04/19/08

The Droste effect is when a product's packaging features the packaging itself. At my grocery store I could only find three examples: Land O'Lakes Butter, Morton Salt and Cracker Jacks. These packages each include a picture of the package itself and ...

An analysis of the Colbert Bump, the jump in sales that follows an author's appearance on The Colbert Report. (via plasticbag) (link)

Aerial photo of a lumberyard. (link)

After 10 years, kottke.org favorite New Green Bo (still the best soup dumplings in town, IMO) has changed its name to Nice Green Bo. We're 10 years old, and we have so many nice customers, so we made it Nice Green Bo. (via eater) Update: My office ...

A list of the top one articles by Neal Pollack about how sportswriters should stop writing about the MVP race and, oh yeah, lists of stuff are dumb: 1. This article right here. Sportswriters and pundits, on the other hand, are treating the MVP race ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Five Wrong Ways to Pitch RWW and One Great Way - Five Wrong Ways to Pitch RWW and One Great Way: I like the use of RSS and Yahoo Pipes Tags : links

Milo Vermeulen : Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Iterative Algorithmic Plastic Sculpture: Fimo Fractals - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Iterative Algorithmic Plastic Sculpture: Fimo Fractals and Sierpinski cookies [more]

Greg Storey : This years Eisner Award nominees. - Just give the Best Writer award to Brian Wood and be done with it. Tags : Playing

Cameron Moll : Mobile Web Design on Amazon, finally - Huzzah! Mobile Web Design is *finally* listed on Amazon.

dbow : AT&T says Internet full by 2010 Tags : news

I like the use of RSS and Yahoo Pipes

"Yahoo has been accelerating its open activities of late..."

this reminds me of my diet plan...

Automatic Offsite Backup

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Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

Yesterday I needed to know when Daylight Savings Time started and I hit the first link Google gave me. The default (you can switch) presentation is via something called SpicyNodes. SpicyNodes is a zesty way to explore information on the Web. W ...

Revolution WordPress Theme: I have to say that I’m really smitten with this guy’s WordPress themes. He’s selling them, and he’s used them to hot-rod WordPress into several different vertical platforms. The Revolution them ...

Clinton's Attack Ad DES: On the heels of Bruce Springsteen's endorsement of Barack Obama, Slate V dreams up the perfect attack ad for Hillary Clinton.

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 ...

timholman writes "According to Gizmodo, an investigation has shown that the $399 OpenMac is almost certainly vaporware, as is Psystar itself. The company's address has actually changed twice this week, according to its web page, and Psystar is no lon ...

News.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed a subscription service is in the works for the next consumer version of their Office Suite. "Code-named Albany, the product has a single installer that puts Office Home and Student, OneCare, as well ...

Hmmzis writes to tell us that Lockheed Martin is using Spaceport America to test a new prototype spacecraft. The prototype is only about one-fifth the size of the projected production model which promises to deliver satellites into orbit at a cheaper ...

Schneier points out an interesting article comparing modern cybersecurity to piracy on the high seas in the early 1800s. The article extends the comparison into projected action based on historical context. "Similarly, in many ways, current U.S. poli ...

According to a post made yesterday to the Fedora announce mailing list, a Fedora 9 preview has been cleared for launch. "This is a Preview release, it is fairly close to what the final product will be like. This is the most critical release for the F ...

geoffrobinson writes "Roughly Drafted has obtained internal IBM documents detailing the results of a small pilot program for internal use of Macs. Positive and negative results were detailed, but overall most participants were happy with their Mac ex ...

Pope Benedict XVI warned diplomats at the United Nations on Friday that international cooperation needed to solve urgent problems is "in crisis" because decisions rest in the hands of a few powerful nations.

Former President Carter defied U.S. and Israeli warnings and met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and his deputy, two men the U.S. government has labeled terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding attacks that have killed hundreds of civili ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is going to begin alerting its top headquarters officials when field inspectors miss airline safety inspections, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced Friday.

Google Inc.'s stock soared 20 percent Friday, restoring $28 billion in shareholder wealth as Wall Street renewed its love affair with the Internet search leader after weeks of worry about an online advertising slowdown.

The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billion by many estimates, got a good deal on going global.

Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago, homes in Cincinnati and nerves across the region but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.

A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero blueprints that he says were dumped in a Lower Manhattan trash can.

A Long Island man had to know he would be arrested when he called police to report he had just been robbed during a drug deal that went bad.

A Malaysian cop was arrested after he allegedly broke into a Mercedes Benz to steal its stereo but then dozed off on its luxurious seat, a news report said Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a tough six-week stretch of campaign gaffes, roaring controversies and heightened scrutiny, Barack Obama's presidential bid appears as strong as ever -- and rival Hillary Clinton is running out of time to change the scrip ...

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 ...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe lambasts the opposition and the UK in his first big speech since disputed elections.

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 ...

So there we were yesterday afternoon sitting in the Stoya poster-plastered confines of the break room here at Fleshbot Central eating lunch from our Stoya lunchbox (which we totally had custom made and it is awesome) when all of a sudden an intern ca ...

The Droste effect is when a product's packaging features the packaging itself. At my grocery store I could only find three examples: Land O'Lakes Butter, Morton Salt and Cracker Jacks. These packages each include a picture of the package itself and ...

From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest do ...

Recently, Psystar Corporation announced the Open Mac, now renamed "Open Computer," a $399.99 Mac clone. Besides violating Apple's EULA, and the license for the emulator that allows Leopard to run on commodity hardware, apparently the compa ...

BBC Sound Index -- an excellent way to confirm your worst fears about the music Internet users are listening to.

My Beautiful Mommy is a children's book for children whose mothers suddenly come home from the doctor with giant hooters, or significant amounts of fat suddenly missing. A bold new market in childrens publishing awaits.

Stephen King has described The Dark Tower as his "Jupiter." The epic series, inspired in part by Robert Browning's poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", has spanned 22 years, 7 books and nearly 4000 pages. The first book ...

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...

There's been some confusion about why I tell company reps, when I'm pretty sure I'm going to write up the experience, that I'm a blogger. I say it because I would want to know, if I were in their shoes, that what I was saying was going to be reported ...

For the third time in three days, my Comcast service is out. — — I'm posting this using my EVDO modem. — — The first time it was deliberate. The second time they say it was natural. I'll let you know what it is this time.
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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 ...

What is stackoverflow.com? Nothing, yet. But here's the concept: Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers. Instead, they happily program ...

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 ...

removes all dialogue from a 1938 film; also, I just updated the list of supercuts  

From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest do ...

the Internet is a giant Linksys router in the desert  

in 1995, I thought VR would be huge and Apple was in a death spiral  

expertly-written history of the subject, from Eliza to Inform 7  

after Ollie retired, Brad took his desk the following Monday  

it is pitch black  

Wrapping up our week-long retrospective of the most crowd-pleezin' episodes in Boing Boing tv's first 6 months of existence, we revisit an episode in which... Vienna-based art-pranksters monochrom teach us how to "hack the urban context" with campfir ...

James Powderly from Graffiti Research Lab tells Boing Boing... One of our FAT Lab fellows, Todd Polenberg, just posted 12 years worth of his own DIY passover mash-ups on fffff.at! It's open source... for passover! So if you know anyone who wants to r ...

amy casey miles thompson ryan heshka naoto hattori theo badiu red nose studio mark beam tim mara f. scott hess robt. williams previously on web zen: lowbrow gogo pop zen Link, Web Zen Home and Archives, Store (Thanks Frank!) Image: Miles Thompson.... ...

Oki Matsumoto of Monex sent me another interesting GDP slide supporting the idea that IT is equalizing GDP per capita.OkiBefore the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the GDP share of the world was in ratio to the population of each country. ...

I will understand if you don't think this is funny, but I do: TF2 Karaoke: My Heart Will Go On from FLOOR MASTER on Vimeo. It comes via Bradsucks. It's a karaoke version of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," as performed by some guys playing ...

Is the concept for Mortal Kombat Vs. The DS Universe as silly in action as it is in theory? Yes. Yes it is. GamesRadar has the exclusive trailer shown at the Midway Gamer's Day Event, and as you can see...yeah. The worst part? You just know they are ...

Have you ever just looked at the Super Mario Bros. box art? I mean, really looked at it until it made some sort of sense? Why is Mario leaping over a lake of lava while tossing fireballs at a wall—the same wall, I should mention, that he's actu ...

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

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"Carne Asada Is Not a Crime" proclaims the tag line at SaveOurTacoTrucks.org. It's a response to a recent piece of legislation in Los Angeles that prohibits mobile food vendors from parking in one location for more than one hour. The law came in resp ...

Good point, but I think the answer isn't to ridicule pro-Tibet activists but to minimize the ways we personally fund regimes who don't share our values. Originally posted by Paul Schmelzer from Eyeteeth: A journal of incis ...

Superheroes like Batman will square off against freaky, death-dealing ninjas like Scorpion in an upcoming installment of the videogame franchise.