04/14/08

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 ...

plasticbag : Another one for Fire Eagle users - iamnear.net has added megaliths to its nearby pub-tracker - This one could just grow and grow - particularly given all the geocoded information in Wikipedia. Tags : fireeagle iamnear megaliths wikipedia ...

Greg Storey : 1up reviews the new Halo 3 maps. - And here I am, without an Xbox until Friday. Grrr. Tags : Playing

nelson : Quake family tree - Liberally licensed game engine has an impact Tags : freesoftware games opensource quake

nelson : Dash GPS - GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow Tags : cars crowdsourcing driving gps traffic

Linkorama : The only revolutionary that didn't sell out? - Why isn't there another Google?: Because every company that had the potential to be economically revolutionary over the last five years sold out long before it ever had the chance to revoluti ...

heh

"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 ...

Mark Jordan Legan sums up what the critics are saying about some of this week's new movie releases: Street Kings, Smart People, and The Visitor.

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

Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks". Anyone here been shaken down by their Internet Service Provider? "The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and clai ...

DigitAl56K writes "The Washington Post reports that 'The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon' and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has s ...

An anonymous reader writes "African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites, yet only 2% of game developers are black. This past week, MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five black game industry professionals for their per ...

David Harris, editor-in-chief at Symmetrymagazine.org (a joint publication of Fermilab and SLAC), sends us to his blog covering the American Physical Society meeting now going on in St. Louis. Among the breaking physics news relating to topics we hav ...

symbolset writes "InternetNews is reporting that Cisco's new Application eXtension Platform turns several models of Cisco switches into Linux application servers. With certified libraries in C, Java and Perl, developers will be able to use a download ...

mikkl666 writes "Alex Brown, head of the ISO work group responsible for OOXML, has posted a summary of their latest meeting, and he also comments on the resolutions discussed there. The basic message is that ISO now has 'full responsibility for the s ...

Iraq's government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted during recent fighting against Shiite militias in Basra.

The leader of the world's Roman Catholics has been to the White House only once in history. That changes this week, and President Bush is pulling out all the stops: driving out to a suburban military base to meet Pope Benedict XVI's plane, bringing a ...

The mothers of children removed from a polygamous sect's ranch in West Texas after an abuse allegation are appealing to Gov. Rick Perry for help, saying some of their children have become sick and even required hospitalization.

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.

Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating s ...

A construction worker's bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot.

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 ...

So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey.

A central Kentucky planning board won't get Gale Warfield's goat, but the city commission might.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in remarks to air on Sunday that his upcoming visit to the Middle East probably would include a meeting in Syria with leaders of the militant group Hamas.

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 ...

The rise in food prices could push 100m people deeper into poverty, says the head of the World Bank.

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 ...

Young@Heart. What started as a 2006 British television documentary and became an audience favorite at the Los Angeles and Sundance film festivals in 2007 and 2008 opens across the United States this weekand will soon open in France, Belgium, Switzerl ...

The War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 collection is a searchable online archive which "contains approximately 7000 photographs and 317 Kodachrome slides which have been arranged into ...

Aryan Outfitters - a photo and audio essay from Mother Jones magazine about a day in the life of a 58-year old seamstress who caters to the Ku Klux Klan.

In his effort to shed light on medical marijuana use, comedian Doug Benson documents not smoking pot for 30 days and then smoking pot for 30 days in a row in Super High Me.

Taxes are fun!

April 13 already? ruh-roh.

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...

I winced when I heard the quote that's making the rounds this week in the political blogosphere. I didn't like it because unlike the Rev Wright controversy, I doubt if much good can come from it, and because my guy, Obama, was, imho, wrong. By his ow ...

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 ...

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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 ...

created on an Amiga 4000T to the tune of "Still Alive," it's very faithful to Amiga history  

self-referential products  

Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" with every bird digitally removed  

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  

Mark Rayner's hosting a photoshopping contest wherein contestants are invited to shop science fiction products and services into vintage ads. A magical combination. Link...

Link (via Sean Bonner)...

Becky sez, "The Boing Boing discussion of the woman who let her kid find his way home alone on the subway got me interested in comparing that risk relative to the risk of a child dying in a car accident. What I discovered en route is a treasure trove ...

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 ...

ISO's taking over of Microsoft's 8,000 page specification of the "open" standard based on Word's document model has been slashdotted with typical, um, vigor.[Tags: ooxml standards iso microsoft odf ]

We'll be two weeks from the release date as of Tuesday, so we're starting a regular feature here, wrapping up what's been going on in Grand Theft Auto IV in the previous week. It's a warehouse for things you might have missed or, in case you see some ...

Game Developer editor Brandon Sheffield mused on why it is that with so many creative and talented people, so many bad games get made - both in terms of making awful licensed titles, and people not taking the 'plunge' to do original and exciting titl ...

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 ...

Fans of Windows XP are reacting to Microsoft's plan to retire the six-year-old operating system by papering the internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions. They trumpet Windows XP's superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating ...