03/17/08

New trailer for Speed Racer...watch it in full HD glory if your internet connection can take it. The courses remind me even more of Mario Kart than in the first trailer. (link)

We've heard from the sex workers about the Spitzer affair. Now the psychologists. This article compiles many ideas about why Spitzer did what he did: Psychologist Christopher Ryan, author of "Sex in Prehistory," says the desire for sex with more tha ...

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 ...

joshua : Embedding lua inside your C/ C++ code Tags : dev lua

deusx : Ann Arbor's public library is a beacon of progress « Jon Udell - "On the Ann Arbor public library's website you can find a wonderful example of how two local institutions – the library and the police department – can work togeth ...

joshua : KinoSearch benchmarks - huh, almost as good as java lucene Tags : dev ir

nelson : sparse sets - Clever data structure for very efficiently working with spare sets Tags : algorithms code computerscience datastructures via:metafilter

Simon Willison : dojox.gfx demos - dojox.gfx demos. Impressive demos of the Dojo 2D drawing APIs–these need to be linked from the dojo site, it took me quite a while to find them.

"A year ago, I wouldn't have believed Zawodny. As you might have sensed over the past few months, however, my views on Yahoo! and open source have changed..."

"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."

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Tujio - Call of Duty 4 Gun Sounds Remix: This is really quite awesome. How does someone think something like this up? And then be able to execute it this well?

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 ...

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 ...

mrogers writes "British police want to collect DNA samples from children as young as five who 'exhibit behavior indicating they may become criminals in later life'. A spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers argued that since some schoo ...

Screaming Cactus writes "Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the site. 'Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for education and business but use online fil ...

psychosmyth writes "Microsoft's deal to Yahoo! is apparently back on the table. Yahoo execs met again with Microsoft early this past week to re-discuss the deal that fell through earlier. 'The gathering, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, gav ...

Shuntros writes "BBC News is reporting progress from scientists at Harvard Medical School towards strangling the growth of cancer cells. By starving cells of a certain type of enzyme, growth essentially ceases. 'The fact that proliferating cancer are ...

Boiled Frog from a Nation of Suspects writes "The Oyster card, an RFID single-swipe card (which was recently cracked), was introduced to London's public transport users purportedly to make their lives easier. Now, British Intelligence services want s ...

esocid tips us to news out of Duke University Medical Center, where researchers have discovered a type of microRNA that is related to the ability of zebrafish to regenerate lost or damaged organs. This is the result of a study initiated after it was ...

JPMorgan Chase says it will acquire rival Bear Stearns for $2 a share.

Violence in Tibet spilled over into neighboring provinces Sunday where Tibetan protesters defied a Chinese government crackdown. The Dalai Lama warned Tibet faced "cultural genocide" and appealed to the world for help.

Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for a visit with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials.

Frank Harper is well aware that all those free video clips on the Internet come at a price: advertising.

One of the great things about the Internet is the way people post reviews on just about anything you're considering trying, whether it's a movie, a new restaurant or the local florist.

Reuters - Horst Rippert, an 88-year old former pilot of Germany's Luftwaffe, has said in a forthcoming book that he may have killed French writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1944.

Forty years after rampaging American soldiers slaughtered her family, Do Thi Tuyet returned to the place where her childhood was shattered.

A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school.

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

BEIJING (Reuters) - Rioting erupted in a province neighboring Tibet on Sunday, two days after violent protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa in which the region's exiled representatives said 80 people had been killed.

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 ...

Protests against Chinese rule spread beyond Tibet's main city of Lhasa, with deaths reported in Sichuan province.

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 ...

New trailer for Speed Racer...watch it in full HD glory if your internet connection can take it. The courses remind me even more of Mario Kart than in the first trailer. (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 ...

Sailing from Sumatra back to Fremantle in November 1941, the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney encountered a Dutch freighter off the West Australian coast. The freighter turned out to be the disguised German mercantile raider Kormoran. After an ensuin ...

An essay by Bill Lawrence, creator of "Scrubs," on why he writes. It's part of a series: "Why We Write." Other highlights include: Damon Lindelof ("Lost"), Mark Gaberman ("Jeopardy!"), Jane Espenson ("Bu ...

On Skid Row is a five part video series about Skid Row in Los Angeles from GOOD Magazine. Introduction, Kids, Drugs, God, Afterword via y2karl's earlier via

Thomas Jefferson so wanted to fix what he thought was wrong with religion that he rewrote the Bible. He went through and cut out the parts that he liked most and pasted it to a fifth volume. He cut out Miracles. He cut out the Christmas story. He c ...

Scott Horton:The Administration attempted to sell the event as a routine personnel turn-over. But Congress and the public weren't buying. After a series of hearings at which senior members of the Administration committed acts of perjury, there was ...

Interesting.NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bear Stearns Cos Inc is hoping to announce a deal to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase & Co before Asian markets open on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, as the investment bank struggles to save itsel ...

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...

This has got to be the heaviest podcast I've ever done. It almost melted down, but it had a happy ending. — — sundaygang.com/ 003.mp3 — — Our guest this week is Chris Rabb, a blogger from Philadelphia. It was a three-way con ...

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 ...

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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  

* Above left: phonecam snapshots of protests in Amdo, Tibet, over the weekend; at right, phonecam video of the same. * According to Shanghaiist (and now, mainstream news outlets), YouTube was blocked in China over the weekend, likely because of conte ...

Forensic investigators traveled to one of the Manson Family hide-outs in Death Valley National Park to explore old rumors of other victims that may have been buried there in the late 1960s. According to the new research described in an Associated Pre ...

If you're in LA tomorrow (Monday March 17th), head on over to machine project at 8pm for "The Innermost Unifier: Today it's the Corporate Anthem," a talk/ audio performance by Johannes Grenzfurthner of Austrian art-prank-collective monochrom, who h ...

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 ...

Well, sort of. It's started a "delete-o-meter" that lists the number of deleted comments, but not their content. This post explains why comments are deleted. The TSA blog seems to be shaping up admirably. Some of it is pretty fluffy (e.g., a post ...

Talk about variety! The Rainbow Six team are back, joining a super budget re-release of the first three Metal Gear Solid games, making tactical action a big factor in this week's releases. On the casual sports side, Sega's mascot-heavy tennis game sh ...

I think I still have handfuls of Digimon cell phone charms given out by some Taiwanese convenience store chain lurking in a suitcase, but in case you prefer your Digimon experience to be on your computer and not dangling off your cell phone, CDC Game ...

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 last year's South by Southwest, gossip blogger Perez Hilton was just a spectator. This year, Hilton is a key player in the music industry as he plays host at one of SXSW's more coveted parties.