03/27/08

A sampling of typewriter typefaces. (via reference library) (link)

In Arsenals of Folly, Richard Rhodes details the making of the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the roles of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The book is fantastic and a full review is f ...

THEBLOG WEEMADE is about "sharing the artwork and creativity of kids", and they're inviting you to contribute. My favorite post is by the guy who runs the site...it's a poem he wrote about terrorism when he was 8 years old in 1984. What's the matter ...

Frontline's two-part report on Bush's War is getting good reviews. A two-part special series that tells the epic story of how the Iraq war began and how it has been fought, both on the ground and deep inside the government. Davenetics sums up the p ...

MovieStamper lets you permalink and tag your favorite movie scenes. For instance, check out the timestamps for The Departed or Office Space. (Oh, and I know you're eventually going to click on the boobs tag, so here you go. NSFW.) It's all a bit pro ...

Greg Storey : How to make a proper Muxtape. - In other news, Ryan now has the ability to grow facial hair. Congratulations man! Tags : Music

wearehugh : Microsoft top brass 'burned' by Vista problems - Technology - smh.com.au - the supreme irony of microsoft's own business decisions is that linux now has better driver support than windows Tags : drivers microsoft vista windows

factoryjoe : Windows Live Dev : Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks to Put Users at the Center of their Data - Microsoft's Live Contacts API, like Google Contacts API, gets away from the anti-pattern of providing your email ...

factoryjoe : Hackszine.com: Easiest cross-browser CSS min-height - Enforcing a minimum height for block elements in HTML is one of those few CSS tricks that you can't live without. There are still enough folks using IE6, unfortunate ...

joshua : libev - libevent-styled event loop, supposedly better Tags : dev net

"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.

come work with Rasmus!

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SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place: Dear God, please save us. Say no to IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users h ...

Blend Interactive is a certified partner of the eZ publish content management system. eZ Systems, the company behind eZ publish, sells commercial support for the system. However, this is sometimes (often, actually) hard to explain to potential cust ...

Two microphones, a card table, NPR's Alex Chadwick, and intimate stories from passers-by. In this episode, Alex talks to a recovered breast cancer patient who remembers what life was like on a ventilator.

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.

An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNET the once almighty Motorola is going to split into two companies, "If the split goes through as planned, what will remain will be the "broadband and mobility solutions" business, which includes enterprise ...

Matty the Monkey writes "The British regulator in charge of air travel has approved cellphones for use on airline flights, reports the BBC. Airlines will be allowed to activate base stations in the plane's tail after takeoff, creating a zone of mobil ...

enemi writes "Just a few days after Safari released version 3.1, Opera employee David Storey writes on his blog that they've overtaken Apple's browser in the Acid3 test. In the race to be the first to reach the reference rendering, Opera's software l ...

smooth wombat writes "With the Constitutionally mandated census of 2010 just around the corner, it appears the Commerce Department's attempt to use handheld computers to gather census information may not come to fruition. Originally, the contract was ...

cweditor writes "Like concept cars at auto shows, the computer industry designs 'concept notebooks' to imagine what the machines of the future. The 'concepts' may not come to market as-is, but it's likely some of their ideas, components and features ...

First to submit writes "Ars Technica analyzes the Patent Reform Act that has passed the House and is being debated in the Senate. Unfortunately for those longing for real, meaningful patent reform, the bill comes up short in some significant ways. 'D ...

Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Behind the Pentagon's closed doors, U.S. military leaders told President Bush Wednesday they are worried about the Iraq war's mounting strain on troops and their families. But they indicated they'd go along with a brief halt in pulling out troops thi ...

President Bush sharply confronted China's President Hu Jintao on Wednesday about Beijing's harsh crackdown in Tibet, joining an international chorus of alarm just months before the U.S. and the rest of the world parade to China for the Olympics.

Motorola Inc. bowed to pressure from investors Wednesday, announcing a plan to split its struggling cell phone business from other operations to form two separate publicly traded companies.

Oracle Corp.'s third-quarter profit matched Wall Street's expectations, but a sales miss sent shares of the business software maker tumbling after hours on fears the company is being pinched by falling technology spending.

Time.com - An army ranger in Iraq reflects on the smaller numbers that have brought home the cost of a long and tragic war

Having a big belly in your 40s can boost your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease or other dementia decades later, a new study suggests.

A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an "ancient Asian elixir." But Bayou Bob Popplewell's bright idea appears to have landed him on the ...

Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat. In 2006, Petra, a black swan, became so attached to the boat — shaped like an outsized white swan — that she refused to leave its side at a lake near a zoo in the German ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to chart an independent course on U.S. foreign policy, called on Wednesday for a more vigorous international diplomacy and a new effort to rebuild frayed relations with al ...

This is an e-mail that I wrote to my friend, Hollywood animator Sari Gennis. I wrote it while I was a graduate student in Physics at UC Santa Cruz, and was also working as a programmer. I was manic when I wrote this - I meant to write just a ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will send more troops to Afghanistan to support Nato's mission.

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 ...

Some people took exception to our characterization of a recent video pick as "amateur." Apparently, amateurs can't hire still photographers to capture their homemade sex adventures in online gallery form. (Whatever!) But in an internet age when anyon ...

Some have started to spot video ads on search result pages (Google pre-announced this a while ago), like in a search for phone. I can't see it yet, but Google Operating System and Digital Inspiration have more. Ionut explains: Google uses plusbox ...

The Google Docs document editor has a new menu (see video), similar to the one spotted in a Google employee's presentation before. Instead of the tabs, the menu is now more traditional, along the lines of what people know from their typical desktop a ...

A sampling of typewriter typefaces. (via reference library) (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-minute video from Ju ...

The Library of Congress has unveiled a baseball history section on their website. You can see old baesball cards, panoramic shots, a section for teachers and, coolest of all, a video of a baseball game shot by Thomas Edison in 1898.

The Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of '80s Cartoons (Honorable mention surely goes to feature films Watership Down and The Secret of NIMH)

Then again, maybe Puff Daddy wasn't involved in the shooting of Tupac. — It looks like the L.A. Times' March 17th story drew upon forged FBI reports created with a prison typewriter by James Sabatino. The Times is now conducting an internal r ...

The Burning Crater of Darvaza. [Via.]

And the war is over, and the dead are all living.WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon on Wednesday said an eruption of violence in southern Iraq, where US-backed government forces were battling Shiite militias, was a "by-product of the success of the su ...

Had to fill up my carshare car today.Ouch.

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...

If you have questions for the people at Mozilla, post a comment and I'll try to ask it. — — — — About 1/ 2 hour into the meeting I don't really have any overall idea of what they're doing with Firefox 3. I know other people a ...

According to a Gallup poll, 28 percent of Democrats who support Hillary Clinton say they will vote for McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee. — — Two reasons this might be so.. — — 1. Clinton has been campaigning against O ...

.... 15:45 @ryanblock The FCC still has to approve in order for the merger to go through. # 20:35 Is it sad that I'm so excited about successfully being able to program my Moto universal remote to my 360? # Automatically posted by LoudTwitter ...

.... A must-read piece by David Brooks today: "Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near." ....

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 ...

this Gawker article captured all the photos before they were pulled  

some clever twists on Tetris gameplay, too  

from the creator of 8088 Corruption, the first tracker for the original IBM PC speaker  

finally! I tried for six weeks to get a quote, but I'm not the LA Times  

a programming solution to a human problem  

S3-hosted service for 12-song virtual mix tapes, like this one  

don't miss the followup; take that, Will.i.am  

Sex offender Leroy Schad of Kansas is under a court order to keep large signs on his car that read, "Sex Offender In This Car." He has a similar sign on his house. The 72-year-old, who has lived in the town since 1971, was originally charged with fou ...

Further to yesterday's post about Clay Shirky's Harvard talk on his book Here Comes Everybody, here's another video of Clay and David Weinberger chatting about the implications of cheap group-forming for activists. Link (Thanks, Amar!) See also: Clay ...

The Vintage Science illustration pool on Flickr is a bottomless mine of gorgeous midcentury science art from around the world. Link (via Link...

This is a request from the CC team. If you've got any stories, please let us know!Flickr Re-Use Stories Calling all Flickr photographers and CC-licensors - we are compiling a list of interesting and/ or unique stories of re-use of CC-licensed photos ...

The Massachusetts Republican Party has posted a want ad on its Web site:Have you ever thought of running for office? Do you have the passion and commitment to raise money, knock on doors and make thousands of phone calls?Do you think you could do a b ...

Rock Band Semi-Deal of the Day. Still no Rock Band? Perhaps Amazon's discount on the Xbox 360 version will get you on board. That's $148 (US) with cheap bastard shipping included. Don't sleep! Rock Band Special Edition for Xbox 360 [Amazon]

Yep, Fifty and the G Unit are back. The follow up to 50 Cent: Bulletproof, the educational shoot 'em up in which the rapper took on a criminal organization out to get him, is known as 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. According to the MTV reveal on the Viv ...

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

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Solar thermal really does seem to be enjoying a major renaissance right now – from $1.24 billion plants in Spain, to claims that the technology could provide 90% of US electricy needs around the clock, it's not hard to see why folks might be inte ...

Come back, Dennis Kucinich, all is forgiven and we need you. At least you had a grasp of the true nature of coal and did not pander to anyone about it. Hillary is running off about mountaintop removal and now promising coal plants: Right away I have ...

Delta Airlines uses sex appeal to encourage passengers to watch their new safety video. Introducing Katherine Lee, a.k.a. "Deltalina."