03/25/08

Point. Being nasty can improve your life. Next month sees the arrival of Asshole: How I got Rich and Happy by Not Giving a S*** About You, by New York author Martin Kihn. "I was the nicest guy in the world - and it was killing me," he says in the bo ...

A fantastic pair of maps, courtesy of Strange Maps: - A map of the area covered by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on their Apollo 11 moon walks, superimposed on a soccer pitch for comparison purposes. - The same map, superimposed on a baseball diam ...

My pal Ben Saunders is headed North, in an attempt to set a new world record for the fastest trip to the North Pole. The current record was set in 2005 by a guided team using dog sleds and numerous re-supplies in a time of 36 days 22 hours. Ben's ex ...

Last week, PZ Myers, an outspoken critic of creationism, was booted from a screening of Expelled, a film defending intelligent design co-written by Ben Stein. They singled me out and evicted me, but they didn't notice my guest. They let him go in es ...

Is that upcoming Judd Apatow produced/ written/ directed/ presented by/ executive produced movie going to be any good? Use this handy scoring system to find out. Drillbit Taylor is written by Apatow acolyte Seth Rogen (3), but directed by Steven Bri ...

Greg Storey : Der neue Passat CC. - This is what I'll be driving come November. FYI. Tags : Previously

43folders : Clipboard History triggers unwantedly -

nelson : More XBLA criticism - N+ developers explain what they meant Tags : games n+ xbla xbox xbox360

nelson : Moonwalk map - We never walked very far Tags : astronauts maps moon space

deusx : Questionable Content #1105 - "IT IS NOT A NECKBEARD IT IS A HEATSINK!" Tags : comics funny linux notaneckbeard oss

"If I had a man around the house, I bet I could find all sorts of opportunities to masturbate." Heh.

"We will send your friend or enemy a healthy helping of some of the nastiest, stinkiest, fresh shit packages you have ever seen. We have several varieties of shit that we can send, including a special shit of the month."

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

so pine is now alpine... sort of.

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This post is about three questions you have to answer before you can even go looking for a CMS. The answers to these questions will drastically narrow the pool of systems you can select from. (On an editorial note, my level of comfort with these au ...

Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism: Here’s an article about what are being called “Single Site Browsers” (SSBs), or little standalone browsers that let you browse and interact with a single Web app in a ...

Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, answers a letter from a teenager involved in a long-distance virtual courtship.

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.

Linux.com's Bruce Byfield is reporting that Salasaga, the renamed Flame Project, is attempting to fill the functionality gap of Flash creation for Linux in addition to being a cross-platform tool. While it still lacks the spit-shine of more mature ap ...

The Globe and Mail has an interesting piece taking a look at Google's latest headache, the US Government. Many people are suddenly deciding to spurn Google's services and applications because it opens up potential avenues of surveillance. "Some other ...

ScienceDaily is reporting that researchers at the University of Illinois have broken the record for most information sent via a single photon using the direction of "wiggling" and "twisting" a pair of entangled photons. "Using linear elements, howeve ...

Michael J. Ross writes "When software developers need to manipulate text programmatically — such as finding all substrings within some text that match a particular pattern — the most concise and flexible solution is to use "regular expres ...

News.com is reporting that Mytopia, another casual-gaming network, has launched into public-beta. More than just a regular game with virtual rewards, Mytopia encourages exchanging points for real-world prizes like iTunes or Amazon certificates. "Sinc ...

alphadogg writes to mention that Sun is attempting to move from the typical design of multiple small chips back to a unified single-wafer design. "The company is announcing today a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to explore replacing the wires ...

Marking a grim milestone, a determined President Bush declared Monday the lives of 4,000 U.S. military men and women who have died in Iraq "were not lost in vain." The White House signaled anew that additional troops won't be pulled out soon.

The remains of two U.S. contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago have been recovered, the FBI said Monday, weeks after families of several long-missing men gained hope that they might be found alive.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said she "misspoke" last week when she said she had landed under sniper fire during a trip she took as first lady to Bosnia in March 1996. The Obama campaign suggested it was a deliberate exaggeration on Clinton's pa ...

In her spare time, away from her duties as a chemicals specialist in the Army, Angie Papple fires up her computer and writes an article about something close to her, like life in the military. Other times she'll analyze a piece of software. Or she'll ...

Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. is suffering a technology breakdown that's knocked out its Web site, inconveniencing its 7.5 million subscribers.

McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY– Fueled by the rising popularity of soft drinks and fast-food restaurants, Mexico has become the second fattest nation in the world. Mexican health officials say it could surpass the U.S. as the most obese country ...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday — and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth — after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.

Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus.

Maybe he heard a faint rattling around in his luggage, but he surely never assumed the sound came from a stowaway snake sealed in his bag.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were blown up in Baghdad, pushing the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 4,000 just days into the sixth year of a war that President George W. Bush says the United States is on track to win.

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 ...

New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani says he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule.

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 ...

The delicious Brooke Haven, despite sharing my birthday, has nonetheless decided that she will no longer perform with guys, just sticking to the ladies from now on. In a more delicately-worded announcement, she also said that anal scenes were no long ...

Google recently started to automatically adjust the search box when you enter longer queries. This won't happen as you type, but once you're on a search result page and you entered a longer query before, the box length is expanded up to a certain poi ...

My Mini City lets you create a new village (without registering) and then see it grow as new unique referrers are pointed towards it. The city I just created, Blogoscopia, can be seen above in its current near-empty status. But others cities like Bar ...

Point. Being nasty can improve your life. Next month sees the arrival of Asshole: How I got Rich and Happy by Not Giving a S*** About You, by New York author Martin Kihn. "I was the nicest guy in the world - and it was killing me," he says in the bo ...

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 ...

Ever have a job working for a record label on a street crew. And yer puttin up publicity posters on lightpoles for an artist like Rocko and some asshole won't stop takin yer picture. Whadda you do then? Break his friggin camera.

Dressing a dog up as a person is I think not a very good thing. But when I do it, it's fine. William Wegman's Early Videos. Short Films. Trio/ Metropolis/ Guitar. Clips from his feature, The Hardly Boys. — — David Hart's David Hockney mee ...

VBS.TV presents "Epicly Latered"[~80 min, 16 parts, gnarly skateboarding], the story of John Cardiel.

Emilio Gonzalez, Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, will be resigning next month. To mark the occasion, the New York Times prints an editorial exposing the magnitude of the case backlog that USCIS currently faces, and ...

I see stupid people.

Spotted Ed Rendell getting into a car outside the Park Hyatt Bellevue. Also spotted his poor aide drop a bunch of folders and papers all over the ground.

We begin this week where we began the last. Thanks to McClatchy, we're getting almost half of the conference call MP3s. But that's not half as good as getting them all, not close. — — Imagine getting a trial transcript with more than 1/ ...

I was reading Newsweek's story on why Barack Obama asked people to stop calling him Barry and use his more formal name, and I remembered that I had a grandmother who was different in the same way Obama did. — — My mixed heritage isn't so ...

.... far more fetish clothes in my life. For real though. # 03:36 Watching a burlesque performance with kanno's 'tank!' as the music. Made. Of. Awesome. # 17:26 Panhandler sign: family kidnapped by ninjas. Need money for karate lessons. ...

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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 ...

returning after a three-year hiatus  

the treatment and symptom charts are incredibly empowering  

they've already sold 6 million songs in three months through the clunky Xbox Live Marketplace  

each unique referral is a new inhabitant; compare Barbelith to GoonTown  

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  

Today on Boing Boing tv, a vlog from Mark about Socialbomb, a real-world tech game that explores social circles and ways to measure interpersonal reputation. The current version is designed to accommodate 30 players. Each player is awarded points for ...

Researchers applied for a patent on antibodies that bind to methamphetamine-like compounds such as Ecstasy to quickly remove the drug from a user's bloodstream. Developed by University of Arkansas scientists, the antibodies could eventually be used t ...

Calpernia Addams is the star of the subversive new competitive dating show "Transamerican Love Story" -- following on Mark's post, this seems like an apropos moment to point to her hilarious how-not-to video about rude questions transgendered people ...

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 ...

Solana Larsen has a fabulous idea. For those of us vegetarians who love faux meat, why doesn't a restaurant serve up something besides the usual mock chicken, beef, pork, etc.? Why not faux endangered species? Solana suggests a menu... [Tags: vegeta ...

Is this the week of Ikaruga for Xbox Live Arcade? Hell no! It's TiQal's time to shine. This Wednesday, the Slapdash Games created puzzler hits XBLA, bringing color-matching, block-clearing gameplay with a Mayan theme to the masses. It's 800 Microsoft ...

Remember the brouhaha last week about the discovery that Electronic Arts may sell additional weapons in their upcoming shooter Battlefield: Bad Company? Electronic Arts today got back to us with their take on the whole situation. In a nutshell, yes, ...

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

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We cannot properly usher in spring without checking in to see what hometown gal Natalie “Alabama” Chanin has cooking down in Florence, Alabama. We love that the former star of Project Alabama has returned to her old haunts to set up a  ...

Installing solar panels on the roof of every new building in the world would go a long way towards solving our energy needs, but as we all know, solar panels are costly and often difficult to install. But what if the solar panel was an integral part ...

Garth Freeman, the CEO of Australian company Buzz Broadband, described his company's experience with WiMax as a "disaster," and ultimately a "miserable failure."