05/06/08

Tim at Short Schrift, propelled into ranting by an article in the NY Times about NYC's bike lanes, opines on grandstanding, law-breaking, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bicyclists. Bicyclists drive me nuts. In Philadelphia, as in cities across this ...

I think I have a crush on 16-year-old Mena Trott. (link)

The Deck is a smallish ad network that handles the advertising for kottke.org, which consists of an unobtrusive high-quality advertisement in the sidebar of each page of the site. The Deck recently moved to a spiffy new domain and is no longer so sma ...

Olinda is a social radio prototype comissioned by the BBC and built by Schulze & Webb. Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It's customisable with mod ...

This is the second rave review I've read of Perfumes: The Guide. Now there's a book called Perfumes: The Guide, by the husband and wife team of Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, which is not just enlightening, but beautifully written, brilliant, often v ...

bmilleare : Eee PC 900 on Play.com - Available for pre-order - delivery on May 11

mmb : ongoing Changing Your Address - ongoing Changing Your Address Tags : link

nelson : Google/ Yahoo analysis - Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising Tags : ads adwords analysis google microsoft yahoo

Ethan Marcotte : The Really Perfect Ringtone - Hail to the king, baby. ∞

Greg Storey : Beware: Celebrity endorsement. - I wish more Hollywood types were as intelligent as Hanks. Tags : Hollywood

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)

Roger Ebert’s Journal: Fanzines beget blogs: Roger Ebert has a blog now, which is crazy cool in and of itself. This week he talks about how the old world of fanzines preceded the current crop of blogs and perhaps even the Web itself. I hav ...

Microsoft says proxy battle not worth it: And that’s the end of that. In a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer confirmed that Microsoft was willing to offer $33 a share, but that Yahoo was holding out for at least ...

Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, counsels a woman who has learned that her friend's husband is having an affair.

The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting look at the war brewing on the inexpensive laptop front. With everything from the Eee PC to the OLPC, the trend in slimming and trimming seems to be continuing. "The market segment is so new it doesn't ...

NewScientist is reporting that further research is progressing on new types of user input devices. Specifically, "gaze gaming", a technology that promises faster interaction using only your eyes. Currently technology for sight-based interaction is fa ...

Aeonite writes "As we all learned in English class, there are three points of view one can employ when writing: first person ("I learned"), second person ("You learned"), and third person ("He learned"). You are about to read a review of Second Perso ...

A US court has ordered a firm to utilize negative adwords in to their internet advertising. "Orion Bancorp took Orion Residential Finance (ORF) to court in Florida over ORF's use of the word 'Orion' in relation to financial services and products, arg ...

Tesla Motors has opened their first retail store front to allow the masses access to their new cars. Of course, this is assuming you can afford the $109,000 price tag. "The company told the Associated Press that it is impressed with demand: it has ta ...

penguin-geek writes "Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a way to ease the tension between ISPs and P2P users. As we all know, there's been a growing tension between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers' P2P file-s ...

Dueling over gas prices, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama strained for every last vote on Monday, the eve of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries that are the biggest prizes left in their epic Democratic nomination fight.

Even as the overall U.S. force in Iraq shrinks, the number of elite troops known as special operations forces is likely to grow, the military's top commando told The Associated Press on Monday.

The death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar could reach more than 10,000 in the low-lying area where the storm wreaked the most havoc, the country's foreign minister warned Monday.

Sure, things look rough for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. now that they couldn't agree on a deal. Yahoo's stock has cratered, and Microsoft has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw so big it was willing to pay $47.5 ...

Yahoo shares fell 15 percent Monday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid.

LiveScience.com - Substituting chicken, fish or vegetables for red meat can help combat climate change, a new study suggests.

She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but.

A Long Island man who flipped his finger at a police cruiser and then popped a wheelie on his motorcycle is recovering from injuries after crashing.

A Westchester County teenager is facing a long list of charges after allegedly trying to rob two men and finding out they were undercover police officers.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah state in southeast Asia.

Leave your kids at home. A national alert has been issued (finally). Yes, there was apparently a cover-up of news about the spread of the EV71 virus, just as there was a cover-up in 2003 at the start of the SARS outbreak.

More than 10,000 people were killed by a devastating cyclone that hit Burma on Saturday, a minister says on state TV, and thousands more need shelter.

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 ...

The facial cumshot is pretty much standard operating procedure in any porn movie, but what about in your real life? After all, you probably don't have a hired towel boy on standby and do you really want to wash those curtains again? Or ... maybe you ...

Google released a chart which says that Unicode encoding -- which can be used for a variety of languages, not just the smaller set supported by ASCII and others -- has become the most popular encoding on the web since December 2007. While their searc ...

Three days ago I sent a first email to Google in regards to the Carrefour query censorship we see on Google.cn -- searches for 家ä��福 (French hypermarket chain Carrefour) are turning up no results (see the end of this post for an update). I'v ...

Tim at Short Schrift, propelled into ranting by an article in the NY Times about NYC's bike lanes, opines on grandstanding, law-breaking, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bicyclists. Bicyclists drive me nuts. In Philadelphia, as in cities across this ...

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 ...

Mildred Loving of Loving v. Virginia (1967) has passed away.

Burma: It Can't Wait is a month-long video campaign by the US Campaign for Burma to raise awareness of the plight of Burma (Myanmar) and Aung San Suu Kyi. There will be one video a day for 30 days from celebrities including Will Ferrel, Sarah Silver ...

Welcome to the world of pinball promo videos. Need more? Well, CaptainPinball has you covered...

Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican? is a documentary produced by Claire Andrade-Watkins about the gentrification of Providence's once-thriving Cape Verdean community of Fox Point.

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...

Yesteray at breakfast at the Sunnyside Cafe in Albany, we arrived late, all the indoor tables were taken so we sat outside. It was frigid cold, for California, in the low 50s. I wasn't really dressed for it. — — We started talking with t ...

Overnight Mike Arrington weighed in on the decentralized Twitter discussion. I'm glad he is getting involved, he's a smart guy and is now using Twitter as an integral part of his communication system. But I have to disagree with the way he characteri ...

....Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter....

....Play the popular game show: The Price Is Right and win big! Try FREE! ....

It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft's bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that "Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work together on your behalf and under your control." What was it, rea ...

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 ...

last December, Unicode beat out ASCII and Western European encodings for the first time  

glad I wasn't the only one skeptical of "pixie dust" made of pig bladders  

funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics  

generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm  

from the creators of Kdice, even more fast-paced than iSketch  

Jim Coudal knows how to pick 'em  

their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network  

Joel posted this futurtastic photo over at Boing Boing Gadgets. He snagged it from dog'S faint which is a delightful compendium of completely unrelated found photos. Link to BB Gadgets, Link to dog'S faint!!...

BB pal and FM COO Jason Weisberger felt that the fancy camera he ordered from Cameta Camera, via Amazon, was poorly packed for shipping. He called the company to complain and they were rude to him. So he posted a bad review of the shop on Amazon. The ...

Emi Guner says: "Dear secret force of the universe, be it intelligent or just accident/ chance or cause and effect, whatever you believe in, can we just agree that sometimes the best stuff in life is almost free, found in a veggie bag in your fridge. ...

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 ...

Best of luck to Ethan Zuckerman, he of the big heart and huge brain, as he undergoes eye surgery...[Tags: ethan_zuckerman ]

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

AFP

At This happened in March, Jack from Schulze & Webb gave a presentation on the development of Olinda, a prototype commissioned by BBC Audio & Music Interactive R&D. Olinda has now arrived and it looks fantastic… “Olinda i ...

View from a grain elevator in Greensburg. Nearly all of the town's buildings were destroyed or heavily damaged by the May 4, 2007 tornado. The middle of nowhere and the center of everything. That is how it feels in Greeensburg, Kansas right now. May ...

Bill Miller, a behind-the-scenes player in Microsoft-Yahoo talks, may have had a hand in the collapse of the deal.