04/01/08

In The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs followed all the rules in the Bible as literally as he could. The book that came out of the year has several layers.- An exploration of some of the Bible's startlingly relevant rules. I tried not to covet, ...

Despite a common heritage, the social, economic, and political differences between the United States and Britain are, in some cases, great. Like most west Europeans, Britons tend to have more left-wing views than Americans, but the first chart shows ...

Jamie Zawinski, one of the developers responsible for the early versions Netscape Navigator, has declared that today is Run Some Old Web Browsers Day. In celebration, he's hosting an archive of old Mosaic/ Netscape broswers and rolled back the clock ...

Interview with chefs Grant Achatz of Alinea and Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck, mostly about the cookbooks that they're working on. Achatz is self-publishing the Alinea Book and using the exact recipes from the restaurant: For us, we felt the mos ...

I've received several emails in the past few weeks containing a variation of the following message: Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. One message even formatted this line in green text. Treehugger recommended this course ...

factoryjoe : CNN.com - Telecommuters band together - CNN's Polly Labarre reports on telecommuters who miss the social interaction of the workplace Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: coworking, cnn, video

Simon Willison : Sharing My Location Just the Way I Like It - Sharing My Location Just the Way I Like It. Fire Eagle gets a great write-up from Brady Forrest over on the O'Reilly Radar.

Jeremy Zawodny : ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet - ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet: uhm... YUCK! Tags : links

deusx : amplificathon - "the amplificathon is a points-based podfic-creating challenge. podfics, in case you haven't heard, are audio recordings of fanfic." Tags : fanfic fiction podcasting podcasts

Andy Baio : NYT's interactive tribute to the Mad Magazine fold-in - the full article details Al Jaffee's illustration process

that's the dumbest yahoo story I've seen in at least 3 days...

"It may be okay to ignore the return values of COMMIT and ROLLBACK, but always check the return value of START TRANSACTION."

uhm... YUCK!

some great pics in there

hmm...

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I’m reading Jakob’s Nielsen’s Prioritizing Web Usability off and on. He has an interesting aside in his chapter on typography. Why do so many Web sites have illegible text? Didn’t anybody read the text while designing th ...

We use Quickbooks Online for Blend’s accounting. We’re relatively happy with it, but when I logged in today, I saw the above image, which is pretty cool: As a QuickBooks Online subscriber, you can now view key company data anywhere y ...

Forget best picture. How can any of us judge what should win the Academy Award for best editing? Hollywood editor Mark Helfrich walks us through well-edited scenes from this year's five Oscar-nominated films.

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.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to Haaretz, an Israeli team of computer scientists has developed software that ranks facial attractiveness of women. Instead of identifying basic facial characteristics, this software has been designed to make aes ...

eldavojohn writes "Is there life on Mars? Maybe not, but a better question might be whether or not it has ever existed on Mars? Scientists are claiming that the best indication for this will be in newly found evaporated salt deposits on Mars which th ...

An anonymous reader writes "April 1st is the ultimate holiday for a geek — a little hands-on DIY, a little hacking and a lot of sub-par humor. Popular Mechanics and Instructables have teamed up for five pranks you can build in the office (inclu ...

Don Wolf writes "Computer forensics is a rapidly growing discipline and an even faster growing business. Whether it's the natural progression of technological science pertaining to crime or perhaps the digression of a few elite information security p ...

coondoggie writes to tell us that researchers from Penn State and New Mexico Tech have unraveled the mystery of lightning diversity. A new "Lightning Mapping Array" has been able to show detailed models on how lightning acts. "About 90% of lightning ...

alphadogg writes "Every day is something like April Fools' Day at the University of California, Berkeley joke recommendation site, dubbed Jester. Now on Version 4.0, the site tosses visitors a handful of jokes to rate on a scale of "less funny" to "m ...

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday criticized the Bush administration's plan to overhaul regulation of U.S. financial institutions, saying the proposal "comes late and falls short."

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, his tenure tarnished by allegations of political favoritism and a criminal investigation, announced his resignation Monday amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis.

When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.

IBM Corp. has been temporarily banned from receiving future contracts with federal agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed on Monday.

For the price of a good men's suit, a batch of new services will scan your genes and spot potential health risks, from cancer to lower back pain.

Chronic heartburn is a daily acid bath for the esophagus, and complications from it are on the rise. New government figures show a worrisome increase in esophagus disorders from severe acid reflux. The worst one, esophageal cancer, is continuing its ...

The Christian Science Monitor - The list reads more like demands from a Hollywood agent than from a candidate to lead the schools for an antebellum-tinged suburb of Atlanta.

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.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, an investment bank beset by rumors of not having enough funding, said it is issuing $3 billion of convertible preferred shares.

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 ...

Zimbabwe's opposition warns of plans to steal the vote, as the first official election results slowly emerge.

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 horny English youths turned an end-of-school celebration into a 200-person public orgy in the middle of the village square. Our high school's graduation ice cream party doesn't seem so special anymore. (telegraph.co.uk, thumb via Naughty America ...

In The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs followed all the rules in the Bible as literally as he could. The book that came out of the year has several layers.- An exploration of some of the Bible's startlingly relevant rules. I tried not to covet, ...

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.

AprilFoolsDayOnTheWeb brings you the most complete listing of April Fools' Day Jokes that Web Sites have run each year from 2004 all the way up to today. Also, the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. Meanwhile, Google seems to be up to its o ...

Lyndon Johnson believed that his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign would free him to solidify his legacy–but four days later, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Public concern over ecological damage inflicted by human activity has led to growing recognition of the general importance of issues relating to biological science. Unfortunately, the dispute between creationists and upholders of the theory of evolut ...

The Ripster phenomenon was identified back in 2006, and apparently, the movement has started to build momentum. I, for one, welcome our new rock-hard nerd overlords.

Just a couple of responses to various comments in the post below. It's true I'm being sloppy and conflating "sex" and "gender." For those for whom it wasn't clear, the biological differences I'm referring to are primarily, though not entirely, the ...

You can read this Alterman article if only because he quotes me.And then extending that quote a bit, just try to imagine a parallel universe in which a Democratic president had been stuck in the low 30s in the polls for 2 years. Imagine how they'd b ...

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...

Something I didn't know, but now that I do, it makes sense. — — One of the reasons I'm not so popular in the tech industry is that I'm an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama, and I look forward to the day, coming soon, when the Republ ...

Wired has a fascinating photo-essay with narratives from famous innovators explaining where they were when they had their biggest idea. — — For example, Reed Hastings got the idea for Netflix in a movie rental place in La Honda, CA (a fa ...

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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 ...

the full article details Al Jaffee's illustration process  

a perfect snapshot of the Mosaic homepage from October 1994, thanks to JWZ  

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  

Strephon Taylor liked the Bed Bug Murder label I posted about a while back. He also digs William S. Burroughs, whose bug fascination and experiences as an exterminator appear throughout his novels. So inspired by both, Taylor created a fantastic Mugw ...

It being the tenth anniversary of Mozilla, Jamie "Founder of Mozilla Project" Zawinski has declared today "Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!" He's mirroring a bunch of lovely old pages from "home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communicati ...

Doran sez, "Flickr user el_rebelde has created a small but wonderful set of images from the Big Dipper roller coaster at Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio. His notes say it was built in the 1920's and ended service in 1978." Haunting pix indeed. Link (Thanks, ...

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 ...

At the Berkman - Annenberg Re:Public Media conference at USC, I ran into Tristan Harris who was at the event to drum up interest in Apture. Apture lets a site owner easily insert links to multimedia content. This post is full of them. It is extremely ...

No this isn't an early April Fool's joke. Harmonix, MTV Games and Valve have teamed up to release Portal endsong Still Alive on Rock Band tomorrow for free. That's free for the Xbox 360 and free for the Playstation 3. "While the cake may be a lie, th ...

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

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming. "The world is waiting for a so ...

The water supply crisis is not just a third world issue. Nevada’s Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the U.S., could go dry by 2021, according to a pair of scientists at the Scripp’s Institute of Oceanography in San Die ...

University of California scientists are building a distributed earthquake-detection system that uses the accelerometers inside many notebooks, including MacBooks.