03/30/08

How uncanny is her valley? Very. Never has one of those Flash move-your-mouse-around applets been this creepy. (link)

This a bit old but the dude that runs the stylish cameron i/ o site (who is coincidentially named Cameron) built a trumpet-like bell for the iPhone out of a used toilet paper tube. I wanted to listen to my music in the shower but the iPhone's speake ...

The top five reasons why "the customer is always right" is wrong. I like the idea that a company should be as ready to fire bad customers as they are to fire bad employees. (link)

Video of Charlie Rose's conversation with chef Thomas Keller the other night. Good stuff as always, although I'm disappointed about how completely he's embraced the idea of the chef as empire-tender rather than as a person who cooks. I realized the ...

Philippe Starck says that design is dead and that he's retiring. Says Starck: I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years' time. I want to do something ...

jcgregorio : FAQ - Normalization - Are there any characters whose normalization forms under NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD are all different? Yes, three in fact.

joshua : Learning circuit/ hardware; lab book? Tags : hw

joshua : BatchPCB.com - pcb fab outsourcing from sparkfun guys Tags : fab hw

joshua : FreePCB: freeware PCB layout software Tags : hw

joshua : KNJN - bunch of embedded products Tags : hw

interesting...

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Matt's moving on...

"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."

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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 ...

Slate V and MediaCurves.com played the latest video from Internet star Obama Girl for 440 voters and recorded their real-time reactions. It seems Barack's No. 1 fan may not be helping him very much.

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 tips us to a story up at Wired reporting on what may be the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on victims. Last Saturday, griefers posted hundreds of bogus messages on the support forums of the nonprofit Epilepsy Found ...

A number of readers let us know about the Chaos Computer Club's latest caper: they published the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble (link is to a Google translation of the German original). The club has been active ...

Andy Updegrove writes "The vote on Microsoft's OOXML closes today. The final result will not be announced (or leak) before sometime early next week. Meanwhile the votes of individual countries continue to come in, currently with more reported switchi ...

Joe Barr writes "Robin Miller has an exclusive video interview with Larry Rosen and Fred Popowich this morning on Linux.com about their new open source business model which includes software patents in its DNA. Their motto is 'Free for open source, e ...

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in Xconomy, iPhone hacker and author Jonathan Zdziarski was invited to speak at an Apple Store in Cambridge, MA last week where he talked about the history of iPhone hacking, jail-breaking, and limi ...

DimitryGH followed up on the earlier news that the MacBook Air lost CanSecWest by noting that "Last year's winner of the CanSecWest hacking contest has won the Vista laptop in this year's competition. According to the sponsor TippingPoint's blog, Sha ...

Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, as U.S. jets struck Shiite extremists near Basra to bolster a faltering Iraqi offensive against gunmen in the cit ...

The Bush administration is trying to confront the credit crisis that has rattled nerves from Wall Street to Main Street by proposing wholesale changes in how Washington oversees the financial system.

Barack Obama offered a bit of tough love to Pennsylvania voters Saturday, saying some industrial and manufacturing jobs may not return to this steel region, but others could take their place.

Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children's neonatal intensive care unit, ready to flash whenever sound levels creep beyond normal conversation.

Four days a week Todd Matthews earns $11.50 an hour working for an automotive parts supplier. He punches in at 4:15 a.m., punches out nearly 11 hours later, then drives half a mile to his little beige house on a hill where, in the distance, he can gl ...

Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government provided-trailer that gives off formald ...

For all their delight in soaring voter registration and strong poll numbers, some Democrats fear the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton might have a nightmarish end, which could wreck a promising election year.

Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club.

William M. Bowen woke up after a night of drinking with friends and realized he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck full of waste.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabweans, many desperate for an end to their economic misery, voted on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence in 1980, but the opposition accused President Robert Mugabe's government of rigging.

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 ...

Voting ends in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe faces a strong challenge from the opposition.

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 ... · How much would you pay for a Tabitha Stevens blowjob? It's a bargain at any price, really. · Yes, people actually eat these things. · Jamye Waxman shows us that going in search of the femal ...

Google China has a new homepage, as the screenshot illustrates, showing more discoverable icons similar to other Google homepages in Asia. However, I don't know if this new one is the default for Chinese users at google.cn (where I don't see it), or ...

Omnisio lets you paste in the URL of a YouTube video (among other video sites) and then crop the time slider to a specific part. You can then add more videos if you want, and publish the result to show to others -- without even registering at the sit ...

How uncanny is her valley? Very. Never has one of those Flash move-your-mouse-around applets been this creepy. (link)

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.

With revolutionary graphics, a classic score, and creative platforming gameplay, the Donkey Kong Country series was one of the most popular games for the SNES, outsold only by the packaged Super Mario World. After another decade, however, the games ...

Earth Hour For one hour tonight, turn off the lights and help conserve energy. Supporters of the plan say it is the equivalent of taking nearly 50,000 cars off the road for an hour. Critics say it's equivalent to taking 6 cars off the road for a year ...

To the congregation of the Solid RockChurch, he's known as the King of Kings. But others who have witnessed his glory have other names for him: MC 62ft Jesus, Touchdown Jesus, and perhaps most famously, as immortalized by Heywood Banks, Big Butter Je ...

A glass bong filled with a corked '82 Petrus. Most exclusive restaurant in Chicago, or best April Fool's prank ever? I have reservations!

Sinfonian live blogged it all.

Spork's photo.UPDATE: Will Bunch has a good conference rundown up, more coming. His commenters are also providing valuable insight: "Liberal bloggers are little Sally boys, who cry everytime Barbara Steisand sings..." Oh yes. Though Babs is no Glenn ...

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...

I really like the way my iPhone works for publishing pictures. — — I have it wired up so that I can send an email to Flickr. And then I have a script watching my Flickr feed that routes new pictures to Twitter where 6000-plus people foll ...

We're having a bit of rain this morning in the Bay Area. It's the best thing this time of year. All the plants, bushes and trees are in bloom, but they could all use (it seems to me) one more good soaking. One last rain before the final bloom, then w ...

.... more comfortable implementing this in my class and doing so in a way that would help me be more effective. Doing it for the sake of saying you blog and receiving no benefit from it probably does nothing for the class. Authored by kiel350. 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  

I was in a children's store today and my friend pointed out these doll sets from Plan Toys, a company that actually makes very good toys. The choices are "Asian Family," um, "Ethnic Family," and, er, "Doll Family." According to the Plan Toys site, th ...

The much-ballyhooed opening of Heathrow's £4 billion Terminal 5 has been a debacle. British Airways has canceled 208 flights since Thursday, and has "stranded" between 15,000 and 20,000 bags. Area hotels are crammed with stuck BA passengers and ...

Espen sez, "I thought you would appreciate this cartoon that explains the difference between covariation and causality. In English, the caption is 'During a convivial gathering there is talk of the unhygienic aspect of using galoshes. One of those pr ...

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 ...

For those who are keeping track (= me), the new new motherboard on my MacBook has not prevented the same old problems from recurring. I still am getting random app crashes, most well-behaved by an occasional crash to blue. (Actually, only Keynote cra ...

Last year, Blizzard decided to go after Glider (the botting program that lets you skip past the grind and get to the good stuff); Michael Donnelly, the guy behind Glider (who has apparently made nearly $2.8 million off of it) is fighting back, and no ...

A while back, we mentioned a journal article on using MMOs to aid second language acquisition. Now Forbes has a piece discussing the same issue, only with Second Life. The author spoke with several teachers about their approaches to using SL to edu ...

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 ...

Ponoko is an on-demand service that allows merchants to upload their designs and customers to purchase items based upon those designs. It's already working for one furniture maker.