03/07/08

An extensive -- and I mean extensive -- overview of the recording history of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Complete with graphs. Damn, I love that song. (via andrew @ clusterflock) (link)

Good notes from today's Apple event at which they announced the developer's kit for the iPhone. VC John Doerr also announced the iFund, a $100 million fund that will give money to companies wanting to develop applications for the iPhone. (via df) (li ...

LeBron James dropped 50 points on the Knicks in Madison Square Garden last night to chants of MVP from the New York crowd. It's good to be the king. (link)

What do saw dust, cow manure, car prices, chainsaw art, and alternative energy have in common? 1. It seems that the slow housing market means that fewer scraps of wood are being reduced down to dust, which is used in the manufacture of certain inte ...

American scientists have harnessed MRI technology to accurately predict what image a person is seeing. The implications in the long term are that we may one day be able to record visual evidence of our dreams or "reconstruct a picture of a person's v ...

Khoi Vinh : Message Tape - Black out the unwanted parts of the digital matrix printed on these tape rolls to create your own messages. Thanks to Kim Bost. Tags : Two Star

jcgregorio : W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group - "To examine and classify existing approaches to mapping relational data into RDF" Thus institutionaliziing that-would-be so-much-better-in-RDF.

joshua : Scifi: is it worth a cat's pockets? - yet another scifi to read list Tags : scifi

Andy Baio : Developing 3D games in Microsoft Excel - beats WordArt

wearehugh : erik's weblog » Blog Archive » The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Tags : ie8 microsoft webdev

cool, the NYT has released their own Perl Profiler that looks quite handy

"Ozzie started a conference for developers talking about ads. Ads. That is the face of the new Microsoft."

he needs us, he needs us!

heh

this could be handy

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Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Should CEOs and CIOs consider the implications of off-shoring IT services on US society?: Fascinating question over at LinkedIn which boils down to, is offshoring ethical? Off-shoring of IT services is further eroding the United States of good pa ...

Hillary’s ad: debate footage doctored to make Obama blacker: A bunch of bloggers are claiming that Hillary’s camp took an image of Obama, darkened it, and “squished” it vertically, in an attempt to make Obama look..blacker. T ...

Emily Bazelon, Melinda Henneberger, and Dahlia Lithwick, contributors to Slate's "XX Factor" blog, weigh in on the Clinton/ Obama race following primaries in Ohio and Texas.

Stony Stevenson writes "Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer engineers at Rice University and the University of Michigan. The engineers have devised a way to head off this costly infringem ...

Is It Obvious writes "Bank Julius Baer has moved to withdraw suit against Wikileaks. We've discussed this story a few times, most recently when the judge lifted his injunction against WikiLeaks' registrar. The Baer story reflects an issue that will o ...

longacre writes "Yesterday we discussed Carnegie Mellon's maglev haptics controller which, when it goes on sale, will be aimed mostly at laboratory applications, and therefore out of reach for most consumers. Today, roboticist/ futurist Daniel Wilson ...

Steve Jobs demonstrated a new "App Store" that will be pushed out to all iPhones in June. It's available now in beta. This will be the exclusive avenue developers will use to get their iPhone apps, written to the newly released SDK, to customers. Dev ...

circletimessquare writes "The NyTimes has an aticle describing how students and others in Cuba have taken to passing around media on memory sticks, as this is the only way they can get around state-controlled media. Also driving this phenomenon is th ...

odoketa writes "My organization recently had to replace our Web developer. It took us an extremely long time to find someone with the necessary skill set. I don't know if this is because of the platform we are running (which I will leave nameless), o ...

A gunman entered the library of a rabbinical seminary and opened fire on a crowded nighttime study session Thursday, killing eight people and wounding nine before he was slain, police and rescue workers said. It was the first major militant attack in ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton won't catch Barack Obama in the race for Democratic delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, even if she wins every remaining contest. But Obama cannot win the nomination with just his pledged primary and caucus delegates ei ...

Al-Qaida terrorists may be plotting more urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers, the U.S. military commander in charge of domestic defense said Thursday.

The Pentagon has banned Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases.

Apple Inc. wants the iPhone to become a corporate e-mail gadget — and a portable video game machine. It's also teaming with a prominent venture capital firm to offer a substantial kitty — $100 million — to lure developers to the iPhone.

American men still don't pull their weight when it comes to housework and child care, but collectively they're not the slackers they used to be. The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, ...

Americans' percentage of equity in their homes fell below 50 percent for the first time on record since 1945, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

Like a herd of antelope, jockeying and shoving for position, 150 young women raced down Amsterdam's most famed fashion street in stiletto heels Thursday, racing for a $15,000 prize.

All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, enco ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman opened fire in a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 10 in the most lethal attack in Israel in two years, emergency services said.

I know you're all going to think I'm manic, but I'm not. I sent the following email just now to Angela Bonilla, who was my piano teacher in Vancouver. Angela is from the South American nation of Colombia. She was embarrassed to tell me that; ...

At least eight people are killed by a Palestinian gunman at a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem.

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 ...

The problem with sex is that there are boy parts and girl parts, and sometimes it's hard for boys to make the girl parts happy (and vice versa) since boys only know how to make their own boy parts happy. Of course, sometimes he wants to make another ...

Reports are trickling in that Google is down for many in Germany. Hebbet in the forum says it may be a problem with T-Com, meaning those with other providers would still be able to see it. At the moment, I can't access Gmail, Google Reader, Google An ...

Yesterday an Associated Press report by Michael Liedtke stated that Ask.com wants to "abandon" its effort to outshine Google in a "dramatic about-face," instead focusing on "finding answers to basic questions about recipes, hobbies, children's homewo ...

An extensive -- and I mean extensive -- overview of the recording history of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Complete with graphs. Damn, I love that song. (via andrew @ clusterflock) (link)

While researching the meteoric rise of the fan-made Hot Hot Sex video to the top of YouTube's charts, I tried to get in touch with its creator, Italian writer Clarus Bartel. I sent him a message through his Flickr account, but he responded that he d ...

Jodrell Bank observatory may shut down according to a UK funding proposal (via Bad Astronomy). The observatory is comprised of several radio telescopes including Lovell, the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. The proposed budget cu ...

Dad, do you ever wish you had diabetes?

A 3d graphics engine written in Excel. Money shot on page 4. Blatantly stolen from seanyboy.

Blosxom is an ultra-lightweight piece of blogging software that uses the existing structure of a file system to index and date your posts. The program itself weighs in at a scale-tipping 16.4 kilobytes, and does everything you need to tell the world ...

It seems that Obama will almost certainly win the delegate count in Texas once the full caucus results come in, as Clinton is only one ahead from the primary count.

It is true that the media are much more likely to declare a "controversy" about a Democrat due to the existence of things such as America's Assignment Editor, Matt Drudge, who happens to be a conservative Republican activist. But it's also the case ...

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 got an email from the Obama campaign manager, then Barack Obama added something. They're having a conversation in my inbox and I can't participate. Ooops. — — It's good that we have a chance, once again, before it's too late, to redefi ...

In the last few days I've done a number of interviews, published MP3s of conference calls from the Obama and Clinton campaigns. People have asked for an RSS feed, a legitimate request, of course. — — So I made it so that the feed for Scri ...

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.... homework or they will learn the methods wrong. First learned is best learned. You cant teach and old dog new tricks. Etc†¦  By the way, Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and ground almonds. Yum!! Authored by skram001. H ...

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 ...

beats WordArt  

SDK out now, iPhone 2.0 software due in June; I wonder how application approval will work  

the blog of the game's developer  

inexplicable recreations of a scene from Full House  

watch as Wal-Mart spreads like a virus infecting the eastern half of the US  

incredible essay, with clips of how it's been rediscovered and used by TV, film, and other artists  

don't miss the second clip of Jonathan Blow's lovely time-bending platformer  

David Pogue of the NY Times visited a tech suppport center, and they gave him a CD with recordings of their favorite funny phone calls. Caller: Hey, can you help me? My computer has locked up, and no matter how many times I type eleven, it won't un ...

This giant, mysterious two-wheeled mine-clearing tank was taken from the Nazis by the Russians at the end of World War II. As Coop notes, "We have achieved total Hell Yeah. It looks like the car Darth Vader drove to high school." Link (Thanks, Coop!) ...

The US Treasury Department confiscated the domain names of a British/ Spanish travel agent who specializes in Hemingway tours of Cuba. Treasury claims that since Americans might have made reservations through the sites, that they were entitled to mar ...

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 ...

I'm on the road and haven't heard George "Mr. Metaphor" Lakoff's reframing of the Democrats, in an interview with Dave Winer, but I hear it's good. [Tags: politics geoerge_lakoff dave_winer democrats ]

EA's Army of Two has had a rough road to release. A title focused on co-op mercenary missions to extents of borderline innovation, its tongue-in-cheek, adolescent play on private contractor military presence in the current world has been mistaken by ...

In all of the major announcement that hit during Apple's software development kit (SDK) meeting today, it's easy to overlook what may have been the most important aspect—the SDK itself. Formerly Apple's internal development tools, the software ...

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

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Armed with soldering irons and spare electronics, the DIY revolution might be the force to reawaken American innovation. Originally posted by Clive Thompson from Wired: Top Stories, ReBlogged by Leah Gauthier on M ...

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 ...

After struggling with burdensome debt for the last several years, formerly high-flying tech trade publisher Ziff-Davis finally filed for bankruptcy.