04/15/08

Even Erik Spiekermann agrees that Helvetica is sometimes an appropriate choice. (link)

20 respectable rock and rap acts that peaked with debut albums. (link)

The Art of the Title Sequence, a blog highlighting good movie title sequences. (thx, ben) (link)

Photo series of food that takes the shape of its container. The peas are my favorite. (link)

Cutaway drawings of the interiors of various Star Trek starship bridges. (via ffffound) (link)

Cameron Moll : Stellar design work from Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain - Stellar design work from Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain, as usual: myfamily.com design ideas and eWedding redesign. (Love myfamily 3a, Jesse.)

Andy Baio : Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 - One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This weekend, ...

Ethan Marcotte : This is not the greatest song in the world. - This is just a tribute. ∞

Andy Baio : Excelsior 1968 - John Martz drew cartoon versions of every student from his mom's 1968 yearbook

jcgregorio : Joho the Blog » McCain's Constitutional scholarship Tags : towatch

HOLY SHIT! I'm so close to upgrading now... (Hi, Anil!)

this is a common trend

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

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)

Psystar Corporation - OpenMac: These guys are asking to get sued. The highly extensible OpenMac is a configuration of PC hardware capable of running unmodified OS X Leopard kernels. Leopard on a white box machine for $399.

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 ...

Forget best picture. How can any of us judge what should win the Academy Award for best editing? Hollywood editor Mark Helfrich walks us through well-edited scenes from this year's five Oscar-nominated films.

I bought the last MacHeist Bundle back in January and continue to use the Apps everyday. Now MacHeist has raised the bargain again and turned it into both an online and Retail bundle. So you can buy it online or pick it up in stores. The bundle inclu ...

jammag writes "'"You are an idiot." That was how I was greeted on an already gloomy, rainy Monday morning.' Eric Spiegel offer his a first-hand account of dealing with a tech world geek-gone-bad and presents some ideas for coping. 'These bullies are ...

mytrip writes to tell us that Psystar has announced a new line of Intel-based computers that promise to run an unmodified version of Mac OS X "Leopard". Unfortunately almost immediately after the launch their website went down and as of this story re ...

At this year's Shell Eco-marathon Americas event the team from Mater Dei High School shattered last year's record by traveling 2,843.4 miles on a single gallon of gasoline. "How did the Evansville, Ind., team come up with its winning airfoil-meets-te ...

reverseengineer writes "Eminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler has died from pneumonia at the age of 96. The coiner of the terms 'black hole' and 'wormhole,' Wheeler popularized the study of general relativity, and advised a distinguished list of g ...

Jon Mitchell writes "As a Perl programmer recently thrown in to the world of C development on Linux, I have been looking for something that would take my K&R level of experience and bring it up to date with modern methods, hopefully letting me wr ...

Linux.com's Joe Barr has an interesting commentary about the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and the astounding lack of attention for desktop Linux. Now, a great deal of the monetary support driving Linux these days comes from companies ...

Iraq's financial free ride may be over. After five years, Republicans and Democrats seem to have found common ground on at least one aspect of the war. From the fiercest war foes to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq's surgi ...

The judge and lawyers involved in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history struggled Monday with the legal and logistical morass of deciding the fate of 416 children seized by Texas authorities in a raid at a polygamist sect.

After days on the campaign defensive, Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday of leveling criticism straight from the Republican playbook and said even so, he will win the White House over John McCain and an "out of touch ...

Lines stretched for blocks outside phone stores Monday as ordinary Cubans were allowed to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time.

Blockbuster Inc. said Monday it has offered to pay more than $1 billion for struggling Circuit City Stores Inc., but the nation's second biggest consumer electronics chain questioned whether the movie-rental company can finance the deal.

One in seven mortgage holders worry they may soon fail to make their monthly payments and even more fret that their home's value is shrinking, according to a poll showing widespread stress from the nation's housing crisis.

Reuters - The elusive Birkin bag made by Hermes is so sought after as a status symbol by women worldwide that the French fashion house has a two year waiting list for potential owners -- or does it?

A 13-year-old boy is claiming the world record for blowing balloons with his nose. Using one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour Friday in the town's public library. His feat has been submitted for review by Guinness W ...

A cigarette store cashier has snuffed out a robbery. Police said a masked man flashed a knife at the Cigarette Outlet on Friday and forced one employee to the floor, then demanded money from another worker, Ruth Wright.

ROME (Reuters) - Conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi won a third term as Italy's prime minister on Monday with an unexpectedly strong mandate for reform, but warned of tough times ahead for a country facing deep economic problems.

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 ...

Silvio Berlusconi warns of "difficult months ahead" after most official results indicated he had won Italy's election.

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 ...

Casey Parker Forever! (Or At Least Another Year) (2,240 views, 0 comments) Great Moments In Cuckoldry: Dirty Harry In "Mandinka Parties" (1,742 views, 1 comments) Hot Chicks With Cheat Codes (1,298 views, 0 comments) Marital Aid Test ...

ComScore released an overview of search engine usage in Russia. According to the study, which excludes traffic from internet cafes and mobile phones as well as users below the age of 15, Yandex is the leading search property with 47.4% of the share o ...

Google hosts what might be the world's biggest supercomputer owned by a single company*; rather than a single machine, it's a dispersed network made of smaller machines, though. Now Pingdom (a neat paid service that can alert you when your site is do ...

Even Erik Spiekermann agrees that Helvetica is sometimes an appropriate choice. (link)

One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This weekend, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 ...

How to Make an Anatomically Correct Brain Cake.

The wonders of technology! Browse the web, access your email, telephone your clients - all with the aid of a 7 inch touch screen. It's the iPhone!

If it's too good to be true, it probably is. McCain Girls revealed to be a hoax by 23/ 6.com. [Previously]

"It used to be that the more radical you were on environmental issues, the farther you were from working-class people, poor people, and people of color, because you were making individual lifestyle changes that alienated you from the majority. Y ...

I've been curious about how many people got busted for "smuggling" booze across the PA border. Apparently not many, with only 11 being nabbed in 2007.I of course would never do such a thing because breaking the law is wrong.

As you might notice there are dueling ads about an intra-labor dispute. I've been trying to follow it and figure out what it all means but I admit I haven't really figured it out.

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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....The next four and a half hours we spent working though these tools in a hands on manner. We covered the basics of WordPress quite thoroughly Each of the participants got a blog through Edublogs (thank you James Farmer!) and we started from there ...

Registration is now open for Business of Software 2008 (the first ever Joel on Software conference). Neil has lined up great speakers: Seth Godin, Business Week's "Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age", is the best-selling author of 7 boo ...

“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 ...

John Martz drew cartoon versions of every student from his mom's 1968 yearbook; see also: The Liner  

One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This weekend, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 ...

a massive upgrade, allowing snapshots with a single API call  

read the comments to see players and parents absolutely devastated by its closure  

clever idea, builds a game using the mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts  

higher quality and better sound than the FLV versions  

Mitch Kapor shows how to navigate Second Life with your full body  

Link to video and photos on artist Danilo Pascuali's fine arts blog. In some, the figure is clutching a rosary or crucifix. (thanks, Reverse Cowgirl!)...

Susannah Breslin has a an interesting post up today about an interview on Adult Video News, the trade magazine of the adult video industry, with Ira Isaacs, the adult video creator and distributor named in an eight-count federal obscenity indictment: ...

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets Rob sipped a new variety of Bawls that is root beer-flavored; we spied a concept ring that heats up once a year to remind you of anniversaries; gave the Sony VAIO TZ subnotebook a review, crapware and all; found a long-te ...

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 ...

I am coming to grips with the sticker shock of hitting my 40th birthday. Unfortunately, I'm 57. This inconvenient truth is born home by Doc Searls' recent "incident." [More from Doc here, here, here, and here.) I am one of the absurd number of peop ...

Kaplan, the makers of all those test preparation books, is teaming with Aspyr Media to create an SAT prep program for the Nintendo DS. Sure, the same title will also be made available for the PC and Mac (probably just like the stuff we've seen for ye ...

Famitsu publisher Enterbrain is not encouraged by the Japanese console market. In fact, they've predicted that game console and software sales will peak this year with spending of 710.4 billion yen and drop to 671.1 billion yen by 2010. More from Jap ...

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

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We're very pleased to welcome our friends at GOOD (Magazine, website and so much more) to the Eyebeam reBlog! GOOD's Senior Web Editor Andrew Price will take over the reblog reins for the next three weeks, and we're looking forward to some great cont ...

<!--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 ...

After a long delay, the Rocket Racing League says it will hold the first rocket races later this year and league races in 2009. The company is also planning "vertical drag races" in partnership with game guru John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace.