stellar. With complaints about the 12-inch screen that isn't even LED-back-lit, a large clunky design, and underwhelming performance, it seems ...

stemceller writes to tell us that a team of researchers at the University of Alberta claims to have discovered a gene capable of blocking HIV thereby preventing the onset of full blown AIDS. "Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of ...

Game Set Watch is showcasing an interesting homebrew game called Trism from semi-pro developer Demiforce. The new game is designed to take advantage of the accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod Touch. While making use of this feature isn't new, this g ...

RemyBR writes "A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern "influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated." The panel, set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said Internet ...

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a dance of proteins that protects certain cells from undergoing apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death. Understanding the fine points of apoptosis is important to research ...

ZioBit writes "Florence Mayor Leonardo Domenici and one of the city assessors are suing (Google translation) Wikipedia on the basis of a (possible) defamation regarding the handling of public parkings assignation to a private company, "Florence Parki ...

President Bush declined Saturday to promise more U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq before he leaves office, and underscored the need for a strong military presence during Iraqi provincial elections in October.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton turned her attention Saturday to the mechanics of delivering voters to the polls in a round of primaries Tuesday that could hold the key to the future of her presidential ambitions.

Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since Hamas seized control in June.

At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.

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.

Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town. They rounded the suburban traffic circle in a pair of rented school buses after a half-hour ride from far more modest neighborhoods, rumblin ...

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the fatal shootings of his mother and her two little girls, one of whom was rap star Juvenile's 4-year-old daughter.

What happened to faking a cough?

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 ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas was supposed to be a bastion of support for Hillary Clinton in the battle for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination, but it may turn out to be her Alamo.

"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 ...

At least 52 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers are killed in one of Gaza's deadliest days since Israel's 2005 pull-out.

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 ...

A look back at the week that was ... · We tried to help Oscar winners reveal a more personal side of themselves, but at least one can show you her own vag without our help, thank you very much. · We proved that this is the greatest stu ...

James Fallows of The Atlantic has an in-depth article about Chinese internet censorship, discussing motivations, the technology, workarounds and problems with workarounds, as well as recent efforts of authorties to losen controls temporarily in some ...

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 ...

As of today, David Watanabe's excellent NewsFire RSS reader for OS X is completely free. I love NewsFire. (link)

I'm working on a couple larger projects at the moment which I should be able to announce soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to share a very rare recording I found on Big O Magazine's always-excellent ROIO of the Week (Recordings of Indeterminate Ori ...

On February 19, Armenia hosted a presidential election. The winner with 52% of the vote was (as expected), current Prime Minister and BFF to the current president, Serge Sargsyan. The runner-up with 21.5% of the vote was former president (taken out b ...

Brief books are in style. "Fine, old-fashioned self-improving middlebrow literature." Series mentioned: *Penguin Lives (Penguin Group) *Books That Changed the World (Grove/ Atlantic) *Eminent Lives (HarperCollins) *Ackroyd's Brief Lives ( ...

Food Fight [Youtube, History of War done with food] I got a little lost between Korea and Vietnam but found it to be very well done. Could be in bad taste, but that could also just be punny.

Syd Barrett, the iconic, ephemeral, sadly recently-deceased founder and original frontman of Pink Floyd, recorded several singles and an LP (plus at least one song on their second LP) with the band before his genius was amputated by mental illness an ...

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The Editors write:Louis Farrakhan is a very scary black man who everybody assumed had been dead for twenty years, and denouncing him means about as much these days as denouncing Peter Frampton's hair. Now, I would say something like that, wouldn' ...

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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.... presentation about cultural interesting facts. (Becoming culturally aware) and WB pages 5 and 6 Extra stuff: yes! again!  www.ncistudent.net/ StudySkills/ WritingSkills/ WritingParagraphs.htm This post may be Copyright © 2008 julianamanczen ...

.... the FDA. No illnesses have been reported. The product comes in three-capsule boxes. It was sold nationwide and in Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia and China. Details: by phone at 516-767-1870. How do yo think, is it true ...

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 ...

extremely strange Flash game; level 3 plays over a landscape of scrolling spam emails  

from the creator of Passage, the pixel game that made people cry  

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  

Neil Gaiman's publisher Harper Collins has put his magnificent novel American Gods online for free reading as an experiment to see free digital copies sell print books. This is a great idea -- it's really exciting to see publishers trying to get actu ...

A Fox affiliate managed to get ahold of the TSA's raw data on luggage theft on their watch and is reporting that a whopping $31 million worth of valuables disappeared from the aviation system in the past three years. Many of these items went missing ...

Lisa Congdon turned her scissor collection into a gorgeous mobile -- think of the incredible mental scars you could leave on your child by hanging this over her crib! Link (via Craft)...

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 a NY Times article whether the press has been unfair to Hillary Clinton: "Part of it is her campaign's fault," Andrea Mitchell, the longtime NBC political correspondent, said backstage at the MSNBC debate in Cleveland in Tuesday. "They started ...

When I first read the words "Q Awards" I auto-magically thought of the late, great actor Desmond Llewelyn but was apparently way off track. These are Gamefly's version of the Oscars sans the cheesy dance routines. Winners are determined by GameFly ...

Oh, the racing game: whither your future? NextGen rounded up some heavyweights of the genre to talk about the past, the present, and the future of racing games. Nigel Kershaw, game director at Evolution Studios, Gareth Wilson and Gerard Talbot, le ...

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

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Our friends at Ecolect have launched a monthly spotlight on sustainable design called Limelight - and the first feature is tough act to follow. Teresita Cochraine’s sustainable design group, SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) has ...

You gotta hand it to those people who are creating real-world solutions to real-world problems. Giant solar-collecting space lasers are pretty cool...but Sintex is for real. The Indian plastics company has created a very simple "digester" t ...

A study carried out by Saint Louis University finds that a dog named Sparky and a robotic dog, AIBO, are about equally effective at relieving the loneliness of nursing home residents and fostering attachments.