04/02/08

A profile of elaborate huckster Pat Robertson. Here's the introduction to the article from the VQR blog: Sizemore looks at Roberton's weight-loss diet shakes, his Liberian diamond-mining operation, African gold-mining operation, his Cayman Island fo ...

A collection of pairs of photos, one taken just before a person's death and one after. I wish they displayed the pairs side-by-side. (link)

A short list of What Every American Should Know About the Middle East. Arabs are part of an ethnic group, not a religion. Arabs were around long before Islam, and there have been (and still are) Arab Christians and Arab Jews. In general, you're an A ...

Clothing libraries loan clothes out for free (or a small fee) to unemployed people for job interviews or to expecting mothers so they don't have to buy a whole bunch of maternity clothes. Great idea. (via magnetbox) (link)

According to a simple statistical analysis using computer simulations, a hitting streak as long as Joe DiMaggio's 1941 56-game streak is not the freakish occurrence that most people think it is. More than half the time, or in 5,295 baseball universe ...

factoryjoe : FireShot - Take screenshots of web pages with Firefox extension! - Firefox extension for capturing screenshots of web pages Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: firefox, extension, screenshots

factoryjoe : The Frog (Image Resizing Demo) Information - Resizing the browser window may allow you to stretch the image up and down, or left to right. But most browsers only allow this in Quirks Mode. Switch to XHTML Strict Mode, a ...

43folders : Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Event Video/ Audio) | Berkman Center - via bb

deusx : del.icio.us/ url/ e4b412b32753515c18e9cce6d540fb76 - sga_flashfic: Fic: Hope, Duty, Pride, Home (Family Challenge) - there's always an edge case: "first posted by anassa to type:fanfic fandom:sga genre:slash genre:het genre:futurefic gen ...

joshua : The lightest lightweight threads, Protothreads Tags : dev

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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Gmail: Google’s approach to email: Here’s Google’s April Fools Day entry for this year. Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in ...

Sick hackers start seizures: If this is true, it’s pretty messed up. SICKO HACKERS posted JavaScript code and flashing computer animation on an epilepsy site with the aim of triggering migraines and seizures in users. The non-profit Ep ...

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.

    We just got the news that next week we get to pick up my nephew Brandon! This is exciting news and I'm glad that finally the wait is over. I'll be gone for two weeks while we are picking him up and enjoying the culture ...

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday Engadget Mobile received a nice letter from Deutsche Telekom / T-Moblie demanding that they stop using the color magenta on engadgetmobile.com. ("Yep, seriously" they say.) Today several sites have gone magenta ...

AngryDad writes "Beginning last September, all vehicles sold in the US have been required to have Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) installed. An article up at HexView enumerates privacy issues introduced by TPMS, and some of them look pretty sc ...

hol writes sends a followup on Creative Labs shutting down the modder who made their drivers work with Vista. Wired is running daniel_k's response to the contretemps."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a 25-page decision (PDF) which has been awaited for two years in Elektra v. Barker, Judge Kenneth M. Karas has rejected the RIAA's 'making available' theory and its 'authorization' theory, but sustained the sufficiency ...

eldavojohn writes "A teacher is offering empirical evidence that when you're mining data, augmenting data is better than a better algorithm. He explains that he had teams in his class enter the Netflix challenge, and two teams went two different ways ...

Trintech writes points us to an AppleInsider article about another class-action lawsuit directed against Apple Inc. This one claims that the displays on new 20" iMacs are only capable of 6-bit-per-pixel color, 98% fewer colors than Apple advertises. ...

Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault and their huge profits are in ...

Democratic leaders returned from their spring break this week to declare that Iraq is in turmoil and that they will continue to try to force President Bush to end the war. But facing another uphill battle, party members are undecided on whether to tr ...

Sen. Barack Obama is talking about the elephant in the room — Republican rival John McCain — and all but ignoring the Democrat who stands between him and his party's presidential nomination.

The free Linux operating system handles big tasks like running supercomputers and ATMs. Now Linux has a chance to finally crack Microsoft Corp.'s hold on computing's most visible domain — mainstream PCs — because of the rise of innovative, inexpens ...

It must be tough to be 34 and already see your children overshadow you.

Reuters - Preschoolers whose mothers regularly ate low-mercury fish during pregnancy may have sharper minds than their peers, a study suggests.

A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

A developmental problem split Angel the dog's leg, making her look like a five-legged pet. Veterinarian Frank Krupka, with the Avon Lake Animal Clinic in suburban Cleveland, said he's never seen anything like it.

A South Dakota man faces three felony charges after he allegedly got drunk and went on a rampage with a snow shovel at a Bismarck gas station.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama assailed potential White House opponent John McCain on the economy on Tuesday, accusing the Republican of favoring the wealthy and turning his back on struggling workers and middle-c ...

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 leader and a government minister deny reports of a deal for Robert Mugabe to step down.

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 ...

— Jana Jordan might have moved out of the Ninn Worx_SR contract stable a few weeks ago, but she's still keeping occupancy on the "House Of Jordan", the second installment of which ships this week. With housemates like Justine Joli, Charlie Lain ...

Valleywag has an extremely interesting

Japan started early with the April 1st specialties, but the jokes continue. Thanks to everyone who helps collecting Google's April Fool's pranks in the forum (or sent in things via mail)! Here's the list of Google's jokes and Google-related pranks fr ...

Clayton James Cubitt's photographs of a manufactured vagina. Male to female transsexual. This is a manufactured vagina. A Neovagina.This is genital origami, the cock cut open, carved and folded, crafted by techniques with names like Penile Inversion ...

Just received word that Game Neverending is back online! This game was extremely innovative, but played by very few people during its limited beta test. One of the very first web-based MMOs, Game Neverending was eventually shut down as the Ludicorp ...

According to the English language addition of the Asahi Shimbun, an Israeli airstrike against Syria last September targeted a nuclear-related facility that was under construction with technical assistance from North Korea, according to Israel's prime ...

Mario Paint Composer emulates and extends the compsoer function from Mario Paint for the SNES. It has been used extensively to cover classic game music, popular hits both old and new, some of the greatest songs on earth, and even the occasional cla ...

This is impressive. Two authors have made a "authorized" pirate edition of a forthcoming book available via multiple torrent networks. It will be interesting to see if it helps, hurts or contributes no effect to sales. "This book com ...

Facial Expression Simulator Apparently it's useful for helping autistics learn facial expressions, among other things. Related.

Finally.

enjoy

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...

Watch out for the lunacy tomorrow as April Fools is celebrated on blogs and other websites far and wide. I imagine it's already started since it must be April 1 in New Zealand or Australia by now. — — Here on Scripting News we celebrate s ...

— — Working my way through Season 3, in prep for Season 4, which starts this week. — —

.... 18:31 @mermaidclaire me=dork. i see now that it totally had the "i can has sleepz nao?" vibe. 18:32 gonna watch Velvet Goldmine once more before returning it to Netflix. christian bale so hot my TV melts. loudtwitter: purveyor of b ...

....Over the weekend, WordPress released WordPress 2.5, the result of over six months of development. It comes with a bunch of new features and improvements, including a redesigned dashboard developed ....

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 ...

understated and unexpected, it fooled me  

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  

Cecile Dubuis wrote a master's dissertation for University College London titled "Libraries & The Occult." I've only read bits of it, but the challenge she identifies is that occult books are, by their nature, anomalous and hard to categorize, much l ...

Sidewalk Psychiatry is a series of stencils sprayed onto pavement that ask introspective questions. From artist Candy Chang's statement: While doing some habitual walking and thinking one morning, Candy thought it would be nice to have some help alon ...

Last week, I posted that a team of New Zealand researchers found a slew of interesting species in Antarctic waters. Some of the animals they discovered in the Ross Sea may be entirely new to science. National Geographic has posted a slideshow of the ...

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 ...

From a terrific piece in the Washington Post by Jose Antonio Vargas: After Obama's speech on race, cable news anchors repeatedly replayed sound bites from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons, which were uploaded on YouTube and linked on countless bl ...

There are a lot of splendid jokes hitting the net today, a lot of bad ones too, but this wonderful Zelda the Movie trailer created by IGN has to take the cake. I for one am happy it's a prank, Link, a real Link, wearing that silly little green hat is ...

Clearly, this April Fool's Day thing has gone too far. Joke's over, people. We simply can't revisit our painful teenage years, when so many of us were legitimately fooled by EGM's legendary Sheng Long gag while loitering near the Waldenbooks magazine ...

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 ...

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tells the crowd at the annual CTIA Wireless show that he would oppose Skype's petition to open up wireless carriers' networks.