05/07/08

A list of the 50 greatest commercial parodies of all time, with video evidence. (link)

Bill Henson's photos of people at the opera, including a short interview with the photographer. What I was interested in terms of Paris Opera series was that whole strange business of finding oneself with a whole lot of other people gathered in a da ...

Curbed has some photos of the construction progress on the High Line. Compare and contrast with some photos I took in early 2004. (link)

Over at H&FJ, the H talks about the &. As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of "et," the Latin word for "and." Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are ...

Longish but interesting profile of Larry Gagosian, the world's foremost art dealer. Gagosian attracts artists and collectors alike because he understands the intense coupling between art and money. In 2004 the top price for a painting by Takashi Mur ...

43folders : How to answer the people who think you're nuts? « FreeRangeKids

Andy Baio : Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art - named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE

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joshua : Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera - upgrade a canon pos Tags : photo

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)

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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 ...

Bitter fights for the presidential nomination often deliver ammunition to the opposing party. In this "Damned Spot Classic," David Schwartz of the Museum of the Moving Image shows us how primary-season attacks have been amplified in the general elect ...

krow writes "I am very happy to be announcing that MySQL will be forgoing close sourcing portions of the MySQL Server. Kaj has the official statement in his blog. No portion of the server will be closed source including backup, encryption, or any sto ...

Pig Hogger writes "If you're stuck with a cheap Canon point-and-shoot camera and have feature envy over the neighbor's sophisticated latest model, fret not! According to this LifeHacker article, the CHDK project allows nearly complete programmatic co ...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is going to have to face the music in Tampa, Florida, and answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and computer fraud and abuse that have been leveled against them there. A ...

Airw0lf writes with claim that appears too implausible to credit, at first glance: "If anyone remembers 'Fairlight' — one of the great groups on the warez scene, you may be interested to know that one of their leaders, Tony Krvaric, is now the ...

quarterbuck writes "The NYTimes has up a great blog post that explains a bit of the backstory behind the Yahoo-Microsoft No-deal. While Jerry Yang did not want to sell the company, it is not likely that he could have said No to Microsoft, and explain ...

SeeSp0tRun writes to remind us of Blizzard's lawsuit against MDY Industries over the Glider cheat. It seems that Blizzard is pushing it even further. They're trying out the legal theory that a software creator retains complete control over how a prog ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama battled in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries on Tuesday, the last big-delegate prizes in their marathon race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The economy was the top issue by far in both state ...

The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's deadliest storm on record, state radio reported.

Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.

Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.

Cisco Systems Inc.'s profit fell 5 percent in its fiscal third quarter but beat Wall Street's expectations, a sign the turbulent U.S. economy didn't rattle the world's largest networking equipment maker as hard as expected.

Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.

Reuters - A new study provides some of the best evidence to date that breast-feeding can make children smarter, an international team of researchers said on Monday.

The police chief who shot himself in the ankle was waving a loaded pistol and being careless, according to two students who were attending his class to qualify for a concealed-weapons permit. "We were told the gun is the chief's personal sidearm, but ...

It was the odor of chocolate on the suspect's breath that gave away a 15-year-old boy accused of shoplifting candy bars in Bremerton. An officer responding to the shoplifting report Friday night caught up with the suspect on a bicycle.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government raised its death toll from Cyclone Nargis on Tuesday to nearly 22,500 with another 41,000 missing, nearly all of them from a massive storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta.

The collapse of the U.S. housing industry is the big news of the day. While independent journalists and other comentators have been covering the rise and fall of the housing industry blow by blow, the corporate media joined the party just as the bubb ...

Burma's death toll has risen to more than 22,000 after a cyclone hit the country on Saturday, state media say.

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 only bad thing about living in an urban metropolis is that you have to give up on the dream of having your own backyard. (Unless you want to mow the lawns in your city park.) Nothing beats being able to lounge peacefully in the outdoors and enjoy ...

Search Engine Roundtable shows off a screenshot of what looks like a Google experiment -- of using the Comic Sans font in AdSense ads. Among designers and people with taste in general, Comic Sans is often considered one of the worst fonts of all t ...

Elliot Schrage has left Google to join Facebook, BoomTown reports. Google on their management information page explains Elliot is or was "Vice President, Global Communications & Public Affairs" and "responsible for the company's public-facing com ...

A list of the 50 greatest commercial parodies of all time, with video evidence. (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 ...

The messy 3-way interaction between grassroots Chinese nationalism, foreign opposition, and the quiet hand of China's media censors continues.

Joanna Connors, a theatre critic, was raped on an empty stage. She tells her story in vivid, lucid detail-- then traces her rapist's twisted family history. One of the best pieces of journalism-- or writing, for that matter-- I've read for ages. Lo ...

I was a Teenage Wares Freak? San Diego Republican Party chairman Tony Krvaric may have been Strider, co-founder of Fairlight. via Slashdot

Protection from the Atomic Bomb A 1950 pamphlet provided by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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...

Read this post from John Borthwick, my partner in Switch-A-Bit. — — www.borthwick.com/ weblog/ 2008/ 05/ 06/ future-of-news/ — — Breaking news covered by a loosely formed ad hoc group of net users. — — Update: Re ...

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 ...

.... or musicians.  Others of us are terrific athletes.  We are all important and unique.   Think about what you enjoy doing the most.  What is your special talent?  How do you share this special talent with other people? Authored by desi ...

....Trent Reznor is distributing the new Nine Inch Nails full-length album "The Slip" as a free download via Creative Commons. It's really great how Trent has been taking on the music industry lately.....

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 ...

named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE  

new RPG madness from the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden  

he just released a mega-sampler of 17 of his games; highly recommended  

surprisingly deep multiplayer 8-bit Flash game  

on the contrary, Yahoo! gained $7B in value while Microsoft lost $33B  

members of the Soyuz capsule were greeted by confused locals in a Kazakhstan field  

like R2D2 with a floppy drive and 20MB hard drive  

Chris Tackett of Treehugger.com says: "I recall you doing this post on Isabella Rossellini's bug porn. The videos [called "Green Porno"] are now viewable, so we did a post about that." Link...

Last month I took a photo of an honor payment system at a bookstore in Ojai, California. On a related note, here's an article about the City Caf� Bakery in Kitchener, Ontario, which uses an honor payment system and almost never gets cheated. (Photo ...

Seen here is the remarkable cover art for the remarkably-named band Hot Poop, whose moniker was inspired by a Zappa tune. Their only record, "Does Their Own Stuff!" was released in 1971. As WFMU's Beware of the Blog points out, the album art has a Ma ...

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 ...

Flyp, an online mag, is in beta but it's already gorgeous.[Tags: flyp ]

newVideoPlayer("mirrosedge506_kotaku.flv", 480, 290,""); EA Dice revealed this new teaser video for their parkour inspired game Mirror's Edge today at the Sony PlayStation Day in London, and the game looks even better in motion that it does in still ...

During his keynote speech at Sony PlayStation Day London '08, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe head David Reeves announced that the PS3 had officially overtaken the Xbox 360 in European sales. I am delighted to be able announce today that we have s ...

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

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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 ...

The latest release from VMWare improves the popular software package for running Windows programs on the Mac OS X desktop. Fusion 2 adds support for computers with multiple monitors and has some graphics-display enhancements for gamers.