03/28/08

Eiffel Tower to get flowery-looking viewing stand glomed onto the top of it. The design is already causing controversy, with critics questioning the wisdom of tinkering with the famous silhouette and spending money on upgrading a tourist attraction ...

Ridley Scott is set to direct a film about Gorbachev and Reagan's 1986 summit in Iceland. Looks like I may get my wish. (thx, gunnar & brian) (link)

The recent discovery of a phonautogram by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville may be the earliest recording of sound in the world, predating that of Thomas Edison by almost 20 years. Scott is in many ways an unlikely hero of recorded sou ...

Flickr photoset of an abandoned amusement park in Ohio called Chippewa Lake. Hidden on a lakeshore in Medina County is one of the state's most unique forgotten treasures: the abandoned amusement park called Chippewa Lake. What you'll find there toda ...

In past few years, several prominent US magazines and newspapers have begun to offer their extensive archives online and on DVD. In some cases, this includes material dating back to the 1850s. Collectively it is an incredible record of recent human h ...

Greg Storey : "The key insight is that I just had to make up my mind and sort the feeds into two buckets..." - Buddy, you lost when you decided that "buckets" was a solution. Tags : Meme

factoryjoe : Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project - "Chris Pirillo has announced a new, large scale open source CMS project that aims to "de-geekify" website tools (announcement video above)." Saved By: Chris Messin ...

deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Ding Dong, ANSI Calling - "I had the pleasure of attending the ANSI Gallery showing this past January, and I also had the chance to purchase one of the items being shown; one of the small handful of ANSI display box ...

deusx : Truffle Pig Wine: About Truffle Pig - "Truffle Pig Wines is an amateur wine label run by Nathan Arnold in Toronto ON. " Tags : canada people toronto wine

Ethan Marcotte : John Resig's talk at Northeastern about Javascript & jQuery - I've got this on in the background at the moment. So far, great talk. ∞

"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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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 ...

Do you ever come across something so stupid, you just have to make a video about it? Slate V Editor Andy Bowers documents what he claims is the stupidest bike lane in America. Got another contender? Let us know: slatev@slate.com.

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.

eldavojohn writes "Today was the first day that Peruvian teachers from remote villages began training to use the OLPC in their day-to-day activities. From the article: 'Success of OLPC now depends largely on frontline teachers and, of course, parents ...

Amit Agarwal writes "Adobe today launched a basic version of Adobe Photoshop available for free online. Photoshop Express will be completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system and browser. According to Yahoo ...

Amy Bennett writes "And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple. They measured how many times o ...

What_the_deuce writes "For the first time in years, internet browsers are able to visit the BBC's website. In turn, the BBC turns a lens on the Chinese web-browsing experience, exploring one of the government's strongest methods of controlling the co ...

mattnyc99 writes "There's a new entry in the race for the first space tourism jet: XCOR Aerospace, a California-based rocket builder. The company says its clean-burning, two-seat Lynx spacecraft will lift off by 2010. After we only saw a mockup of Vi ...

garnetlion writes "South Park is coming online, free and legal. My brief research has not indicated if it will use DRM, require some silly Windows-only software or be otherwise substandard. According to a Wired blog article, 'Parker and Stone said th ...

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged "no retreat" Thursday in the fight against Shiite militias in the southern city of Basra, as thousands of protesters demanded he resign over the crackdown and extremists fired rockets into the U.S.-protected Gre ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a full inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials after the mistaken delivery of ballistic missile fuses to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Thursday.

Democrat Barack Obama said Thursday a firmer government hand is needed on Wall Street and a $30 billion stimulus is needed to rescue homeowners and the jobless. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a new job retraining program to remedy what both ...

Under pressure from federal regulators, Comcast Corp. reversed its stance over hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers and promised Thursday to treat all types of Internet traffic equally.

New data confirming slowing growth in Google Inc.'s paid clicks renewed debate Thursday on Wall Street over whether the Internet search company's revenue can quickly adjust to changes it made in how it generates clicks.

A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.

Reuters - U.S. health regulators are probing a possible connection between Merck & Co Inc's blockbuster Singulair asthma drug and suicidal behavior in adults and children, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.

An upstate New York man embroiled in a dispute over his water bill is not being allowed to pay off his debt with a check written on toilet paper. Ron Borgna tried to settle his $2,509.66 bill with a check written on floral print, two-ply toilet paper ...

Police are wondering why a bar of used soap is among the items stolen during a home robbery in Clearfield. Matt and Saundra Ramos and their four children returned home from an Easter weekend vacation Monday night to find their TVs, a laptop and other ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed greater government regulation of the U.S. financial system and a new $30 billion economic stimulus plan on Thursday in response to the housing crisis.

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 ...

A three-day curfew is imposed on Baghdad, amid continuing clashes between Shia militias and security forces.

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 ...

We confess that this video originally caught our eye because when visually scanning a web page, the word "Fisherboat" looks kind of like "Fleshbot"—and you don't see bimbo bitches on there everyday. Still, cruising down the Mississippi with one ...

Street View data (those detailed panorama photos available for some US cities) is now also available as part of the Google Maps API*. The samples utilizing the GStreetviewPanorama object look interesting; for instance, you can embed an animated stree ...

Bug Labs seems to have a very promising concept. The company allows you to order different hardware modules, like a camera, a screen, a touch sensitive device (some still in development) and so on. Then, you can stick these modules onto the base gadg ...

Eiffel Tower to get flowery-looking viewing stand glomed onto the top of it. The design is already causing controversy, with critics questioning the wisdom of tinkering with the famous silhouette and spending money on upgrading a tourist attraction ...

No entries this week. I've had a miserable flu since Sunday that's made it impossible to think straight. I'll see you Monday, Internet.

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Fitna , a Koranic term translated as 'strife', shows footage of the attacks on the US in September 2001, and images of the bomb attacks on London and Madrid. Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), has called his ...

Perhaps inspired by Taco Bell's World Series Stolen Base promotion, Dr. Pepper has promised to give every American a free soda if Guns N' Roses' long-awaited "Chinese Democracy" is released in 2008. Well, every American except for Buckethe ...

A British TV crew have been accused of spreading flu to a remote Peruvian tribe of 250 members, leading to 4 deaths. TV director Matt Currington (google cache) and team were researching for the Discovery channel in the Peruvian Amazon, when flu stru ...

Off to go tell Patrick Murphy how he's supposed to vote on every piece of legislation. And he'll listen or HULK WILL SMASH!!

No this isn't normal.Sean Patrick Conroy, the 36-year-old Starbucks manager who was attacked in a Center City subway yesterday, died of an "asthma attack brought on by blunt force trauma," the medical examiner ruled today.His death was ruled a homici ...

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...

It was a friendly meeting today, but not without the usual competitive spirit between the Mozilla camp and the Microsoft camp. — — Mozilla engineering VP, Mike Schroepfer explained that Microsoft tends to implement technology already app ...

Here's how old Scripting News is, in years. — — double (clock.now () - date ("4/ 1/ 97")) / (60*60*24*365.25) — — 10.98654578 — — Pretty close to 11! — — Hot dam. — —

.... over the next two weeks. As well as this the school has just launcherd its VLE a sort of web 2.0 way of thinking for storing files on an internal server. Anyway, watch out for my next post: What is web 2.0??? Authored by mrwilsonhistory. Host ...

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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 ...

look just like mommy, and grandma!  

one note: they're all relative instead of absolute numbers  

amazing that he can stand still long enough to blow glass  

one of my favorite new sites just got better; looks robust  

hypnotic video of immersion baptisms  

great journalism, completely debunks last week's Puffy/ Tupac expose  

this Gawker article captured all the photos before they were pulled  

Here's a video of Fadhel Al-Said, a "researcher on astronomy," sharing his surprising findings about the shape Earth and the physics of the solar system with Iraqi television viewers. Statement by a round-earther physicist: When you watch a ship sail ...

The Telegraph reports that 70 students from the Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, were joined by over 100 other youths to celebrate an end of term party by "having unprotected sex in a village square." Alison Hughes, the deputy head ...

Clean Air Gardening sells this purple-tinted glasses that are supposed to help you identify unhealthy, chlorophyll-deficient plants before it's too late. The lenses block out the green reflected by chlorophyll in the healthy areas of your lawn and ga ...

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 ...

On the flight to LA this morning, while I was standing in the attendant's cranny, waiting for the bathroom to free up, I noticed a sign on a bit of the JetBlue plane that jutted in at about knee level. The sign said:DO NOT SIT HERENO SENTARSE AQUIBut ...

Mega importer Play-Asia is slashing prices on just about everything with its Easter Egg sale. Everything (not released in the past 30 days) has been reduced 20% or more, with a handful of exceptions. The better news? You don't have to be an Japanese ...

Pok�mon fever ripped through Japan last week, pushing an impressive quarter-million copies of Pok�mon Ranger: Batonnage in its debut week. It wasn't the only new release to make a splash as the combined efforts of Deca Sports, Armored Core and othe ...

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 ...

Creationists say that as creatures get more complicated, evolution gets harder. Now, new research by evolutionary biologists appears to refute that assertion.