04/10/08

A list of "evil" human experiments, including the Stanford prison experiment (one of the milder examples) and the Nazi experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Heed the warning at the top of the page...this was a difficult list to read. (link)

The web site for Errol Morris' new movie, Standard Operating Procedure, is up. Looks like it supplements the movie with interviews, photos, etc. (link)

For scientist Dr. Anne Adams (and composer Maurice Ravel), a rare disease called frontotemporal dementia caused a burst of creativity. The disease apparently altered circuits in their brains, changing the connections between the front and back parts ...

Interview with young designer Nikolay Saveliev, who is responsible for this gorgeousness: I like the idea of a consolidated aesthetic totality; what you make looks like what you listen to, sounds like what you wear, and speaks like what you believ ...

A list of quintessentially New York books. New York is a hypertextualized city. By 6 a.m., our commuters have smudged more words off their papers than most cities read all day. How to even begin identifying a canon? While reading, I plotted candidat ...

Linkorama : 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft - Blizzard Entertainment, the envy of the computer game industry, has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business. Tags : customerservice innovation managemen ...

deusx : ThinkGeek :: 1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses - "These camera sunglasses certainly aren't x-ray specs, but they do capture 1.3 megapixel still images (at a resolution of 1280x1024)." Tags : cameras gadgets toys want wishlist

joshua : opentick - free real-time and historical market data for trading systems and trading platforms Tags : data econ

Rod Begbie : Computer Science Unplugged - Simple worksheets to explain CompSci concepts like text compression or sorting algorithms. Pretty nifty. Tags : compsci education

deusx : Become a victim of the OBSIDIAN blackout – and make history | 7th Son: J.C. Hutchins' Podcast Novel Trilogy - "Now, you're not an actor. You're not a movie director. But you're more than capable of creating creative, compelling, ...

It's about fucking time...

"Former Yahoo senior vice president Tim Cadogan will take the CEO job at OpenX, the popular open-source ad server startup..."

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maybe I need one of these...

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

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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 ...

cheapbob writes "Recently HP officially unveiled a budget ultraportable laptop aimed to compete with the likes of Asus Eee PC. According to Compal, one of Dell's assemblers, Dell is also going to enter the budget ultra-portable market soon. All of th ...

mjasay writes "Microsoft just promoted Sam Ramji to run its growing Linux and open source operations. The former head of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, Ramji has a long history with open source, having built out large-scale open-source based a ...

mattnyc99 writes "Last month we learned that the UK has approved in-flight mobile, effective immediately. Popular Mechanics has a follow-up on why the phones-on-planes ban is here to stay in the United States. Statements from the FCC and FAA confirm ...

eldavojohn writes "RedHat went to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals asking for limits on software patents yesterday. They have not uploaded their full brief yet online, but promise to post it soon. Here's a tidbit: 'Given the litigation risk, some ...

mikkl666 writes "In a follow-up to yesterday's story about the struggle between Microsoft and Yahoo!, major Yahoo! shareholder Legg Mason has announced that they are ready to back the company in their effort to keep out of Microsoft's grip. According ...

EMNDev writes "Flickr has announced they're adding video playback capabilities to the popular photo service. Clips are limited to 90 seconds and 150mb, what they're calling 'long photos' as they refer to them. 'Unlike YouTube, where videos from profe ...

The Olympic torch was rerouted away from thousands of demonstrators and spectators who crowded the San Francisco waterfront to witness the flame's symbolic journey to the Beijing Games.

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Wednesday that he is unlikely to call for another troop buildup in Iraq, even if security deteriorates after the extra American soldiers return home this summer.

American Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights Wednesday, more than one-third of its schedule, as it spent a second straight day inspecting the wiring on some of its jets — the same issue that caused it to scrub hundreds of flights two weeks ago ...

Yahoo Inc. is turning over some of its advertising space to Internet search leader Google Inc. as part of a two-week test that could lead to a broader partnership.

One of the latest sports watches from the Finnish company Suunto looks to remove a few variables from your golf game, or at least limit variables to things you can control.

American Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights Wednesday, more than one-third of its schedule, as it spent a second straight day inspecting the wiring on some of its jets — the same issue that caused it to scrub hundreds of flights two weeks ago ...

Reuters - Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.

The Oregon State Police arrest drunken drivers on the road every day. But it's not often when the drivers show up drunk at a state police office.

Harvey Levinson might be the last person his neighbors would expect to complain about the assessment on his condominium. After all, he's the county assessor.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Confusion surrounded the start of the relay of the troubled Olympic torch through San Francisco on Wednesday, as thousands of China supporters and protesters converged along the planned route.

This article describes harassment and barrage of assaults I have been experiencing on my body during the past five months.   I am an American citizen, an immigrant of Middle Eastern origin.  I have been living in the US for 35 years; I am n ...

Thousands of protesters gather in San Francisco, where the Olympic torch is on the latest leg of its world relay.

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 ...

When we see something happen once, that's cool. We see it a second time and it's a neat coincidence. But when we see it a third time, it's a freakin' epidemic! Yes, we think that after witnessing just three short video clips posted on the internet we ...

Kevin J. Delaney at the Wall Street Journal writes: Yahoo Inc. is close to announcing that it plans to carry search advertising from Google Inc. as part of a test that could lead to a broader partnership, according to people familiar with the matt ...

Google half-way cancelled their SOAP API a while ago, but they now* offer a parametrized URL that returns a JSON data set. Google says this REST approach is useful for "Flash developers, and those developers that have a need to access the AJAX Searc ...

A list of "evil" human experiments, including the Stanford prison experiment (one of the milder examples) and the Nazi experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Heed the warning at the top of the page...this was a difficult list to read. (link)

For the first time since I started blogging in 2002, I've redesigned Waxy.org. Over the last six years, I've grown pretty sick of the old design but never found the time to rework it. Mostly, the changes are cosmetic. Cleaner design, new logo, big ...

Old Photos of Japan - a daily photoblog featuring images of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s.

The intersect of data visualization and aural phenomena is a fascinating space, from simple chartings of the history of sampling to mapping the entire world of music (or even just electronica). Pop songs become sketches, iTunes libraries become twist ...

Limited nuclear war would damage ozone layer. Apart from the human devastation, a small-scale nuclear war between India and Pakistan would destroy much of the ozone layer, leaving the DNA of humans and other organisms at risk of damage from the Sun's ...

Stephen King weighs in on the videogame debate.

John Yoo: Torturewanker.

I do just wonder how much media bullying will be necessary before they decide that if they demand that Hillary Clinton release her tax returns, then maybe John McCain should too. I'm not going to hope that the Clinton rules - where each new disclosu ...

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. — —

.... out with my mates †¦maddi is my best mate some other mates are Caelah, Zoe,Bonnie,megan,tiarna,sam and some more I am in caelah's, Zoe's and Bonnies class†¦†¦†¦. I have 4 dogs we have 3 small and 1 big i love my dog's .! Authored b ...

....Google just significantly raised the stakes in the platform-as-a-service market with tonight's launch of Google App Engine, a scalable, fault-tolerant web application environment that lets developers run their own apps on Google's infrastruct ...

“If the flight attendants on the JAL 747 from Tokyo I'm on right now were to, in a remarkable lapse of Japanese standards of service, throw me off the plane with a parachute, I could do a pretty nice roll when I hit the ground.” From my ...

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 ...

I fixed the bug causing links to point to Waxy.org, but your feedreader needs to refresh the feed first  

Sadness can be eaten.  

For the first time since I started blogging in 2002, I've redesigned Waxy.org. Over the last six years, I've grown pretty sick of the old design but never found the time to rework it. Mostly, the changes are cosmetic. Cleaner design, new logo, big ...

people complained the UI ripped off 37 Signals' Campfire; here's an official response  

this group includes some examples, including my son's testimonial and thud!  

Techcrunch jumped the gun, it goes live any minute; it's very different from YouTube and very, very Flickr  

I feel the same way about DOFI  

Tomorrow, John Brownlee will be hosting "Pre-Cogs vs. Replicants," a version of the popular "Mafia" (a.k.a. "Werewolf") social game in the #boingboing IRC channel. Remember, he who lies best lies last. Game: Pre-Cogs vs. Replicants (a variation of th ...

Even if I weren't the editor-in-chief of MAKE, I'd still be very excited about this year's Maker Faire -- a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It will be he ...

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. ...

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 ...

Francois Gossieaux reports on experiments described in Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational that show just how influential our expectations are: People who paid more for an energy drink were more refreshed by it and even solved more puzzles. Francois ...

The deadline for the Life Love Game Design Challenge, which we first announced back in February, has been extended by a month. The new deadline for the Flash game design contest, which challenges designers to create a game about teen dating violence ...

For Kotaku's ever-growing chef contingent, this Zelda-inspired cutting board is built from the finest (we don't really know if it is the finest, but it sounds good) walnut and hard-maple wood for chopping as many leafy vegetables as it takes for gems ...

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 ...

Legions of compromised Windows machines could be used to cause power outages and a U.S. financial crisis, according to security professionals and U.S. officials speaking at the RSA conference. Oh, botnet army ... is there anything you can't do?