03/08/08

Okay, I'll probably post a few more things over the weekend but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Jason again for allowing me to hang out this week. The experience has been remarkable and exhilarating, if not a wee bit terrifying. It is obvi ...

Aesthetics has been at the heart of a lot of political discussions this season. Whether it's Obama's choice of font or McCain's logo, the design web has been full of observations. Which is why Tyler Cowen's thoughts about the relative aesthetics of ...

It starts simply enough. At some point you decide you like cheeseburgers better than hamburgers. No big deal. Then one day you try your cheeseburger with bacon. And then after a while you think, you know what would be really good on this? Jalapeñ ...

A video stream of yesterday's iPhone SDK presentation. Update: Jason at SVN speculates on the implications of yesterday's announcements. (link)

A list of drag queen names compiled so far. Perhaps when we are through we can get John Hodgman to draw caricatures of each. Update: Lenny reminds me: "Hodgman didn't draw the hoboes, he just named them. A bunch of cartoonists drew them, most notabl ...

Khoi Vinh : Robert X. Cringely: Social Networking Is Just Another CB Radio - “What killed CB radio was that moment when its annoyance factor exceeded its utility.” Tags : Three Star

Matthew M. Boedicker : Daylight Saving Time actually raises utility bills - (via del.icio.us/ popular)

Rod Begbie : Swiss-Army-Knife Software Engineer at Bose Corporation, Framingham MA - My group at RhymesWithNose is hiring. I can honestly say that this is the most fun and challenging job I've ever had, so if you think you're hot stuff, or have any ...

gleuschk : Cherry Blossoms (Sakura) - forecast: end of the month, drat Tags : cherryblossoms japan travel weather

Ethan Marcotte : Laura Brunow Miner is JPG's New Editor - Congratulations! The magazine's in amazing hands. ∞

that is awesome

cool

now that's what I call "spare time"... yikes!

"White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like."

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

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Make The Logo Bigger. The Song.: We play this in our office everything someone asks us to… I don’t want to tell you how to do your job. But, could you make the logo bigger? Bigger, bigger, make it big. Make the logo bigger. ...

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 ...

As part of Slate V's "Conventional Wisdom" series, we visit the 2008 World Archery Festival in Las Vegas. These are definitely not your father's bows and arrows.

Farakin brings us a story about how cameras in roughly 200 Chicago schools are being connected to police headquarters and the city's 911 emergency center. The goal of the effort is to "consolidate video surveillance," and it will involve both routine ...

Josh Fink brings news of an Atlanta resident who has created a remote control robot to scare off criminals during the night. Rufus Terrill, an engineer, uses it to patrol the streets and encourage drug dealers and other shady characters to move on. L ...

Technical Writing Geek points out an Ars Technica report on comments from Representative Howard Coble (R-NC), who sits on the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. In a recent editorial, Coble attempts to discourage P ...

Ian Lamont writes "Novell Vice President and GNOME architect Miguel de Icaza sounded off at a MIX 08 panel on a number of topics. First, he claimed that he was 'not happy' with Novell's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, saying that if ...

diewlasing writes "Since we are living in a world where the need is growing for privacy measures and rights to use emerging technology, it seems to me that state governments should adopt a bill of rights regarding internet privacy, use of technology ...

PRB_Ohio takes us to Space.com for a story about NASA's plutonium shortage, and how it may affect future missions to the far reaches of the solar system. The U.S. hasn't produced plutonium since 1988, instead preferring to purchase it from Russia. We ...

President Bush said Friday that "it's clear our economy has slowed" and tried to reassure an anxious public that the long-term outlook is good. "Losing a job is painful and I know Americans are concerned about our economy. So am I," Bush said during ...

Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he had spoken to Democratic Sen. John Kerry about being his vice president in 2004. "Everybody knows that I had a priv ...

Soldiers and Marines caught in roadside bombings and firefights in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home in epidemic numbers with permanent hearing loss and ringing in their ears, prompting the military to redouble its efforts to protect the troops fr ...

When Hurricane Katrina assaulted the Gulf Coast in 2005, wind and flooding knocked out hundreds of cell towers and cell sites, silencing wireless communication exactly when emergency crews and victims needed it.

When wireless industry technicians speak of "green" cell towers these days, they're not just talking about making them look more like trees.

A former adviser to Barack Obama who resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster" said Obama may not be able to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within a year as he has promised on the campaign trail.

At a cost of nearly $42 million, the IRS wants you to know: Your check is almost in the mail.

A spurned Chinese wife set fire to more than 400 cell phones owned by her and her husband after he walked out on their marriage, a news agency reported Friday. The official Xinhua News Agency said the 37-year-old woman, identified only by her surname ...

Two fortune cookies helped Tulsa police make an arrest after a pair of break-ins Chinese restaurants. Terrence Middleton, 30, was booked Friday on charges of second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree burglary after police responded to a burg ...

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi (Reuters) - U.S. Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton questioned each other's sincerity and leadership on national security and the economy on Friday as they geared up for the next tests in a grueling struggle for the W ...

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; ...

Presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela shake hands and agree to end a diplomatic crisis in the region.

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 ...

It's actually a little unclear from this YouTube trailer whether Jenna Jameson is playing a zombie, a stripper, or some combination of the two, but if you're a filmmaker looking for the perfect movie pitch you really can't go wrong with a story that ...

Social news site Digg has been working with an investment bank to sell its site to a big company, and now TechCrunch cites an anonymous source close to the case that Google and Microsoft are among the interested parties. [See update below for more.] ...

Associated Press writes that the Pentagon sent around a message to all defense department bases to not allow Google inside anymore. What had happened was that a Google crew asked to get access to the Fort Sam Houston base to take pictures for a panor ...

Okay, I'll probably post a few more things over the weekend but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Jason again for allowing me to hang out this week. The experience has been remarkable and exhilarating, if not a wee bit terrifying. It is obvi ...

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 ...

"Hendon's library's opening hours have been cut, a cafe has taken the place of part of the fiction section, and a computer learning zone has replaced the periodicals room. When I complained, a local councillor wrote back to say that he did not feel t ...

Gravitation. A new game from the creator of passage. (via rockpapershotgun)

Hannah Poling is a nine year old girl with mild to moderate symptoms of autism, which developed three months after she received vaccinations. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that her family will receive a settlement from the va ...

Would you like a latte while I print that up for you? The Espresso Book Machine (previously) that was in the New York Public Library has just moved to the Northshire Bookstore in Vermont. The beta versions of this portable book-making machine are p ...

Relatively light posting over the weekend I think. I read a lot of internets, and there's a lot of stupid on the internets. Sometimes it makes the brain hurt.

I think Dean Baker has the right take on what's potentially going on.IMHO, several large financial institutions are probably, absent pretending various financial assets they own are worth more than they really are, below reserve requirements.

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...

Just got this MP3 of this morning's conference call from the Clinton campaign, where they call for Samantha Powers to resign for calling Clinton a "monster." — — sundaygang.com/ clinton/ 2008/ 03/ 07/ call1.mp3 — — If you wan ...

An MP3 of today's Obama conference call. — — sundaygang.com/ obama/ 2008/ 03/ 07/ call1.mp3 — — Comments to follow. — —

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The recent release of FogBugz 6.0 has, approximately, doubled our sales, and, while I fully agree that often small teams can accomplish a lot more than large teams, we have a lot of interesting work to be done here and there never seem to be enough p ...

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 ...

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  

Notorious B.I.G. (RIP!) + Jimi Hendrix = This zip file of MP3s from DJ Doc Rok. (thanks Matthew R. Rose)....

Link to larger size. P-shopped by a Boing Boing reader who posts as HOLTT, from this thread about an ETEch snap. Our colleague Joel Johnson, not pictured, is of course -- the Wizard. (thanks, Teresa!)...

Recently on Boing Boing Gadgets I popped open the Heineken BeerTender for a look (video review, including drunken hair clipper work, coming shortly), ran an older interview with Gary Gygax who passed away this week (and posted his "Random Harlot Enco ...

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 ...

John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of the Berkman Center have an editorial in a Turkish newspaper arguing for keeping the Net open and free: Turkey is among those places in the world that are facing a choice. Does one choose to embrace the innovati ...

Getting a gamer to sit down and play Halo 3 is easy. Getting them to throw in $10 for a tournament may, under any other circumstances, be slightly more difficult. But when it's for a good call, like raising money to help a fellow gamer afford a much- ...

Breadpig is a band that wanted to make a splash with their first live performance. And in a move of questionable brilliance, they played Rock Band on the street (...with no console, TV or even electricity). The Rock Band Unplugged performance drew ...

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

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The 30-nation economic development body issues recommendations for tackling global warming, which include compelling rich countries to help poor ones by providing them with green technology and expertise. Originally ...

A solar company is claiming its technology can power the entire United States electricity grid -- and a fleet of plug-in electric electric vehicles -- all by building plants on a Vermont-sized chunk of land in the Southwest. ...

YouTube takes down Wired's copy of a 30-second Air Force video promoting the service's new Cyber Command, supposedly in response to a DMCA claim from the Air Force, and despite the fact that U.S. government works can't be copyrighted.