04/25/08

I've got Will Smith action hero fatigue, but HOLY CRAP does Hancock look awesome. I am into apathetic superheroes. There's a second trailer available on YouTube...and its quality is surprisingly good. (You can tell I don't make it out to the movies a ...

Honestly I was getting a little burned out on Errol Morris. I've been reading his Times blog, reading and listening to interviews with him about Standard Operating Procedure, and went to see him at the Apple Store last night. (I was most intrigued by ...

Nice anecdote from a former line chef at the French Laundry about Eric Ziebold, then the sous-chef there. He was TFL's first ever sous chef and to this day I have never seen any one person work so many hours. (He, Thomas & Laura all put in 17-19 ...

Why is New York-style pizza so difficult to replicate in other areas of the world? Perhaps the answer lies with NYC's legendary tap water. "Water," Batali says. "Water is huge. It's probably one of California's biggest problems with pizza." Water bi ...

After boxing podcasting soundly about the ears... The stylistic arena of text and images is so exponentially more vast, and so much easier to negotiate a rewarding path through, it's hard not to think of the [podcasting] format as broken, a dead end ...

nelson : 101-gta4.nfo - NTSC release of Grand Theft Auto IV, 5 days before official Tags : games grandtheftauto gta gtaiv nfo pirate rockstar scene via:waxy xbox360

Rod Begbie : Is Mike Arrington a Dick? - Posted without comment. Tags : michaelarrington techcrunch

veen : Heiligenstadt Testament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven to his brothers Carl and Johann. It reflects his despair over his increasing deafness and his desire to ...

Andy Baio : The history of NYC in video games - coming in October, Sierra's Prototype will also attempt to model NYC in exacting detail

Khoi Vinh : Massimo Vignelli Updates His 1972 New York Subway Diagram - Signed copies are on sale now. Tags : Three Star

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...

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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 ...

After a flood of e-mail response to our first stupid-bike-lane video, Slate V Editor Andy Bowers shows you some of the stupidest bike lanes from around the world.

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! :)   ...

An anonymous reader writes "The bill to ban genetic discrimination in employment or insurance coverage is moving forward. Is this the death knell of private insurance? I think private health insurance is pretty much incompatible with genetic testing ...

Pickens writes "Dr. Dobbs has an interesting interview with Paul Jansen, the managing director of TIOBE Software, about the Programming Community Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence. Since th ...

Checkers and Pogo writes "Grayware inhabits a murky area between pure malware and useful apps, and it's a growing problem. 38.1% of all malicious PC software falls into the grayware category, and so-called 'grayware 2.0' is targeting social-networkin ...

Screaming Cactus writes "A team of researchers led by Boston University's Alan Marscher have apparently worked out the physics behind the particle streams emanating from many black holes. According to the researchers, 'twisted, coiled magnetic fields ...

xtaski writes "Ted Ts'o, one of the earliest Linux developers, points out some serious flaws in OpenSolaris. There is a severe lack of developers, for one. Apparently, after 3 years, the OpenSolaris 'developer community' is still struggling to get th ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Rambus has won its appeal in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision said that it wasn't sufficient to prove that Rambus lied or harmed competitors; the FTC had to prove that it harmed consumers in ...

The White House said Thursday that North Korea's secret work on a nuclear reactor with Syria was "a dangerous and potentially destabilizing development for the world," raising doubts about Pyongyang's intention to carry through with a promised disclo ...

The number of children in Texas custody after being taken from a polygamist retreat now stands at 462 because officials believe another 25 mothers from the compound are under 18.

Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces — a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state prote ...

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 11 percent from a year earlier, when the software maker reported more than $1 billion in deferred revenue tied to delays in the launch of the Windows Vista operating system.

Qwest Communications International Inc. on Thursday introduced DSL plans with faster download speeds, including one that is the fastest DSL service from a major U.S. phone company.

After at least two rejections, billionaire Nelson Peltz has finally succeeded in landing Wendy's in a $2.3 billion deal that would add the chain known for its square burger and chocolate Frosty dessert to his ownership of Arby's and its roast beef sa ...

Reuters - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

A mural in a subway station is worth $15 million, more than the cash-strapped transit agency expected, raising questions about how it should be cared for once it is removed before the station is demolished.

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is convinced that North Korea helped Syria build a secret nuclear reactor, the White House said on Thursday.

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 United States accuses North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor "not intended for peaceful purposes".

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 ...

Forgive us for sounding stupid and/ or racist, but what exactly is an "Irish threesome"? Is that like a euphemism for a sexual fetish that somehow involves whiskey? Or is it the kind of threesome you have when you're too sloshed to know any better? ( ...

I've got Will Smith action hero fatigue, but HOLY CRAP does Hancock look awesome. I am into apathetic superheroes. There's a second trailer available on YouTube...and its quality is surprisingly good. (You can tell I don't make it out to the movies a ...

Continuing the series of portrayals of technology from the VHS era, here's another contribution from Martin Brewer, who brought us the first episode of The Net. This is another BBC Two show, an episode of Horizon from 1993 on "The Electronic Frontie ...

"The women's tennis team at Grand Canyon University in Arizona has an unusual player this year – a 60-year-old named Sheila Johnson. She played for three years at Arizona State in the '60s, but still had one year of eligibility left." N ...

Car of the Future , NOVA's latest episode, is fully online and includes a slew of extras including CC-licensed content, a brief historical overview of "innovative" automobiles, Amory Lovins flogging his Hypercar concept, the Car Talk guys m ...

At least it will sound like I'm furiously busy as I fritter away the rest of the afternoon racing. TypeRacing!

Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC subway map is back Yours for the low, low price of 299 bucks for one copy of the limited edition of 500. (Previous MeFi comments on the famed design, which the New York MTA eventually shitcanned. [Via.])

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...

Rev Wright was interviewed by Bill Moyers, an interview that will air tomorrow and will certainly restart the pundit-mania over all things Wright and what it supposedly means. — — I've watched some of the sermons that are excerpted, in th ...

Rasmussen Minnesota poll: Obama 52%, McCain 38%. — —

.... European thought that Earth was flat; Chinese had been sailing oceans. When Columbus arrived in America; Chinese had been digging gold there. They are now spreading from Siberia to Cape of Hope, South Africa. (more��) Authored by cimcimbros. ...

.... 09:26 Ugh. Staying home today. # 20:40 No PiP/ Fighter Practice for me tonight, wasn't feeling up to it, and was too hungry to hold off dinner until then anyway. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter ....

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 ...

I average about 90 wpm, even with my crazy nontraditional typing style  

coming in October, Sierra's Prototype will also attempt to model NYC in exacting detail  

like Muxtape, totally illegal fun; the embeddable players are great  

saw this a couple days ago, but now it's been tagged and removed  

he churned out at least 120,000 words in 100 days, most likely their biggest earner  

the percentage of seeders is rising, despite Comcast's efforts  

lovely art piece fashions a laptop out of an old book  

Gary Wolf wrote a terrific profile of Piotr Wozniak, creator of a memory program called SuperMemo, for Wired. I've been using SuperMemo (the Mac version, called Genius) to learn Spanish vocabulary and am really impressed with the results. SuperMemo i ...

Brian sez, Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, is releasing a new license with the upcoming fourth edition of Dungeons of Dragons. Publishers can create compatible D&D products, but only if the companies no longer publish any games which ar ...

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 ...

Toys R Us is alerting customers that they will have "more Wii in-store than ever before" this Sunday, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!! They also plan to have bucket loads of the current best reason to buy a Wii: Mario Kart Wii. Both can be pre-ordered, which I woul ...

Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division saw revenue up 68 percent in its third fiscal quarter, thanks to "robust" demand for Xbox 360 consoles, the company announced today. The console sold 19 million units during the three months ending March ...

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

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EcoCabs has just arrived in Toronto, Canada. The 3-wheel vehicles are powered mostly by the driver's legs, but there's also an electric-motor assist to help them reach a cruising speed of up to 12 kph (7.5 mph) in city streets. Perfect for short dist ...

This makes so much sense, I don’t know why more people aren’t using these. Usually found in hospitals or industrial kitchens, foot pedal water facets are not only more hygienic, but also have the potential to reduce wasted water use by 50 ...

The Harold and Kumar star goes from playing pot and racism for laughs to manning Mr. Sulu's station in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi prequel. It's a wild ride.