04/21/08

Clusterflock's Deron Bauman did an interview with me the other day over IM and posted an edited transcript. This seems to be the bit that everyone is pulling from the interview so I will as well: Other times, it's not so fun running a visible site. ...

An ode to the knuckleball, a truly screwy pitch. Few pitchers are able to throw the knuckler, giving those who can a cult-like status. It generally requires very large fingers. As Hall of Famer Willie Stargell explained it, "Throwing a knuckleball f ...

A photogenic drawing** that was assumed to have been made in the late 1830s may have actually been created 40 years earlier, making it one of the oldest photographic prints in existence. Like the lost plays of Aeschylus that were written about but d ...

I missed this earlier this week: physicist John Wheeler has died at the age of 96. A snippet from the NY Times obituary: At the same time, he returned to the questions that had animated Einstein and Bohr, about the nature of reality as revealed by t ...

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 ...

jonhicks : Mac OS X: SSH bus error - I was experiencing problems with SSH and SFTP too. So glad to find the solution! Tags : fixes sftp sidenotes ssh

Kellan : Hypertable looks really interesting from everything I’ve read but … - … I can’t get over this nagging question, “Why does Zvents need a distributed, sparse matrix, versioned datastore?” I don’t trac ...

nelson : YFZ ranch - Nice backgrounder on the FLDS compound Tags : FLDS cult polygamy religion

Khoi Vinh : Marcel Dzama Tags : Three Star

deusx : Why the great British breakfast is a killer - Times Online - "You never see anyone with a degree eating a fry-up; they're too intelligent to consume it, says Times restaurant critic" Tags : breakfast britain elitism funny

good talk slides

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...

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Let me ask you for your opinion here: do you think that the computer book sections at your local book store are shrinking? Five years ago, the local Barnes and Noble in Sioux Falls had a majestic computer book section. I don’t know the offici ...

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 ...

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 ...

rafaelmizrahi writes "WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote. Having trouble playing Wii? WiiMan to the rescue. This GarageGeeks project combines Gaming, Technology and Useles ...

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers working for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission have discovered that the Earth's magnetic tail could be harmful to future astronauts. The moon stays inside Earth's 'magnetotail' for six days every month ...

otakuj462 writes "Many participants in OLPC's 'Give 1 Get 1' program of last November are now encountering what has come to be known as the 'stuck key' problem, in which one or more of the keys on their XO-1 laptop's built-in keyboard become stuck in ...

Bibek Paudel point us to a BusinessWeek report on Google's interest in the cataloging and analyzing of people's DNA. Google has recently invested in DNA screening firms Navigenics and 23andMe, which test customers' DNA for characteristics such as anc ...

Bruce Schneier has a story at Wired about his observations from the recent RSA conference. He noticed that the 350+ vendors who attended the conference were having difficulties selling their products or even communicating with potential buyers. Schne ...

shanen tips us to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about comments from Steve Ballmer at a conference earlier this week during which he referred to Vista as "a work in progress." He also admitted that the 5-year release cycle wasn't a good idea. Des ...

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his final Mass in the United States before a full house in storied Yankee Stadium on Sunday, blessing his enormous U.S. flock and telling Americans to use their freedoms wisely.

Followers of hardline cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Sunday in the showdown with Iraq's government, refusing to disband their militia. The U.S. military said 40 Shiite militants were killed in fierce fighting in southern Iraq.

Democrat Barack Obama, who often argues that John McCain is the same as President Bush, said Sunday that the Republican presidential candidate would be better for the country than Bush has been.

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

The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace.

Maybe it was a lifetime of chores on the family farm that accounts for Edna Parker's long life. Or maybe just good genes explain why the world's oldest known person will turn 115 on Sunday, defying staggering odds.

It's no longer enough to live a greener life — now people are being encouraged to be environmentally friendly when they leave the Earth too.

A former mayor of a California high desert town and his wife have been sentenced to 6 months in jail for the theft of more than $20,000 from Little League coffers.

Snickers the Sea Dog is barely more than a pup, but he's already an old salt.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Sunday made an emotionally charged visit to Ground Zero, where he prayed at the site of the felled World Trade Center, and later wrapped up his American visit with a triumphant Mass at Yankee Stadium.

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 ...

The Pope prays for peace and the victims of the 9/ 11 attacks as he visits Ground Zero at the end of his US trip.

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 ... · We think we've exhausted all the Passover jokes ... for now. · Finally, some "Top Shelf" entertainment that we would actually put on our top shelf. (It will be more comfortable up there.) · ...

Clusterflock's Deron Bauman did an interview with me the other day over IM and posted an edited transcript. This seems to be the bit that everyone is pulling from the interview so I will as well: Other times, it's not so fun running a visible site. ...

For the last few weeks, I've been spending every Friday with a small group of brilliant geeks — Rael Dornfest, Asha Dornfest, Chris Anderson, Greg Borenstein, and Adam Greene — for a weekly one-day hackathon. We call it Bottlecap Labs, a ...

Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a pro-Intelligent Design, anti-evolution polemic, arrived in theaters Friday to overwhelmingly negative reviews and anemic ticket sales. In response to the claims made in the film comes Expelled Exposed, ...

Smooth Jazz, also sometimes referred to as new adult contemporary music or instrumental pop, is generally described as a genre that utilizes instruments and improvisation traditionally associated with jazz and stylistic influences drawn from mostly R ...

From Radio 4's Broadcasting House: The Donald Rumsfeld Soundbites of the Decade. A collection of statements we do now know we know.

slappity-slappity-BOOM!-slappity-slap-slap-slap-BOOM!... Slap dancing from opposite ends of the earth! In Samoa, it's called the Fa'ataupati; it's said to have originated out of the need to swat insects away. And in the Tyrolean Alps, it's ca ...

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...

I wasn't sure there was an outage until I read this post on ParisLemon and then this on CNET. I noticed it last night when I came back from a seder after posting a picture from a gas station with a very funny name (or so I thought). Usually when I po ...

Congratulations to founder Richard MacManus and the team at ReadWriteWeb for achieving five years of technical excellence. — — Keep up the great work! — —

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.... You borrow a brand new book, but accidentally spill pop on it. You could easily put it back on the shelf without anyone knowing and not say anything about it. What do you do? Authored by Marilyn. Hosted by Edublogs. ....

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 ...

great single-serving site listing search result counts for each permutation  

thoughtful piece addresses the seeming insignificance of lifestyle changes  

nicely extracting quotes from articles with proper attribution, similar to Daylife  

For the last few weeks, I've been spending every Friday with a small group of brilliant geeks — Rael Dornfest, Asha Dornfest, Chris Anderson, Greg Borenstein, and Adam Greene — for a weekly one-day hackathon. We call it Bottlecap Labs, a ...

insane, you can telnet to Firefox and control it with any scripting language  

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 ...

Coop says: "Please note 'No-Neck Mickey,' also, copyright-free horrorshow 'Monkey Doodle.'" Link...

A Los Angeles city council member's proposal to curb the mobile meaty meccas known as taco trucks has inspired a veritable online revolution. "Carne asada is not a crime!" proclaim the taco truck defenders. They can have my carnitas burrito when they ...

A damning piece by David Barstow in today's New York Times that chronicles "a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated." Snip: Records and interviews show how the Bush administratio ...

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. ...

Can you guess what the Open Science Directory might be a directory of? Score 0 points if you guess "open science sources," but subtract -10 if you guessed anything else...[Tags: science open_access ]

Interesting story out of New Zealand. Modder Stacy O'Callaghan, "sick of all this American rubbish" in the GTA franchise, set about modding his PC version (doesn't say which) to include official New Zealand police insignia on the cops and the cop car ...

Once upon a time, Disney had this virtual world called (creatively enough) Virtual Magic Kingdom: As with Habbo Hotel, Virtual Magic Kingdom was developed by Finnish studio Sulake and shared many similarities with the social networking site. Players ...

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

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The Weather Underground, a radical group prominent in the turbulent 1960s and '70s, has suddenly reappeared on the political scene. Attempts to tie both Democratic candidates to the group are creating buzz on the White House trail.» E-Mail This ...

NASA offers High Definition views of Earth from space. Originally from SPACE.com, ReBlogged by GOOD on Apr 18, 2008 at 09:32 PM

At a conference at Yale University, 18 states sign a declaration committing themselves to take action to fight climate change. In his speech at the meeting, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts that an international deadlock over how to dea ...