04/22/08

"Innit" is a common contraction of "isn't it" in British English that is increasingly being used as an all-purpose end-of-sentence rhetorical question. For example: "We need to decide what to do about that now innit." (don't we?)"Now I can start cal ...

A photograph of the newest possible moon, one that's only about 15 hours old. Finding the Moon when its slim crescent is still less than about 24 hours past the New Moon phase requires careful timing and planning, a challenging project even for expe ...

Who knew Charlie Rose interviewing himself about technology could be so amusing? "Charlie Rose" by Samuel Beckett. Give it a bit to warm up. (via fimoculous) (link)

Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com and Subtraction, will be answering questions from readers all this week. Look for Khoi's initial responses later in the day and week. (link)

The Encyclopaedia Britannica is opening up their encyclopedia to "web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet". Even better: when you link to something, your readers get that article for free as well. Here's ...

Khoi Vinh : Eric Karjaluoto Interviews Debbie Millman Tags : Three Star

Jeremy Zawodny : Kitt-In Box from The Refined Feline: A Unique Desktop Cat Perch - Kitt-In Box from The Refined Feline: A Unique Desktop Cat Perch: I could really use a couple of these...

plasticbag : Plazes has added support for Fire Eagle! - And this blog post explains all the value that they're getting out of being involved. Very excited to have them with us! Tags : fireeagle plazes

Greg Storey : John McCain's 1936 with Barack Obama's 1961. - Hi Mena, glad to see Dollar Short make a comeback. Tags : Politics

factoryjoe : Introducing the New BeenVerified.com | The BeenVerified.com Blog - "Late last week we pushed live a brand spankin' new version of BeenVerified.com. The new version does a lot to trim the fat on some of the features th ...

I could really use a couple of these...

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...

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)

Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software: Is this really what we’ve been reduced to? Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ...

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 ...

Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, counsels a woman on how to deal with close friends who talk endlessly about every last detail of their lives.

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 ...

jcasman writes "CNet is covering an announcement from Japanese Linux provider Plat'Home on a low-cost, super tough Linux-based server, now available in the US, that can handle extreme heat and cold. 'The OpenMicroServer is kind of an "extreme" use se ...

lisah writes "Several colleges across the country went head-to-head in San Antonio, Texas last weekend at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition to see which team could best protect their networks against attacks. In a modern day version o ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Groklaw is reporting that some people have decided to compare the OOXML schema to actual Microsoft Office 2007 documents. It won't surprise you to know that Office 2007 failed miserably. If you go by the ...

fyc writes "It seems that the educational MMORPG NASA's proposing will no longer have a budget of $3 million. Instead, any prospective development partner is being asked to create and maintain the MMORPG for free under a 'non-reimbursable Space Act A ...

Ben Rothke writes "It is 2008 and never has so much been spent in information security. Year after year, more and more security hardware and software is purchased, more and more security professionals are hired, and more security is done; yet things ...

zonker writes "Nearly 30 years ago Lockheed Martin's elite Skunk Works team developed what would become the F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter. A few of their earlier projects include the SR-71 Blackbird and U2 Dragon Lady spy planes. Today is the last ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall and Osama bin Laden as she reached for a victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary to recharge her comeback effort. Barack Obama said she would probably win but he hoped to ...

In unusually blunt terms, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday challenged the Air Force, whose leaders are under fire on several fronts, to contribute more to immediate wartime needs and to promote new thinking.

The leader of Hamas says his Palestinian militant group is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 war.

After two years of crumbling profits, Yahoo Inc. can't afford another letdown Tuesday when the Internet icon reports its first-quarter earnings.

While many of the high-tech goods found in U.S. stores are "Made in China," most are designed and marketed by U.S. companies.

Under pressure to meet combat needs, the Army and Marine Corps brought in significantly more recruits with felony convictions last year than in 2006, including some with manslaughter and sex crime convictions.

Dozens of Greek and Armenian priests and worshippers exchanged blows at one of Christianity's holiest shrines on Orthodox Palm Sunday, and used palm fronds to pummel police who tried to break up the brawl.

A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade.

Police have arrested a pizza parlor manager on charges alleging he sold marijuana out of his drive-through window in Fort Smith, Ark.

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pushing for a strong win to keep her White House hopes alive, Democrat Hillary Clinton touted her toughness on Monday ahead of a showdown with presidential rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.

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 ...

Zimbabwe's opposition urges the United Nations and African Union to help resolve the election crisis, the UN says.

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 ...

We're going to let you in on a little secret that we learned all the way back in junior high school—metal shop is fucking hot! Seriously, nothing gets a lady wetter than bending her over a power flanger before firing up the ol' pneumatic drill ...

"Innit" is a common contraction of "isn't it" in British English that is increasingly being used as an all-purpose end-of-sentence rhetorical question. For example: "We need to decide what to do about that now innit." (don't we?)"Now I can start cal ...

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 ...

The self-proclaimed "most trusted name in news", CNN, has launched its beta t-shirt store. Finally, for $15 plus shipping and tax you can buy direct from CNN branded t-shirts with such wonderful headlines as: "Dad mistakes son for pre ...

Performance Artist Killed on Peace Trip. Pippa Bacca, performance artist, and friend wearing white wedding dresses, planned to hitchhike from Italy to the Balkans to the Middle East to send a message of peace and "marriage between different peoples ...

Ennio Marchetto : Italian quick-change papercraft drag queen does musical medley. Here's his website. (Previously)

New England's best metal site has now gone national. — — Thrash out!

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...

Okay, I've bit the bullet, I'm going to change what I do when Twitter is down. — — 1. When Twitter is down I will post updates to an RSS feed.twitter.scripting.com/ daveRss.xml 2. You may follow this feed in any tool that can follow an RS ...

It wouldn't be a normal day, because tomorrow is the Pennsylvania primary and a lot of polls are coming out right now, and they're presenting an interesting story. But that story can't be told, because our main communiation platform, Twitter, is down ...

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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 ...

my brother-in-law's been recording and posting a song a week since January; reminds me of Shel Silverstein meets XTC's Apple Venus  

reminds me of the the Star Wars arcade game from 1983  

look for the shirt icon on the homepage; also, it's fun to manipulate  

completely sane message, but it's not being told enough  

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  

Marilyn Terrell says: Austrian soldier Heinrich Harrer escaped from a British POW camp in India in World War II and ended up as the young Dalai Lama's tutor in Tibet. Harrer wrote about his cultural immersion for the July 1955 edition of National Geo ...

Recently on Boing Boing Gadgets we looked at my final list of stuff I'll be taking with me into the woods tomorrow as I attempt to blog powered by the sun alone; a GPS tracking device jammer; an outdoor table with solar device recharger; an almost gr ...

On the NASA website today, a tale in praise of the many merits of duct tape when one is on the moon with a busted buggy: The date was Dec. 11, 1972. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had just landed their lunar module Challenger in a beautiful ...

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. ...

Steve Pepper has started a blog, and one of his first posts explains – from his insider's vantage point – how Standard Norway managed to approve OOXML as an ISO standard despite the overwhelming disapproval expressed by the committee members. It ...

When you think spider's webs, you think delicate filaments shimmering in dusty air. Spider-Man's webs, though, are more like woven iron fortresses — just like the one we slammed up against trying to squeeze Activision for more details on the ju ...

Spotted in the US Patent and Trademark database, Castlevania Judgment will probably be among the next Castlevania games we see. While its platform was unspecified, given that Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was recently leaked as the next DS title, we ...

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

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Jonathan Harris's & Sep Kamvar's most recent visualization project "I want you to want me", created for the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA has already previously been blogged. this recent movie, however, gives a better impression abou ...

Techdirt is reporting that Jon Dudas, head of the US Patent Office, is lamenting the continuing quality drop in patent submissions. Unfortunately, while this problem is finally getting the attention it deserves, the changes being implemented don't se ...

In closing arguments, Hans Reiser's lawyer calls his client a "real genuine nerd" who's falsely accused of killing his wife. The prosecution gets to rebut, and then the jury will start deliberating as soon as Monday afternoon.