04/11/08

Awesome collection of folk graphics and photography protesting Flickr's decision to let members post short videos. But without the video, we'd miss out on stuff like this. (via waxy) (link)

Is the reflection in Dick Cheney's sunglasses a naked woman? The photo in question is from the official White House web site. (link)

Star Trek statistics: just how likely are you to die if you beam down to the planet's surface wearing a red shirt? You don't know about the Red Shirt Phenomenon? Well, as any die-hard Trekkie knows, if you are wearing a red shirt and beam to the pla ...

It will take you literally hours to get through this list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time (video often included). (thx, miguel) (link)

A nice appreciation of Primer, one of my favorite movies. At bottom, Primer is a movie about morals and ethics, about how science is able to accomplish extraordinary things without regard to their consequences. On the breathless (and terrific) DVD c ...

Khoi Vinh : Max Huber Museum - On the list for whenever I visit Switzerland. Via Aisle One. Tags : Two Star

Kellan : Steve Loughran: “How do you know you have a SPOF (single point of failure)? You always have one. How do you find it? You don’t: it finds you” - Truer words…

Kellan : Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed - The authentication cluster was overloaded, and improperly monitored. Complex systems are like that, never know where the problems will arise. Good clear communication, but it should have been on ...

Kellan : kewlchops: Spruiking, Breadcrumbs & Marching. - George on the emergent cultural phenomena of awards/ achievements/ bravos/ celebrations in the Flickr community. Someone should write a PhD.

Kellan : Clay Shirky talks about “Here Comes Everybody” - “a society which has an Internet is a different kind of society then a society that doesn’t. In the same way that society that has a printing press is a different kind ...

'...give them tools, share your expertise, build a community, let them have fun," Zawodny said...''

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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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 ...

It's one of the easiest ways to shock a movie audience and to knock off a character. But did you know opening-scene car crashes follow a set of unwritten rules? Slate's Josh Levin decodes them for you.

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 ...

mikkl666 writes "Following the recent story about the discovery of the youngest planet outside our solar system, Spanish researchers now report that they found the smallest exoplanet observed so far. The planet, known as GJ 436c, was found by analyzi ...

Puskas writes "Joe Stewart is the director of malware research at SecureWorks, and presented a dire view of the current botnet landscape at the RSA conference this week. He conducted a survey of the top spamming 'nets, extrapolating their size from t ...

mikkl666 writes "Even just since this morning, there's much to report in the ongoing fight between Microsoft and Yahoo!. After Yahoo! announced yesterday that they are testing Google AdSense, Microsoft reacted with a comment pointing out that 'any de ...

Barence writes "PC Pro has up a look at Asus' concept triple-GPU graphics card. It's a tech demo, so it's not going to see release at any point in the future, but it's an interesting look at how far manufacturers can push technology, as well as just ...

Pickens writes "Inexpensive GPS devices like the Zoombak (which costs just $200 plus $10 a month) have becomes so prevalent that some people are using them routinely to keep tabs on their most precious possessions. Kathy Besa has a Zoombak attached t ...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "On January 2, 2008, the Massachusetts State Police ordered MediaSentry, the RIAA's investigator, to cease and desist from conducting investigations in Massachusetts without a license. Based on what appears to be irrefutab ...

WASHINGTON AP) — The House has told a judge that President Bush's refusal to allow two confidants to provide information about fired federal prosecutors represents the most the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate.

President Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt in U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, embracing the key recommendations of his top war commander. Bush said Gen. David Petraeus will "have all the time he needs" to consider when more Am ...

Crisis. Disarray. Sadness. Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Olympics in history, the head of the International Olympic Committee is using words that convey anything but a sense of joyous enthusiasm.

Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale featuring a rich cast of Internet and media stars.

Biotechnology giant Genentech Inc. is reporting a jump in first-quarter profits of 12 percent compared to last year, though sales of its top-selling cancer drug disappointed Wall Street analysts.

LiveScience.com - Women seeking a lifelong mate might do well to choose the guy a notch below them in the looks category. New research reveals couples in which the wife is better looking than her husband are more positive and supportive than other ma ...

This week's flight cancellations by American Airlines are likely to spread to other U.S. airlines in the weeks ahead as federal regulators step up a by-the-book review of carriers' compliance with maintenance and safety orders issued in recent years. ...

A jail inmate who recently filed more than 60 lawsuits in a day will no longer be able to flood Lancaster County courts with lawsuits. All six Lancaster County District judges signed off on an order limiting Eric Lewis to six filings a year unless he ...

Dan Kidder doesn't go to bed early. Maybe that's why he's still alive. A .38-caliber bullet went through a wall of his Cedar City house and through the headboard on his bed about 8 p.m. Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday announced a suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer to allow the military to reassess the security situation.

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 ...

President George W Bush declares that the US now holds the initiative in Iraq following the troop surge.

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 ...

Despite having paid his dues for several companies from the low rent Smash Pictures to the currently legally imbroglio'd Evil Angel, director Kevin Moore somehow never gets the credit for being the gonzo porn force to be reckoned with that he truly i ...

One thing that iGoogle doesn't currently allow you to do is move your tabs around to change the order of them. A quick Google search returns hundreds of pages where iGoogle users are asking how to do this. Until this feature is officially added, here ...

The Google Maps Street View feature has now been added as a tab to Google's 3D Warehouse, in case the model includes geo information. The Warehouse directory offers 3D models for Google SketchUp users and for integration into Google Earth. (These day ...

Awesome collection of folk graphics and photography protesting Flickr's decision to let members post short videos. But without the video, we'd miss out on stuff like this. (via waxy) (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 ...

Elephant Polo. Alf Leif Erickson is the Captain of the American Screw Tuskers Elephant Polo team . Alf is a retired attorney and former law professor from Florida. This alone doesn't make much of a post, but, you guessed it, there more, sometimes NS ...

In 1943, over Allied bomb ravaged Germany, US pilot Charlie Brown's B-17 was badly damaged and straying further from friendly territory. Luftwaffe ace fighter pilot Franz Stigler pursued the bomber intending to shoot it down, but refrained when he s ...

Tevis Howard, a 2007 Brown University graduate and recent recipient of the Draper Richards Fellowship and the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship, is the 2005 Founder and Executive Director of KOMAZA, a non-profit community-based organization in Kenya. KOMAZA ...

Remember Me. A multimedia documentary about one family's struggle to deal with the loss of a parent. This series is the 2008 Pulitzer winner for feature photography. It's kind of intense.

Enjoy.

Now.WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he has abandoned hope that troop levels in Iraq will drop to 100,000 by the end of the year.Last May:It is the first indication that growing political pressure is forcing the White House to t ...

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...

Hugh MacLeod is a great idea provocateur. — — Today he explains why he deleted his Twitter account. — — I love social experiments, and this one is a doozy. There were certain things I found unappealing about Twitter. I didn't ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

or: why my links were still pointing to Waxy.org until this morning; sorry!  

I've really been enjoying Hulu lately; popular episodes today and newly-added feature films  

perfect response to the crybabies, with confused comments from some of them  

bizarre endoscope footage of people singing, screaming, grunting, and talking like Barry White  

the Quicktime development team gets silly, in a decision that still haunts them 15 years later  

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

Sadness can be eaten.  

John Young, a contributor to MAKE, is going to host a gorilla suit making workshop in Philadelphia. He says: I thought you or someone you know might enjoy an opportunity to come to Philly this fall and pool your talents with others to construct a gor ...

If Rube Goldberg played pool, he'd set up trick shots like the gent in this video. Link (Thanks, Gabe "TuneUp" Adiv!)...

This month's National Geographic has a beautifully-written feature on the state-of-the-art in biomimetics, the science and art of looking to nature for design inspiration. The article is accompanied by mind-blowing photographs, and fortunately the wh ...

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 ...

Congratulations to the folks at the Public Radio Exchange for receiving one of eight MacArthur Foundation awards for Creative and Effective Institutions. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people! (More info at the Berkman site.) [Tags: prx ...

Yesterday McWhertor pointed out these kick ass Super Mario Mushroom Drum Pads for Rock Band. Today the folks behind them announced that they plan on selling three sets of them on eBay and raffling the last set. No details on how or when all of this w ...

It doesn't sound like a bunch of news has shaken out from Nintendo's Media Summit being held in San Francisco today and tomorrow, but we do finally have a release date for the Steven Spielberg brainchild Boom Blox. The puzzler with character will be ...

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

AFP

These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there's another world crisis under way - and it's hurting a lot more people. I'm talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic fo ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's oil minister on Thursday slammed biofuels, saying they did not protect the environment or help supply security, but added solar power had to be considered one of the best clean energy sources. "Let's be realistic, et ...

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