03/21/08

Paul Ford has plans to make a better TV show than The Wire, "set in even worse parts of Baltimore". I'll use cave paintings as the model for my series. Omar will chase mammoths through the streets and Carcetti will wear a robe made from a wolf and B ...

Posts from the International Association of Time Travelers forum. At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's ...

A list of foods that were unknown in Europe in the Middle Ages. A good resource for Renaissance Faire planners. (link)

You can see it coming...just like in 1999/ 2000, the failure of all these shitty businesses built on sand will be blamed on an economic downturn and not that companies who make widgets for Facebook are not worth anything close to $500,000,000. (link) ...

If you tell photographer Izaz Rony where you'll be at a particular time, he'll come and take your picture without you knowing it. Using information provided earlier about their weekly routine, the photographer will arrive on the scene, and unseen, t ...

adamrg : The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch - The turkey neck, liver spots, and old man ankles ruin the transformation. Creepy! Tags : culture economics fashion sideblog weird

Andy Baio : Interview with Paul Ford on his 763 six-word SXSW reviews - organ is spackle for the music world

Andy Baio : Fake's You Are Not Dead, A Guide to Modern Living - free filmic album and book, both interesting and worth experiencing

factoryjoe : Social Graph: Shifting Toward Quality « The Real McCrea - Discussion of the improving texture of the social graph. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: plaxo, social graph, xfn

factoryjoe : Plaxo's Personal Card: "Open" is Good for Business (Part II); The Rise of a "True" Social Graph - "Well, I am pleased to announce that the trend that got kick-started with a PR surge did, indeed, end up sustaining. ...

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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

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

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Today’s post is about load-bearing walls in content management — those things that require a content editor to call a developer to change them. Where do you draw the boundaries? How much is too much? Like yesterday, if you're looking ...

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 ...

Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, gives counsel to a woman whose live-in boyfriend can't wake up without hitting the snooze alarm button over and over and over again.

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.

Large cell service providers won almost all of the licenses in the recently concluded FCC spectrum auction. Google didn't get any and won't be entering the wireless business. Verizon Wireless was the big winner, laying out $9.4 billion for enough reg ...

Valor1016 writes "Researchers in California have developed an artificial muscle that heals itself and generates electricity. 'We've made an artificial muscle that, when you apply electricity to it, it expands, more than 200 percent, the motion and en ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "There are new rules to follow for any NB that wishes to change their vote on OOXML after the lack of resolution at the recent Ballot Resolution Meeting. After comparing it to previous instructions, it see ...

Spuddly writes with links to Daniel Philips and his work on the Ramback patch, and an analysis of it by Jonathan Corbet up on LWN. The experimental new design for Linux's virtual memory system would turn a large amount of system RAM into a fast RAM d ...

arbitraryaardvark writes "A new mathematical object has been discovered by Bristol University student Ce Bian. The Riemann hypothesis, unproven since 1859, has to do with the distribution of primes and something called L-functions. Bian has demonstra ...

Pickens writes "A bill presented by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to the Maryland House of Delegates would criminalize purposely surfing the Internet on someone else's wireless connection. The bill would make intentional unauthorized access to another ...

Barack Obama blamed the Iraq war for higher oil prices and skyrocketing debt Thursday as he sought to tie the unpopular war to the slumping economy in working-class West Virginia.

Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands.

A battle over Hillary Rodham Clinton's record as first lady broke out on two fronts Thursday, as a federal judge stepped into a dispute over the handling of still-unreleased Clinton phone logs and Barack Obama's campaign challenged her record on trad ...

Scroll the list of the 10 most popular Web sites in the U.S., and you'll encounter the Internet's richest corporate players — names like Yahoo, Amazon.com, News Corp., Microsoft and Google.

At first, it sounded like another in a long line of credit card breaches: Up to 4.2 million account numbers were stolen by thieves who cracked computers at Hannaford Bros. Co., an Eastern supermarket chain.

Reuters - An eagle ray leaped onto a boat off the Florida Keys on Thursday and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her, a Florida wildlife investigator said.

LiveScience.com - More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless.

Union officials in Colorado say a Qwest supervisor tried to cut down on lengthy bathroom breaks by telling workmen to use disposable urinal bags in the field.

It didn't look quite right to federal agents when the high school student strolled into the U.S. border crossing while carrying six enormous cans of vegetables.

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a second economic stimulus package on Thursday as a new poll showed her maintaining her lead over Barack Obama among Democrats.

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 ...

China admits for the first time that police injured Tibetan demonstrators, during a protest near a monastery.

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 ...

Sorry if you noticed some sluggishness (or non-existence) with our front page today. Our behind the scenes technology gnomes tell us that our server machines were a little tied up this afternoon. We don't know exactly what that means, but we think th ...

Google has just released a new AJAX API which allows developers to easily add machine translation capabilities to their websites. Using the Google AJAX Language API, you can detect the language of a piece text and translate it into any of the support ...

Just for fun.

Paul Ford has plans to make a better TV show than The Wire, "set in even worse parts of Baltimore". I'll use cave paintings as the model for my series. Omar will chase mammoths through the streets and Carcetti will wear a robe made from a wolf and B ...

"This is not language. This chart is a fucking lie."Anil Dash, Battledecks 2008 A few years ago, I wrote an entry about knee-jerk contrarians on the Internet: those delightful people who find fault in anything and everything, dismissing months or ye ...

Great Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound)

60 Brilliant Typefaces (for corporate design) plus 40 free ones. From Smashing Magazine (prev), which last year presented 80 Beautiful Typefaces for Professional Design Well I like them

Dual cassette deck DJ. DJ Ramsey of Scottsdale, Arizona does with cassettes what DJ's have done for decades with vinyl records, CDs and mp3s.

"Now when I screw up, people from all over Charlotte mindlessly come to Belk looking for Magic Johnson." Thee entertaining screw-ups from author and sports columnist Joe Posnanski. Via Romenesko. Previous post on Posnanski.

They really are stupid things.

Joe Klein on CNN just now:Maybe the operative metaphor here isn't drowning but a giant stingray landing in Obama's boat.Always classy, that one....For those not living in cable news hell, the big story of the day is a stingray leaping onto a boat and ...

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...

Hello! — — I wrote a comment on a post on Phil Windley's blog earlier today which I ended saying perhaps we should all just disclaim up front that we're racists, and then go ahead and say what we have to say about race. — — I ...

First, I point to Wikipedia pages often here on Scripting News and on Twitter. I also find it a useful personal resource. For example, I'm working my way through Battlestar Galactica and I find it helpful to read the summary of each episode after I'v ...

.... Miss Whyte has some great stuff on her blog. Take a look at www.misswhyte.edublog.org Authored by zthom. Hosted by Edublogs. ....

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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 ...

Alf is my co-pilot; I love that Mena's back  

free filmic album and book, both interesting and worth experiencing  

organ is spackle for the music world  

the most powerful and important document I've read in a very long time  

more complicated than I thought  

as suspected, games are currently being worked on around it  

now let's go camping!  

My friend Anne Sanger was trained as a fashion designer, but these she days helps fashion companies integrate digital technology into the design process. (That occurs much less frequently than you might think.) Anne is also a talented illustrator, an ...

A woman in the Florida Keys died today when a stingray jumped from the water and stung knocked her down as she was sunbathing on a boat. Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, reportedly fell backward and died of head trauma. From CBS4.com: "It's a common behavior f ...

My old friend Barnaby Whitfield has a new solo show of pastel paintings opening tonight at New York City's 31GRAND gallery. The exhibition, titled "Little Deaths, All The Same," runs through April 19. Above left, "The Truth Won't Save You Now (The Sk ...

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 ...

Gene Koo has a terrific post that looks at the Christian themes woven into Obama's speech on race.[Tags: obama politics christianity ]

Last week's Japanese software chart champ Yakuza 3 Kenzan! was knocked down by Nintendo's latest training game, showing that the stylus is mightier than the sword. DS Bimoji Training brings calligraphy skill assessment to the Nintendo DS, giving Nint ...

The Media Molecule folks updated their blog yesterday from Mm Towers (I wonder if that's what I can see from the top of our parapet?). They say that they've been working hard on LittleBigPlanet pushing it toward Alpha. Toward mind you, as in it's not ...

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

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India is well-known for delicious food, and the kitchen is considered to be a sacred place in any Indian home. And now India has something else to be proud of: the world's largest solar kitchen. The system has been installed as a collaboration betw ...

WAILUKU - A resolution urging a hold on research involving genetic modification of taro was advanced Wednesday by the County Council Public Works and Facilities Committee. The resolution supports a bill pending before the state Legislature that woul ...

Murder defendant says he was looking to rent a storage locker to stash his car following his wife's disappearance.