04/09/08

Graphical demonstration of the hand signals needed to buy and sell commodities on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. (link)

Video of the top 50 soccer goals. A dubbed-from-VCR YouTube video is probably not the best way to watch these, but that's the hand we've been dealt. (link)

My wife is a bit of a statistics nut. A few years ago, she hooked herself up to a heart rate monitor during a playoff football game and graphed the results. Sometimes I think she does things just so she's got an excuse to open up Excel. So I wasn't r ...

Everything I Know About Hyman Victor is one man's remembrance of his great grandfather through old photographs and documents. (link)

I feel like I've posted this one before but the Google says no so....LUNCH is a blog written by a couple of NYC architects who believe in the sanctity, sanity, and satiety of the lunch break. We believe leaving the office everyday for lunch is an in ...

Linkorama : IBM Pitches Mashup Suite to 'Enterprise 2.0' - Big Blue ratchets up Web 2.0 strategy with new, lightweight data-integration offerings for businesses. Tags : IBM mashup

Andy Baio : Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - Wilson Miner explains how EveryBlock does it; also, Paul Smith on how/ why they rolled their own maps

Andy Baio : Twubble, search for people you might know on Twitter - exceedingly easy to use, but must be hammering the Twitter API

joshua : Navigenics - Your genes offer a road map to optimal health Tags : dna

joshua : deCODEme, unlock your DNA Tags : dna

maybe I need one of these...

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

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Make sure machines dig your designs: XHTMLized: These guys do outsourced HTML/ CSS, nothing else. You send them a PSD, they send you back HTML/ CSS. Look super in all major browsers […] Optimized for search engines […] Accessibly rea ...

10 impossibilities conquered by science: This article is about a lot of things that science has done, but the last one is something we’ve discussed at least twice before: teleportation. What’s interesting are the comments. The commentor ...

Mary Roach, author of the new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, relates how she and her husband became the first couple to be filmed on 4-D ultrasound while having sex. We have the tape, too.

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 "2Wire manufactures DSL modems and routers for AT&T and other major carriers. Their devices suffer from a DNS redirection vulnerability that can be used as part of a variety of attacks, including phishing, identity thef ...

canadacow writes "iPhone developers enrolled and active in the iPhone OS 2.0 beta program got a nasty surprise today when Apple inadvertently 'expired' the recently released version. While for a beta program this typically would not be an issue, Appl ...

Dekortage writes "How long does it take to make a burger? Students from Purdue University's Society of Professional Engineers won the 2008 Rube Goldberg contest with a device that requires 156 steps to assemble a burger. According to the team captain ...

Lxy writes "After Xiotech purchased Seagate's Advanced Storage Architecture division, rumors circulated around what they were planning to do with their next-generation SAN. Today at Storage Network World, Xiotech answered the question. The result is ...

stress_life writes "Recent rumors about AMD firing 5% of its workforce proved to be understated. AMD just announced that the company is going to deliver pink slips to 1600-1700 workers, or around 10% of its employees. AMD needs revenue of $2 billion ...

hermit_crab writes "Janet and George McKee are the neighbors of the Borings, who we discussed yesterday as the couple suing Google over StreetView. The McKees own a house that is featured in a much more intrusive set of Google StreetView images. 'The ...

The U.S. general commanding the Iraq war called for an open-ended suspension of troop withdrawals this summer, reflecting concern about a recent flare-up in violence and leaving open the possibility that few, if any, additional troops will be brought ...

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Tuesday in his showdown with government, threatening to end formally a seven-month cease-fire unless authorities stop attacks on his followers in Baghdad.

The 16-year-old girl whose phone call triggered the massive raid on a polygamist sect's West Texas compound told a local family violence shelter that her husband beat and raped her, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks Corp. launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling U.S. business.

Personal navigation device maker TomTom NV shocked the market with a profit warning on Tuesday, blaming weak pricing power and European retailers for stocking fewer of its products.

Reuters - The distillers of Sweden's Absolut vodka have withdrawn an advertisement run in Mexico that angered many U.S. citizens by idealizing an early 19th century map showing chunks of the United States as Mexican.

Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an "animalistic attack" so they could make a videotape to post on YouTube.

Cedar Rapids police say a woman chased down a burglar, bagged him with an ice scrapper and then made him pick up the stolen loot he dropped when he fled.

Rapid City police say an intoxicated man has been arrested for standing in the middle of a street on Monday night and threatening motorists with a bow and arrows. Loren Two Bulls, 23, of Rapid City, was arrested.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress on Tuesday he plans to stop U.S. troop withdrawals in July due to fragile security gains in a war update that drew scrutiny from U.S. presidential candidates.

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. ...

The top US military leader in Iraq calls for troop withdrawals to be suspended to protect gains made in improved security.

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 ...

This is a another typical porn story. Girl buys miniature hot tub, Boy comes to service miniature hot tub, Boy services Girl next to miniature hot tub. We've seen it a hundred times. So what makes this one special? Well, besides the hotness of the Gi ...

Graphical demonstration of the hand signals needed to buy and sell commodities on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. (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 ...

Frank Newsome leads the congregation at the Little David Church in Hayside, Va. Old Regular Baptists, they sing the way people sang when they first came to the American colonies: without instruments or notation, and following their leader line by lin ...

Paul Theroux reviews Patrick French's frank, full, authorized (!) biography of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul. Sir Vidiadhar is not, in Theroux's estimation, a very nice man. He tortures his wife emotionally, his mistress physically, and h ...

Knuckle tattoos

The One Man Band has evolved. No longer will the one man band be burdened by the weight and bulk of backpack drum kits, guitars, or accordions - or knowing what notes to play. Behold! Beamz by The Sharper Image. Give your nearest buddy a high-five an ...

Enjoy.

Home prices:Based on 2006 housing costs, the cost of renting in the Phoenix area averages $862 while the average cost of owning can range from $1,343 to $1,804, depending on interest rates, the report said. That means that Phoenix rental costs can ra ...

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...

The last few years when something new hits the tech blogosphere, I usually kick back and think while so many others scramble for position on Techmeme. I find that by doing this I can usually find the nugget that they're all missing, assuming it's an ...

He sure knew what he was talking about! — — — — Hope he didn't get into too much trouble. — —

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....On an even more serious note, did you know that blogging can kill you? Special report at 11.....

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 ...

I feel the same way about DOFI  

innovative split-screen techniques and multitrack recording from the late '60s; high-quality video and backstory  

exceedingly easy to use, but must be hammering the Twitter API  

Wilson Miner explains how EveryBlock does it; also, Paul Smith on how/ why they rolled their own maps  

it's amazing how easy it is to get started; Nelson went from zero to app in 30 minutes  

entertaining, if only for the spot-the-fake games  

using Tweetscan as Clichewatch  

Barron YoungSmith of The New Republic says: I think you and your readers at Boing Boing will enjoy The New Republic's fascinating slide-show: Terrifying Early-1950s Comic Book Covers. These grim, pop-art images of severed heads and disintegrating h ...

God bless Rob Cockerham. He's a reality hacker who conducts prankish experiments to test the limits of corporate intelligence and behavior. He's a national treasure and a personal hero. In 2006 I blogged about his credit card application experiment a ...

Daniel Strohl says: Photo by Al Hicks, New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation A spelunker coworker of mine mentioned this yesterday and I haven't seen much mention of it in mainstream news media. Some mystery syndrome is causing several species ...

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 ...

This is a Google-automated translation of the Baidu page on Obama. (Baidu is the Chinese search engine.) * * * Ethan Zuckerman says his favorite way to browse GlobalVoices is through the digests page. [Tags: china global_voices obama baidu ]

How long can you tolerate this monologue without cringing or fast forwarding? I lasted about 8 seconds before my by-proxy embarrassment got the better of me. That's better than my mechanical bull record! Okay, without the crusty old curmudgeon attitu ...

When one thinks of games on the Wii, "creepy" perhaps isn't the first word that comes to mind. But, It is the first that comes to mind once you lay your hands on Deadly Creatures. Taking some inspiration from Bad Mojo, (the cockroach game) Deadly Cre ...

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

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The O+Stick shell with two O+ refill canisters -- one natural flavor and one peppermint. 95% enriched oxygen. $29.95 oxygenplus.com Forget "Green Capitalism" and lets jump straight to "Apocalypse Capitalism." Insert your sarcastic joke here.

In response to a grassroots legislative movement to phase out non-biodegradable plastic shopping bags, manufacturers are developing bags that will break down from prolonged exposure to oxygen or water. But environmental groups are unsatisfied, saying ...

While newspaper editors and their readers agree on the basic principles of good journalism, they don't agree on how much direct reader participation there should be on news sites.