03/13/08

Puddleblog documents the life and times of a persistent puddle in Brooklyn. I totally know that puddle and it is old. (via clusterflock) (link)

Five great audio illusions. (thx, marshall) (link)

A guy who started working as a game programmer for Atari when he was 21 years old recounts his experiences, notably his work on the Donkey Kong cartridge. Basically, Atari's marketing folks would negotiate a license to ship GameCorp's "Foobar Blaste ...

Rating the critics: the Economist's More Intelligent Life blog picks their favorite movie and book critics. They will be offering picks in more categories in the coming days. (via mr) (link)

Michael Bierut on the concept of bershon, defined by Sarah Brown thusly: The spirit of bershon is pretty much how you feel when you're 13 and your parents make you wear a Christmas sweatshirt and then pose for a family picture, and you could not pos ...

jcgregorio : Dalke Scientific: Products & Services - Wonder if you could modify this to produce Dalvik bytecode and thus write Python code for Android.

Andy Baio : Landon Dyer's story of working on Donkey Kong at Atari in the 1980s - don't miss the rest of his blog, too

Andy Baio : Hyena, scripting language for audio-only one-button games - beyond accessibility issues, this genre's ideal for playing while driving or running

nelson : Air Force �ber alles - Does no one in the USAF speak German? Or have a clue? Tags : airforce facism slogans via:metafilter

philgyford : The Joyent Community / Any news on IronPorts (or even spamassassin or grep -v "st0ckZ")? - "A brief history of announced spam solutions from Joyent/ Textdrive." Since 2005. Still waiting. Tags : email joyent spam textdrive top ...

that's kinda sick but also quite funny at the same time

just add sim card and go... heh!

"Yahoo intends to join OpenSocial, a Google-led alliance that is developing a common set of standards so developers can create programs that run on many social networks and other Web sites"

"Translation: We're letting people go. And a bunch of 'em, at that."

"I’ve decided that I need to make my entire life Google-centric, storing all calendar events and contacts with Google and continuing to use Gmail."

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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 ...

Eliot Spitzer is the latest public figure to come clean about marital infidelity. Slate V looks to others for this primer on how best to publicly acknowledge your sexual sins.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to ICT Results, an EU-funded project named Embounded 'has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory goals, of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.' One example is the robuCAB, a '4 seat automate ...

An anonymous reader writes "HD DVD is almost gone and Blu-ray prices are already on their way up. TG Daily went through average retail prices of some of the popular Blu-ray players and found that you should expect to pay at least $400 for an entry-le ...

impuLsive writes "YouTube has announced they're rolling out a brand new API. The API will allow you to integrate YouTube into a website, allowing for features like: uploading videos, adding and editing video metadata, fetching localized feeds, custom ...

smallfries writes "After a long battle with Linux users in the UK, the BBC was forced into releasing a flash version of the iPlayer streaming service to fulfill their obligations to license-fee payers. After claiming that development of Linux and Mac ...

Vigile writes "As a matter of principle, when legendary game programmer John Carmack speaks, the entire industry listens. In a recent interview he comments on a multitude of topics starting with information about Intel, their ray tracing research and ...

Riding with Robots writes "Today the robotic Saturn probe Cassini will make its closest buzz ever over the surface of the enigmatic ice moon Enceladus, whose surprising giant water geysers hint at a hidden ocean of liquid water. The spacecraft will f ...

In a startlingly swift fall from grace, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that made a mockery of his straight-arrow image and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges and perhaps disbarment.

Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from an honorary post in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black.

Two suspects were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing of the University of North Carolina's student body president, though one remains at large.

Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout so far has proven to be a better place for promoting fun and games than peddling products.

The El-E robot looks like something you'd see in a Hollywood sci-fi flick: It's got two lenses spaced together just like eyes and a slender 5 1/ 2-foot-tall body. It spurts out wacky catch phrases when it accomplishes its goals.

Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

AFP - Short people should pray for a return to the Seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says.

Jessie Vigil's black-and-white car sports a red-and-blue emergency bar across the top and the word "police" painted on the doors. Vigil, however, isn't a cop. Law enforcement agencies say what he's done with his car isn't illegal as long as he doesn' ...

Most days, Moko the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humans at a New Zealand beach. But this week, it seems, Moko found his mojo. Witnesses described Wednesday how they saw the dolphin swim up to two stranded whales and guide them to safety.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned on Wednesday amid a scandal over a $1,000-an-hour prostitute, ending a career built on pugnacious investigations of Wall Street crimes and an image of moral rectitude.

American newspaper headlines are filled with tales of innocents being released from prisons after serving decades behind bars, some who were on Death Row. Two hundred and fourteen (214) post conviction cases have been exonerated by DNA by the Innocen ...

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer says he will step down on Monday, after being linked to a prostitution ring.

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 ...

Hacky stand-up comedians like to point out that most of the things guys do to win over girls in romantic movie comedies would get them slapped with a restraining order if they tried it in real life. The same thing could probably be said of porn (and ...

A web seminar Google held yesterday at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company, explain ...

Google Korea now includes an age check for certain queries, as a search for sexual harassment shows (Google requires you to be 19 years old, apparently to comply with with local laws). Also, Google Korea is now spicing up search results by offering i ...

Puddleblog documents the life and times of a persistent puddle in Brooklyn. I totally know that puddle and it is old. (via clusterflock) (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 ...

Baarle-Hertog/ Baarle-Nassau has been previously mentioned in MeFi. A historical quirk and geographical jigsaw, these days the complicated border criscrossing this Belgo-Dutch town had become little more than a tourist attraction. What happens, howe ...

The world's 50 most powerful blogs via'The Guardian'; (YT).

The press want something that'll sell copy. They pick up on the mental hospital, family stuff, try to invent some category of rock that I belong to, or perhaps they pick up on my drug problem. But it gets to the point sooner or later when you start t ...

Bantha slippers. Han Solo in Carbonite Mini-Fridge. And the Death Star Grill. ("Use the awesome power of the galaxy's most fearsome battlestation to send burning fear into rebel scum burgers and franks!") Just a few rejected designs for Sta ...

Smart.

I appreciate that campaigns spin and that to some extent it's so expected that they spin that they have to. That is, they're assumed to be putting the best spin on whatever happens so if they get more honest for a moment it'll be interpreted to mean ...

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...

When you want a chatroom, use IRC... — — sundaygang.com/ dave/ twitterIsNotAChatroom.mp3 — —

War in Iran before Bush leaves?  — —

.... # 10:46 Writing wedding vows: more difficult than I expected! # 11:45 I can haz caffeene now plz? # 13:59 At least I didn't have three run-ins with the police. # 17:14 Considering scrapbooking for a little while. Y/ N? # Automatically ...

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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 ...

beyond accessibility issues, this genre's ideal for playing while driving or running  

focuses on the case study of the implosion of Geosign  

don't miss the rest of his blog, too  

full music creation package based on the Korg MS-10  

we should resist forming huge, boring planets  

doing a convincing job of it, too  

as always, some great picks; Restraint is interesting  

The new Moshi Moshi gallery/ store in Portland, Oregon opened to the public last weekend with an "I Love Mr. T" art show to benefit an area elementary school. The show was the brainchild of a ten-year-old artist, Levi Pitters, who also got his friend ...

A spiffy dance number from Pop Gear, a 1965 compilation of British Invasion song "videos." According to IMDB, it "includes bands such as The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Peter and Gordon, and the Spencer Davis Group (with Steve Winwood). The film also ...

A family in Sebastopol, California (hometown of the MAKE: headquarters!) is auctioning off a beautiful fossilized mastodon. Found on the Fiddler family farm in 1997, the specimen spent several years on display at the Oakland Museum and then in a wine ...

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]

The official LEGO Universe website just put up an interview with Phillip Atencio, one of the upcoming massively multiplayer game's art directors. There's a lot of material in the interview but there were two things he touched upon that I found reall ...

newVideoPlayer("motorstorm_2.flv", 475, 376,""); Evolution Studios is setting themselves up for some serious nitpickery with their next MotorStorm, spitting out a pre-rendered trailer that we suppose should be considered a "target render." Regardless ...

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

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(RE) is an alternative RED campaign that aims to: raise awareness for AIDS in Africa, encourage conscious consumption, and provide a means of involvement for those unwilling or unable to buy (Product) Red products. The original(PRODUCT) Red campaign ...

The Yes Men respond to BP's email concerning "Use of a website... infringing copyright on the trademarks of BP p.l.c." And publish a web site response here www.beyond-petrol.com/ Originally posted by amanda_mc from del.i ...

Automakers have nailed the technology but with only 36 stations in the United States capable of delivering hydrogen fuel, driving one of these babies remains problematical.