03/16/08

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)

nelson : XNA / Xbox 360 connect - How to download homebrew code to your console Tags : games homebrew xbox xbox360 xna

wearehugh : Published | fsdaily.com - Free Software News - look ma, a digg just for me Tags : clone community digg freesoftware

joshua : dvtm || dynamic virtual terminal manager - like screen but cooler? Tags : unix

deusx : DojoCampus » Blog Archive » Creating Your Own $ - "The bling, one of the best global variables in JavaScript. A tool which has come to mean, as a function, a way to locate a node or set of nodes." Tags : bling dojo javascript webd ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview: Live From the Imperial Palace - Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview: Live From the Imperial Palace: nice pics! Tags : links

"Who's the dumbass at Scion who thinks that the majority of young, urban, design-minded trendsetter types are using Internet Explorer let alone Windows? Seriously now."

nice pics!

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."

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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 ...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we offer an Irish smorgasbord of bad movies like Leprechauns in the Hood. Mark Jordan Legan is your guide to "The Worst Cinematic Crap That's Ever Been Made."

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 ...

An anonymous reader writes "The folks on wikileaks have published a new interesting and shocking report: FBI Electronic Surveillance Needs for Carrier-Grade Voice over Packet (CGVoP) Service. The 88 paged document, which is part of the CALEA Implemen ...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Recommended reading for all interested in the RIAA's litigation war against p2p file sharing is the amended class action complaint just filed in Oregon in Andersen v. Atlantic. This landmark 109-page document (pdf) tells ...

theodp writes "What could be more annoying than having ads precede online videos? How about having commercials interrupt the videos? That's the premise behind a newly-published Google patent application for Using Viewing Signals in Targeted Video Adv ...

Vlad Dolezal writes "We tell people we use Linux because it's secure. Or because it's free, because it's customizable, because it has excellent community support... But all of that is just marketing BS. We tell that to non-Linux users because they wo ...

Ant writes "There are spectacular moments, as well as the mundane, in space. Over the years, living in space has forced astronauts to make a few concessions to things you would not give a second thought about when staying at a hotel/ motel. The artic ...

Steve Kerrison writes "With the power of CPUs ever-increasing and the number of cores in a system increasing too, having a supercomputer sat under your desk is no longer a pipe dream. But generally speaking, the extreme high end of modern computing c ...

Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet's capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddh ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it would be damaging to the Democratic party for its leaders to buck the will of national convention delegates picked in primaries and caucuses, a declaration that gives a boost to Sen. Barack Obama.

A crane mounted to the side of a skyscraper under construction toppled with a roar Saturday, smashing into a block of apartment buildings, killing at least four people and setting off a scramble for survivors in the rubble.

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.

Craigslist should not be held liable for discriminatory housing ads posted on the popular Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

BusinessWeek Online - A year ago, Jeff Shea began buying up rental properties around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he had only recently graduated with a business major. Shea, 23, who lives in Chicago, owns three rental ho ...

Reuters - It is the one moment every man wants to get right -- and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.

Cat haters, nevermind: The tiny town of Randolph has rescinded a $5 bounty on feral feline.

An 83-year-old great-grandmother thwarted a would-be purse snatcher with a gas nozzle and an iron grip.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China gave Tibetan independence protesters an ultimatum to surrender on Saturday after riots in Lhasa which killed at least 10 people in the worst unrest in the region for two decades.

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 five people are killed and 200 are injured in a series of blasts at an arms depot near Tirana.

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 ...

A look back at the week that was ... · If there's one good thing we can say about Eliot Spitzer it's that the man knows how to go out with a bang. — · Don't give up that dream of you and Tera Patrick on a deserted island just yet. ...

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 ...

The Fourteen Principles of Engaged Buddhism. The Eightfold Path. The Five Moral Precepts. The Four Noble Truths

Hillary Clinton's senior thesis is available online. (pdf) How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and Rush Race between Clinton and Obama surfaces radically different views of politics, citizens' roles

Finnish supermarket dominoes. (6 1/ 2 minute SLYT post)

If you had HBO in the 80's, you saw this every night at 8pm. HBO put together a brief behind-the-scenes featurette showing everything from the construction of the models to the composition of the music.

— That's how Grover Norquist memorably said the federal government should be. That the government also does useful things which would go down the drain of that mythical bathtub is often forgotten. For instance, the FDA might want to test all h ...

Boehlert on another media atrocity.(And I hope they're going to post video of the Winter Soldier witnesses, because it's really impressive stuff.)Signed,Not Atrios

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...

Orlando Lima: "[Geraldine Ferraro] theorized that a self-made black guy with a Muslim name has a political advantage over a white woman who is the wife of a two-term President." — — I was reading along until I came to this bit. — &# ...

I did a 20-minute interview this morning with ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick about FriendFeed and related tools. — — sundaygang.com/ dave/ kirkpatrickInterview.mp3 — — You can receive these MP3s in your podcatcher by su ...

.... experiences, helps students learn. As it connects to their emotions, which are highly intense during the middle years, and helps cerement the learning experience in students memory by connecting to already existing knowledge. Authored by kmulq ...

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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 ...

finally, blowing in the cart will actually do something  

not an April 1 joke, as suspected; any idea how to enable cliply?  

don't miss the Victorian hate mail at the end  

keep this in mind during the 2008 election  

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  

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has told the US government to "shove" its list of countries that "sponsor terror," daring the US to place Venezuela on the list: President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of cou ...

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that rejects immunity for telephone companies that helped the NSA conduct illegal, warrantless wiretaps of the entire nation. Included in the bill is a call for a commission with subpoena power ...

Lynn sez, "Apparently a replica of a prop in an upcoming Sky One adaptation of the Colour of Magic, containing all the Discworld books and some production drawings. All signed by Terry. All money raised from the auction will go to the Alzheimer's Res ...

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 ...

Eric Lease Morgan has a good post (from a couple of weeks ago) about the Open Library project's developers meeting. Such interesting questions... (Open Library wants to give every book its own home page to accrete metadata, and, of course, make all t ...

The Cyberathlete Professional League has become the latest pro-gaming operation to close its doors. The organization announced that it had ceased operations on March 13, canceling all currently schedule events. The official statement cites "the curr ...

Jason Rohrer, designer of weird little artistic diversions Passage and Gravitation, has a new column over at The Escapist focusing on prototyping and game design; each month will have a new discussion of a (playable) prototype. I love prototyping di ...

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 ...

At Playboy's Rock the Rabbit party at South by Southwest, Moby, French electronica duo Justice, Brooklyn rockers MGMT and the United Kingdom's The Heavy are brought in to entertain the revelers. Angela Watercutter reports on the musical vibe at the ...