03/14/08

One of the side effects of the Eliot Spitzer situation is the discussion of prostitution happening in various places online by those with experience in or knowledge of that profession. Here are a few I've run across. On the Freakonomics blog, an int ...

A post by Jonah Lehrer about thinking under pressure links deliberate practice with another of my favorite concepts, relaxed concentration. For novice golfers, thinking more about a putt increases their chances of making it. But for experts, thinking ...

The world's 50 best works of art and where to go to see them. Random Knowledge has links to all the art so you can check them out virtually in less time and for less money. (link)

The 100 best last lines from novels. (via clusterflock) (link)

If you can ignore the stupid one-logo-per-page interface, check out the 25 best band logos. (link)

joshua : PARC Forum talk: "making del.icio.us tastier" at 4pm today - some of us are giving a talk today. Tags : del.icio.us

Linkorama : 15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing - If you peel back the label and its says "Grid" or "OGSA" underneath�� its not a cloud. Tags : architecture cloudcomputing datacenter

nelson : Google Zurich playground - Google's Swiss office. A bit infantilized, but it's kinda neat. Tags : design google office switzerland zurich

Cameron Moll : iHole - iHole. "I even left the serial numbers [of the iPhone box] intact, so if my roommate ever needed to return it he could."

joshua : thread on ip geolocation Tags : dev net

this mirrors a lot of my thinking... not that you could tell it from visiting our house

you have until october 20th to register to vote in the november election... wow. that means I can avoid jury duty for months yet

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"

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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 ...

Forget best picture. How can any of us judge what should win the Academy Award for best editing? Hollywood editor Mark Helfrich walks us through well-edited scenes from this year's five Oscar-nominated films.

holy_calamity writes "A US government program is in the works to design small nuclear reactors for use by developing countries. The work continues despite fears about security and nuclear proliferation. Plans include having reactors supplied with fue ...

museumpeace writes "In the NYTimes book review blog, David Itzkoff takes a look at a new book devoted to predicting which 'science fiction' technologies may really fly some day. The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he ...

christo writes "In what appears to be a first, the US House of Representatives now has a Congressman with coding skills. Democratic Representative Bill Foster won a special election this past Saturday in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois. F ...

Stony Stevenson passed us an ITnews article about the newest scam in online crime. Some 10,000 web pages have been rigged by IT-minded criminals, with the aim of hijacking unsuspecting PCs. The site reports that the users are redirected through a maz ...

An anonymous reader writes "Passing the Turing test is the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI) and now researchers claim it may be possible using the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene). This version of the Turing test pits a human ...

Fletch writes "FCC Chairman Kevin Martin could be in for an uncomfortable spring, as House Energy Committee Chair John Dingel (D-MI) has requested a truckload of FCC paperwork relating to some controversial decisions Martin has made. Those include th ...

Florida Democrats on Thursday proposed a vote-by-mail presidential primary to solve the high-stakes delegate dispute while acknowledging the plan's chances are slim.

The Senate on Thursday rejected the idea of renewing many of President Bush's tax cuts as all three major presidential candidates interrupted their campaigns to cast their votes. The House approved a budget blueprint that would raise taxes by $683 bi ...

House Democratic leaders agreed Thursday to a rare closed-door session — the first in 25 years — to debate surveillance legislation. Republicans requested privacy for what they termed "an honest debate" on the new Democratic eavesdropping bill that ...

From iPods to navigation systems, some of today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam.

The top executive at Microsoft Corp.'s MSN media network is leaving for Los Angeles advertising startup Spot Runner, the software maker said Thursday.

Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.

Antique store owners in lower Manhattan, ticket vendors at India's Taj Mahal and Brazilian business executives heading to China all have one thing in common these days: They don't want U.S. dollars.

Danbury officials have been notified they are being sued by a student who was awakened in class by a teacher who made a loud noise. Documents filed with the Town Clerk, a prelude to a lawsuit, claim that a sleeping student suffered hearing damage whe ...

A mouse intent on flying to Atlanta prompted officials to ground a plane for more than five hours Thursday in Des Moines. A flight attendant spotted the mouse before passengers boarded the 5:50 a.m. Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight. About 30 passen ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Resigning over reports he paid for a $1,000-an-hour prostitute, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leaves behind his political post but could face legal trouble from the stunning sex scandal.

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 ...

The Chaldean Catholic archbishop of the Iraqi city of Mosul who was kidnapped last month is found dead.

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 ...

There are some negative naysayers who constantly proclaim that our public school systems are failing. As this video clearly shows, those people are one hundred percent right. Lazy, distracted students roam the halls, disregard homework, smoke right i ...

A new option has just appeared in the Google Docs Settings page for tracking your published documents. Simply enter one of your Google Analytics account tracking codes and you'll apparently be able to view statistics showing when any of your publishe ...

Google Sky was already a feature of desktop app Google Earth. Now it's moved to the browser at sky.google.com. The Google Lat Long blog and Google's press release list the features of this new service: Zoom and pan the sky, like with Google Maps ...

One of the side effects of the Eliot Spitzer situation is the discussion of prostitution happening in various places online by those with experience in or knowledge of that profession. Here are a few I've run across. On the Freakonomics blog, an int ...

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 ...

(Yayoi) Tsushima, a bassist; Ma(ri), a guitarist; Mi(zue), a drummer. Mix 'em up (mamire) and you get Tshusimamire or Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re or TSMMR or つしまみれ, infamous and rocking female Japanese combo. The real deal -- good singing and playing ...

How obedient is your dog? Or chimp.

Widely Ranging Interests is a weekly podcast where two guys discuss their favorite obscure and arcane topics, from sea kayak marlin fishing to the history of the balaclava. Addicting.

Bacon lollipops. That is all.

Freakin' crack den....--Molly I.

He's not going away forever!!! He'll be back!!!After all, at 60 he's a "young man."

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...

Progress to report on the MP3s of candidate conference calls. — — The Washington bureau of McClatchy has produced an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures for some of the calls. — — www.mcclatchydc.com/ 250/ index.xml — — ...

After opening to the public a week ago, a lot more people are showing up on FriendFeed, and it's got features the others don't have. The others? Yeah -- it's competitive with things like: Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku and Pownce. And it's simple and minim ...

.... onomatopoeia in my creative writing as I did in my poems. In conclusion, I learned many things that I can use in creative writing during the poetry unit. I learned new words, definitions, and how to use words. Copyright © 2008 hmslpietropaoli ...

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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 ...

he passed away on March 5  

coded by an intern in three months  

including some academic projects I hadn't seen  

long list of forgotten or abandoned Google experiments; also, Philipp's roundup of their intranet  

a fun read, but surprisingly great for finding new music  

best interview ever, shows the creativity behind his games better than any Q&A would  

my new desktop wallpaper  

Here's Raphael's "Lady with a Unicorn," for those who were grossed out by the zit popping art film. It looks to me like the unicorn watched the video and the lady is peeved that her pet had been subjected to such trauma....

Nik Mercer says: I thought you BB guys would like this Q&A I -- along with another Anthem Online writer -- did with [Love and Rockets co-creator] Jaime Hernandez. How do you feel about the characters you've created? Is there anything you wish you h ...

> Hello, I am Eliza. * Hi > How are you today.. What would you like to discuss? * Joeseph Weizenbaum, the man that made you. > Say, do you have any psychological problems? * Probably, but that's not why I'm here. > Did you come to me beca ...

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'm in Brussels and had a morning to walk around. Charming, clean, old, twisty, social. I had a lovely time. But where do the tourist guides send you? To the Manneken Pis,a tiny, uninteresting statue of a little boy taking a whiz. The Manneken has no ...

A Sonic role-playing game may seem like a real head scratcher at first, but with BioWare behind Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood it has to be good. Anything less than a stellar RPG adventure would violate some universal law, we're sure of it. T ...

ComingSoon.net is reporting that site reps recently spoke to Metal Gear Solid movie producer Michael De Luca who dropped word on a possible scriptwriter and director. That name was Kurt Wimmer, whose directing credits include sci-fi action fodder lik ...

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

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Wafaa Bilal grabbed the attention of the media last year with his performance Domestic Tension. Bilal, born in Iraq and currently teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, installed his living quarter at Chicago's Flatfile Gallery. View ...

"El Ecoloco" is a character from Odisea Burbujas, an educational Tv Show from the 80's transmitted in Latinamerica. The cast were animals, a mad scientist and the "ecoloco": He loves noise and "smog". Sustainability on acid: By the way, the song ...

Viruses aren't just for computers anymore. Now, pre-installed viruses are turning up in all sorts of gadgets, particularly those made in China where quality control can be lax.