03/10/08

Good Thangs. It's like Martha Stewart. But different. (link)

File this one under holy crap! It starts with clapclap, goes by way of waxy, has a via clusterflock, on to Kottke (who has a guest blogger, no less), then designing god Michael Beirut puts it in Design Observer's column, bloggies like ...

Four words that prove how difficult the English language is: lose, loose, chose, choose. Update: Doug points out: bough, cough, dough, rough, through. Update: Ubi says: I can point out one that is really hard to deal with for us Italians. We alway ...

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 ...

jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | George W. Bush - The Torture President Tags : self

jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The price of gas Tags : self

philgyford : This American Life: 348: Tough Room - Click "Full Episode" then skip forward five minutes for a quarter of an hour of 'The Onion's staff talking about what makes a story funny or not. (via Jane in Progress) Tags : funny humor h ...

philgyford : BBC Internet Blog - BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes - I'm liking this blog when it gives some insight into how things work behind the scenes. Shame about all the dumb comments though. Tags : anthonyrose bbc bbciplayer iphone ipl ...

philgyford : New World Notes: All About My Avatar: Tasrill Sieyes - A Second Life avatar based on Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. First thing that's made me interested in getting into SL. (via Haddock) Tags : art avatar marcelduchamp nudedes ...

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.

An anonymous reader notes the considerable irony in Microsoft asking for relief from further discovery in the Windows Vista Capable debacle. This is the lawsuit that was recently granted class-action status, and Microsoft wants the wheels of justice ...

LeCaddie writes "Last week German investigators raided 51 exhibitor stands at CeBIT, the German information technology fair in Hanover, looking for goods suspected of infringing patents. Some 183 police, customs officers, and prosecutors raided the f ...

jillduffy writes "Steve Schnur, a high-level music exec at Electronic Arts, talks about how video games are launching the careers of top musical artists these days. Some of his examples: 'Avril Lavigne was first introduced to European audiences throu ...

An anonymous reader sends us to the site of Science Magazine for news that will interest those who have followed experiments to slow and stop light. Research groups in Canada and Japan have succeeded separately in storing a special kind of vacuum &md ...

uctpjac writes "Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford and renowned cyberlaw scholar, gave a lecture explaining that the Internet has to be taken out of the hands of the anarchists, the libertarians, and the Stat ...

Multiple readers have written to tell us of the latest developments out of Intel. Earlier this week, Intel announced the Atom brand of low cost, low power consumption processors. The CPUs, measuring only 25 square millimeters, are the result of the S ...

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-w ...

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

John McCain sees one downside to having clinched the Republican presidential nomination: There's less attention focused on him than on the volatile contest between Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

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.

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed ...

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; ...

The opposition conservative party concedes defeat to the ruling Socialist Party in Spain's general 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.] ...

Good Thangs. It's like Martha Stewart. But different. (link)

Yesterday's Worst Website Ever session was standing-room only and judging from the response, it was a hit. Once I can get a copy of the audio from the talk, I'll upload a screencast of the entire session with the original slides. Until then, here a ...

G-Archiver is a windows shareware app that backs up your gmail account to your local harddrive. it also does something far more sinister: it emails your username and password to the creator of the program. (via)

Arelia Margarita Taveras "made a name for herself representing the families of victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in New York City's borough of Queens in November 2001, killing 265 people.#+ Her practice had 400 clients and earn ...

Had enough election coverage this year? If not-- or if you forgot that countries besides the USA have elections too-- you can see details of elections the world over via Electoral Geography 2.0. Browse elections in chronological order or by country ...

This post goes out to everyone who is supposed to be working right now. Perhaps you can relate.

COME BACK MITTENS!!!

The people of Spain have once again voted for the return of the Caliphate.

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...

Nicco and I discuss Democratic politics with Joe Trippi. — — sundaygang.com/ 002.mp3 — — We talked with him via Skype at his home in Maryland. — — — — I scanned my notes into Flickr. — —

Charles Cooper supports the public release of campaign conference call MP3s.  — — Must-read: Marc Cooper compares Samantha Power with the Clintons on genocide and Rwanda.  — —

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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 ...

we should resist forming huge, boring planets  

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  

At O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference last week, I hosted a panel on the future of "mind hacks," from cognitive fitness programs to smart drugs to neuro-implants. One of the panelists was Timo Hannay, publishing director of Nature.com, who tal ...

Designer Tobias Wong created this gold-plated wireless lightswitch in a Lucite box. The "ON/ OFF Switch" is just, er, $250, from Vivre. Link...

MIT dropped its subscription to the database of past articles from the Society of Automotive Engineer because SAE had was using anti-copying DRM technology on the papers that made them less useful for scientists and researchers. After a presentation ...

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 ...

To be a Most Annoying Nitpick, a comment has to be obvious, predictable, and unimportant. For example: "You know, in space an explosion wouldn't make any noise." Runners up include: "Jeesh. Dinosaurs were dead for hundreds of millions of years ...

With Eidos' decision to move their production headquarters to Canada, Tiga (a trade association representing European developer interests) is asking the British government to ensure that developers aren't bailing ship for lower-cost, subsidized local ...

I've been playing (replaying parts) of God of War: Chains of Olympus on the Playstation Portable for a week or so now and so far it strikes me as one of the best games to hit the system to date. I'm about five hours in, nearing the end of the game, I ...

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. ...

Facebook is launching its VooZoo application on Monday, which will give users access to footage from thousands of movies to send to others on the popular social networking site.