04/27/08

The One Day Poem Pavilion uses the sun to display a poem one line at a time over the course of an entire day. (via stingy kids) (link)

This season, baseball managers are being a bit more experimental in how they construct their batting and pitching lineups. For instance, the Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers started relief pitchers in games that they suspected might be shortened by rain ...

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 ...

bmilleare : ThinkGeek :: Ironkey - Might get this to store important code on instead of the laptop hdd Tags : drive, encryption usb

bmilleare : ThinkGeek :: meh - I need this for work!

deusx : AtomPub and OAuth - DiSo Project | Google Groups - "So, I'm still trying to get AtomPub working with OAuth" Tags : atompub metablogging oauth wbdev

deusx : Showdown - Markdown in JavaScript - "a JavaScript port of Markdown" Tags : javascript markdown metablogging webdev

deusx : Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub: OSCON 2008 – O'Reilly Conferences, July 21 - 25, 2008, Portland, Oregon - "The Jabber/ XMPP protocol and PubSub extension offer a Web scale, standards based, and increasingly popula ...

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 ...

Mark Jordan Legan sums up what the critics are saying about some of this week's new movie releases: Baby Mama, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, and Deception.

An anonymous reader points out an article up at Science News on a question that, remarkably, is still being debated after a few thousand years: is mathematics discovered, or is it invented? Those who answer "discovered" are the intellectual descendan ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Bills have been introduced in both the House and the Senate to liberalize copyright law in the case of orphaned works. The almost-identical bills would limit the penalties for infringement in cases where ...

bcrowell writes "The NYTimes has an editorial plugging Flat World Knowledge, a startup that will offer college textbooks inexpensively (~$30) in print, and free as PDFs. They plan to make their profits from add-ons like podcast study guides and mobil ...

chromatic writes "Google and O'Reilly have published the Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations. These awards, given at OSCON 2008, recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in ...

eldavojohn writes "You may be familiar with Donald Knuth from his famous Art of Computer Programming books but he's also the father of TeX and, arguably, one of the founders of open source. There's an interesting interview where he says a lot of stuf ...

bippy writes "Five days, one game. The Rocky Mountain News has a write up of five days spent playing Grand Theft Auto IV recently in a San Francisco hotel. It ends: "In Grand Theft Auto IV the story isn't just an amalgam of cut scenes and cleverly wr ...

Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely been reduced to trivia while working ...

Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded t ...

A fast-moving fire destroyed a large apartment complex early Saturday, and authorities were looking for dozens of people reported unaccounted for.

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.

Luck doesn't even to begin to describe golfer Ted Kemp's round on Monday. Kemp, a 12-handicapper, knocked in holes-in-one on back-to-back par 3s at the Muscatine Municipal Golf Course.

Reuters - Fifteen Mexican drug gang members were killed near the U.S. border on Saturday, their bodies scattered along a road after one of the deadliest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.

Modesto police are blaming a scratching cat for an accident that toppled a power pole and shut down a street for nearly an hour. A police sergeant said Friday that a woman was driving with a cat in her lap. The animal scratched her, and she drove int ...

Luck doesn't even to begin to describe golfer Ted Kemp's round on Monday. Kemp, a 12-handicapper, knocked in holes-in-one on back-to-back par 3s at the Muscatine Municipal Golf Course.

HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's party has failed to win control of Zimbabwe's parliament in a partial recount of the March 29 election, results showed on Saturday, confirming the ruling party's first defeat in 28 years.

Nintendo redefined the relationship between man and games console with the creation of the Wiimote, and continued to riff on that successful theme. Ever since the Wii came out, Wii crossbows, guns, wheels, golf clubs, baseball bats, tenni ...

President Robert Mugabe's party fails to regain its majority in Zimbabwe's parliament after a partial recount.

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 ...

A look back at the week that was ... · They say that history is written by the winners, unless some porn studio gets to it first. — · So that's what it looks like when 300 sweaty Greek guys get replaced a few hot babes! — &m ...

The One Day Poem Pavilion uses the sun to display a poem one line at a time over the course of an entire day. (via stingy kids) (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 ...

Interactive Architecture is for both geeks and design freaks. Lots of interesting and WTF stuff here, like SandScapes, Funky Forests, Swarming Structures, Colour Responsive Chairs, and Jelly Architecture. Not to mention the amazing Touch, a tower wi ...

You're an Author? Me too! The trend of increasing authorship and decreasing readership.

A new study in Science claims that teaching math is better done by teaching the abstract concepts rather than using concrete examples. From an article by the study authors in Science Mag (requires subscription): If a goal of teaching mathematics is ...

The Straylight release of Nexus War, a browser based PvP MMO in the vein of Urban Dead (thought significantly more complex) and Kingdom of Loathing (thought significantly more serious in tone), occurred today. It brings with it a host of changes, new ...

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 expected a roaring debate in the political blogosphere this morning, and on cable news after the Friday night Bill Moyers interview with Rev Jeremiah Wright. Instead, there's eerie quiet. — — The most I could find was this post on Prot ...

I was able to watch the Wright interview on adamdeyong's Slingbox in Newport News, Virginia. — — I recorded it, but now the video is available on the PBS website, and the audio is at the link below. — — www.pbs.org/ moyers/ r ...

.... years he convinced officers to be on his merry side. So the Sheriff always hated him.             This book is full of adventure, dispense, betraying and violence. I recommend this book to all young adult readers. Authored by shane ...

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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 ...

he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too  

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  

The lobby for US-style copyrights in Canada has gone into overdrive, recruiting a powerful Member of Parliament and turning public forums on copyright into one-sided love-fests for restrictive copyright regimes that criminalize everyday Canadians. Da ...

Science painter Cornelia Hesse-Honegger collects and paints mutant bugs in the vicinity of irradiated wastelands like Chernorbyl, around nuclear plants, and nuclear refining sites. This handsome, lopsided li'l fella came from nearby the reactor at Gy ...

The fun-loving gamers at the Unreal Tournament forum have recreated Super Mario Bros as a rockin' UT2D level. Link...

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 ...

... So Margaret Robertson argues, at least when it comes to graphics — why did everyone abandon monochrome for color? Wouldn't a little variety be nice?: Why were we so quick to leave black and white behind as we moved on from Pong and Spacew ...

Man, I am on a mission to get Jack Thompson to spam my inbox. I figured anything pairing "Grand Theft Auto" and "hookers" might trigger his impotent, wasted bot-army of letter writers which is, of course, himself alone. GamesRadar has an amusing tri ...

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

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I'm not entirely sure how a folding balcony is superior to one that doesn't fold, considering you're not really saving interior space, and presumably there's sufficient space on the outside to expand out the balcony. Still, the award-winning Bloomfr ...

After World War II, Edward Larabee Barnes, Henry Dreyfuss and Bucky Fuller all tried to use aircraft technology and ideas to build housing but it never took off, so to speak. Perhaps their mistake was modelling it after the wrong planes, going with m ...

Team Underwire is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to keep you apprised of the goings-on at ROFLCon, the all-out, no-holds-barred geekfest bringing together web celebs and the people who love them.