03/04/08

Henry Markram has built a supercomputer comprised of 2,000 IBM chips that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. "Each of its microchips has been programmed to act just like a real neuron in a real brain." Blue Brain scientists are confide ...

Agnes Martin is one of my favorite painters. Her advice for how to make progress in life ties in nicely with the articles I posted on options, gusto, and blogging. To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the t ...

I keep reloading kottke.org to see if there are new posts. Update (from Jason): I keep reloading kottke.org and seeing new posts. Excellent! (link)

When Steve Jobs disregards a market segment -- think mp3 players or cell phones -- that sometimes means Apple is about to jump in and take over. When asked about Amazon's Kindle a few months ago, Jobs said: "It doesn't matter how good or bad the pro ...

Do you love Will Ferrell? Do you sweat? (link)

wearehugh : Waxy.org: Greetings from 1993!

deusx : La Shish closes 11 metro eateries | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press - "The La Shish restaurant chain, which helped popularize Middle Eastern cuisine in metro Detroit, went out of business Saturday night -- the victim of bad publicity invo ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Sssssssssssssssssssssssun - Sssssssssssssssssssssssun: "Is there anyone in the world, aside from Frank and Ted, getting paid to work full-time on Python?" Tags : links

Andy Baio : Possessed, documentary short about obsessive hoarders - in streaming HD through Vimeo

deusx : YTMND - Hypnowheel commands you to wait Tags : beachballs funny hypnotoad hypnowheel osx ytmnd

"Is there anyone in the world, aside from Frank and Ted, getting paid to work full-time on Python?"

it's all about perception, boys...

"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

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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.

RemyBR writes "Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video. Advanced programs then go back and create ...

mattnyc99 writes "Last week we discussed Popular Mechanics' reporting from MIT, but missed one of the coolest breakthrough of all, something scientists have been working on quietly as Detroit spends money elsewhere. The Lab for Electromagnetic and El ...

twitter writes "The New York Times has a piercing analysis of documents from the Vista capable lawsuit. The documents show that Microsoft seems to have put a wrench in Vista's driver situation only at the last minute. 'Late OS code changes broke driv ...

Umpire writes "As the UK considers a three strikes policy to fight copyright infringement, a new survey reports that 70% of UK broadband users would stop using P2P if they received a warning from their ISP. 'Wiggin commissioned the 2008 Digital Enter ...

Ponca City, We Love You writes "In the past few years, scientists have looked to viruses as potential allies in fighting cancer. Now researchers at Yale University have found a virus in the same family as rabies that effectively kills an aggressive f ...

bdelacey writes "In January 2008, just in time for Ruby's 15th birthday, O'Reilly published The Ruby Programming Language. The co-authors make a strong writing team. Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto created Ruby. David Flanagan previously wrote Java In a Nu ...

Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show — despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.

Iran's firebrand president wrapped up his landmark visit to Iraq with a bit of added swagger Monday_ insisting that U.S. power is crippling the region and portraying himself as the enduring partner of Baghdad's Shiite-led government.

Three seven-figure dream homes went up in flames early Monday in a Seattle suburb, apparently set by eco-terrorists who left a sign mocking the builders' claims that the 4,000-plus-square-foot houses were environmentally friendly.

Masanori Naruse jogs every day, collects miniature cars and feeds birds in his backyard, but he's proudest of the way his home and 2,200 others in Japan get electricity and heat water — with power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell.

Microsoft Corp. will begin offering its online business services to companies of all sizes, no longer limiting them to those with more than 5,000 users, chairman Bill Gates said Monday.

AFP - British marine experts have found what they claim is a world first -- a six-legged octopus, or "hexapus," whom they have christened Henry.

Blind rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey has died after a lifelong battle against cancer. He was 41.

A child's birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant was cut short after a fight broke out between two mothers. Natick police said the mom of the 9-year-old birthday boy apparently became enraged because the other woman's son was "hogging" an arc ...

Officials now know who wrote a 50-year-old postcard that has intrigued Stratford residents, but they may never solve the mystery of how it arrived at town hall earlier this year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, the prohibitive favorite in the Democratic presidential race just months ago, faces the possible end of her White House road on Tuesday in Ohio and Texas.

"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 ...

The UN Security Council votes to impose a third round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.

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("Wii_Sex.flv", 463, 387,"");Perhaps the greatest philosophical question of our age is—Nintendo Wii or Playstation 3? It would take bigger nerds than us to settle this question, because each game system offers different options fo ...

Julian Guthrie wrote a piece for San Francisco magazine about Google's Marissa Ann Mayer (note the article is already some days old). Here are some bits about Marissa, according to the piece: Marissa originally was Google's first female develope ...

Actress Amy Walker posted a YouTube video of herself doing a large variety of accents. This video ended up copied on Break.com, hitting the Digg frontpage and accumulating 450,000 views. I asked Amy a couple of questions via email. Did you origina ...

Henry Markram has built a supercomputer comprised of 2,000 IBM chips that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. "Each of its microchips has been programmed to act just like a real neuron in a real brain." Blue Brain scientists are confide ...

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 ...

This "It's 3am" Clinton advertisement parody might be more to the point than the original "scare the sheeple" videos being released by presidential candidates. Are you scared enough to vote yet?

Out of the Blue: "Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?"

Animal magnetism, or testiment to the stupidity of the male species. Rachel Marsden, the right-wing pundit better known in Canada for a series of scandals in her personal life, has apparently had a messy breakup with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. ...

Paul Raymond, billionaire porn baron and property magnate, founder of Raymond's Review bar - the "World Centre of Erotic Entertainment", and publisher of such periodicals as Mayfair, Men Only and Razzle that added much to several generation ...

Yet he's still doing stuff like this.But GOP Daddy McConnell would never do anything wrong, so it's ok.

I guess conventional wisdom at this point (true or not) is that if Clinton wins the popular votes in Texas and Ohio then she'll stay in the race, no matter what the delegate count.I think candidates can stay in the race as long as they want, though I ...

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 made good progress wiring up the OPML Editor to Pownce, but I got stuck when it came to posting a media file. — — The docs don't say how to encode the data of the file. I guessed that it would be base64-encoded, but it didn't work. ...

Cryptically MikeA teases about something new from Om Malik. What is it my brother? We need to know. Now! — —

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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 ...

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the site's slammed right now, but it comes in a variety of options  

that game-like AC-130 gunship video from Afghanistan was turned into a Call of Duty level  

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  

Our friend Mister Jalopy has launched a blog about his enchanting store in Los Angeles, Coco's Variety. You can buy some of the things he sells in the store via PayPal. Coco's Variety sells flyswatters, glass 5 gallon water bottles, headache remedies ...

Petitioners in Scotland are seeking a pardon for one Helen Duncan who was jailed for nine months in 1944 for holding a s�ance in which she revealed that a certain warship had sunk. The military had kept the news secret in order to keep morale up. An ...

I've written about ultra-realistic baby dolls before. A woman named Faith "reborns" unusual looking ones called Ooaks and offers them for "adoption" on eBay. Link (Thanks, Kirsten!) Previously on Boing Boing: �� The creepy, creepy world of "reborn b ...

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 ...

Given Wal-Mart's size and its heavy-handed approach to so much of life, the fact that it's letting its buyers blog freely is welcome news. (Disclosure: I consult to Edelman PR, which has Wal-Mart as a client. But all I know about this is what I read ...

In what must be the laziest mod ever created by man, Instructables has posted a 7-step process on how to make your Nintendo DS into a notepad ripe for penciling notes. How they got to 7 steps we're not quite sure, since all you do is cover the case i ...

The time-honored tradition of stodgy men arguing over things they know nothing about continued in England during last Friday's game censorship debate in the House of Commons, with MP Keith Vaz showing us how it's done while speaking in defense of Jul ...

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

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Organic farms have historically been small, family-run mixed farms producing for local markets, but this story is starting to change as conventional agribusiness and the supermarkets move in. Organic shops, too, are expanding, or being bought up, and ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is planning to invest up to $1.93 billion in an international fund aimed at encouraging the use of renewable energy technology in developing countries, the Nikkei financial daily said on Sunday. The fund, to be set up jointly ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a one-ounce primate in Mississippi, providing new information on what North America was like 55 million years ago.