03/03/08

Clusterflock's Deron Bauman is going to be editing kottke.org for the next week or so. Here's what he's all about: I am the founding editor of elimae, for which I designed, produced, and distributed a series of hand-made books. I am the author of Mo ...

What I Learned Today asked an interesting question on Friday: What is the fastest "0 to global" brand? Basically, what brand (company, product, person, any entity that holds a brand identity) do you think gained awareness the fastest. Reblog your an ...

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 ...

factoryjoe : Distributed cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Distributed cognition is comprised of two key components: 1) the representations that information is held in and transformed across 2) the process by which repr ...

factoryjoe : Coworking: How to work solo, but not alone | csmonitor.com - A flawed article that rewrite the history of coworking. Still, more publicity is good. Sigh. Even if the media can't tell the truth. Saved By: Chris Messina ...

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gleuschk : Barnstorming Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet - Times Online - I love reading the Sunday Times' coverage of US politics -- I learn way more than from the NYT Tags : clinton mccain obama politics times

"Imagine: a conference that explores the complex fabric of humanity, while actually allowing it in the door."

"The KSN 770 is a combination IFR GPS navigator, intergrated TAWS, weather radar display, and a digital VHF Comm/ NAV/ ILS."

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! :-)

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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.

theodp writes "Slate has an interesting photo essay exploring the question of how to build a public library in the age of Google, Wikipedia, and Kindle. The grand old reading rooms and stacks of past civic monuments are giving way to a new library-as ...

An anonymous reader writes "The ThinkPad has long been a favorite of IT departments everywhere and is the preferred notebook for legions of no-nonsense users. As times have progressed the ThinkPad has improved but the X300 marks the most significant ...

Ian Lamont writes "Telcos, ISPs, mobile phone companies and other communication service providers are known for their complex pricing plans and creative attempts to give less for more. But Larry Borsato asks why we as customers are willing to put up ...

meteorit writes "Mozilla has been working on a mobile version of Firefox since last year, and is now looking to repeat the success of Firefox on the PC. Although development seems not to have been completed, it is known that informal negotiations hav ...

V!NCENT tips us to a write-up about an addition to MSI's Ecolution motherboard which harvests heat from the chipset to power a fan. The device is based on a Stirling engine. The heat from the chipset expands a trapped gas, which pushes against a pist ...

StCredZero brings news that scientists have developed sheets of nanotubes that measure up to three feet by six feet, and they promise "slabs 100 square feet in area as soon as this summer." The developers see uses for the sheets in electromagnetic sh ...

Dmitry Medvedev, the man Vladimir Putin hand-picked to be his successor, scored a crushing victory in Russia's presidential elections Sunday, a result that was long anticipated but that still raises questions about who will run this resurgent global ...

Democrat Barack Obama worked to fend off an intensified attack on his foreign policy credentials from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday as their paths crossed two days ahead of a potentially race-ending showdown in Ohio and Texas.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton argued Sunday that her campaign is "about solutions," not feelings, as she swept through Ohio on an intense push two days before the state's presidential primary.

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.

AFP - A chihuahua that went paragliding in Australia strapped to its owner's chest survived when the pair crashed into a tree shortly after taking off, police said Saturday.

Democrat Barack Obama worked to fend off an intensified attack on his foreign policy credentials from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday as their paths crossed two days ahead of a potentially race-ending showdown in Ohio and Texas.

Charlie Brown is down to seven lives.

What happened to faking a cough?

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a tight campaign fight across Ohio on Sunday two days before crucial voting that could virtually nail down the Democratic nomination or prolong the party bat ...

"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 ...

Dmitry Medvedev vows to continue Vladimir Putin's work as early results suggest he is Russia's new president.

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 ...

Clusterflock's Deron Bauman is going to be editing kottke.org for the next week or so. Here's what he's all about: I am the founding editor of elimae, for which I designed, produced, and distributed a series of hand-made books. I am the author of Mo ...

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 ...

What do you call two (or more) songs with overlapping verses? I don't know. But here's a great example. (Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Single link youtube post. Enjoyment not guaranteed. Your mileage may vary.)

Probably no one really needs a toaster with a rotating lid, motorized bread carriage, and illuminating neons, but the idea of setting its operation to music was an act of pure inspiration. Previous MeFi toaster goodness.

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - I'm A Little Dinosaur — Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - New England — Jonathan Richman - Now Is Better Than Before — Spring is in the air today and here are a few slices of vintage ...

YouTube Hijacking: A RIPE NCC RIS case study is the definitive look at how actions of Pakistan Telecom caused the global outage of YouTube Sunday the 24th of Feb. 2008. This incident has exposed weaknesses of the Border Gateway Protocol as is outlin ...

Next week in the Post:Jews: If you prick them they do not bleed, and if you tickle them they do not laugh.

There are a lot of reasons the different treatment of the two stories is telling, but the obvious one is that Donohue going after a liberal or a Democrat is pretty much the definition of a "dog bites man" story, while Donohue going after a conservati ...

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've been a regular watcher of the Sunday morning political talk shows, and I've always in my heart wanted my own show. Then I started talking about it, people kept telling me just do it. So today I did. — — sundaygang.com/ 001.mp3 — ...

My post yesterday about my excitement over innovation in the Pownce API, led to what, in retrospect, was a predictable backlash from users who don't want: — — 1. Twitter to get more complicated. — — 2. To switch to a service w ...

.... 17:48 Happy Friday, everyone - cheers! @ # this "too lazy to actually post an LJ entry" update has been brought to you by LoudTwitter ....

....So usually I just ignore ��em�� but how could I with Edmodo (via TechCrunch - new goal for year, get Edublogs on TC :)....

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 ...

the best of the demoscene  

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...  

I spent the weekend watching every youtube clip tagged "Dr. Steve Brule," alone and with friends, on laptops and iphones. This was Dr. Steve Brule Weekend. The character is played by John C. Reilly, and is part of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job ...

Here's a fine and spicy list of obsolete skills, arranged alphabetically. I like "Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV," "Filing cards in a library card catalog," "Reading Moon Tables or Tide Tables," and "Swapping floppy discs." V * Vantive? * VCR P ...

Neil Gaiman's got some good further ruminations on the nature and reason for free ebooks in a post he called "The nature of free." Bottom line: low-risk/ low-cost books are how readers discover new authors, and the biggest threat writers face is the ...

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 ...

If anyone would like to help me figure out why my MacBook crashes seemingly randomly, here are some crash reports: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.My MacBook is 9 months old. Apps were crashing under Panther. I did a total clean reinstall of Leopard. It seemed to be ...

There's a fun little piece over at the Escapist on social networks (real ones, not the virtual variety) and gaming. The social aspect of gaming lends itself to the creation of complicated rules and unspoken codes of behavior: School days were a wai ...

Gametrailers TV takes a look at Valve's new zombie shooter "Left4Dead". They promise a unique premise with AI that can take on any role in the game including any of the four survivors. It also features more than just your garden variety zombies inclu ...

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 ...

Last week's entry on how to stop a 500-foot monster seems to have struck a chord, judging from the number of suggestions for the best military hardware to take down rampaging Cloverfield-type beasts in our urban centers. David Hambling reports on new ...