04/23/08

A list of data visualization blogs you might not know about. (link)

Time lapse of a gorgeous Chad Pugh illustration from start to finish (in HD). The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours and I'd add an equal amount of time for co ...

Here's the trailer for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. It was done by a fellow named Pablo Ferro; it was his first movie trailer. Steven Heller writes: After seeing Ferro's commercials, Kubrick hired him to d ...

Humans can hold their breath longer than "theoretical predictions" but magician David Blaine will soon attempt to break the world record for pure-oxygen apnea. In his current training, he said, he does exercises every morning in which he breathes fo ...

MLB tracks every pitch thrown in a game using a system called PITCHf/ x. You may have seen this system in action during televised games; it's used to show the viewer where the pitch was located when it crossed the plate relative to the strike zone. O ...

deusx : Chatterous - Interesting chat groups app with jabber, gtalk, feeds, email, and web interface Tags : chat groups im jabber nifty

Andy Baio : Disturbing video of the Golden Eagle throwing goats off cliffs - hide your kids! at the five-minute mark, it carries a goat back to its nest

Ethan Marcotte : If ABC moderated the Lincoln-Douglas debates - Fourscore and seven lulz ago. ∞

Ethan Marcotte : Science Machine - There is no part of this that isn't awesome. ∞

joshua : Violin Scalable Memory appliance - 1 tb of ram in 2u. ram is the new disk Tags : dev dist

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)

Formula 1 Racing to Go Hybrid from 2009-2013: This is neat from both a geek perspective and from a competitive perspective. The biggest difference between KERS and a regular battery-electric hybrid is that KERS stores recovered waste energy in a ...

Federated Media's $50 Million C-Round Confirmed — No Plans to Buy Up Blog Partners: FM raised a bunch of new money, and this TechCrunch article has some good information about how they work behind-the-scenes. After turning down a $100 mil ...

How will George Bush handle life after the White House? In this animated editorial cartoon, Mark Fiore shows us W.'s retirement planners.

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 ...

gollum123 notes an extensive article from the NYTimes on the evidence that the military, since the time of the buildup to the Iraq war, has been manipulating the military analysts that are ubiquitous on TV and radio news programs, in a protracted cam ...

Ares writes "In a follow-up to Blogger Subpoenaed for Criticizing Trial Lawyers, Katherine Seidel's blog indicates that not only has she successfully quashed her subpoena, but the lawyer issuing said subpoena is now under orders to appear and explain ...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia, has become just the second US college or university to show the moxie to stand up for its students instead of instantly caving in to RIAA extortion. In February, Marshall ...

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on a University of Washington project aiming to marshal swarms of 'good' computers to take on botnets. Their approach — called Phalanx — uses its distributed network to shield a server from DDoS ...

KentuckyFC writes "If you live in the city of Bath in the UK and carry a Bluetooth-enabled device, your movements may have been secretly monitored in an experiment designed to test surveillance techniques in prisons. Researchers from Bath University ...

Nothing to Declare notes that a California appeals court has unanimously upheld a ruling that border security officers at international airports can search personal computers without requiring any specific evidence of criminal activity. The appeal wa ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama collided Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, the last of the big-state contests in a Democratic presidential campaign growing more negative the longer it goes.

President Bush chastised lawmakers on Tuesday for letting international trade deals falter in Congress and criticized Democratic presidential contenders for wanting to scrap or amend the vast North American free-trade zone.

Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets.

Yahoo Inc. delivered first-quarter results that surpassed analysts' modest expectations, but the performance might not be enough to fortify the Internet pioneer's defense against Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid.

Federal officials charged semiconductor-maker Broadcom Corp. on Tuesday with falsifying its reported income by illegally backdating stock options for five years.

Planet Out - SUMMARY: Researchers find that men who masturbate frequently are at a reduced risk of cancer.

The euro roared to another record high Tuesday, crossing $1.60 for the first time ever after a pair of European Central Bank governors said high inflation may cause the bank to raise interest rates. The U.S. dollar also fell against the Japanese yen ...

A state Senate panel rejected a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to wear one's pants too low, even as Cajun-country towns around Louisiana have been banning saggy pants from their streets.

And some people get jittery about mice in the kitchen.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton sought a convincing win to keep her flickering White House hopes alive on Tuesday as Pennsylvania Democrats chose between her and Barack Obama in their presidential nominating contest.

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 ...

Democrats in Pennsylvania vote in a critical battle between White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

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 ...

Why are naughty French maids such a potent sexual fantasy? Is it because deep down in our hearts we know that sex is dirty and unclean and so we feel the need to fetishize the very act of purifying our surroundings, and even our very souls? Or is it ...

A list of data visualization blogs you might not know about. (link)

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 ...

From Aircraft to Zodiac, from Tricks to Trucks, the Zippo Gallery has something for everyone. (Well, everyone who likes Zippos, anyway.)

Modelling Human Memory. Or, really, predicting the point of forgetting.

Illustrated Histories of Various Recording Technologies

The CIA's Odd Man Out: CIA station chief Bob Lady coordinated the secret kidnapping of Islamic militant Abu Omar in Milan and Omar's "extreme rendition" to Egypt where he was tortured. Italy indicted various CIA agents; Lady is on the run ...

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'm designating FriendFeed as my backup, when Twitter goes down, you can catch my stream, uninterrupted, over there. — — Here's how to follow me on FriendFeed. — — 1. Open an account on FriendFeed, or sign in to an existing a ...

Twitter is still out. — — Mike Arrington posits that because they have a monopoly there is no reason for them to hurry to get back online. I agree. That's why we have to break the monopoly now. — — And it's not as dire as it ...

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.... Salon | New York Times Glenn Greenwald says elements of NYT's Pentagon media manipulation piece "exemplify excellent investigative journalism," but "it is difficult to take the article's underlying points seriously as thou ...

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 ...

hide your kids! at the five-minute mark, it carries a goat back to its nest  

RPS nailed it as "whack-a-mole with Katamari Damacy's aesthetics"  

brilliant bit of found video courtesy of Josh Marshall  

nice exclusive, stream the full album for free  

a legendary haul  

great tracker, but risks drawing too much attention to the site  

he shares his earnings and the implications of depending heavily on a small core base  

Every time I think I've seen it all on the internet, someone informs me that I have not. Evidently, there is some population of folks online who take visceral delight in gazing upon crudely-photoshopped images of pinups being squished alive by python ...

A "genetically distinct" virus that causes bleeding and shock has killed at least one man in a remote part of Bolivia. The highly deadly organism appears to be carried by rodents, according to a report released in the Public Library of Science journa ...

Do follow our Joel as he traipses through the forest, laden with gadgetry, granola, and gore-tex....

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 ...

Not content to get pwned by me in Mario Kart Wii, Mario is heading over to New York City later this week to take New Yorkers for a ride. This Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. Mario (not that creepy Denver Mario, the real deal) will ...

You know, we run these surveys from time to time, with yours truly forced to do the Sales department's evil bidding. I'm just a henchman, a lackey, the ectomorphic Odd Job to my Auric Goldfingers in sales. Or maybe I'm the powerless Thunder to my Dav ...

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

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If all languages have a universal structure, we could understand the speech and mathematical ideas of extraterrestrial civilisations Originally from New Scientist - Latest Headlines, ReBlogged by GOOD on Apr 22, 20 ...

In March 2008 seven artists were given unrestricted access to Dandenong's historic Grenda's bus depot in Australia prior to its demolition. You can see the full documentation here. The work above was created by Robbie Rowlands. ...

PBS producers release video clips from the new show under a Creative Commons license, so anybody can use the online footage to produce projects of their own.