03/20/08

A list of amusing restaurant names presented somewhat oddly in scholarly paper format. Pony Espresso is a coffeehouse in Wyoming, Wiener Takes All in a hot dog place in Illinois, and Wholly Mackerel is a Gulf Coast seafood place. (link)

Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down is the latest is a series of dispatches from Rosecrans Baldwin during his Parisian residence. "So who would win in a fight," the Welshman asked me, "New York or Los Angeles?"It took me a second. "Los Ang ...

The Desire Paths Flickr pool. Desire paths are improvised paths built collectively by pedestrians trying to find the shortest way across the grass, like ants laying down pheromone trails to food. I've heard of some clever institutions who wait for de ...

It's been awhile since the last conversation about gender diversity at web conferences. Here's a particularly high profile example of more of the same: Google's just-announced Web Forward conference appears to have a single woman speaker out of 38 to ...

Rent Vs. Buy Myths That Ruined the Housing Market. Myth #1: Renting is Like Throwing Your Money AwayBuyers throw their money away for the first five years they own a home, because they simply give money to the bank for the privilege of borrowing mon ...

nelson : "Stained blue dress day" - The press stoops to a new low, pinpointing Hillary Clinton's whereabouts the day her husband ejaculated on someone else's clothing Tags : clintons media politics press scandal sex

nelson : Good Paris / Bad Paris - Amusing expat diary Tags : expat france paris via:kottke

veen : The Origin Of The iChat UI – Thought Palace - "Drawn in ClarisWorks, April 21, 1997." Tags : design history mac software

Greg Storey : On style sheets for mobile use. - Nice work Dave. Tags : Development

Rod Begbie : Twitter / zefrank - Ze Frank is causing splendid hijinx on Twitter. Let's go Sepia Team! Tags : twitter zefrank

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"20+ years later the Unix shell is still the fastest way to get work done on a bunch of files." You learn a new trick every day, I tell ya...

"Yahoo has a rich history of supporting open standards, such as OpenID and Apache Hadoop" evasive...

yeah, this bugs the shit out of me too

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

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This audio post revisits The Four Disciplines of Content Management from last November. I add quite a bit, and elaborate on a lot of the points, and babble on and on about content management. Whether or not that’s a good thing is all a matter ...

I can’t believe it, I finally know how a sewing machine works. I have never understood this. It was just…magic.

Slate's Emily Bazelon and Dr. Sydney Spiesel discuss children's health and parenting. In this episode, the health benefits of whole grain foods¿and how to get your kids to eat them.

It seems like not too long ago The Sims 2 came out. I loved the series back in The Sims 1, but The Sims 2 never really felt the same.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A peering dispute between Telia and Cogent is causing routing and connectivity problems for many internet users. Cogent shut down their connections to Telia over what they described as a 'contract dispute ...

Stony Stevenson writes "A day after it was released for public download, Windows Vista SP1 is drawing barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems. 'I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third pa ...

walterbyrd writes "Bender's Big Score is just getting set to air on Comedy Central, but already Fox has announced that the next straight-to-DVD Futurama film/ series is coming in June. The title? 'The Beast with a Billion Backs.' 'In what Fox is call ...

Mike writes "Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about an 'all you can eat' model for buying music that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devi ...

MozeeToby writes "The Columbus Dispatch is reporting on a criminal investigation currently being performed in Franklin County Ohio. It seems several voting machines listed a candidate as withdrawn from the race when in fact he wasn't. By the time the ...

sdedeo writes "Less known than he deserves to be among American science fiction readers is Iain M. Banks. In his native United Kingdom, Banks' work is released in hardcover at the front of bookshops; here, those seeking his science fiction work, at l ...

President Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war Wednesday as U.S. troops began a sixth year of combat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency. Bush conceded the war has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insi ...

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the "wise men" of the European Union in a new audio message late Wednesday, slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and vowing a strong reaction.

Protesters blocked traffic and government buildings in Washington, acted out a Baghdad street scene in Syracuse, N.Y., and banged drums in a parade through San Francisco on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

President Bush famously spoke of "the Internets" in 2004. Well, they're here.

Many people now create and share content on the Internet or blend services from various sites in their daily tasks, reflecting the medium's clear evolution from a place for simply consuming Web sites.

LiveScience.com - News of politicians' extramarital affairs seems to be in no short supply lately, but if humans were cut from exactly the same cloth as other mammals, a faithful spouse would be an unusual phenomenon.

AFP - Chinese Olympic organisers are rushing to renovate bathrooms at flagship Olympic venues after complaints about a lack of western-style sit-down toilets, an official said Wednesday.

Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon.

Two sisters from Virginia who are selling a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois on eBay say the online auction Web site canceled their listing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq despite the "high cost in lives and treasure" and declared that the United States was on track for victory.

Those of us unfortunate enough to both use the internet and retain some modicum of taste are no doubt familiar with the internet catchphrase: generally a moderately amusing (though not always) twist on normal English grammar that then gets repeated a ...

President George W Bush marks the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion with a speech hailing its success.

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 ...

Bloggers understand the value of group therapy sessions. Tell your problems to the whole world and they magically go away! But what if your "issues" go beyond the usual psycho head case stuff? What if it's some sort of physical problem? Well, group s ...

Google Spreadsheets as part of the Google Docs suite added several new features; better revisions comparison through color highlights, change notifications, and a Google spreadsheet gadgets directory. (Auto-completion of values in cells may also be n ...

The Google Japan homepage was redesigned, as some of you are seeing it (and as the Google Japan blog reports). Perhaps this only shows in some locations -- I can't see it yet -- but Colin Colehour posted some screenshots in the forum. As far as I can ...

A list of amusing restaurant names presented somewhat oddly in scholarly paper format. Pony Espresso is a coffeehouse in Wyoming, Wiener Takes All in a hot dog place in Illinois, and Wholly Mackerel is a Gulf Coast seafood place. (link)

After weeks of criticism from YouTube commenters, the creator of the popular fan-made "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" video finally pulled it offline. (It's still mirrored here.) On March 7, YouTube administrators removed it from its #1 spot on the ranki ...

Looking for a new outdoor hobby? There's always recreational gold prospecting. If you live in Washington State, check out Bedrock Prospectors. If not, no worries, there's gold all over the United States and Australia. Probably elsewhere too, it's wid ...

As part of Won't You Be My Neighbor? Days in Pittsburgh, and in honor of what would've been Fred Rogers' 80th birthday, Mr. McFeely is requesting that you wear your favorite sweater on March 20. "It doesn't have to be like the one Mr. Rogers wo ...

The owners of the domain donotreply.com get a lot of mail.

"Using information provided earlier about their weekly routine, the photographer will arrive on the scene, and unseen, take shots of the subject." This is what Izaz Rony of Methodizaz says he can do for you for several hundred bucks. Or, ...

Dear Abby.

The war is super awesome popular now, with a new poll only showing that people who think it was worth it has surged (ha ha!) to 29%, from a recent low of 25%.

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...

I had so many thoughts after Obama's speech yesterday, but none of them were organized enough to write. Today maybe a few are. — — 1. I don't think it's going to change anyone's mind. If you supported Obama before, you probably still do, ...

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.... coffee without telling the interwebz. 13:57 post-lunch coma 14:15 the cute dude in class just said he likes Comic Sans. is no longer crush. 14:37 have located butterscotch candy. 19:51 am utterly devoid of any more brain activity. am mush. T ...

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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 ...

fiction written and designed for Google Maps, from the creators of Perplex City  

the opposite of RickrollDB, great for pranks  

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and 40% comes from a single source; good luck shutting it down, though  

telenapping with your loved one  

like a drunken goat-bot funded by DARPA  

impressive shots taken at night; full set on Flickr  

From Book of Joe: "A British businessman fed up with being targeted by vandals has installed a 30-foot Roman-style catapult on the premises to hurl bucket loads of chicken manure at culprits attacking his rural offices." A 30ft Roman catapult, loaded ...

Copyfighters in Tennessee have scored a massive win, defanging a crappy, RIAA-written state bill: SB3974 is a Bill written by the RIAA, and sponsored by Knoxville Sen. Tim Burchett, that forces any institution of "higher learning" to monitor all ...

Compfight is a great new tool that uses Flickr's API to search the database of photos (including the option to do full-text search on titles and descriptions, and to limit searches to Creative Commons licensed works only) and then feeds back the resu ...

The iCommons Summit will be in Sapporo, Japan this year. I'll post more about this event later. We'll all be there and you shouldn't miss it. We're asking for submissions for ideas for sessions now so if you want to propose something, follow the ins ...

Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist for the Boston Globe, is angry at Obama and at those who cheered his speech. We (I not only cheered, I wept) are guilty of accepting a double standard because, says Jacoby, if our clergyman had said the hateful t ...

Spoiler alert! Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw doesn't like Turok. But instead of editorially ripping that game a new one, this episode of Zero Punctuation simply uses it as an example of everything that's wrong with console first person shooters. Not the leas ...

Gameloft has just announced CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Mobile Game which they will be releasing in cooperation with CBS. In the game, players will be investigating the seedy side of Las Vegas (does it have a non-seedy side?) and will receiv ...

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 ...

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles launches an action RPG revival, as a PC game makes genocide fun and a PSP title reinvents rhythm games.