04/24/08

BLDGBLOG has some photos of luxury hotels that were abandoned mid-building. With images by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz+Zoche, the show looks at "the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes" abandoned on Egypt's Sinai Peninsu ...

A little something for my officemates: a guide to bakeries in Manhattan's Chinatown. We usually go to the Fay Da on Elizabeth, mostly for convenience. (link)

Economist blogger Tyler Cowen lists his anti-American attitudes. Among them: 1. The number of Americans in prison remains an underreported scandal, as well as the conditions they face.7. The American culture of individual freedom is closely linked t ...

Beginning May 5, the original Iron Chef is back on TV in the US. Set your DVRs for 11pm every weeknight on the Fine Living channel. (via eater) (link)

Did you know that there was a ban on solo encores at the Metropolitan Opera? Not anymore. After Juan Diego Flórez busted out nine flawless high Cs in a tenor solo, the reaction from the audience compelled the singer into the first solo encore ...

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deusx : mengwong - Camping at Napa - "Move to California. Become a hippie. Eat less meat. Take your Whole Foods cloth bag to the Farmer's Market. Stop driving. Ride a bike. And visit wine country!" Tags : california hippies napa tourism wi ...

deusx : Hemingway for Wordpress 2.5 | Xiaoka Notes - "This is a port of Hemmingway for Wordpress 2.5." Tags : hemingway metablogging themes wordpress

deusx : nes system built into game cartridge [casemod] on [technabob] - "The Fami-Card started out its life as an original Super Mario Brothers cartridge. French modder Kotomi carefully ripped out its guts and transplanted them with the innards ...

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)

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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 ...

Two microphones, a card table, NPR's Alex Chadwick, and intimate stories from passers-by. In this episode, a tattoo artist relates his encounter with a woman dying of cancer.

I apologize for not blogging during the month of April, I was down in Guatemala with my family picking up my nephew Brandon!     He's really adorable and loves attention, kind of like me! :)   ...

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf brings news that Sun Microsystems will be removing the last restrictions on Java to make it completely open source. Sun wants Java to be easily available for use in Linux distributions. We've discussed the steps Sun ha ...

mytrip brings us a news.com story about the FBI's efforts to make records of users' activities available to law enforcement for a much longer time. Several members of Congress also lent their support to the idea that such data retention should be man ...

An anonymous reader points out a Los Angeles Times report that Sony is planning on making movies and TV shows available for download through the PS3 "as early as this summer." Sony hopes to make use of the roughly 4 million PS3s already sold in the U ...

eldavojohn writes "A recent meeting held by the Finnish Meteorological Institute has resulted in plans to build an electric solar sail that will circle the Earth, gaining speed to test its acceleration. The purpose? 'A flight out of the solar system ...

holy_calamity writes "DARPA is working on a weapon which is similar to one first described by Arthur C. Clarke in his 1955 novel Earthlight — firing jets of molten metal using strong electromagnetic fields. The Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Mu ...

jbrodkin brings us a story about the development of the computer network supporting CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which will begin smashing particles into one another later this year. We've discussed some of the impressive capabilities of this networ ...

Exuding fresh confidence after her Pennsylvania primary win, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned attention Wednesday to contests in Indiana and North Carolina and pressed her case that she can still win the Democratic presidential nomination despite the od ...

Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.

Delta and Northwest, seeking to combine to create the world's largest airline, posted losses Wednesday totaling $10.5 billion for the first three months of the year due to exorbitant fuel prices and write-downs of their companies' value.

Apple Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter profit jumped 36 percent on blistering sales of Macintosh computers, but the company forecast lower-than-expected earnings and its stock price tumbled as much as 5 percent.

Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that its first-quarter profit rose 29 percent, helped by solid sales in the U.S. and abroad.

Three years after tying the knot in a spectacular, over-the-top affair that caused some backlash, Star Jones has decided to end her marriage to banker Al Reynolds.

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

A driver is being treated at a Saint Johns County hospital after his truck overturned, spilling Jell-O snack packs all over I-95.

Buddy is a sleeping beauty: Reddish brown, he's usually asleep on his back, snoring loudly with his large tongue lolling out.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama entered the final phase of an increasingly nasty U.S. presidential fight on Wednesday, with Clinton saying her decisive Pennsylvania win proved she was the best candidate to lead the Democrats b ...

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 ...

Hillary Clinton says she is the best placed Democrat to beat Republican John McCain in the November 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 ...

Director Will Ryder hasn't always made his fortune strip mining 70's pop culture television for porn spoofs: once upon a time the former boy band crooner earned the equivalent of what he now spends on payola for "The Insider" the honest way, by shoot ...

BLDGBLOG has some photos of luxury hotels that were abandoned mid-building. With images by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz+Zoche, the show looks at "the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes" abandoned on Egypt's Sinai Peninsu ...

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 ...

This must be the creepiest tv host ever. Perhaps it's a joke, perhaps the guy is sozzled? That is all. Actually: if you know more about the video, do tell...

With spring here, fishing seasons are opening across the country. Want to learn how to fly fish or get better at it? Tom Rosenbauer, author of many a book on the subject, now offers a weekly podcast.

Previously on the blue, Photographer Taryn Simon's award winning book collects photographs taken from her latest exhibition of realities of which most of us are completely oblivious. More photos can be found here , but there are repeats so I left t ...

Darth Vader is an Antijedite.

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...

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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 ...

The next podcast is up. Today we talked about why we're doing a podcast in the first place, took some questions/ suggestions from listeners, and got into a fight over whether programmers should learn C. Guess which side I took. There are some improv ...

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 ...

Gay French Mario Bros. was a great game  

sounds about right, but will they need TV, or will TV need them?  

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  

The Sinai Hotels show features photos of half-built, abandoned luxury hotels in Egypt's Sinai peninsula: With images by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz+Zoche, the show looks at "the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes" abando ...

The voice-changing Dalek helmet looks like it would be a lot of fun -- hey, hon, let's play stern Dalek and recalcitrant Time Lord! Link (via Gizmodo)...

Details magazine has a fun interview with the always-entertaining John Waters, in which he discusses how he supports the troops in Iraq, Hairspray, and Alvin and the Chipmunks. From Details: Q: People always talk about your outlandish fascinations. D ...

In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live. It's still part of the main Twitter service, but the UI will be in ...

Ike Piggott posts about the effect of tags 'n' such on identity politics. Nicely done. (And, if I may say be so self-centered he seems unknowingly to be channeling Everything Is Miscellaneous.)[Tags: politics everything_is_miscellaneous ]

Works? Check. — Combines two otherwise cluttering peripherals? Check. — Takes like 5 seconds and requires no adhesives? Check. — Seriously? We're really lazy. Check. — Sends at least one fanboy into "angry coma?" Check. SOLD! ...

EA's Casual Label today announced new details on their upcoming Monopoly title. The game will be coming to Mobile phones, PC, PS2, Wii and Xbox 360 and will include the ability for four people to play simultaneously in a party mode. It will support b ...

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

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Gelf Magazine has a great interview with notorious billboard artist and culture jammer Ron English. English creates subversive re-stylings of billboards to make viewers question the truth behind such obtrusive advertising (urban spam). He is also an ...

Marilyn Terrell says: "Lizards evolve 'overnight' on Croatian island. Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows. I ...

Apple's Q1 earnings report, scheduled for 5 p.m. Eastern today, will give a much-anticipated clue to the health of the tech economy. Wired.com is providing live coverage of the earnings report.