03/22/08

Photos of people in their beds by Thierry Bouet. Dumb Flash interface alert: click on "au lit" to see the beds. (thx, juliette) (link)

The play Tristan and Isolde has had more than its fair share of mishaps over the years. The current engagement of the play at the Met has been through 4 Tristans already. (link)

Ed Boyden on How to Think "in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure". Make your mistakes quickly. You may mess things up o ...

Mike Johnston on the camera he would like to own, a decisive moment digital (DMD) camera. So there you have it: a small, light, unobtrusive carry-around camera with great handling and world-class responsiveness, capable of being used in all manner o ...

There Will Be Vader, a mashup of There Will Be Blood and Star Wars, with Daniel Plainview playing the part of Vader. (via house next door) (link)

nelson : N+ devs on XBLA quality - Trashing all the crappy Xbox Live games Tags : games n+ xbla xbox xbox360

Rod Begbie : Will This Judd Apatow Movie Be Any Good? Vulture Does the Math - It's just simple science. Superbad > Anchorman > Talladega Nights Tags : comedy juddapatow SCIENCE!

philgyford : Daf Yomi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "... a daily regimen undertaken to study the Babylonian Talmud one folio (a daf consists of both sides of the page) each day." Would take 7.5 years. (via Haddock) Tags : book books ...

factoryjoe : CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting - CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community. Saved By: Chris Messina | ...

factoryjoe : OPSN - Open Portable Social Network - "OPSN is an Open Portable Social Network protocol and a reference implementation prototype. The prototype will be implemented as an open source project in Microsoft ASP.NET." Save ...

"I still don’t see what adding video brings to Flickr."

so pine is now alpine... sort of.

come work with Rasmus!

more is more!

"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...

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

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

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Kite-Assisted Cargo Ship Successfully Completes Maiden Voyage: We discussed the idea of a kite-assisted ship a few years ago here. Well, a ship has actually made a trans-Atlantic voyage assisted by one of these kites, and the results were wicked good ...

Sony Charges $50 Extra to Sell You Laptop with No Crapware: How nice of Sony to sell you a computer that’s not pre-loaded with crap…for an extra $50. "System optimization service" is what we're calling a computer that comes with ...

President Bush tap-dances and stumbles around the war in Iraq, malaria, and diplomacy with the Czech Republic.

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.

Slashdot's own Roblimo has an interesting introspective on what makes us so prone to liking one window manager over another. More than likely it's just the inherent laziness of most users that precludes change. "I used KDE as my primary desktop from ...

linuxwrangler writes "First Sony packed its laptops with Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office trial version, Corel Paint Shop Pro trial version, WinDVD and more. Now it is offering to remove the bloatware. Of course marketing changed the name from 'remo ...

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post's Security Fix blog today features a funny but scary interview with a guy in Seattle who owns the domain name donotreply.com. Apparently, everyone from major US banks to the Transportation Security Admi ...

Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at the HTC Shift, the newest contender in the ultralight portable arena, with a strong compare and contrast to the other two heavyweights, the ThinkPad X300 and the Macbook Air. "As some of you know, I actually ...

whitehartstag writes to mention that Microsoft has announced their new Hyper-V as feature-complete. Unfortunately the list of supported systems is disappointingly short. "No offense to SUSE Enterprise Server crowd, but only providing SUSE support in ...

KentuckyFC writes "It doesn't happen very often but astronomers have discovered a new class of pulsating white dwarf. The work began last year when the Sloan Digital Sky Survey found a few exotic white dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres. A mathemati ...

At least four State Department workers pried into the supposedly secure passport files of presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, abashed officials admitted Friday in a revelation that had Condoleezza Rice promis ...

Flood-weary residents in Missouri, Arkansas and Ohio fought Friday to save their homes after heavy rainstorms pushed swollen rivers out of their banks, and a fresh snowstorm blew through parts of the Upper Midwest, canceling flights in the Chicago ar ...

Pope Benedict XVI presided over the Good Friday night Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum during a driving rainstorm but did not carry the cross as planned during the tradition, which was dedicated to religious freedom this year.

Gibson Guitar Corp. is widening its attack on the video game industry with a federal lawsuit claiming that Harmonix, MTV Networks and Electronic Arts are violating a patent the guitar maker holds.

Just three months after taking Tribune Co. private, CEO Sam Zell already is considering selling off one of its biggest properties, the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday, according to news reports.

After being laid off from her job as an events planner at an upscale resort, Jo Ann Bauer struggled financially. She worked at several lower-paying jobs, relocated to a new city and even declared bankruptcy.

A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal's poisonous barb, a medical examiner said Friday.

Health officials in Thailand have launched a national campaign against rats — starting with their own offices.

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.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama won a coveted endorsement from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday while the State Department apologized that employees snooped into the Illinois Democrat's passport files and those of his two main ...

The house wasn't always dark and empty. It didn't always reek of urine and beer. Flowers grew in the lawn where someone has now planted beer bottles. Inside, a ring formed of carpet and stained with blood defines the house. It's where they held d ...

Passport files of the three main US presidential hopefuls have been improperly accessed, officials confirm.

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 ...

Why is the netherworld a fairly common motif for porn directors to explore? Is it because everyone else is constantly telling them that they're the reason this world is going there in a handbasket? Fortunately, if the collective vision of a condemned ...

The new gadget feature of Google Spreadsheets makes it easy to add heat maps. This can be used to create a world map illustrating the Googleshare for a given keyword across different countries; now-Google employee Douwe Osinga called this "Land Geist ...

Just few years into the technology, it's naturally still a wild web out there. Here's some of the stuff you might be repeatedly doing in your browser in 2008: registering for a website account, and entering user name and passwords waiting for t ...

Photos of people in their beds by Thierry Bouet. Dumb Flash interface alert: click on "au lit" to see the beds. (thx, juliette) (link)

The second in my series of Internet Videos from the VHS Era was contributed by James Burke. Here's what he said about it: "I enjoyed the Internet Power VHS tape and dug up an old VHS tape from my old school district. It's a 20 video from June 1995 ...

Suicide by robot.

We Tell Stories is a new interactive fiction site from Penguin with 6 stories based on Penguin Classics. The first story online is The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming, based on Buchan's classic thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. It is told through narrativ ...

Who would win in a fight: A minotaur with a trident or a centaur with a crossbow? Surely one of the great questions of of our time. Luckily the cast of Battlestar Galactica is on hand to answer. Basic cable scifi show not credible? Ask the cast of Th ...

Hoshi Saga 2. Once again, your goal is to uncover the hidden star in each stage. [flash, via]

Fun in the California sun.Indio, with nearly 1,500 homes in foreclosure in the city's limits, is leading valley cities in taking a stand.A new law goes into effect April 4 targeting abandoned homes with overgrown landscaping, stagnant pools and other ...

This is all excellent news for Rudy Giuliani.

I've only listened to the first few minutes but it begins with some really provocative statements about Obama's campaign. Can't wait to hear the rest. — — "It is no secret that the Obama campaign is in political hot water... and is basica ...

NY Times: "Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who sought to become the nation's first Hispanic president this year, plans to endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination on Friday at a campaign event in Oregon." — —

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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 ...

that's incredibly awesome; take that, Urban Outfitters  

the first person to be fired because of tweets?  

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  

Boy, I feel safer already...United States Patent 6,933,851 Hahne , et al. August 23, 2005 Air travel security method, system and device Abstract A method of providing air travel security for passengers traveling via an aircraft comprises situa ...

Big deal. My own algorithm for solving the Rubik's cube puzzle is faster and requires only a hammer and a quarter pound of superglue. (But seriously: Wow.) [Tags: legos rubik ]

Gaming? What's that? My life is now spent at the post office, telling the nice lady behind the bullet proof glass that I don't $20 worth of delivery confirmation on my package again. That's not totally true. I actually have plenty of gaming to get do ...

The tech Easter Bunnies have been secretly hard at work this week, rolling out today Star Commenting. You may have already noticed the stars that have begun appearing next to posts by certain commenters. This is a way for readers to quickly scan the ...

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 ...

The maker of fine guitars and other stringed instruments sues for patent infringement, saying the companies have not negotiated in good faith over using technology Gibson has owned since 1999.