03/24/08

Michael Chabon on why real-life superhero costumes don't work. This sad outcome even in the wake of thousands of dollars spent and months of hard work given to sewing and to packing foam rubber into helmets has an obvious, an unavoidable, explanatio ...

Steve Nash directed his own Nike commercial. Nash's original concept for the commercial is clever: At first, the idea was to shoot on different mediums -- camera phone, 8-millimeter, 16-millimeter (the eventual choice), security footage. My idea was ...

How do you describe a smell or a taste? John Lanchester discusses that and a recent book of perfume reviews in this recent New Yorker article. The language of taste has, therefore, reached something of an impasse. On the one hand, we have the Romant ...

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

Ethan Marcotte : 19/ f/ medic - The lulz are strong with this one. ∞

adamrg : Being alone and dead as an acceptable lifestyle choice - I sometimes worry that this will be my fate. Tags : biography poignant recluse sideblog story

plasticbag : Found via Mr Webb, my Minicity grows every time a unique person in the world (ie. you) visit the page - When a unique person visits it, a new person joins the community. It's a lovely association to make. In the end, it's a game about tr ...

nelson : Thanks, Easter Bunny! - Classic TV ad Tags : advertising easter m&ms mnms tv

nelson : Andy Warhol on The Love Boat - Odd little clip Tags : art loveboat tv warhol

"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...

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Steve Souders is Yahoo’s “front end engineer.” He’s the guy who wrote the article we discussed a few months back which brought us back to all those old “tricks” that make your Web site load faster. Consider this: ...

I’ll admit that I thought economists really dealt with just, well, the economy. But they don’t. To be an economist really means you kind of just figure stuff out. Steven Levitt is such a guy. He teaches at the University of Chicago, a ...

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.

thevirtualcat found some inconsistencies in IE8's Acid2 results that made him wonder what's going on. Can anyone replicate these results or, better yet, explain them?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

h4rm0ny notes the furor over an anti-Islamic movie due to be released on the Web in the next week. After Pakistan disrupted YouTube worldwide over an interview with right-wing Dutch MP and filmmaker Geert Wilders, Network Solutions, acting as host as ...

At least one university liberal enough to accept the deeply flawed and mostly rejected Vista OS is recommending faculty and students stay away from SP1. "University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade their ...

The God Plays Dice blog has an entertaining post on how the date of Easter is calculated. Wikipedia has all the messy details of course, but the blog makes a good introduction to the topic. "Easter is the date of the first Sunday after the first full ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland have recently discovered three asteroids that appear to be roughly 4.55 billion years old, dating back to the formation of the Solar System. The scientists say that the asteroids have survived relatively un ...

Anonymous Coward writes "Garth Freeman, CEO of Australia's first WiMax operator, sat down at the recent International WiMax Conference in Bangkok and unleashed a tirade about the failings of the technology, leaving an otherwise pro-WiMax audience stu ...

Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.

For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture — a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.

China accused the Dalai Lama on Sunday of stoking Tibetan unrest to sabotage the Beijing Olympics and also berated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying she is ignoring the truth about Tibet.

Traditional media companies trying to stem the flow of advertising dollars to Google and other large Internet companies are increasingly building ad networks of their own, anchored by their brands.

A Web site where a Dutch lawmaker was promoting an upcoming film that criticizes the Quran has been suspended by its U.S. hosting service.

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.

For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture — a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.

Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village.

Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace would require painful concessions from both sides.

Last year, I expressed my displeasure with the expected Democratic nominee for president. Now we have a good news/ bad news scenario: The good news is that Lurleen has a less than even shot at the nomination; The bad news is that her competitor is al ...

Many people die in a day of suicide attacks, shootings and rocket strikes across Iraq.

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 ... · It's always fun to speculate about what celebrities are really like in private, but we prefer to just imagine whatever we want. · This is the longest free look you will ever get with a high-priced ...

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 ...

Michael Chabon on why real-life superhero costumes don't work. This sad outcome even in the wake of thousands of dollars spent and months of hard work given to sewing and to packing foam rubber into helmets has an obvious, an unavoidable, explanatio ...

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-minute video from Ju ...

realscoop.com "utilizes proven voice analysis technology to analyze statements made by public figures." The statements being on videos. They're all over Bill Clinton and Reagan. Bush and current candidates - not so much. How the technology ...

"He nice, the Jesus. He make the good things, and on the Easter we be sad because somebody makes him dead today." Enjoy a little short story about cultural differences and Easter from David Sedaris.

John Mark Harris provides a interactive graphical score synchronized to his realization of the architect-composer Iannis Xenakis's Evryali, a piano piece that is intentionally impossible to play as written. Harris's notes on the piece are behind the ...

Even on Easter, chocolate bunnies just can't catch a break. source and inspiration via everlasting blort

Time to cook.

KC Star:Real estate agent Cindy Tomasic was taken aback by her first foreclosure listing in tony Loch Lloyd....A review by The Kansas City Star of real estate listings in Jackson, Johnson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties showed at least 50 homes price ...

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...

Today's guest is Matt Stoller. — — sundaygang.com/ 004.mp3 — — "I'm a DC-based political activist and consultant, and I blog at the new strategy site OpenLeft.com. I work on telecom politics, progressive movement building, D ...

Michael Markman sent a pointer to another Wright sermon video, which I watched. The one that ends with God Damn America. — — I was born here, I love this country, it gave sanctuary to my parents and grandparents. I am a product of Jewish ...

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.... experience. Self-disclosure to others about their thoughts, feelings and attitudes can develop a supportive, empathic and understanding environments for communication. By this way, it could facilitate the adults to learn in a lot of sense. Au ...

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 ...

fakes a local directory for your friends with the files they've uploaded in each  

a little weekend dose of insane for you  

uses the Echonest audio API for beat matching to blend mixes automatically  

demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API  

Andrew Keen is the new Stoll, getting press for contrarian, but short-sighted, views  

big companies and junk food both scale, but they're unhealthy in similar ways  

that's incredibly awesome; take that, Urban Outfitters  

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 ...

CNN actually had a reporter listen to the entire tape of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermon, instead of just the sound bytes. Wow! What a revolutionary idea! And it turns out that in context, Wright's words are – get this! – more understandable and le ...

I just about died laughing at this lengthy and vitriolic review of the Shenzhen Nanjing bootleg/ grey market Titanic 1912. It's long, it's funny, it's worth a read. The quality starts in the first few paragraphs: I have a hard time imagining what p ...

Commuters arriving at Shinjuku's Kamiigusa Station in Tokyo see this: A large Gundam statue! Kamiigusa is home of Sunrise, Inc., the anime studio behind Gundam (among many other super famous anime series). Makes sense! — Gundam Statue [Yomiuri ...

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

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A photograph taken on May 30, 1868 shows barren trees in a New England cemetery. In a photo taken on the same spot in 2005, everything is in bloom. The visual evidence is compelling, biologists say. Originally pos ...

Heather Klein crisscrosses the campus of Rowan University, from the College of Engineering to the townhouses, the dining hall to the Rec Center, on a blue Huffy 26-inch beach cruiser bicycle. She’s hoping a clone of the bike, picked up at the ...

Scientists on a 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea in New Zealand's Antarctic waters are surprised by the giant size of some species, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.