04/07/08

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)

jcgregorio : Tet Happened, and No One Cared - New York Times - "We're succeeding," Mr. McCain said after his last trip to Iraq. "I don't care what anybody says." Again, it's the last sentence that's accurate.

plasticbag : I love the insane way this diagram of 'The Universal System' manages to completely denaturalise women, gay people, atheists and any non-American! - It's from Milton R Cudney's "Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors" (apparently ...

plasticbag : Stefanie Posavec "On the Map" - Absolutely fascinating book of what appear to be map-like visualisations of literary themes, books, sentence lengths and the like. I'm trying desperately to find out where to get my hands on it. Any id ...

plasticbag : Gorgeous pictures of laser-engraved MacBooks... - The last one on the page I think is absolutely beautiful. I wonder if there are any sites where you can find really amazing designs that you can take into a laser engraver to have put on ...

joshua : thread on visualization tools Tags : dev vis

drool...

"Blogging doesn’t need to be a race. Really."

"If you’re stressed out over 5,000 RSS feeds chances are good you’d be stressed by any profession you chose."

how to make mutt work with gmail... bu it's way slow for me

"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."

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USA TODAY Content Tree: While looking for an internal link for my last story, I Googled “the content tree.” The second result was interesting — a taxonomy of all USA Today stories in a clickable, expandable tree structure. The ...

Navigation is often a pain when it comes to content management. Now, don’t confuse “navigation” with information architecture — that grand plan of what goes where in relation to what. By “navigation,” I mean R ...

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 ...

jhealy1024 writes "The College Board recently announced it will be getting rid of the Advanced Placement Computer Science AB examination after May 2009. The 'A'-level exam will continue to be offered, though there is no word yet on what will become o ...

LinuxLefty writes "Reuters is reporting that Chinese authorities have lifted the ban on the English version of Wikipedia. The Chinese version of the site is still blocked, as are English-language versions of politically sensitive topics such as Tibet ...

twitter writes "If you use an insecure OS in the UK and someone drains your bank account, the banks say it's your fault. The Register reports: 'The Banking Code produced by the British Bankers' Association (BBA), and followed by most banks, makes it ...

S. Hare brings us a report from TorrentFreak about a lawyer working for a Swiss anti-piracy group who was recently given a 6-month ban for her attempts to intimidate file-sharers though letters threatening fines and court fees. Elizabeth Martin deman ...

Wired's Threat Level blog is reporting on an analysis of the cost of electronic voting compared to traditional methods of vote tallying. A group named SaveOurVotes examined Maryland's budget allocations for elections during their switch from optical ...

Andrew Feinberg points out a New York Times story about the stress put upon prolific bloggers to maintain a constant flow of content in order to satisfy both consumers and advertisers in the information age. When breaking a story first can generate t ...

Rockets or mortars slammed into the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad on Sunday, killing three American soldiers and wounding 31, an official said.

President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning.

Charlton Heston, the Oscar winner who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s and later championed conservative values as head of the National Rifle Association, has died. He was 84.

U.S. military officials seeking to boost the nation's cyberwarfare capabilities are looking beyond defending the Internet: They are developing ways to launch virtual attacks on enemies.

Microsoft set the clock ticking for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the Internet pioneer's board Saturday, warning that if a deal wasn't reached by April 26 the software maker would launch a hostile takeover at a less attr ...

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Charlton Heston, the Oscar winner who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s and later championed conservative values as head of the National Rifle Association, has died. He was 84.

A Reading man whose minivan crashed after he climbed on its roof while driving about 55 miles per hour is in fair condition this weekend.

Police say they got a major clue to the identity of a suspect in the armed robbery of a convenience store — his job application.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled gunmen in Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, a return to heavy fighting in the capital after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled his militiamen off the streets a week ago.

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 rejects calls by President Mugabe's party for a review of 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 ...

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 ...

Henry Miller Bathroom Monologues, part 2, part 3, and follow on - Miller takes us on a tour of the art in his bathroom. And a few years later, we have Dinner with Henry, 1979 . "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man a ...

I don't know about you, but I've always thought West Side Story needed a little extra something. Like Cher doing all the parts. (Part two).

Whip it out and dance don't be afraid (NSFW?). Yes! It is that time of the year again : today Japanese people celebrate Kanamara Matsuri (金まら祭り), the annual Kawasaki Fertility Festival (previously on Hōnen Matsuri (豊年祭)

Compulse - Drop the different blocks on the stage to affect the direction of the ball. Try to use as few as possible, but you may use as many as you want.

Huggy Bear's war is still awesome.

This is pretty depressing.And it's just of subprime loans. There are plenty of not subprime loans going under, too.(via Barry)

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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.... between painful reality and wishful dreams, I was determined to pursue my lifelong goal. Though it was very difficult for me to work my way through high school, I was satisfied that I could live my life in my own way. Authored by tutclass3. Ho ...

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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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel brings word of reader Willykea's newly discovered trove of vintage Epcot pix: Miraculously, on the day this was first posted I was cleaning out my garage and found a box containing a thick, full-color brochure fr ...

Kate sez, "I just finished a cross-stitch inspired by the famous Alfred Bester book The Demolished Man. I am a PhD student in cognitive science, so I couldn't resist turning the Greek symbol for 'psi' and logic symbol for negation (the tilde) into de ...

Further proof that physical fitness has gotten less and less fun over the ages: this Popular Science article from August, 1931: One of the newest of exercising devices is a mechanism that somewhat resembles a hobbyhorse without rockers. Seated in its ...

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 ...

A few weeks back, we mentioned a a funky little indie-in-production called Blueberry Garden; now the nice people at the Swedish Game Awards have let us know they've put up a short and sweet interview with Erik Sved�ng about the game. There's not a ...

I don't mean to make anyone uncomfortable, but good Lord, this gets me hard: Whatever your console, this trailer will convince you it's going to be awesome. Exclusive content and gameplay for all of them. God, now I want to buy a Wii. Right ...

Red, yellow and blue cars are on their way in a hurry to the Brooklyn side of the bridge.

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Tinkerer Phil Ross is a one-man laboratory for geeky eco-art experiments. His illuminated hydroponic sculpture, ‘cultured’ living organisms, and clever splicing of ancient and future technologies aim to make controlled environments and ga ...

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole issued a warming about climate change on Saturday, saying there could be "almost irreversible consequences" if the Earth warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees F) a ...

Birth control choices are wider these days for women 40 and older -- a group that once viewed its options as pretty much limited to tube-tying surgery and condoms. Both the pill and the IUD are available again for these women, and they are safer than ...