03/11/08

Remember the Wii Tennis competition held last year at Barcade in NYC? The organizers are taking on the road with Wiinnebago this summer. Wiimbledon's back, and this year we're kicking it 3,000 miles clockwise from NYC to San Francisco. The plan: Lea ...

A thoughtful memorandum from the archives of the RAND Corporation as they contemplated designing a new building for the optimal accomplishment of work in 1950. This implies that it should be easy and painless to get from one point to another in the ...

Ok, I'm back from a week of sickness, grueling travel, little sleep, and nothing done on some kottke.org projects I wanted to tackle. Time off is a bit different with an 8-month-old. But I'd like to thank Deron for holding down the fort while I was g ...

A recent favorite Buzzfeed trend: Insane Sandwiches. (link)

A hundred and twenty year old photo of a young Helen Keller has been found. The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved d ...

Cameron Moll : Design Eye for Southby - I passed up presenting with the Design Eye team this year at SXSW, but you can view the big reveal for this year's site at designeye.org/ sxswi. Coincidentally, they overhauled the SXSW website, and the reveal ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Paging systems and Conference Bridges for startups & small teams - Paging systems and Conference Bridges for startups & small teams: there are some really good ideas in here Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : Avery Print - Avery Print: cool... you can make up stuff to print on nearly any avery prodcut Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : The Definitive Lolcats Glossary - Speak Lol Speak - The Definitive Lolcats Glossary - Speak Lol Speak: "o hai! welcum to Speak LOLspeak! u has a place here for gathers and peeps LOL! nu memberz alwayz welcome! kthxbai" Tags ...

Linkorama : Vygotsky's Theories - "Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsych ...

"o hai! welcum to Speak LOLspeak! u has a place here for gathers and peeps LOL! nu memberz alwayz welcome! kthxbai"

there are some really good ideas in here

cool... you can make up stuff to print on nearly any avery prodcut

yay for me!

" Councillors agreed that heterosexual and gay couples could have sex in the Vondelpark which has ten million visitors a year. But they promised to clampdown on dog owners who let their pets walk in the park without a lead." Heh.

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Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry?: This is an awfully good post that examines just why we all hat e.Net developers. The same segment of the software industry that dislikes Microsoft also views developers who use ...

Major Brian Shul: "I loved that jet": A sentimental article from an SR-71 pilot about what may be the greatest aircraft ever built. After several agonizingly long seconds, we made the turn and blasted toward the Mediterranean. ‘Yo ...

Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, tackles a question from a middle-aged boss who finds himself fantasizing about his twentysomething assistant.

chrisd writes "Just wanted to drop a line reminding open source projects that they only have until March 12th (Pacific time) to apply for Google's Summer of Code. We are accepting more organizations this year than last because we want to add a couple ...

Frizzled writes "Part of the space shuttle crew's scheduled mission for this week is to assemble a massive robot which will 'rise like Frankenstein' from the shuttle's cargo bay. The robot, named Dextre, has 11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 ...

mattnyc99 writes "We've seen overtures by computer manufacturers to build in chip security before, but now Popular Mechanics takes a long look at growing worries over counterfeit chips, from the military and FAA to the Department of Energy and top un ...

tops writes "MadPenguin.org wonders why more Linux users aren't gamers and attempts to answer that question. The article suggests, 'As far as I'm concerned, it all comes down to a choice. Expect the gaming industry to follow the Linux doctrine or ins ...

Aeonite writes "Let there be no doubt — Douglas Wolk loves comics, and his is a tough love, the sort of love that leaves comics out in the rain pounding on the door because they snuck out after curfew again and wrecked the car. I've never dived ...

Preedit writes "The committee that oversees Microsoft's compliance with the 2002 antitrust settlement now has its hands on Windows 7. The Technical Committee is checking to see if the software meets the settlement's terms. Among other things, it's lo ...

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the crusading politician who built his career on rooting out corruption, apologized Monday after allegations surfaced that he paid thousands of dollars for a high-end call girl. He did not elaborate on the scandal, which drew call ...

Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed the idea of being Hillary Rodham Clinton's running mate Monday, saying voters must choose between the two for the top spot on the fall ticket.

A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Baghdad on Monday, the deadliest attack on American forces in the heavily fortified capital in more than eight months.

Dressed in jeans and black T-shirts and armed with touch-screen laptops, Generation Y employees at "The City" help customers choose the latest gadgets.

Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the crusading politician who built his career on rooting out corruption, apologized Monday after allegations surfaced that he paid thousands of dollars for a high-end call girl. He did not elaborate on the scandal, which drew call ...

SPACE.com - A beautiful pinwheel in space might one day blast Earth with death rays, scientists now report.

When Manuel Uribe went out on a date, he made all the necessary arrangements: a forklift to carry him out of the house and a flatbed tow truck big enough to haul the formerly half-ton man and his bed to a party.

A Melbourne couple returning home from vacation Monday were shocked to discover police about to hold a news conference at their house about their suspicious disappearance.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the one-time "Sheriff" of Wall Street who campaigned on a promise to clean up state politics, battled reports of a sex scandal on Monday that threatened to force his resignation.

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; ...

Five US soldiers are killed by a suicide bomb in Baghdad, in one of the deadliest attacks on US troops there in months.

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 ...

Jenna Jameson kindly requests that you not harm any animals when you tie up your lover and abuse them with various flogging devices. After all, there are enough raw hides out there as it is. (peta.org)

20 Years Ago John sees a segment about the phenomenon of synesthesia on TV. He makes a mental note to research the topic. He finishes watching the show and hits the bed. Early the next morning, it's Saturday, he wakes up and takes the bus to the l ...

Not to say this is useful to everyone -- when you visit the YouTube homepage perhaps you want to randomly explore -- but here's how to unclutter the YouTube homepage. First, opt-in for the new personalized homepage by visiting youtube.com/ iyt. Now j ...

Remember the Wii Tennis competition held last year at Barcade in NYC? The organizers are taking on the road with Wiinnebago this summer. Wiimbledon's back, and this year we're kicking it 3,000 miles clockwise from NYC to San Francisco. The plan: Lea ...

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 ...

Can I Get a Napkin Here? A food court musical brought to us by the fine folks of Improv Everywhere . For more musicals in public places, check out "Reach! A Lecture Musical!" and "Reading on a Dream: A Library Musical" both from ...

One Last Long, Boozy Irish Wake for David Simon's Accidental Masterpiece. New York magazine calls the finale of The Wire "an almost absurdly exhaustive festival of closure," has shot-by-shot commentary on the final montage, and lists ten ...

Two years ago, then NSA-chief Gen. Michael Hayden said its domestic surveillance program was "not a driftnet over Lackawanna or Fremont or Dearborn, grabbing all communications and then sifting them out." Today, a story in the Wall Street ...

New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer (Wiki) has been linked to a high-class prostitution ring.

Highlight below to see, don't highlight if you're concerned about very minor Wire spoilers.That Wire storyline about the newspaper fabulist and the editors who looked the other way sure was unrealistic.

What a disappointing day.We believed in you, Elliott.*--Molly I.PS. You can preorder shirts now.*Of course I speak only for myself. YMMV.

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...

Retired military who support Clinton... — — sundaygang.com/ clinton/ 2008/ 03/ 10/ call1.mp3 — —

I listened to all the Sunday news shows on the major networks, Face The Nation, Meet the Press, This Week. I even did one myself. On all these shows, all that was talked about was the Democratic race for the nomination for President. Almost everyone ...

.... Everyone became more mature during the 6 months and was not innocent anymore. We would like to see the shape of everyone. This also accelerates us to do more efforts for the self-improvement. Well†¦a benign competition! Authored by Elyn. Host ...

.... time! *cue wicked laughter* 19:35 annoying work outta the way, now working on precious beloved mommy team blog project:) i <3 you lexie! 20:50 need to be away from computer now. my xi is all fried. plus my back hurts. and also my brain is c ...

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  

Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek -- previously featured here for his oil paintings from classic video games -- is now painting oils of Internet Memes (pictured here: Dramatic Hamster Prairie Dog). Link See also: Oil paintings inspired by video-game sce ...

Bruce Schneier's latest column takes on the notion of the "transparent society," in which all parties disclose everything and privacy is traded for knowledge. I've always been skeptical about this idea because there's no way to be sure that the power ...

Debcha sez, "Rstevens just announced that he'll be releasing the entire archive of Diesel Sweeties as a series of PDFs, under a Creative Commons license." By my calculations, DS is going to hit 2000 comics in a little under two months. ...I'd like to ...

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 ...

Xeni Jardin has an op-ed in the NY Times pointing out that US companies are arming repressive regimes with censorship software. She suggests that such companies be required to register, just as weapon manufacturers do. I have no idea if that's the ri ...

This morning we were sent an anonymous tip from a developer claiming to have a sneak peek at the soon to be revamped PlayStation Store. That pic, seen above, shows much of what we talked about in our original story on the PSN overhaul, but features a ...

The first thing that struck me as I started digging into Super Smash Bros. Brawl for my review, was the fact that this wasn't a game designed with the standard Wiimote controls in mind. The only time the motion sensing comes into play is when you sha ...

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. ...

The Army's gargantuan digital modernization plan has turned so rotten, a new congressional report says it's time to start thinking about killing it off. One powerful representative has another plan: Pump another $20 billion into the sickly, $200 bill ...