04/13/08

Six reasons why baseball is the best of all games, from a 1961 conversation. First: the rules of the game are in equilibrium: that is, from the start, the diamond was made just the right size, the pitcher's mound just the right distance from home pl ...

A visual look at the top 10 trends in spring/ summer 2008 fashion, including parachute silk, higher waistlines, and skinny belts. (link)

In an effort to curtail healthcare spending, the Japanese government is requiring companies to cut the number of overweight workers (and their dependents!) by 25% as of 2015. Companies which fail to do so will have to pay into a fund for elderly care ...

What's the play count on your most played song in your iTunes library? My top five are: Emerge by Fischerspooner, 97 plays Alpha Beta Gaga by Air, 76 plays A Dream by Cut Copy, 68 plays Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand (Daft Punk mix), 68 plays Around ...

Long rumination on the use of slo-mo in movies, particularly in Standard Operating Procedure. Being a slo-mo fan myself (especially when wielded by Wes Anderson or by NBC Sports during football games), I enjoyed this description of it: Slo-mo can be ...

Linkorama : StartupHappyDevHouse at Socialtext Coworking - By popular demand, we'll be holding a mini DevHouse on April 19th in Palo Alto to follow Startup School. Tags : development events shdh

Greg Storey : NCSoft is looking for a web producer. - That's almost as cool as working for Blizzard, almost. Tags : Design

Linkorama : Trust in Peers Trumps the "A-List," Study Finds - More Edelman Trust metrics Tags : advertising influence marketing trust

jcgregorio : FreeRangeKids - Blog from the author of the NYTimes article: "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone"

Jeremy Zawodny : "Clitter" by Mindy Raf on CollegeHumor - "Clitter" by Mindy Raf on CollegeHumor: heh Tags : links

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"a MySQL Proxy Lua module that transparently splits up tables into multiple partitions and rewriting all queries to go to the right partition"

looks like a good summary

yikes!

forgot to note this earlier--very cool

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Where Are All The Google Data Centers?: Interesting look at just where Google stores all their data around the world. There are 36 data centers in all–19 in the U.S., 12 in Europe, 3 in Asia, and one each in Russia and South America. We̵ ...

We took a cue from our arch-rivals over at Electric Pulp and finally created a Flickr account (give us six years or so, and we’re bound to pick up on a new trend or two). Our first activity is a photoset of the Blend Offices. So, take a tour ...

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.

I was searching YouTube and I found some extremely hilarious Muppet Bloopers.

Dave Knott writes "The Canadian federal government has blocked the $1.3-billion sale of the space technology division of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Alliant Techsystems, a major US defense contractor. Industry Minister Jim Prentice is quot ...

MrJones writes "In Paraguay we are at T-9 days to national elections. The ruling party has been in power for nearly 61 years (including more than 30 years of dictatorship). Now the state-run ADSL company is hijacking the DNS nationwide of a site that ...

COredneck sends us a NYTimes story (registration may be required) about an Internet community solving a crime in less than 48 hours. An auto dealer in Calgary lends a car for a test drive — a 1991 Nissan Skyline GT-R. The test driver and anothe ...

An anonymous reader writes "Industry regulator Ofcom, which yesterday launched the first phase of its review into public service broadcasting, is threatening to impose a tax on UK broadband ISPs to help resolve funding problems. The review covers all ...

kylehase writes "CIO.com has a writeup about MySQL's 5.1 release planned for next week. Among the enhancements are many bug fixes from 5.0, some of which may increase performance 20% or more, as well as 'partitioning, events scheduling, row-based rep ...

hhavensteincw writes "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is coming under fire for a new policy to stop the "harvesting" of a digital snapshot of all federal agency and Congressional Web sites after every Presidential and Congress ...

A roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad on Saturday, capping the bloodiest week for U.S. troops in Iraq this year. Clashes persisted in Shiite areas, even as the biggest Shiite militia sought to rein in its fighters.

A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold a primary that she must win to keep her presi ...

World financial leaders facing the gravest economic crisis in at least a decade are pledging tighter control of banks and other financial institutions and hoping the U.S. slump is short.

CBS Corp. executives took an unusual risk last fall before its series debut of "Big Bang Theory" — it offered the entire episode online despite the chance it would sap viewership for the TV premiere.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s top technology executive is stepping down as the world's No. 2 microprocessor maker tries to recover from a sales slump triggered by prolonged product delays and tougher competition.

A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold a primary that she must win to keep her presi ...

For 46 years, crime, recessions and hurricanes proved no threat to the daily ritual of St. Monica School, where the entire blue-and-white uniformed student body gathered outside each morning to join in prayer.

A jury acquitted a man of smuggling endangered iguanas in his hollowed-out prosthetic leg but convicted him of concealing and possessing the endangered species.

An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Robert Dunham accomplished the feat on the third hole at Tortuga in Green Valley.

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama tried to quell a political furor on Saturday over his comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, saying he used the wrong words to describe their mood.

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 ...

An emergency summit opens in Zambia to tackle Zimbabwe's poll deadlock, but President Mugabe is absent.

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 ... · If it weren't for Stoya, we would never get any work done around here. Sometimes we think she's the only reason we show up for work at all. — · Freedom is a precious thing ... especially when ...

A couple of iGoogle gadgets are now shareable, Google announced. This is similar to functionality already available in Google Docs, where you can also collaborate with others on documents if you want to. A list of all shareable gadgets -- like sticky ...

Anthony Klan at The Australian writes: Google Australia is expected within months to launch an application that will publish highly detailed, street-level photos of much of Australia, in a move that has drawn strong criticism from privacy advocate ...

Six reasons why baseball is the best of all games, from a 1961 conversation. First: the rules of the game are in equilibrium: that is, from the start, the diamond was made just the right size, the pitcher's mound just the right distance from home pl ...

This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What?" from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/ action/ cliche from an episode (or entire series) of th ...

Sometimes the chocolate brownies just won't do the trick. Sometimes, Mommy Needs A Cocktail.

SafetyTat- Temporary tattoos designed designed to be used as identification devices for children. Includes several designs for non-verbal and autistic children. Via That's Fit.

Commando Performance: (Toy) Guns on Campus Post-Virginia Tech - A fun game of tag for campus geeks? Or a celebration of immaturity and glorification of war and violence? Playing Humans v. Zombies after the Virginia Tech Massacre. Previously on MeF ...

Russell Higgs has been adorning his face and head with various objects and posting photographic portraits online since July 2006. Dutch artist Levi van Veluw also likes to modify his face by putting things on it and photographing the results.

If Americans are truly the hardest working people in the world, isn't that actually a bad thing?

That this would end badly.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently estimated that about 45% of foreclosures in 2007 were on private, near-prime or government-backed mortgages. And that means plenty of people who thought they were fine are facin ...

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...

A Bitchmeme is something that happens on weekends when new stories are in short supply so ideas that otherwise would be buried on Techmeme rise to the top. Usually they're people complaining about something or other which is why they're called Bitchm ...

The prototype app for any development environment is Hello World, a program that starts up, displays the text Hello World and then exits. That's the first thing they show you how to do in any development environment, and it's often the hardest step b ...

.... needs to learn that everyone has emotions, and if she told people what she wanted, people will listen. She needs to know that being independent doesn't mean shutting yourself away from the world. Charlie Copyright © 2008 hmslpietropaoli. Ho ...

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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 ...

Rumble Pak on the steering wheel to sense cars in your blind spot  

determined by taking a photograph next to a person of known height  

brilliant supercuts created by a Chicago artist; the Loveline montages are amazing  

total abuse of the TRS, but still very funny  

This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What?" from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/ action/ cliche from an episode (or entire series) of th ...

spoiler: Filo wins!  

the original video, if you missed it  

Meredith sez, There's a bunch of FUD going around the internets today about orphaned works, thanks to this article by Mark Simon of Animation World Network. He's urging artists to write their Congresscritters about eeeeevil orphaned works legislation ...

Greg Maletic's added another poster to his collection of wonderful fan-made attraction art for Disneyland rides; this one's for Space Mountain. Link See also: Fan-made Disneyland attraction posters (Thanks, Greg!)...

Today on Jon Taplin's blog, a sobering reality check on US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's irrational exuberance at the G-7: Treasury Secretary Paulson, meeting with the G-7 Finance Ministers in Washington, tried to reassure them that the U.S. econ ...

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 ...

For the past few months, I've been thinking about writing something that argues that the history of information is way more discontinuous than we've thought. Usually, we trace info and computers from Turing and Claude Shannon back through Hollerith's ...

Only a Game has a fun post on the 'top 10 video game emotions' - emotions that people recognize as both present while they're playing, and enhancements of gameplay: Based on the 1,040 responses to the DGD2 survey, I have ranked the top 10 emotions wi ...

When it came time to pop the question, reader Brian Klima did it right. No scoreboard message at a baseball game, no skywriting, no jewelry buried in the dessert. He proposed marriage to his one true love with all the charm and romance that is Super ...

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

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<!--cut and paste--> I liked "An Inconvenient Truth." But I didn't like it because it inspired me, or was even very interesting to me...I liked it because I thought it did a good job of conveying the magnitude of the climate crisis to a ...

Let's face it...CFLs, to an ecogeek, are old news. My entire house was converted more than three years ago. I don't even think about them anymore. Frankly, I can't believe incandescents are still on sale! There just hasn't been very much excitement i ...

From comics-crazed fanboys to fetishist otakus, here's our guide to spotting each species of geek out there in the wild.