03/12/08

The final episode of St. Elsewhere reveals that all of the action of the show took place in the mind of an autistic child. Two detectives from Homicide: Life on the Street investigate a doctor from St. Elsewhere. Thus Homicide is a fiction. And so ar ...

Flowchart: exposed to Dungeons and Dragons early in life, yes or no? I didn't play a whole lot of D&D as a kid (maybe three time total) but I've flowed through several of these points nonetheless. (link)

WARNING, **EXTENSIVE SPOILERS** ABOUT SEASONS 1-5. So, The Wire is over. The 60th and final episode of the show aired on Sunday night. I watched it last night and felt very sad afterwards. Sad that it's over and that doing a sixth season could not an ...

The UK Sunday newspaper The Observer recently published a list of the world's 50 most powerful blogs. kottke.org is fourth on the list. "Powerful" seems to be a word used here for its succinct headline value...that adjective doesn't fit many of the b ...

Related to last month's post about monochromatic outfits, here's some photos of children who do the same thing, pink for the girls and blue for the boys. korean artist jeongmee yoon's 'pink and blue project' was inspired by her daughter. she would o ...

So long to the F-117A.. "The government has no plans to bring the fighter out of retirement, but could do so if necessary."

interesting... and really expensive!

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there are some really good ideas in here

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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 ...

You've seen cats flushing toilets, Will Ferrell and his toddler/ landlord, North Korean prisoners dancing, and hot babes hosting gadget shows. But wait, and we mean wait, until you've seen this!

eldavojohn writes "The NYTimes is running an interesting blog piece on the answers Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, & Google gave to the question: Can they show you an ad with your name on it? The results: 'Microsoft says it could use only a person's first ...

hasu notes that scientists at the National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba in Japan have created a device, consisting of 17 duroquinone molecules on a gold surface, that can in theory encode 4.3 billion outcomes. The "device" does not cons ...

bughunter writes "Today GE announced the successful demonstration of the world's first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices (press release). This demonstration is a key step toward making OLEDs and other high ...

A number of readers sent word that EU regulators have cleared the Google-DoubleClick deal. "The commission said Google and DoubleClick 'were not exerting major competitive constraints on each other's activities and could, therefore, not be considered ...

seattle-pk writes to let us know about the discovery in the Pacific island nation of Palau of thousands of human bones, some quite diminutive. The find is likely to rekindle the debate about how to classify the remains found on the Indonesian island ...

Thwomp writes "It appears that a popular Gmail backup utility, G-Archiver, has been harvesting users' Gmail passwords. This was discovered when a developer named Dustin Brooks took a look at the code using a decompiler. He discovered a Gmail account ...

With pressure mounting to resign Tuesday over a call-girl scandal, Gov. Eliot Spitzer found himself with few friends and lots of powerful enemies, many of whom regard him as a sanctimonious bully who got what was coming to him. Republicans began talk ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she disagrees with Geraldine Ferraro, one of her fundraisers and the 1984 vice presidential candidate, for suggesting that Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential race because he's black. In a bri ...

Barack Obama bid for victory in the Mississippi primary on Tuesday, last in a string of racially polarized contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.

Google Inc.'s long-anticipated acquisition of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. is expected to turn the Internet search leader into an even more powerful marketing vehicle that's fueled by better insights about consumers.

Hulu.com, a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal, plans to open its online library of ad-supported TV shows and movies to the public on Wednesday, the company announced.

At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts.

Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car.

In this case, man was dog's best friend. Randy Earl was fishing with his dog Lacy, a black spaniel mix, on Mason Lake near their Monongalia County home Monday when their small boat capsized.

A "sniff squad" of trained noses is being called in to root out Northampton's landfill odors. The city has hired specially trained stink-sniffers to help determine whether the dump is too pungent for neighboring homeowners to stand.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rallied more than 3 percent on Tuesday, giving the S&P 500 its best advance since October 2002, after the Federal Reserve said it would add up to $200 billion to strained credit markets in a coordinated effort with oth ...

The famed actress Tang Wei has been officially banned in her own country, the People's Republic of China, for "trying to beautify collaborators" (Chinese traitors) in Lee Ang's WWII spy film Lust, Caution (2007). The ban is quite sudden and severe, a ...

The head of US forces in the Middle East, Adm William Fallon, resigns amid reported differences over Iran.

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 ...

You know what they say about the best laid plans: sometimes it seems like just making one in the first place guarantees that it will go wrong. Today's roundup of some of our favorite moments from the sex blog scene teaches us an important lesson: i ...

Google announced their intention to acquire ad service company DoubleClick back in April last year. Today, Reuters reports: Google won unconditional approval from the European Commission on Tuesday to buy rival Web advertiser DoubleClick for $3.1 ...

Late last month, the SEOmoz blog posted a video interview Rand Fishkin did with Google's head of web spam team, Matt Cutts, at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX). Matt talks about his role in the search community, how much/ how little public relations ...

The final episode of St. Elsewhere reveals that all of the action of the show took place in the mind of an autistic child. Two detectives from Homicide: Life on the Street investigate a doctor from St. Elsewhere. Thus Homicide is a fiction. And so ar ...

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 ...

A South African paleoanthropologist on vacation on the island of Palau in Micronesia has discovered thousands of bone fragments of very small people estimated at between 900 and 2900 years old. He and his colleagues have just published a paper on th ...

"On Web sites touting the mind-blowing powers of salvia divinorum, come-ons to buy the hallucinogenic herb are accompanied by warnings: 'Time is running out! ... stock up while you still can.' That's because salvia is being targeted by lawmakers ...

Another King Records RnB artist covered by The Aerosmiths is Cleveland's own Bullmoose . Jackson. Here's Jackson's original recording of Big ten inch record (1952). Benjamin Clarence 'Bullmoose' Jackson played sax with Lucky Millander's band (where ...

British Political Cartoonists have always had a certain "edge". Also seen here, and again here. The UK Guardian's cartoonist Steve Bell (each cartoon has its related news story) was first noted for his cartoon "If.." starting pre ...

Apparently there's another one of these contest things in Mississippi. Polls close at 8 Eastern, I believe. Off to drink liberally but I should be back around then.

Greg Mitchell tiptoes through the horror that was.

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...

15-minute interview with Scoble mostly about conferences and the SXSW "trainwreck" interview of Mark Zuckerberg by BusinessWeek reporter Sarah Lacy. — — sundaygang.com/ dave/ scobleInterview.mp3 — — I have a laundry list of q ...

It was great. Very satisfying in most ways, and predictable when it was not. — — I love it when they finish something great so well. — — Mazel tov!! — —

....This will take Clinton and Obama off the front page for a while.....

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The summer internships at Fog Creek are already full, but Seth Godin, my marketing rebbe, has marketing internships. Paid! “The idea is to find a diverse group of motivated young people who want to join together to create a few really neat proj ...

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 ...

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  

Elizabeth sez, "In the 1960s, my husband's dad taught him to program computers with a Bell Labs Science Kit called the CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (CARDIAC). My husband was so nostalgic for his first 'cardboard computer,' that a couple ...

Etsy seller Molecularmuse makes jewelry shaped like exciting molecules, including this necklace in the shape of my all-time favorite compound, capsaicin. Link (via Craft)...

Link to preview scans from the March, 2008 issue of Marie Claire, Italia. Photographed by Johan Sandberg. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin!)...

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 ...

The Onion lists and discusses 12 surprisingly controversial topics at Wikipedia. [Tags: wikipedia onion]

Metal Gear Solid series director, producer, and writer Hideo Kojima has long planned to let loose the reins to the Metal Gear line, but it appear he may be finally moving on. A recent report on Japanese web site Nikkei BP, by way of IGN, reveals that ...

Take-Two Interactive announced today that Gearbox Software's Borderlands, which was announced this past summer for a Holiday 2008 release, won't be hitting until some time in 2009. The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC sci-fi shooter was shown to press ...

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

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This one comes to Streetsblog via the Sightline Institute's Daily Score, a blog covering environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. Why do traffic jams materialize for no apparent reason? In an effort to answer that question, here's a surprisingl ...

GM and Hummer have officially decided to discontinue the Hummer H2 after years of lagging sales and a good deal of negative publicity that the car has brought to GM. While the car remains popular, the Hummer brand in general, and the H2 specifically, ...

House Democrats are not looking to compromise on new spying legislation, and instead are suggesting a new way to keep privacy lawsuits against telecoms in federal court and proposing a commission to investigate Bush's secret warrantless wiretapping p ...