04/03/08

I did embarrassingly bad on this Elements of the Periodic Table quiz. I blanked after naming 17 elements in 2 minutes. Oh, and xylophone is not an element! My physics degree should be retroactively unawarded. (via mouser) (link)

Slowing down the playback of a 1999 Apple commercial = drunk Jeff Goldblum. "Internet? I'd say Internet." Great stuff, indeed. (via cynical-c) (link)

Roger Ebert announces his return to his Sun-Times reviewing gig...but not his TV show because he's currently unable to speak. Are you as bored with my health as I am? I underwent a third surgery in January, this one in Houston, and once again there ...

The new design for UK coinage is fantastic. As you can see in the image to the right, the Shield of the Royal Arms has been given a contemporary treatment and its whole has been cleverly split among all six denominations from the 1p to the 50p, with ...

A golden oldie from Matt Jones in 2001: WebDogme. Two Danish filmmakers, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995 responded to what they saw as the increasing inhumanity and formulaic commerciality of effects-heavy, franchise-friendly feature fi ...

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Linkorama : Professor Lee - In order for a Socialtext implementation to be successful, the company will require people to use it (opportunity: change management) and the processes to support its use (opportunity: re-engineered, streamlined business p ...

Simon Willison : OpenID and Spam - OpenID and Spam. Matt Mullenweg: "OpenID has a ton of promise for the web–let's not hurt it by setting people up for disappointment by telling them it's a spam blocker when it's not." True for the cas ...

Simon Willison : CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer - CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer. Official Microsoft guide to which CSS properties are supported by which versions of IE. This is the kind of documentation browser vendors should be ...

Simon Willison : Firefox 3's password remembering - Firefox 3's password remembering. I'm loving Firefox 3, and the way it does password remembering (with a non-modal toolbar so you can tell if your password worked before deciding to save it) ...

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"Convert Online flv Youtube Videos direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, mp3, mp4 and Mobile." Cool.

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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.

One of the biggest surprises this April Fool's day was GameTap's release of Captain McGrandpa - Memory of the Forgotten. You download the game and when you go to play it, a launcher appears. You click on Play Game and your redirected to a thread on t ...

Preedit writes "Nick White, the in-house Microsoft blogger who wrote about all things Vista, has resigned. White is leaving Redmond to join the blog-centric marketing and public relations firm BuzzCorps. White did not provide a reason for his decisio ...

r3lody writes "Finding a single book that encompasses what you want to learn can be difficult. Most cover a few portions of a subject in depth and skim over (or omit) others. Other books will cover each topic at about the same level: high enough to g ...

bunratty writes "Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released today. This last beta release sports performance-boosting improved connection parallelism. Not only has 'the memory leak' been fixed: Firefox now uses less memory than other browsers. This is not only ac ...

eldavojohn writes "Which companies contribute the most to the Linux kernel? Well, The Linux Foundation released their results and Novell's contributions have gone up 250% (from 3.6% of all contributions to 14.4% of all contributions) to put them at # ...

superglaze writes "Lieutenant General Robert J Elder, Jr, a senior figure in US Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER), has told ZDNet UK that communication issues are hampering the division's co-ordination. 'IT people set up traditional IT networks with ...

Skewz.com is not the Microsoft-funded Blews experiment that is supposed to help detect rightness and leftness in stories based on blogs that link to them. Instead of detecting blog links, Skewz relies on readers to submit and rate stories, and even t ...

Senate leaders announced an agreement Wednesday on legislation to ease the slumping housing market and help millions of families threatened by foreclosure.

Sen. Barack Obama received endorsements Wednesday from a labor union and a Democratic superdelegate, as he tried to regain the presidential campaign momentum he enjoyed before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won two large states last month.

For the first time, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged the U.S. could reel into recession from the powerful punches of housing, credit and financial crises. Yet, he was coy about the Fed's next move.

As more and more people drop their landlines, the wireless industry faces a challenge: poor cellular coverage within the home.

When antitrust regulators decided last week to allow the nation's only two satellite radio companies to become one, they put forth an unexpected argument — that the two companies largely do not compete with one another.

A group of children ages 8 to 10 apparently were mad at their teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, authorities say.

Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.

A burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling in for eternal rest.

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.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected Hillary Clinton's claims to be a champion of working families and portrayed his presidential rival as a defender of corporate interests and the status quo.

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 ...

President Robert Mugabe's party loses its majority in Zimbabwe's parliament, official results show.

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 ...

What is it with lesbians and their boats? We had no idea that putting two ladies together out on the high seas — or on a rather dingy looking river, for that matter — could have such erotic consequences, but apparently when those waves ar ...

I did embarrassingly bad on this Elements of the Periodic Table quiz. I blanked after naming 17 elements in 2 minutes. Oh, and xylophone is not an element! My physics degree should be retroactively unawarded. (via mouser) (link)

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 ...

IDEA the International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1997 as a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. Be sure not to miss the special collections.

No, not Pugsly. If you are watching the miniseries on HBO but still haven't gotten your fill of the Adams Family, consider reading John Quincy Adams' brilliant diaries. You can browse selected topics and read, in his own handwriting, J.Q. Adams' i ...

Owl Cam. Physics professor sees Great Horned Owl nesting outside window & sets up webcam. They are often very still, but every so often the babies will try out their wings and hop around. The adults are very large--bigger than a fat cat.

Klaus Dinger, drummer and co-founder of Krautrock titans Neu! (with Michael Rother) and drummer on the first Kraftwerk LP, has passed away at age 61. A sad day for motorik fans. Great post from February about the KraftNeu! collaboration.

There seems to be 3 issues getting all confused with respect to the FL and MI delegates. One question is whether some minor muckety mucks from places called "Florida" and "Michigan" get to go to the party in Denver. A second question is how many of ...

To answer Josh's question, and echoing a discussion I was having with BooMan yesterday, there are parts of the country where everybody truly hates Hillary Clinton, where late 90s era Freeper mentality governs. Democrats may not feel that way, but th ...

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's always darkest just before dawn, the saying goes. Yesterday I said we probably weren't going to get the campaign conf calls, and today I got one. — — sundaygang.com/ clinton/ 2008/ 04/ 02/ call1.mp3 — — Thanks to Sarah L ...

To mark the 11th anniversary of Scripting News, here's a pointer to docs on the software I used to edit the site. — — www.scripting.com/ frontier/ netscripting/ newsPage.html — — I thought of what eventually became the weblo ...

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....Google - Introducing Gmail Custom Time - Be on time. Every time. (Because we all use Gmail!)....

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 ...

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lovely slow-motion Helvetica dunking; also: animate movement based on wind activity in your town  

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  

Edie sez, "I'm in the market for a digital SLR, and found something rather disturbing. B&H Photo says that to purchase a Fujifilm IS-1 camera, you must fill out an end user license agreement. Even weirder is the EULA itself: It asks what 'legitimate ...

The amazing Jessica Joslin has an exhibition of her curious creatures opening tomorrow night at the Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Running until April 26, the exhibition coincides with the release of Joslin's new monograph, titled Strange ...

Danny sez, "Following on from the memo allowing torture overseas, Kurt Opsahl from EFF has spotted a footnoted reference to a memo from the Administration that says 'our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domest ...

Hot off the press... Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding San Francisco, CA, USA -- April 1, 2008 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the body of creative work available to the public for legal sharing ...

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 ...

Five mobile games and two iPod games were released by EA's Casual Entertainment label today. The seven games include two mobile Sims games and a slew of board games. "EA Mobile continues to create and distribute games that compel potential customer ...

Are you dreading spending $55 on a new DualShock 3? Then how about spending $60 on a generic? This Zero controller by Nyko promises all the wireless rumble/ tilt of the DualShock 3. But why would you spend more than on official Sony gear? It features ...

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 ...

Los Angeles County wants to tax your God-given right to drive in order to finance mass transit. They're calling it a "climate change mitigation and adaptation fee." Critics call it B.S.