03/15/08

Three cities, two serious relationships, one child, 200,000 frequent flier miles, at least seven jobs, 14,500 posts, six designs, and ten years ago, I started "writing things down" and never stopped. That makes kottke.org one of a handful of the long ...

Due to "when will the ice break up" contests in Alaska and other records dating back more than 150 years, climate scientists are able to study the onset of spring thaws. Seventeen lakes in Europe, Asia and the U.S. with records going back 150 years ...

Forgotten Architects. Nearly 500 Jewish architects were working in Germany before 1933; today the fate of most of them is unknown. Following is a look at 43 of these architects whose groundbreaking work is sadly forgotten. Here's some context about ...

Google Sky is like Google Earth for the, er, sky. The historical constellation drawing overlay is very cool. P.S. I starting sobbing like a little baby when I saw this. (link)

Only three men have ever graced the cover of American Vogue. LeBron James is on the cover this month with Gisele Bundchen...see if you can guess the other two before you click through. (link)

factoryjoe : Technology Review: Between Friends - Sites like Facebook are proving the value of the "social graph." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: social networks, social graph, facebook

nelson : Major browser exploit - I know two people whose WoW accounts were stolen recently; this javascript attack may be how Tags : badtech keylogger malware security wow

Andy Baio : Jason Rohrer's Game Design Sketchbook - the author of Passage and Gravitation's new Escapist column, prototyping a new game monthly

Andy Baio : Chart of organic food companies and their corporate owners - consolidation's been happening for two years, but the result is impressive and sad

Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! - Frequently Asked Questions - Yahoo! - Frequently Asked Questions: wow, that's really old! Tags : links

wow, that's really old!

"The effort to elude Microsoft is being steered by Yang, who received a $1 salary and didn't get a bonus last year. Most of Yang's estimated $2.3 billion fortune is held in Yahoo stock."

"The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs."

"One of the biggest misunderstandings in much of the discussion about Google’s deal to buy DoubleClick is the perception that DoubleClick actually is involved in selling advertising."

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

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PHP Apps on Mobile using PAMP: This looks really cool. If you'd like to work on your favorite PHP apps on your S60 phones, here's PAMP - Personal Apache, MySQL and PHP. This is implemented on the Symbian OS using Open C, which is a set of ind ...

Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs: An interesting article about a plan that Big Media is warming up to. It was proposed a long time ago, but immediately dismissed. Griffin’s idea is to collect a fee from internet service p ...

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.

Photo from angelcorrine on Flickr I was wrong, I thought this snowfall would be like the last---merely snow a little and be done. I was wrong and now I'm looking out at A LOT of snow. This is not the end of civilization as we know it, it's merely the ...

Freshly Exhumed writes "Retired and hobbyist antenna engineers working together in the Digital Home forums have taken an obscure 1950s UHF TV antenna called the Hoverman [PDF] and subjected the design to modern software-based computer modeling in hop ...

ScienceDaily has an interesting article that looks at ad-hoc wireless networks and how they might be even more useful on a large scale. The RUNES project is featured as an example of software projects that might be able to make mobile devices that fo ...

IP Freely writes "At this year's Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Philadelphia, conference organizers shut off IPv4 for an hour. Surprisingly, chaos did not ensue. 'After everyone got his or her system up and running, many people started lo ...

coondoggie writes to mention that the three largest companies in the billing aggregation market have been hit with a $1.9 million fine in response to the more than $30 million in bogus charges added to consumer's bills. The ringleader of the scam how ...

Jonathan writes "Today, the 14th of March, is Pi Day 2008. Pi Day is internationally celebrated in honor of the mathematical constant "Pi," who's actual value will — now and forever — remain unknown. NeoSmart Technologies has a run-down o ...

Maggie McKee writes "The Cassini spacecraft flew into the icy geysers erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday in an attempt to figure out what they were made of, but a glitch prevented the probe from actually 'tasting' the plumes. An 'unex ...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused its leaders of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism.

The House on Friday approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. The bill, approved as lawmakers departed for a two-week break, faces a veto threat from Presid ...

President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of countries accused of supporting terrorism, calling it one more attempt by Washington to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the ter ...

Microsoft Corp. met with Yahoo Inc. to discuss the software maker's unsolicited takeover bid earlier this week, a breakthrough that could be the first step toward a friendly deal between the two rivals.

The technology best known for pirating movies, music and software online is increasingly being adopted by businesses as a cheap way to get video content to customers.

If you're looking for cavity-free pearly whites, search anywhere but Lubbock. A new study in next month's Men's Health magazine says this West Texas city has the worst teeth of the 100 large U.S. cities examined. El Paso (No. 95), San Antonio (89) an ...

Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel.

Great-grandmother 1, would-be robber 0. Bernie Garcia at first thought the young man who approached her asking for money while she gassed up her car seemed like a sweet guy.

The oldest bordello in Hamburg's red-light district is shutting down for lack of business, according to newspaper reports published Friday.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The emergency rescue of Bear Stearns Co Inc on Friday left observers from all quarters wondering who would be the last man standing at the Wall Street bank.

Following the demise of the USSR in the late eighties, some areas of endemic instability managed to escape the trap of poverty and war. South-East Asian nations like Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are now experiencing levels of stability and growth unpre ...

At least two people are reported killed in clashes between protesters and police in Tibet's main city of Lhasa.

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 ...

— Maybe the grounds and standard procedure for a full body cavity search differ in Canada, from whence the mighty Eric Everhard and his mastodon-sized genitalia hail (as clearly evidenced by the maple leaf necklace he sports throughout the vide ...

Unless something is going really, really wrong with Google, we have a suspicion this is just an upcoming April Fool's joke for Google. If that's the case, then note that spoilers follow below. OK. Remember Microsoft's Clippy, that annoying "li ...

Very cool: the recently released YouTube JavaScript Player API allows you to embed completely customized YouTube players, among other uses. I came up with this sample player that is supposed to be a sort of "hello world" of how you can implement the ...

Three cities, two serious relationships, one child, 200,000 frequent flier miles, at least seven jobs, 14,500 posts, six designs, and ten years ago, I started "writing things down" and never stopped. That makes kottke.org one of a handful of the long ...

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 ...

Did UEFA fix today's Champions' League quarter-final draw? It was made at noon UK time, but a full 90 minutes beforehand a Liverpool fan claimed on a football message board that he not only knew the outcome of the supposedly random draw but also tha ...

Bert and Ernie perform "A Divine Proclamation for Finishing the Present Existence" by Last Days of Humanity. Turn your speakers down if you're at the office. [Single link, YouTube.]

For the fourth single off their second album, My Chemical Romance shot a World War II mini-movie^ that was turned into the video for The Ghost of You. Fast-forward to MCR's third album and a fan-made animated storybook video that continues the story ...

Google Sky we'll help us find our way, someday.

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From an email from Save Tucker: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 13, 2008 CONTACTJohn Bertranjbertran2@cfl.rr.comLEFTIST JIHAD PURGES MSNBC Balance and real news reporting not on ideological agenda John Bertran, the Melbourne Florida investment counse ...

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...

Back in the mid-90s I became accustomed to reading news on the web. So much so that I cancelled subscriptions to the NY Times and Wall Street Journal because most days I'd never take the papers out of the plastic bags they were delivered in. — ...

I grew up in the northeast, not far from where Geraldine Ferraro lives, and I recognize the racism of the northeast, where people nod knowingly that blacks who are competing with whites have been given some kind of advantage that makes it possible fo ...

.... 10:15 I have survived the death of deathyness. I can keep food in now and everything. Woefully behind in school between this and my Morgan t ... # All my tweets are nicely packed and shipped by LoudTwitterYou can Follow Me on Twitter, too. .. ...

.... LJ stops making free accounts. Heard from F_W post....Fuck you SUP. Someone mentioned that now LJ is almost exactly the same as IJ. I still keep my adless free account but for like $50 I can get a ....

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 ...

consolidation's been happening for two years, but the result is impressive and sad  

the author of Passage and Gravitation's new Escapist column, prototyping a new game monthly  

possible smoking gun, because IRS forbids tax-exempt organizations from campaigning  

I never get tired of the 2D-to-3D trick  

silly parodies of retro games, sending up gameplay in different ways  

they should've let it die, it's like responding to the world's biggest troll; account disabled, but still viewable here  

I beat the game on my flight home from SXSW; here's a good review  

These are toilet paper dispensers. You stick a roll of toilet paper through the back, and pull a few squares out the nozzle. They cost £12.99 each. Link (Via Random Good Stuff)...

Flickr user Moody75 found this fantastic console in the beside table in a room at the Zurich Crowne Plaza, sporting AV inputs for his laptop or pocket-player, a USB power-port, and an HDMI and VGA port so he could put his laptop screen onto the room' ...

Here's Good Magazine's chart showing which giant, high-fructose-corn-syrup megacorps own your favorite hippie organic microbrands. Link (via Lawgeek)...

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 ...

From the Berkman Center: 5/ 15/ 08-5/ 16/ 08 - Registration is now open for the culminating conference and gala of Berkman's 10th anniversary celebration. Berkman Center faculty, fellows, staff, and the community at large will participate in convers ...

Now that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has shipped in both Japan and North America, expect there to be nothing but spoiler-filled content at the official site. Sure, it's probably all old hat to you—and certainly can't match last week's update— ...

The appeal of casual games is a no-brainer at this point. Everyone can enjoy a quick game of Solitare, or while away some workplace boredom with Diner Dash. But as someone who's never really paid for any of my casual gaming fun, I was impressed by st ...

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 ...

Perhaps anticipating a major recession and a lot of time spent indoors, gamers are snapping up hardware and software at a brisk rate. Overall sales are up 34 percent in February.