03/18/08

Tyler Cowen has a short review of Peter Moskos' book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District. This is one of the two or three best conceptual analyses of "cops and robbers" I have read. It is mandatory reading for all fans o ...

This week's New Yorker has a profile of David Chang, chef/ owner of the Momofuku family of restaurants. The profile isn't online but Ed Levine has a nice write-up with some quotes. Just because we're not Per Se, just because we're not Daniel, just b ...

Interesting gallery of Freakonomics book covers from around the world. I enjoyed the Turkish version -- "just put a hot chick on the cover" -- and the Penguin UK version. (link)

NY Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman wrote a paper when he was an assistant professor in 1978 called The Theory of Interstellar Trade. Here's the abstract: This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chi ...

The Virginia Quarterly Review analyzed their poetry submissions for use of poetic cliches and found that the cliches do get published more often than not. Also of note is that "darkness" is an undervalued poetic cliche...it was in only 4% of submitte ...

factoryjoe : Yahoo Buzz is a Game Changer for Social Media; And Spells Trouble for Digg! - ReadWriteWeb - "Digg's own users won't abandon digg for Buzz, that isn't the issue here. But this looks to be a case of the social media pie ...

factoryjoe : Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com - News.com offers a handy color-coded threat level system for protecting your data at international border ...

joshua : YouTube - Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008) - hello, the uncanny valley called, they want their scary dog robot back Tags : robo

Cameron Moll : Twitter, the story and storyteller - Jason Santa Maria on, among other things, the impact Twitter had on blogging and Flickring at SXSW (and the impact in general, I'd add). "Twitter really became the story and storyteller of the confe ...

Linkorama : As I was saying - The international community entered stage left; where blogging and publishing had siloed, twitterers created a ballpark wave that followed the sun westward as news developed. By noon Pacific, the shape of the news was ha ...

"If you’re live blogging an event, you’re missing the event in favour of giving instant reaction."

"When it comes to reaping benefits from Open Source efforts, no one comes close to Google."

"People should stop accepting meetings which they don’t have interest in."

"But it’s clear that a link from Yahoo.com blows away anything Digg or any other competitor can offer."

"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..."

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Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex And Politics: Ever wonder what stars think about all the stuff written about them on the Internet? Well, this is one of the most simply inventive things I’ve seen in a while: Esquire sat George Cl ...

Dusting Off the Archive for the Web: Sports Illustrated is following the lead of the New York TImes and putting everything they ever wrote — all 53 year’s worth — on the Web for free. Their old content is a huge asset in terms of t ...

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."

On Saturday we took my Dad to the hospital and he's still there. We still don't know for sure what's going on, but at least he's in the care of the hospital. He's in need of prayer, I'm trying to cope with this and I'm missing him. It's hard to focus ...

eldavojohn writes "A settlement has been reached in the Verizon GPLv2 violation suit. The now famous BusyBox developers, Erick Andersen and Rob Landley, will receive an undisclosed sum from subcontractor Actiontec Electronics. 'Actiontec supplied Ver ...

yukster writes "As Ruby on Rails rocketed into the development community's hearts and minds a few years ago, the number of books on the subject climbed with it. However, a lot of these books were introductory in nature (Agile Web Development with Rai ...

WirePosted writes to mention that a new highly efficient microchip has been announced by researchers from MIT and Texas Instruments. The new chip touts up to 10 times more energy efficiency than current generation chips. "One key to the new chip desi ...

MachineShedFred writes "The Supreme Court of the United States has announced that it will be hearing the FCC's appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that the FCC has changed its policy on fleeting expletives without adequate expla ...

CNet's Green Tech Blog is reporting that Detroit Electric plans to release a small number of cars based around a car designed nearly 100 years ago. Detroit Electric is a joint venture between Santa Rosa, CA-based electric transportation specialist, Z ...

buzzardsbay writes "Baseline is reporting on an upcoming survey from Symantec and Applied Research-West that confirms many suspicions about the generation gap in the workplace, namely that younger workers will use your corporate network to run most a ...

Florida Democrats have abandoned plans to redo the presidential primary with a mostly mail-in vote.

A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.

After a weekend of campaign adversity, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband separately prodded Democratic Party leaders on Monday to look beyond mere delegate strength in picking a presidential nominee at this summer's national convention.

A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced Monday.

The European Union on Monday chose a mobile TV broadcast standard and suggested that its member governments now ask cell carriers to favor it.

Arrogance is a common vice in presidential politics. A person must be more than a little self-important to wake up one day and say, "I belong in the Oval Office."

Oil prices plunged Monday, pulling back at least temporarily from record levels as investors feared that the financial crisis that forced the sale of Bear Stearns Cos. is a sign of deep economic trouble.

A Monroe County sheriff's detective on a stakeout to catch an arsonist arrested the suspect as he tried to steal gas from the officer's cruiser. Officers were placed around homes currently under construction after police had gotten two arson complain ...

Amber Birdsall didn't have a long birthday wish list. All she wanted in exchange for turning 7, she told her inquiring mother a few weeks ago, was for her stepfather, Army Spc. Glenn Johnson, to return home from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he had bee ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on the eve of an expected U.S. interest rate cut aimed at preventing a meltdown of the financial system.

"Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young fragile democracies--and older, fragile authoritarian regimes." - Paul A. Samuelson Since Taiwan, the "democratic entity" also known as the Republic of China, claims reluctant sovereignty over th ...

Stock markets across the globe slump in reaction to the emergency rescue of Bear Stearns.

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 ...

Food gets people horny. It's a documented fact. That's why guys offer to cook women dinner in an effort to get into their pants. However, if you actually want to eat the dinner, you must lock the woman out of the kitchen during food preparation time ...

If you create a new document with Google Docs and edit it for a while, different snapshots of your document will be saved into the revision history for this document. Perhaps at some point you consider your document to be in a state where you want to ...

China blocked access to Google-owned YouTube during the current unrests among those fighting for more Tibet independence, several sources report. YouTube is currently hosting many clips on the issue with user reports, as a search for e.g. lhasa prote ...

Tyler Cowen has a short review of Peter Moskos' book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District. This is one of the two or three best conceptual analyses of "cops and robbers" I have read. It is mandatory reading for all fans o ...

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 ...

Michael Bierut Talks Typography with †˜The Atlantic' "In a video interview with The Atlantic, Michael Beirut talks about typography, including Stanley Kubrick's favorite font, the cover design of The Catcher in the Rye, and the link between ...

50 Animals with Drinking Problems Also, 50 Animals with Day Jobs, 50 Animals Driving, and the apparently related 50 Animals in Casts [Previously] Via

The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem: "Software like 'Bugsplat' is supposed to keep decapitation attacks precise. So why do we keep blowing up Iraqi wedding parties?" Globalization Bush-style: Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to S ...

While your enjoying your beer why not watch some Irish Drinking Songs such as: Drink the Night Away, Old Dun Cow, Johnny Jump-Up, and Another Irish Drinking Song. And for any inebriated geeks out there tonight, A Jedi Drinking Song, and the Prequel

A plan.Darcy Burner (WA-8), Chellie Pingree (ME-1), Donna Edwards (MD-4), Jared Polis (CO-2), Tom Perriello (VA-5) and Sam Bennett (PA-15) will be in attendance at the unveiling of a detailed strategy document at the Take Back America Conference in W ...

enjoy.

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...

Last week race became the issue in the election of 2008. — — Of course some people would say, and they're probably right, that it was always the issue, but it came to the surface last week. I won't try to speak for them, I'll just speak f ...

Negative review of iPhone dev program.  — —

.... is! It is FULL of action and twists and turns at the most unexpected times. I dont want to spoil anything but it has an UNREAL ending, i reckon one of his best books! Untill next time, Your pal, Luke Saunders  Authored by reillymaniac. H ...

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You're about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out. It'll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon tea at your grandmother's and wrapped the Must ...

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 ...

from the Czech studio that made Samorost, a lovely game for kids commissioned by the BBC; walkthrough  

don't miss the rest of NPR's coverage, too  

a massive outpouring of creativity; AdBlock users will need to whitelist the page  

even more here and here  

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  

Our pals at GAMA-GO, creators of the Boing Boing hoodie, have released a slew of new styles. (The BB/ GG hoodie is also still available but very few remain in the most popular sizes.) These new hoodies are available in limited numbers and each one ha ...

Hedonia has a short biography and art gallery of prolific illustrator Richard Powers, whose style defined the look of science fiction paperbacks in the 1950s an 1960s. Ian Ballantine was the first publisher to recognize [Richard] Powers' genius. Ball ...

Funny stuff from the Panopticist: Late last year a Finnish media artist named Santeri Ojala got a lot of attention for a series of hilarious YouTube videos in which he lifted concert footage of various guitar heroes and overdubbed his own intentional ...

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 ...

Google is almost done scanning books at Harvard. Of the 15 million books in the Harvard collections, Google is only scanning one million because it's excluded any protected by copyright or that are too fragile, too big, or too small to be scanned.[T ...

Alright, who isn't on Steam at this point? We can add Epic Games to the list, as the developer announced (with the help of Valve) that its catalog has come to Steam. Everything Unreal and Unreal Tournament is now available via legal digital distribut ...

Ratchet: Quest for Booty? Lair: Diabolical Dragons? The Last Guy? A Resistance 2 trailer next month? Those releases are rumored to be hitting the PlayStation Store this spring and summer, according to the above pic going 'round the internet today. It ...

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

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For Juice This! Hideous Beast aided fellow graduate student Kermit Gilbert in promoting his self-help DVD, Juicer. For this event, we set up a table for juicing various food products that were offered to the audience as samples. The juicer and blend ...

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 ...

Joe Nacchio, convicted last year of insider trading, receives a new trial because the judge wrongly excluded testimony important to his defense.