04/26/08

Gar, I missed another one of Tobias Frere-Jones' NYC Typographic Walking Tours but luckily Jason Santa Maria -- a fellow so nice they named him thrice -- has photos. Photos from his first tour here. (via airbag) (link)

The 10 most appropriate weatherperson names...like Ray Ban and Storm Field. When I was a kid watching the news out of Minneapolis, their morning weather guy's name was Sunny Haus. (Not his real name though...the station wouldn't let Steve Wolhenhaus ...

I'm debuting a new feature on kottke.org. On (some? most? all?) Fridays, I'll wrap up the week with a list of interesting facts I've found that don't really warrant their own posts for whatever reason. I hope you find it useful. Suggestions for next ...

How NYC has been depicted in video games through the years. (via waxy) (link)

The 92nd St Y has put the video of a talk called The Art of the Book up on their site. The talk was held in Dec 2006 and featured Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd, and Dave Eggers with Michael Bierut moderating. You may recall that Glaser got into a bit of h ...

jonhicks : Four sound effects that made TV history - A look back at the BBC Radiophonic workshop, quite possibly the UK's strongest influence in electronic music Tags : bbc music radiophonic sidenotes

Greg Storey : Law blog design, does it matter? - Not for people who consider burlap fashionable. Tags : Design

Khoi Vinh : NYT: Profile of Stern Pinball Inc. - “A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area, the one-time capital of the business. Now there is only Stern. And even the dinging and flipping her ...

Andy Baio : ROFLCon Live Stream - hear the stories behind popular memes from their creators; see the Tweetscan for more

Cameron Moll : How do you begin designing? - How do you begin designing? I was hoping to do this live in my AEA presentation but ran out of time. Feel free to cast a vote or view the results thus far. (Note: Don't take this too literally, as the "Ske ...

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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Why I love working with family people: Jeff Mackey over at 37 Signals claims the 20-something with no life is a “crutch” for startups. If you need a bunch of them to survive, your idea sucks. That's why I like working with the fami ...

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 ...

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.

GameTap has released a prototype of a new in-browser gaming feature for 11 games. The in-browser playing is pretty sweet! I can see using it when I'm on the go and want some quick gaming action.

Vigile writes "Tom Forsyth, a well respected developer inside Intel's Larrabee project, has spoken to dissuade rumors that the Larrabee architecture is ignoring rasterization, and in fact claims that the new GPU will perform very well with current Di ...

fyc brings us some information from Universe Today about what happened to Soyuz TMA-11 when it re-entered the atmosphere late last week. Reports indicate that a failure of explosive bolts to separate the Soyuz modules delayed the re-entry and oriente ...

Trailrunner7 writes "Database security super-genius David Litchfield has found a way to manipulate common Oracle data types, which were not thought to be exploitable, and inject arbitrary SQL commands. The new method shows that you can no longer assu ...

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, brings news that Dell will be offering Windows XP pre-installed on their computers past the June 30 cut-off date. Computers purchased with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate past June 30 will come with a copy of XP Pro. ...

Loether writes "Space.com has a fun article about how astronauts aboard the ISS play 'sports' in zero gravity. It talks about learning how to throw in a straight line instead of the arc we all take for granted, relay races, and using large water fill ...

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, writes "There are places where criminal activity is centralized: the backbone hubs located in hosting facilities across the country. All of the Internet's activity, legal and illegal, flows through these 'choke points ...

Three detectives were acquitted Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.

President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy.

Democrat Barack Obama on Friday blamed high gasoline prices on Washington and a political establishment, including his rivals for the presidency, that he says hasn't stood up to oil companies. Hillary Rodham Clinton highlighted his vote for an energy ...

Microsoft Corp. is no closer to buying Yahoo Inc. than when it made its $44.6 billion bid nearly three months ago, leaving the software maker in a quandary over whether the deal is still worth pursuing.

Consumer navigation devices have gone from expensive gadgets to mainstream gear in just three years, but Europe's largest maker is struggling.

President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy.

Three detectives were acquitted Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.

What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the ...

A legally blind man beat up an intruder and held him at knifepoint until police arrived at the man's eastside home, authorities said. Allan Kieta, 49, told police he was at home Monday morning when his small dog began barking and he encountered the m ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cargo ship hired by the U.S. military fired warning shots at approaching boats in the Gulf, the U.S. Navy said on Friday, underscoring tension in the region as the Pentagon sharpened its warnings to Iran.

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 ...

At least 24 people are killed by a blast on a bus near Sri Lanka's capital, which officials blame on Tamil Tiger rebels.

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 ...

Sex swings: something only experienced couples should use to add some variety to their screwing or an excellent way to entice a new partner? This video shows one fairly standard approach, but how would you use one of these contraptions to improve you ...

Gar, I missed another one of Tobias Frere-Jones' NYC Typographic Walking Tours but luckily Jason Santa Maria -- a fellow so nice they named him thrice -- has photos. Photos from his first tour here. (via airbag) (link)

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 ...

Blake's Back! British science fiction classic Blakes 7 is getting the Battlestar Galactica treatment. Created by Terry Nation, the original program famously finished with one of the most downbeat endings of all time. However it is probably now more ...

Songwriter and producer Bob Crewe is one of those behind the scenes guys who was seemingly everywhere during the rock era. Records written and/ or produced by Crewe charted over a twenty year period, including My Eyes Adored You and Lady Marmalade, ...

An Illustrated History of Digital Cameras until 1998. Mainly looks at consumer digicams, but includes a host of ancestors - obscuras, pinholes, consumer film and SLRs, electronic video cameras, etc.

A Preview Of Tomorrow's Olympic Torch Relay. Japan Probe has posted a few computer-generated examples of what the relay should look like, and links to a news report that states 10,000 Chinese will be in Nagano (location) (cuddly mascots) tomorrow t ...

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...

There might be two or three people who can use this tool. — — — — I'm one of them, that's why I developed it. — —

Every so often a beer-drunk fan will run on the field during a baseball game causing a delay while the cops chase him down. Back in the days of streaking sometimes these fans would run out on the field naked. — — You'll never see one of ...

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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 ...

hear the stories behind popular memes from their creators; see the Tweetscan for more  

I had no idea Shiver Metimbers unmasked himself last year  

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  

In this episode of Make's Weekend Project, Kipkap shows how to build a mousetrap-powered car....

Today on BoingBoing gadgets, we poured ourself one from the firehose, studied from the codex of lilliputian laptops and, still thirsty, drank some vitamin water, which, in defiance of physics, mixes just fine with snake oil. Rob set about building a ...

Here's a neat poster to help you visualize all of the top-level domains in the world... At the end of every URL and email address is a top-level domain (TLD). Although .com is the world's most popular TLD, it is far from alone. There are more than ...

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 ...

Score one for games. With the release of GTA IV, Blockbuster will begin to feature video games in "new release" retail space formerly reserved exclusively for movies. I know, it doesn't sound like a big deal to rearrange some stuff on the shelf. But ...

Score one for games. With the release of GTA IV, Blockbuster will begin to feature video games in "new release" retail space formerly reserved exclusively for movies. I know, it doesn't sound like a big deal to rearrange some stuff on the shelf. But ...

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

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Remember a year or two ago when President Bush really wanted to push through a plan to partially privatize social security so your retirement stash could flourish with the ever-effervescent stock market? Remember how he couldn't sell the initiative t ...

The United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets is an organization you can count on in crunch time. It delivers much needed bed nets that protect people from Malaria mosquitoes. In honor of World Malaria Day (tomorrow), it's launched a campaign to i ...

With Microsoft no closer to acquiring its longtime rival than it was three months ago, the Redmond brain trust feels the pressure to act. What it will do, however, remains unclear.