03/05/08

The world of competitive crossworld puzzles, apparently, is a lot like the world of professional golf. One no longer asks who will win the Masters, for instance. One asks, Tiger or the field? For crossword puzzle tournaments, the appropriate question ...

I never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I did play RuneQuest in the back room of a bookshop in Bonham Texas with high school students some ten years older than me. (One of them, a young woman I had a crush on, responded to "What's your point?" with " ...

My friend, the incredibly talented photographer, Barry Stone is exhibiting an outdoor installation of large photographs of Galaxies made from flour at the BBAP in Houston. (link)

Brett Favre retires. (link)

I'm interested in short video as a contemporary equivalent of the photograph. Here are two examples. My lovely wife talking about her lovely mother. My nephew a few years ago singing his favorite song. I love these moments, not only because they are ...

Greg Storey : A mental model for a cat. - No where do I see grow opposable thumbs but I know it's on their agenda. Tags : Design

Greg Storey : "Today I had $4,000 worth of goods stolen from my small, humble abode." - Sorry to hear that Keegan. Tags : Previously

Greg Storey : Aromatherapy no worky. - Also, flavored water is a joke. Hopefully you don't need science to know that. Tags : News

joshua : tanjent: MurmurHash, final version. Tags : dev dist

joshua : Solar, with lyrics. on Vimeo Tags : toread

these apparently work quite well... hmm. might come in handy

I bet we could find some students to hack on Hadoop... :-)

well that pretty much kicks ass... will it run Hadoop? :-)

I was thinking about this myself just the other day...

"Did you know that pages from a book don’t have back-lit screens, so you have to sit next to a bright light? Yeah, I didn’t either." Ernie should give up this software crap and just become a comedian...

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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.

mlimber writes "The Facebook app Scrabulous was written by two Scrabble-loving brothers in India, has over 700,000 users, brings in about $25,000 per month in advertising revenue, and is in flagrant violation of copyright law. The corporate owners of ...

An anonymous reader writes "Start buying Cold War nuclear shelters and piling up the canned food, because Boeing Advanced Systems has started System F6: 'DARPA's Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Excha ...

ThinSkin writes "The combination of AMD's ATI graphics division and AMD's CPU division means that AMD often fights a two-front war, directly competing against Intel in the CPU business as well as Nvidia in graphics. AMD's Hybrid Graphics technology a ...

An anonymous reader writes "A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays that could lead to a major extinction event — and Earth may be right in the line of fire. ...

mlimber writes "The New York Times' Freakonomics blog asks a panel of experts, 'Is the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray really over? What can we learn from it?' The panel suggests, among other things, that Sony achieved a Pyrrhic victory because hig ...

Mearlus writes "In the recent past co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons Gary Gygax has worked with Troll Lord Games, a small tabletop RPG publisher. Their forums have up a post noting that Mr. Gygax has apparently passed away. Gygax was known, along wi ...

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton contested primaries in Ohio, Texas and two other states on Tuesday, the front-runner and his pursuer in a riveting race for the Democratic presidential nomination. John McCain reached out for the Republican del ...

Military officials accused Iran on Tuesday of continuing to train and arm insurgents in Iraq, while U.S. lawmakers said they were disappointed that Baghdad opened up its doors to the Islamic Republic's top leader.

Hundreds of Venezuelan troops moved Tuesday toward the border with Colombia, where trade was slowing amid heightening tension over Colombia's cross-border strike on a rebel base in Ecuador.

Virtually anyone can edit an entry on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. But its founder is finding it's not so easy to cover his tracks after a messy breakup with a TV personality and a dustup over his expenses began playing out on the Web. ...

It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.

Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

AFP - High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Voters in this southern Vermont town were deciding Tuesday whether to approve a measure calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on charges of violating the Constitution.

Something strange going on in your neighborhood? You may want to give Brooklyn Ghost Investigations a call. For $20 an hour, the group of self-proclaimed paranormal investigators offers to go to your house to help chase away whatever goes bump in the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton refused to count herself out of the U.S. presidential race on Tuesday as her hard-fought duel with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination faced the judgment of voters 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 ...

Voting begins in what could be the most important day so far in the races to stand for US 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 ...

Sure, hooking up with a brand new partner can be fun ... but there's something nice about being with someone you've hooked up with a couple of dozen times before too. In today's roundup of some of our favorite bloggers from the sex blog scene, our w ...

When you comment at a Wordpress blog you can subscribe to emails alerting you of comments made after yours, a useful feature. When you want to unsubscribe, though, you'll see a good lesson in bad interface design. First, you will see all your post ...

Yahoo's Douglas Crockford some time ago gave an interesting introductory talk about probably the most misunderstood (and most used) programming language in the world: JavaScript. Videos and PowerPoint slides [ZIP] are available and worth a look (you ...

The world of competitive crossworld puzzles, apparently, is a lot like the world of professional golf. One no longer asks who will win the Masters, for instance. One asks, Tiger or the field? For crossword puzzle tournaments, the appropriate question ...

If you're going to be in Austin this weekend for SXSW Interactive, you should come to "Worst Website Ever," the session I'm leading on Saturday 5pm. Eight smart people will be proposing their worst possible web startup ideas in short 5-minute presen ...

Marvel vs. the BMI (one-link, but fun.)

Tests reveal that an animal killed in Western Massachusetts was a gray wolf. The species has not been seen in the state for 160 years.

Eliza Skinner is well known in New York improv comedy circles for her work with Glennis McMurray in I Eat Pandas, the musical improv duo that does in an hour "what it takes Andrew Lloyd Weber YEARS to do ... crap out a musical from start to fini ...

25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies.

Nice and warm out there. No treadmill for me today.

I wonder what it's like being Ken Pollack, waking up every day knowing you played a big role in causing hundreds of thousands needless deaths.He's a stronger man than me. I imagine my brain would've snapped by now.

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 quickly added fields to the flickrToTwitter page to flow pictures to Pownce in addition to Twitter. Screen shot. — —

A 15-minute Skype interview with NYU journalism prof Jay Rosen about politics, journalism and blogging on "Telltale Tuesday." — — Jay's PressThink weblog. — —

.... I hope to make an arrangement of Stairway to Heaven. I haven't opted for a melody instrument yet. This post may be Copyright © 2008 dtwc16471333. Hosted by Edublogs. ....

.... 15:26 ARGH! Must make flyer for May benefit to hand out at this Friday's Event. I am NOT a graphic designer. # - Automatically posted by LoudTwitter ....

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 ...

tried an early version at Foo, had a blast  

a good game can change the world  

decisions aren't made by a giant golem named Microsoft, but by the interactions of thousands of individuals  

he responds to an independent bookseller arguing that it cuts them out of the process  

David Friedman asked seven of the most popular artists about their other work  

in streaming HD through Vimeo  

full-size Quicktimes, username/ password: justice/ dvno  

TechCrunch reports a rumor that Steven Spielberg is readying a new social network for people who are interested in unusual and/ or paranormal phenomena like UFOs and ghosts. According to the TechCrunch post, "the new social network may also have orig ...

Wired's GeekDad blog has a great interview with "new weird" literary couple Jeff and Ann VanderMeer about raising children in a ultra geeky household, and about why tech geeks should care about the new weird. Wired's also giving away a copy of a free ...

I just attended Elan Lee's presentation "Designing Magnets: Connecting with Audiences in the Wired Age," a talk on Alternate Reality Game design at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Diego. Lee helped invent the genre of ARGs -- worki ...

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 ...

Jesse Dylan, who directed the Will.I.Am "Yes we can" video, is coming to the Berkman Center at 10:30am on Thursday. The event is not physically open to the public, but it'll be webcast then here. From the Berkman site:Jesse Dylan, the director behind ...

Needless to say, men have it pretty good as far as general anatomical conveniences are concerned. But the trade-off of social stigmas regarding dress-wearing are starting to chafe now that we've found this Tetris skirt that goes for a mere $45 on Ets ...

The first expansion pack for Xbox Live Arcade original Undertow hits tomorrow. Path of the Elect includes a five-level singe-player and co-op campaign, four new multiplayer maps and introduces a new playable race called the Elect. The Elect is a "f ...

Red, yellow and blue cars are on their way in a hurry to the Brooklyn side of the bridge.

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It seems like the word "breakthrough" gets tossed around a lot. But we try to save it for the real deal. Well...here's the real deal. LEDs are fantastic. But for a long time, they've been fantastic more because of what we think they can do ...

This could end up being quite a hit to the bio-diesel industry. Scientists at the Wood's Hole Oceanographic institute tested the bio-diesel mixes flowing from pumps all over the nation and found that they were not what they said they were. Only 10% o ...

New import and export tools from photo storage site PhotoShelter give photographers more control over how their images are sold or shared on the web. The release also makes it easier for photographers to use PhotoShelter and rival site Flickr simulta ...