04/04/08

Recent research suggests that: There is no clear evidence of benefit from drinking increased amounts of water. In particular, scientists found no evidence that the common recommendation of eight 8-oz glasses of water per day has any benefit. NPR bu ...

The bracket for Market Madness (aka the Fed 2008 Final Four Rate Cuts) pairs the biggest banks in the world against each other. Who'll be bailed out next? See also: Bracket Madness. (link)

Short interview with bassist Colin Greenwood about the State of Radiohead, among other things. Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of Hail to the Thief put forth the idea that "anything Radiohead does from here on out will sound like Radiohead"...CG: Th ...

Kevin Kelly says that people whose fields have been Turing'd -- outsourced in some way to computers -- are in general more receptive to then adopting other potentially disruptive technologies. We have this long list of tasks and occupations that we ...

People have a limited supply of willpower. The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news, however, is that practice increases willpower capacity, so that i ...

joshua : Practical Fluid Mechanics Tags : dev sim vis

nelson : Some VC advice - Good basic cynicism for entrepreneurs Tags : business startup venturecapital

deusx : The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving - "And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world's smartest young people and using them to sell online te ...

Andy Baio : South Park meets the Internet Stars - takes on Tay Zonday, Tron guy, Chris Crocker, Afro-Ninja, SWK, Dramatic Chipmunk, Numa Numa, and more

Linkorama : Careful What You Tweet on Twitter - A subpoena in the TXTmob case could mean IMs, mobile text messages and even Twitter messages can be used in court. Tags : im legal sms twitter

yeah, no shit... ;-(

someday I will have me an eeepc and need this

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

Stevey is hard core

very good notes

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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 ...

Ant writes "Ars Technica says Panda Labs' first quarter 2008 malware report raises a new concern, though it comes from a surprising direction. According to the company, boot sector viruses loaded with rootkits are poised to make a comeback. This hone ...

An anonymous reader writes "Engineers' focus and attention to details, along with their perceived lack of social skills, make them ideal targets to be recruited as terrorists, according to EETimes. Planning skills make engineers good 'field operative ...

An anonymous reader writes "You may have heard about Intel's and Microsoft's efforts to finally get multi-core programming into gear so that there actually will be a developer who can program all those fancy new multicore processors, which may have d ...

warrior_s writes "Douglas Merrill was just installed as CIO of EMI (one of the big four that forms the RIAA). The ex-Googler recently stated it is a 'poor business model to sue your customers. I don't think that's a sustainable strategy.' Quoted by t ...

An anonymous reader writes "Nearly a year after all the fanfare unveiling a new touchscreen tabletop interface, Microsoft's Surface computer will finally appear in select AT&T stores later this month. Popular Mechanics tech editor Glenn Derene, w ...

esocid writes "In a modern equivalent of flashing your headlights to warn other motorists of police speed traps, you can now warn fellow drivers with a cell phone or personal digital assistant about speed traps, red-light cameras, and other threats t ...

Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists Thursday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence in trying to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-yea ...

Iraq's prime minister pledged Thursday to expand his crackdown on Shiite militias to Baghdad, despite a mixed performance so far against militants in the southern city of Basra.

Barack Obama raked in $40 million in March, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton and her $20 million in the fundraising dust and stuffing his campaign treasury so he can outspend her in the crucial Pennsylvania primary.

To fix a potentially fatal shaking problem on its snazzy new moon rocket, NASA is considering something that works for mud-stained pickup trucks: heavy-duty shock absorbers.

More than four months after Amazon.com released the Kindle, no one is sure whether the latest e-book reader is really hot — or not. But publishers believe that the Kindle has helped, if not revolutionized, the tiny electronic market.

ATA Airlines has discontinued all flights and filed for bankruptcy.

They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The Boston boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes ...

A "Goldilocks" was found sleeping in a Chehalis home. Deputy Police Chief Randy Kaut said when the family woke up Wednesday they found an 18-year-old stranger asleep in a bed.

Police are searching for a man accused of shoving an electric guitar in his pants and walking out of a store in Lewiston, Maine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bear Stearns could not be allowed to collapse because it could have shattered confidence in financial markets and caused lasting damage to the economy, top regulators said on Thursday in defending the rescue of what was once th ...

A new excavation at Stonehenge, which started March 31st, will attempt to once-and-for-all (again) determine who built Stonehenge and why. This week's theory - it was a health resort, where people across the country visited to receive magical healing ...

Zimbabwe police reportedly raid an opposition office and arrest foreign journalists, as the country awaits poll results.

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 ...

For untold generations, mankind has argued about the size of the boat versus the motion of the ocean ... and still hasn't come up with a definitive answer yet. After having their sleep-deprived staff pore over thousands of hours of stock pornography ...

Recent research suggests that: There is no clear evidence of benefit from drinking increased amounts of water. In particular, scientists found no evidence that the common recommendation of eight 8-oz glasses of water per day has any benefit. NPR bu ...

Earlier today, I received an email from Steve Ducharme, the producer/ director of the Internet Power series that I digitized last month. "I produced, edited and narrated that video many years ago," he wrote. "Thanks for digging it out. I haven't se ...

Some paintings by Abraham Brewster. (not this one) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Current work on this page.

360 Cities contains over 6,000 fantastically shot virtual reality panoramas of 50+ cities worldwide. It's also accessible through Google Earth and Google Maps. Too immersive for you? Well, check out VeniVidiWiki to discover points of interest with ...

Amazon.com dropped a bombshell on the publishing industry with the announcement on Friday that they will no longer allow print on demand books printed by vendors other than Amazon, to be sold directly by Amazon. In other words, use our print services ...

James Clapper , undersecretary of defense for intelligence, has just recommended closing the Counterintelligence Field Activity program, a 1,000-man agency (mostly contractors with a secret budget) set up shortly after 9/ 11 to fight foreign te ...

Sure it's a nice feel good thing with some benefits if a bunch of people volunteer to clean the streets of Philadelphia. But then they'll go home, and more trash will be generated and scattered around. The city needs to have more comprehensive stre ...

If someone offers you a sample of quality Jamón Ibérico, you eat it. ...and with a little pa amb tomàquet....mmmm....

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...

First, sorry for the light posting, I've had a bad cold for the last 3 days, and have mostly been sleeping and getting caught up on Battlestar Galactica in preparation for the season premiere on Friday. Some call it the SuperBowl of SciFi. I can't wa ...

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 ...

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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 ...

takes on Tay Zonday, Tron guy, Chris Crocker, Afro-Ninja, SWK, Dramatic Chipmunk, Numa Numa, and more  

butternut reduction  

he should run for the President of YouTube  

old but good, I still can't get past level 12  

these videos of kids rocking out brings joy into my heart  

 

even their joke typefaces get them paid  

Upper Playground artist Jeremy Fish created this Barry the Beaver toy. You twist the tree stump and Barry vibrates. It's available for $45 for Ningyoushi.com, an incredible online supplier of Japanese toys, action figures, and designer toys. Denise f ...

On Tuesday, a man broke into a funeral parlor in Madrid Spain. When police arrived, he tried to hide by playing dead in a glass chamber used for viewings. The cops nabbed him anyway. From the Associated Press: "The custom here is for dead people to b ...

National Geographic's award-nominated feature on China's "instant cities" is online. It's a fascinating feature about the massive coastal manufacturing towns that now house 140 million people who've moved from the countryside as part of the largest m ...

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 ...

Alexander Johannesen talks about digital libraries. [Caveat: Live-blogging ahead.] Libraries traditional have had ideals: To secure a significant record, meeting needs of users, access to collections, etc. He states "the bleeding obvious," beginning ...

newVideoPlayer("Halo3_ST_gawker.flv", 463, 287,""); If you can't wait for the Halo Legendary Map Pack, Bungie understands. And while they won't be releasing any maps earlier than their April 14th target, they are happy to give you a trailer to set th ...

G4 has been spending some time with a build of Haze on the Playstation 3 and created this video to show off some new bits of in-campaign play. I know the buzz on this game has been waxing and waning, but I remain intrigued with both the game's story ...

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 ...

Steal a car in Calgary and the city's internet posse of gearheads will bring you down. Just ask The Claw.