04/06/08

Great set of photographs showing how the Space Shuttle gets ready for takeoff, from the Vehicle Assembly Building all the way to the launch pad. (link)

How to catch a thief...of Netflix DVDs: After having to file multiple Netflix movies as "lost in the mail" I began to get suspicious that there was more than just a careless mailman at fault. So what better to do than point a video camera at the mai ...

The new Coen Brothers film sounds interesting: Burn After Reading is an upcoming comedy film, set for a September 12, 2008 release, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt, and made by Joel and Ethan C ...

Steve Zissou and friends, done with Legos. (link)

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

Greg Storey : The boys at Resist Today want you to remix their art. - Interesting idea. Tags : Design

Greg Storey : xScope 2.1 is here. - Thanks guys. Tags : Apple

jcgregorio : Labor market deterioration - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog - Nobody in the MSM describes it as 'the second bush recession'.

deusx : Secret Experiment » My son, Luke Tags : congrats!

Greg Storey : Ian Adelman set to leave New York Mag. - Good luck Ian, it was great working with you! Tags : Internet

"Barnette said most of Yahoo's came at the expense of Google (GOOG), which represented less than 70% of search spending for the first time since the beginning of 2007."

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

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US man gets $2.6m for domain name: Great story here. I wonder who bought it. I imagine we’ll find out shortly, because given the amount of advertising the U.S. pizza chains do, it will likely be all over the TV in a few weeks. A US man ha ...

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 ...

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 ...

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter sent today, Microsoft writes to Yahoo's board of directors to tell them that they would like to 'negotiate a definitive agreement on a combination of our companies.' Their message is a combination of friend and ...

Lucas123 writes "Using mean time between failure rates suggest that disks can last from 1 million to 1.5 million hours, or 114 to 170 years, but study after study shows that those metrics are inaccurate for determining hard drive life. One study foun ...

Roland Piquepaille writes "We've been told for several years that RFID tags would eventually be everywhere. This isn't the case yet, but researchers at the University of Washington would like to know if the future of social networking could be affect ...

eldavojohn writes "Now that Verizon has beaten Google in the 'block C' spectrum auction, what are they going to do with it? Well, as of today they've revealed their plans for world domination: they plan to speed up wireless internet connections. It m ...

GnomeIllusionist writes "In their continuing tribute to Gary Gygax, Wired has created character sheets for nine celebrities. Apparently, Stephen Hawking can do 10D6 radiation damage to his enemies and Rick Astley is a 20th-Level bard. Steve Jobs' bla ...

os2man writes "ApacheCon Europe 2008, the official user conference of the Apache Software Foundation will be held 7 April through 11 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some of the tracks will be broadcast via live streaming: System Administration ( ...

President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened suspenseful farewell talks Saturday as the White House abandoned hopes they would resolve differences on U.S. missile defense plans, one of the most contentious issues in a long list of secur ...

When Army Gen. David Petraeus delivers his assessment of the Iraq war next week, the next commander in chief will weigh in as well.

Microsoft Corp. sent a letter to the Yahoo Board of Directors Saturday setting a three-week deadline for moving forward on its more than $40 billion buyout offer.

Microsoft Corp. sent a letter to the Yahoo Board of Directors Saturday setting a three-week deadline for moving forward on its more than $40 billion buyout offer.

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.

LiveScience.com - Having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, tying the knot saves an hour of weekly chores.

It's no longer a question of recession or not. Now it's how deep and how long. Workers' pink slips stacked ever higher in March as jittery employers slashed 80,000 jobs, the most in five years, and the national unemployment rate climbed to 5.1 percen ...

The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hour power outage in Stockholm's central train station, halting elevators and escalators.

Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle — an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford Shopping Center late ...

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush joined Russia's Vladimir Putin in a folk dance on Saturday as they paraded their personal chemistry a final time before getting down to tricky talks on NATO and missile defense.

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 main opposition leader accuses President Mugabe of preparing to go to war against the country's people.

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 ...

A look back at the week that was ... · Well, that was fun. Let's do it again next year! (Or not!) · This was the best clash of the titans since ... well, "Clash Of The Titans" · Just because a movie is arty and stuff doesn't mea ...

Great set of photographs showing how the Space Shuttle gets ready for takeoff, from the Vehicle Assembly Building all the way to the launch pad. (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 ...

Free Speculative Fiction Online is a database of free science fiction and fantasy stories online by published authors (no fan-fiction or stories by unpublished writers). Among the authors that FSFO links to are Paul Di Filippo (14 stories), James Tip ...

For those of you who are celebrating Tartan Day on April 6, a little primer on tartans. Tartans began in Scotland as woven wool patterns used as district identifiers, created using locally popular patterns and, originally, different natural wool colo ...

Behold Claude, the Kung-Fu Bear. [Via]

The show Sin Cities hosted by Ashley Hames is NSFW or most other places. — Episodes include: — — Human Furniture — Pig Man Fetish — and — Puppy Play Fetish

I wasn't born yet, so I don't know, but I'm skeptical.

This stuff really is fascinating.For hundreds of homeowners in this mostly middle-class corner of Denver – and an estimated 1.2 million more nationwide – the wave of foreclosures battering U.S. financial markets is quickly unraveling the American ...

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 we got our first look at the Clinton's tax returns, and the top line is a stunner. $109 million over the last seven years. Before that I found Obama's income from his book, about $1 million, a bit hard to deal with. But the Clintons blow th ...

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 ...

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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  

Today, my family rode the carousel in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Usually, the soundtrack is recorded organ and calliope music. But this morning, Abraham, the cool clown who was at the helm, was playing awesomely insane music that reminded me o ...

This Ann Arbor, MI Craiglist "missed connections" ad is a sincere and lovely note of thanks from one toker to another: I called you from my cell phone but had completely forgot who I was calling by the time you answered the phone. Of course, you were ...

Artist Gerald Scarfe created this chair/ sculpture that looks like Chairman Mao (by way of Jabba the Hutt), so you can be cushioned by the gentle curves of the Great Helmsman as you play on your Xbox. Link...

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 ...

Damian Kulash Jr., of the band OK Go, has a great Net neutrality op-ed in the NY Times. He ties it back to the rules of common carriage. Here's an excerpt:They won't be blocking anything per se – we'll never know what we're not getting – they'll ...

Sorry if this one is a little late to the party. But it's the weekend, time for some longer think pieces. And besides, finding posts for Kotaku on the weekend is a bit like drafting a fantasy team. (Alright, World of Warcraft violence study, I'm goin ...

I never liked group projects as an undergrad, and that was just for boring things like presentations — the idea of having my graduate thesis dependent on a whole team of (interdisciplinary) people besides my dissertation committee makes my bloo ...

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 ...

Microsoft says Yahoo has three weeks to negotiate a decent deal, after which time Microsoft is going to get medieval on its ass.