03/09/08

Four words that prove how difficult the English language is: lose, loose, chose, choose. Update: Doug points out more: bough, cough, dough, rough, through. (link)

An amazing article on the first hand experience of a photojournalist who falls in love with a female assassin. There comes a point in every new relationship when your girlfriend wants to share a secret. Usually it's to do with sex -- how many other ...

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 ...

Linkorama : Newsweek advances Andrew Keen's ignorance - And the saddest thing of all about articles like these is that they are added to record. People hoping for relief from the disruption of personal technology will point to them as evidence, whe ...

factoryjoe : iPhone SDK, Apple's Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades - (37signals) - 37Signals take on the iPhone sdk. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: iPhone, sdk

nelson : Bush endorses torture - Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture Tags : bush humanrights politics torture veto

nelson : Salty terrine - This kind of work environment sounds horrible Tags : brigade chef cooking food restaurant salt terrine

wearehugh : Wide Awake Developers: Steve Jobs Made Me Miss My Flight - i once had to explain my 1st generation ipod to the tsa. didn't miss my flight though. Tags : tsa warontheunusual

jason has some good stuff here

"Email is not the problem, America. The culture around email (and phones and meetings and SMS) is the real culprit." Yeah... exactly.

that is awesome

cool

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

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How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips): A good list of tips to help your start-up get rolling. I especially liked the last one. Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los ...

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. ...

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.

palegray.net writes "Threat Level brings us the story of the US Air Force's use of the DMCA to forcibly remove a 'Cyber Command' recruitment video that they had previously thanked Threat Level for running. The article notes that US government works a ...

Presto Vivace forwards a link detailing a recent House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the White House missing emails mess. David Gewirtz's report, carried in OutlookPower and DominoPower (in 6 parts, keep clicking), makes for ...

MBCook sends us to the blog of one Landon Dyer, who posted an entry the other day entitled Donkey Kong and Me. It describes how he was offered at job at Atari after writing a Centipede clone and ended up programming Donkey Kong for the Atari 800. It' ...

krquet notes an InfoWorld article on Sun's plans for the iPhone. After studying Apple's newly released SDK docs for 24 hours, Sun decided it was feasible to develop a JVM, based on Java Micro Edition, for both the iPhone and the iTouch. An analyst is ...

Hodejo1 writes "The early adopter premium is the difference between the cost of buying the latest greatest techno-toy today and the cost of buying an equal or better unit a couple of years later for much less. That Blu-ray unit you buy today for $300 ...

Bruce G Charlton writes "A new paper in Medical Hypotheses suggests that very big cash prizes could specifically be targeted to stimulate 'revolutionary' science. Usually, prizes tend to stimulate 'applied' science — as in the most famous examp ...

Barack Obama led rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in voting returns Saturday as Democrats crowded caucuses in Wyoming, the latest contest in the candidates' close, hard-fought race for the party's presidential nomination.

A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Baghdad that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists.

Nissan wants to talk about more than a way to drive at its soon-to-be-finished Americas headquarters.

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.

Laura Youngblood clutched her husband's photo as she drove alone to the hospital. She'd become pregnant nearly nine months earlier, the day he'd left for training for Iraq. Hours later, after the baby was born, she placed the photo in the bassinet ne ...

Two months ago, Shadow was one uncooperative pit bull.

No matter what the cameras say, some drivers are refusing to pay dozens of $40 speeding fines. Who? Police officers.

A scrawny, black and white female kitten has apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate. Cleveland Animal Protective League Executive Director Sharon Harvey says a Cleveland company that received the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama took a big early lead over rival Hillary Clinton in Wyoming on Saturday, as he looked to bounce back from losses that gave Clinton new hope in their hotly contested presidential battle.

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; ...

Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica says his coalition has collapsed and calls for new elections.

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 ... · Apparently, it doesn't have to be boring to bang the same person over and over and over ... · We're big enough to admit when we've made a mistake. Not that we would ever be wrong about anything, o ...

Gmail, you're becoming pushy. And frankly, a little bit annoying. I still like you, but please, don't be like that. Sometimes I need a minute on my own, and will close your window. Sometimes that closing of the window coincides with another action I ...

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.] ...

Four words that prove how difficult the English language is: lose, loose, chose, choose. Update: Doug points out more: bough, cough, dough, rough, through. (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 ...

I honestly do not remember a time in my life when I didn't have headaches Wilco's Jeff Tweedy discusses his lifelong battle with migraines, panic attacks, depression, drug addiction, and the influences of all on his music.

Uncle Dirty is a fascinating photo essay about a photographer's strange uncle who has lived 86 years obsessed with bodybuilding, penises, and thongs. Not safe for work, but not too crazy, the photos really humanize someone you'd probably cross the st ...

A Vodka Movie by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric

World Record Spaghetti Bridge Bala'zs Botka of Hungary's Budapest Polytechnic set a world record by building a spaghetti bridge weighing 994.9 grams (2.19 pounds) that held 352.62 kilograms (777 pounds) before breaking. Hungarian competitors in ...

I've been trying to come up with words to describe this...

That's pretty much it.

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...

— — Smafulli, a Twitterer from Milano, has his own favorite sauce. — — DerekTut digs San Marzano too, in Brooklyn. — —

Thinking about tomorrow's Sunday Gang podcast... — — btre.blogtalkradio.com/ 74_91096.mp3 — — Want to talk about the final finale of The Wire? Trade theories about how the show will end. Will it be a lame ending like The Sopr ...

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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 ...

doing a convincing job of it, too  

as always, some great picks; Restraint is interesting  

the SEO scumbag's app sent every user's credentials to his own hardcoded Gmail account  

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  

Fred sez, "As tax season approaches, Californians might want to know that, if you're single and your taxes are relatively simple, California may have filled out your return for you. Do you really want to pay TurboTax, again, for collating the informa ...

Trataron de forzarme ir a rehab, pero yo les dije que no, no, no. Me encantan las drogas. Link, and Previously. (OMG thx Susannah)...

The BBC appears to have inadvertently (?) removed the controversial DRM from its iPlayer video-on-demand service. Now, all BBC programmes are broadcast across the country in digital form without DRM, literally diffused at the speed of light in all di ...

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 bought a pamphlet from 1936 about the operation of Jacquard looms. Here's an illustration from it: Click to enlarge It shows the huge stack of loom cards (2,000 are not a lot for a Jacquard) that control the pattern being woven. Histories of info ...

Sega has confirmed that two of their Genesis titles, Puyo Puyo 2 and POWERBALL, will be hitting the Wii Shop Channel this month with prices starting at 800 Wii Points. Puyo Puyo 2 - The object of this head-to-head puzzle game is to clear your grid o ...

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a great interview up with Cliff Harris of Positech Games (Democracy, Kudos, Rock Legend, etc.); it's chock full of interesting bits on his games, the makeup of the indie side of the industry, and how you can make money with ...

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. ...

Feeling that good, old fashioned bloodlust? If you're going to vanquish some enemies, it's best to dress for the job. Make you own suit of armor from cheap, recycled aluminum. In Wired's How-To wiki.