04/17/08

Spine tingling "The World is Just Awesome" advertisement for the Discovery Channel. (via avenues) (link)

You've likely seen the famous photo of Richard Nixon with Elvis Presley in the Oval Office. When Nixon Met Elvis is a site dedicated to that short meeting with materials from The National Archives, including the letter written on American Airlines st ...

Recreations of childhood photos. This pair are my favorites. (via waxy) (link)

Manufactured Landscapes opens with an eight-minute tracking shot of a gigantic factory in China, the camera moving past row after row of workers assembling widgets until you feel like the factory floor circumnavigates the globe. The point of the shot ...

Jsh Alln explains why the perfect pop song is two minutes and 42 seconds long. Here's the problem: "More Than a Feeling" is four minutes and 47 fucking seconds long. I don't have time for that kind of nonsense. That's, like, one-seventh of my recrea ...

deusx : HOWTO Bake a killer Yoda cake - Boing Boing - "When Star Wars artist Chris Trevas told us his girlfriend and foodie blogger Julie Foxworthy baked him a one-of-a-kind Yoda birthday cake, I was super-impressed!" Tags : cake food nifty ...

Ethan Marcotte : Insomniac - This is apparently what happens when Photoshop and I stay up far too late together. Weep for me. ∞

factoryjoe : MicroRevie.ws � - A twitter mashup of mini-reviews! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, hreview, twitter

wearehugh : Obsolete Skills: Skills/ Skills - can't wait to add "wiki markup" to this list Tags : obsolescence

Greg Storey : The stupidest guy on Earth speaks out. - Neomoron. Tags : News

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Amazon.com The Kindle Store Bestsellers: The most popular items in Gadgets, PCs & Consumer Electronics. : According to this page, Gadgetopia is the third-most purchased blog in its category Amazon Kindle store. There are 14 sites in this categor ...

In this latest audio post, we re-visited the grand-daddy of content management posts on Gadgetopia: What Makes a Content Management System? For 33 blessed minutes, I ramble on about exactly what makes your site management system turn the corner from ...

Two microphones, a card table, NPR's Alex Chadwick, and intimate stories from passers-by. In this episode, a British photographer visiting the U.S. for the first time explains how his poker skills helped him overcome the theft of all his equ

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 ...

ThinSkin writes "Stanford has recently released an update to their Folding@home GPU-accelerated client, which includes notable upgrades such as support for more current Radeon graphics cards and even a visualizer to see what's going on. ExtremeTech t ...

eldavojohn writes "Consumer groups are asking for a 'do not track' registry to be implemented, similar to the successful and popular 'do not call' registry. Tracking companies are asking for examples where tracking has caused harm, and would rather t ...

mattnyc99 writes "Recently we discussed a startup that's blending social networking with traditional Web search. But now high geek Glenn Derene takes it one step further, pronouncing that our increasingly traceable online footprints will transform Go ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The ISO has put out a FAQ concerning OOXML, but it may raise more questions than it answers. For one, it promises to address problems if they arise in the future. PJ of Groklaw said that's akin to 'sellin ...

Hodejo1 writes "'Big announcements' are often backed up by a dubiously small data set or not backed up at all. Big Champagne, PC Pitstop and Digital Music News joined forces to analyze 1,661,688 PCs to track 152 unique P2P clients quarterly from Sept ...

WormholeFiend writes "The Javabot is the coffee machine of the future — completely next generation. It is the fully-automated system that runs the Roasting Plant Coffee Company in New York and its design is illustrative of what can be achieved ...

The longest pause in executions in the U.S. in 25 years is about to end. A splintered Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday, approving the most widely used method of lethal injection.

President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI agreed Wednesday that terrorism is an unacceptable weapon for any cause or religion, standing strongly united on that issue but divided on others during a day of substance and symbolism at the White House.

An unemployed graphic designer who authorities believe was nearly killed by ricin was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that he possessed the deadly toxin as part of an "exotic idea," never carried out, to poison his enemies.

When Comcast Corp. Internet subscriber Robb Topolski was prevented from sharing digital files of Tin Pin Alley-era music with other barbershop quartet enthusiasts, the computer engineer launched a personal investigation.

Quarterly profits at IBM Corp. leaped 26 percent and blew past analysts' forecasts Wednesday, with U.S. operations showing surprising strength given the faltering economy. The technology company also increased its earnings forecast for the year.

Rock star Bruce Springsteen endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president Wednesday, saying "he speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years."

Nearly 300 people were arrested Wednesday in immigration and identity theft raids at Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states.

Romanian media say a man was rearing a lion in his back garden until neighbors decided they had heard enough roaring and called police.

When known pranksters Rick and Marilyn Jones left town for a wedding, neighbors seeking payback eyed their property and decided to stick a fork in it — a few thousand forks, in fact.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain runs even with Democratic rival Barack Obama and narrowly leads Hillary Clinton in potential match-ups in November, according to a Reuters/ Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

There was a time a long time ago when I would log into Kuro5hin and I'd see that a known name had posted a new diary. I'd go over, read what they had to say, and post some comments. Then I'd go over to the story queue, make some suggestions on spelli ...

An Israeli air strike reportedly kills 11 Palestinians in Gaza after a Hamas attack which left three soldiers dead.

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 ...

Mary Roach's "Bonk" (not to be confused with this or this) takes a look at the research of sexual physiology—in other words, what's really going on with our bodies when we fuck, and believe it or not no one really knows for sure. From Leonardo ...

Someone who claims to have worked as a software engineer for the Google AdWords Report Center wrote a blog post detailing why he quit Google. The post mentions a great many benefits and joys of working at Google, but then also goes into problems like ...

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 ...

Spine tingling "The World is Just Awesome" advertisement for the Discovery Channel. (via avenues) (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 morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 ...

Who Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants. [Via Mind Hacks.] The Medicated Americans: Antidepressant Prescriptions on the Rise.

ArsTechnica is reporting on the practice of altering and editing web-traffic enroute from the server to your client/ browser. Is your ISP, work or connection path altering your requested documents? Find out here.

Where's Lionel Hutz, Attorney at Law, when you need him? Circumcision is sexual abuse. CIA is Brainwashing. Don't wait, choose your class action today!

Chinese papercuts are an art form with a long history. Traditional subjects are popular, but more contemporary ones are also available. Who makes them? This man, and all the people listed on this page, and many more. If you find some you like, you ma ...

Euro hits $1.596.While more than a little distressing for those of us who like to travel to Europe and consume some of their elitist export products, it's probably otherwise a good thing for the US economy as it'll prop up our exports. Hopefully.

It's depressing that this Congress really is incapable of doing the right thing. The Senate proclaimed a fierce bipartisan resolve two weeks ago to help American homeowners in danger of foreclosure. But while a bill that senators approved last week w ...

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...

As long as I've been a customer of Comcast I've been writing how much I wish they'd sell their Internet business to a company that doesn't hate its customers so much. But sometimes you forget, when the service is good, you just cruise along, happy an ...

I woke up the other day motivated to learn XCode 3.0 and make some small improvements to the OPML Editor. I want to add a few verbs that make it easier to monitor object databases that grow large. I would have put these features in years ago if I kne ...

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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 ...

it is pitch black  

some more great stories in this thread, like this story about a 5am walk in Vancouver  

it's like technology from a parallel world  

dead-simple meme tracker for popular links on Twitter  

they claim copyright on the typesetting and numbering of the documents, not the text of the statutes themselves  

no real evidence supporting hoax theory, but undermines credibility of the seller  

though I'm pretty sure the New York Times doesn't killfile people who correct them  

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, Boing Boing readers may remember a kerfuffle about a year ago regarding Smithsonian images getting uploaded to Flickr. In January, after the Library of Congress joined the "Commons" project to distribute images with ...

I really enjoyed this Howcast video that shows you how easy it is to make a baby-headed dancing frog. Link...

On Dinosaurs and Robots, Mister Jalopy writes about a limited edition sculpture called "The Blockhead," by Edward and Nancy Kienholz, and follows it with a story he came across about the time Kienholz smashed a TWA desk because the airline had destro ...

Shinsei Bank, one of great success stories in Japan, has always been an example of how legacy companies in Japan can be turned around with good management and smart methods. The "methods" include a great deal of innovation towards simplicity by one o ...

Yesterday afternoon, somehow the Berkman Fellows Hour turned into a campaign musical videofest. Ethan has blogged it all, with plenty of links. For reasons I can't possibly explain, this is my favorite:

Realtime Worlds' Grand Theft Autoesque MMO APB (All Points Bulletin) has already been announced to be in development for both the Xbox 360 and PC. But with $50 million in their pocket, Realtime Worlds is considering all of their options. And that inc ...

Sony's new PlayStation Store launched this week with a few hiccups like broken images and long load times. And while all of us expect the service to smooth out soon, Sony has addressed the issues on their forums. We are aware that many of you have ex ...

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

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We know we're in the middle of China here, but let's cast our minds back briefly to our Food Issue, where one of the things we discussed was the eating of meat. There was quite a bit of backlash from people who don't eat meat (scroll down to see the ...

A new electric solar wind sail is almost ready for implementation. Electric sail propulsion might have a large impact on space research and space travel throughout the solar system. The electric solar wind sail uses the solar wind as its thrust sourc ...

These automated tests used to distinguish humans from bots on the internet have been around for over a decade, but Captchas are far from invulnerable. Recently, Captchas on high-profile sites like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have been cracked. Is it ...