04/05/08

A list of 63 must-have grunge fonts. Back in 1996, this would have been my thing. Is grunge type coming back? (link)

Preliminary results from a small Swedish study suggest that effects of steroid use stay with you even after stopping. Rather than returning to their original proportions, the muscles of the steroid users who'd stopped taking the drug looked remarkab ...

Just got around to reading Ben McGrath's New Yorker profile of Lenny Dykstra, the former baseball All-Star who has, somewhat improbably, become rich post-baseball as a business owner and day trader. Dykstra last played in the majors in 1996, at age ...

Errol Morris returns to his Times blog for the first time since his examination of the Roger Fenton photographs and covers re-enactments in documentary films, a technique he pioneered in the excellent The Thin Blue Line, and how it applies to truth i ...

Based on a paper about "copy-move forgery", a couple of programmers have come up with a program that algorithmically detects whether a photograph has been photoshopped using the cloning technique. It works very well on Adnan Hajj's doctored Reuters p ...

Greg Storey : Happy to have you back Dean. - Also glad to hear you're well. Tags : Reading

deusx : Evaluating social bookmarking sites « PargoNet - Annotated link www.diigo.com/ bookmark/ http%3A%2F%2Fpargonet.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F04%2Fevaluating-social-bookmarking-sites Tags : no_tag

Jeremy Zawodny : FriendFeed API - FriendFeed API: this is sweet Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : Installing Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on my Asus Eee PC - Installing Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on my Asus Eee PC: this looks more involved than eeexubuntu Tags : links

Jeremy Zawodny : eeeXubuntu [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki] - eeeXubuntu [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki]: "eeeXubuntu is a custom version of the Xubuntu 7.10 Live CD with fully-integrated hardware support, including native wireless drivers, functioning Ethernet sup ...

oh, shit... that's funny!

"eeeXubuntu is a custom version of the Xubuntu 7.10 Live CD with fully-integrated hardware support, including native wireless drivers, functioning Ethernet support, tweaks for low-resolution desktop environments, and other miscellaneous fixes.&q ...

this looks more involved than eeexubuntu

wow, you can even overclock 'em

this is sweet

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Getting into Momofuku Ko: There’s apparently a super-hot restaurant in Manhattan that only takes reservations on the Net, no exceptions. Open tables are posted at 10 a.m. and are often gone in 2 or 3 seconds. Anything happening that fast on t ...

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 ...

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 ...

phorm writes "Not only is Bell interfering with third-party traffic, but — according to CBC — they want third-party ISP and phone carriers off their network entirely. Bell is lobbying to have lease-conditions on their networks removed, st ...

webarnold writes "A new concept computer is being designed to look like a tea cup. Using holographic projectors, view your data inside the cup, 'spilled' onto the table, or transfer it to other Cup PC users by pouring data into their cup." Acceptance ...

willdavid writes to mention Joe Panettieri is reporting that Microsoft is continuing their push for open source software interoperability. In the most recent push Microsoft is partnering with a small Silicon Valley company called SpikeSource to certi ...

CNet News.com is reporting that the Air Force's Cyber Command has just as much interest in offense as defense. "Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER), a US military unit set up in September 2007 to fight in cyberspace, is due to become fully operational ...

LinucksGirl writes to share an IBM DeveloperWorks article that shows how to support user verification through keystroke-dynamics processing by modifying the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). You can create and store a one-way encrypted hash of your keystr ...

In the wake of last week's driver debacle, Creative has finally decided to back down for PR purposes. Modder Daniel_K, author of the offending Vista drivers, has had his posts on the Creative forums reinstated. According to Creative the move was to a ...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton reported $20.4 million in income for 2007 and more than $109 million since 2000 as they gave the public the most detailed look at their finances in eight years. Almost half the former first cou ...

In a dramatic reversal, Iraq's prime minister ordered a nationwide freeze Friday on Iraqi raids against Shiite militants, bowing to demands by anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr only one day after promising to expand the crackdown to Baghdad.

To the untrained eye, the man looked like any other traveler as he waited in line at Kennedy Airport. But something about the way he was acting caught the attention of two security screeners.

What's scary, funny and boring at the same time? It could be a bad horror movie. Or it could be the fine print on your Internet service provider's contract.

In their subscriber contracts, some Internet providers explicitly absolve themselves of obligations that, it seems, no one would imagine they had in the first place.

David Sneath has worked at a Ford Motor Co. parts warehouse for 34 years, but it didn't take him any time at all to walk out once he discovered he had won a $136 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Pirates seized control of a French luxury yacht carrying 30 crew members Friday off the coast of Somalia, the French government and the ship's owner said.

A court has issued what could be at least a local first: an order of protection for a duck.

The much maligned mule is getting a day of celebration but will have to share the spotlight with a breed of even sorrier reputation — the politicians.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made $109 million since 2000, including $51 million in speech income for Bill Clinton, according to eight years of tax infor ...

There's a guy named Trevor Paglen. His obsession is military patches, the kind you wear on your sleeve. Many military programs are top secret and only identifiable by two things: 1. An undescribed line item on a Department of Defense expense report. ...

Zimbabwe's ruling party gives its backing to President Robert Mugabe's participation in a possible run-off vote.

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 ...

You don't usually go into a fine antique store expecting to get a piece of ass, and when you do you better hope it isn't more ancient or fragile than the other items on display: not only would that be a bit awkward, but you'd almost be afraid to the ...

A list of 63 must-have grunge fonts. Back in 1996, this would have been my thing. Is grunge type coming back? (link)

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 ...

"Death is nothing, I embrace death. It is not eternal. Afterwards, when we meet God, we become beautiful." –Maria Hai-Anh Tuyet Cao, 8/ 26/ 1951 - 2/ 15/ 2004 — — Life Before Death, an exhibit of life and death portraits, no ...

"My name is Mike Wallace. The cigarette is Philip Morris." Before there was 60 Minutes, there was The Mike Wallace Interview. Thirty minutes with Steve Allen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kirk Douglas, Pearl Buck, and Salvador Dali, to name just a few.

Taaz is a fun, easy-to-use website that gives women the opportunity to "try on" the hottest makeup and hairstyle looks from the convenience of their homes. From creating the perfect smoky eye to painting on a dramatic ruby-red lip for a night out ...

Attention drummers! Want to take all the attention away from the rest of the band... then just watch this masterclass. (SLYT)

Out for the evening soon. No Battlestar Galactica spoilers allowed.No flirting either.

It really is quite stunning.Last November, I noted that ABC's Nightline, its long-running signature news program, had essentially boycotted Iraq as a news story. I found that over an 18-week span, from mid-July through late November, Nightline aired ...

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...

Yesterday Seesmic announced that they're buying Twhirl, the AIR-based Twitter client. — — I usually don't comment on acquisitions, but this one is right up my alley and I can offer some insight without breaking any confidences. I've been ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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Michael Moulton, a prof at the University of Florida, is suing a company tha republishes his students' notes from class, because he says that taking notes on his classes and selling them violates his copyright. Those notes are illegal, Faulkner and M ...

A pit bull attacked Amy Rice's canine companion Ella. Rice couldn't get the dog off Ella so she bit it on the nose. Ella is recovering with staples and stitches while the pitbull is in quarantine. From the Associated Press: "I didn't plan it, that's ...

Hurrah for Clay Shirky for pulling off a masterful stint on The Colbert Report, promoting his new book Here Comes Everybody, one of the tightest, sweetest explanations of What The Internet Is For that I've ever read. Link (Thanks, Jeff!) See also: Cl ...

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 ...

During the end session, the moderator asked the panel why topic maps have not been catching on as quickly as they should. I suggested that one reason was that people think they're graphical representations, when in fact they're a data representation ...

It's time to charge up the AAs and get some much needed Wii time in. I'll be mucking around with a bit of Sega's The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, as I've never made it all the way through the third game in the series. I've also been slacking on pr ...

When long-time GameSpot reviewer and editorial director Jeff Gerstmann was let go from the site last November—with sources pointing to his review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men as the catalyst for his termination—fingers were also pointed at e ...

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 ...

Phone manufacturers, eager to make their handsets stand out, are cranking up the megapixels on their camera phones.