05/08/08

Commercial for the little-known version of Grand Theft Auto for the circa-1985 NES. The Tanooki Suit is the best part. (via house next door) (link)

Artist Jason Polan (he of the The Every Piece Of Art in The Museum Of Modern Art Book) is on a mission to draw every single person in New York City. If you'd like to be drawn, drop him a line on where you'll be, and he'll show up and sketch you. (lin ...

A toolkit of abstract slides that you can use for your Powerpoint or Keynote presentation. Be cause "PEOPLE cannot COPE without some kind of visual STIMULATION". (via bbj) (link)

One of the interesting findings of Elizabeth Spelke's Harvard baby brain research lab is that while babies prefer looking at pictures of people of their own race over other races, they are much more biased about language. 'They like toys more that a ...

Opening tonight at Jen Bekman: Love = Love by Kent Rogowski. Rogowski takes pieces from different puzzles and assembles them into new images. (link)

factoryjoe : When the fall is all that's left [dive into mark] - "and anyway, they're really busy right now – unlike the fine young minds at Apple and Opera, who, unbeknownst to their managers, have outsourced all their browse ...

factoryjoe : Tom Coates on Fire Eagle on Vimeo - Fire Eagle is a new web service for 'geoscrobbling' your location: fireeagle.com It lets you give permission for third party applications to either update your location, or to access ...

joshua : Beginner's Guide to Indie Gaming (WIP) - huge listof indie games Tags : games indie

deusx : Übergibson: Embedding vim Settings in the File You're Editing - "For the complete description check the vim help file (in vim type :help auto-setting and :help modeline)." Tags : editors modeline tips vim

deusx : PlasticBoy » Markdown Vim Mode - "This is a Vim syntax file for the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool." Tags : markdown nifty vim

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 ...

Two microphones, a card table, NPR's Alex Chadwick, and intimate stories from passers-by. In this episode, a young mother who plays professional football tells Alex about the thrill of the sack.

Slack3r78 writes "Gizmodo is running a feature putting the gaming marketing hype to the test and seeing whether it really makes your playing any more 1337. They match up the latest products from Razer and SteelSeries along with some five-year-old Log ...

Stony Stevenson writes "It has surfaced that the US State Department can't account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. Internal auditors found that the departm ...

WmHBlair writes "Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle Columbia has been used to complete a physics experiment performed on the mission in space. The Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack ...

Ben Rothke writes "There are two types of writers about terrorism, experts such as Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson who write from a distance and others that write graphic tales of first-hand from the trenches war stories. Terrorist Recognition Handbo ...

Roland Piquepaille writes "The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) to gather meteorological data as ...

Sean0michael writes "OpenOffice.org has announced their 3.0 Beta is ready for testing. The new version includes some great enhancements, including MS Office 2007 import filters, an improved notes feature, a built-in Solver component, and an Aqua inte ...

Barack Obama pocketed the support of at least four Democratic convention superdelegates on Wednesday, building on the momentum from a convincing North Carolina primary victory. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to remain in the race "until there's a ...

Bodies floated in flood waters and survivors tried to reach dry ground on boats using blankets as sails, while the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that up to 100,000 people may have died in the devastating cyclone.

President Bush on Wednesday criticized Democrats in Congress for their approach to dealing with the nation's housing crisis and soaring energy prices and called anew for an extension of expiring tax cuts and government wiretapping authority.

It's hard to believe Google Inc. actually looked vulnerable just two months ago. The Internet search leader's stock had plummeted 45 percent from its peak. And its two biggest rivals, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., appeared poised to combine forces ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. has finally rounded up the financial backing it needs to build a faster wireless network. But for consumers and the electronics industry, speed may be the least important thing about the new network.

LiveScience.com - Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.

LiveScience.com - If you're seeking employment, get a grip. A firm handshake is key to landing a job.

Police had no trouble tracking down a suspect in the robbery of three women at a Bucks County convenience store, because the women had taken the man's picture a short time earlier at a bar.

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 ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government came under pressure on Wednesday to open its borders to international help after a devastating cyclone that a U.S. diplomat said may have killed more than 100,000 people.

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 is urged to allow speedy access as the US warns Saturday's cyclone toll could top 100,000.

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 ...

As you've already figured out from watching dirty movies, most contemporary porn involves proving to the viewer that complete sexual congress actually took place: hence the popularity of facial money shots, or money shots anywhere outside of a body c ...

The below form triggers an image search using Google's option to show faces only. A different site operator will be used depending on the country you pick, e.g. site:de for Germany*. Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa And ...

Jason Yu provides a break down of some of the differences between Google China and their local competitor, Chinese search engine Baidu. One section compares the products of the two: Both Google and Baidu are trying to leverage their network effect ...

Commercial for the little-known version of Grand Theft Auto for the circa-1985 NES. The Tanooki Suit is the best part. (via house next door) (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 Day the Music Died The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [...] has also been warning anyone who would listen that they should not "purchase" encrypted music from these services, since if these services go under then all that "purchased† ...

Aaaaarrrrrgh!

Gmail Redesigned is a really slick CSS makeover for - you guessed - Gmail. It uses the Stylish Firefox add-on. (So yes, this is something you would need a computer, firefox, and gmail to care about.)

Federal and state government officials and border activists say the garbage dumped in the Sonoran Desert by illegal immigrants and their smugglers is staggering. The cleanup is costing taxpayers millions. The Southern Arizona Project(pdf) is a multi- ...

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...

1. There's no doubt now, Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee, and very likely the next President. I doubt if McCain has the sense of entitlement that HRC had but he's going to run on experience, and we don't want experience, we want intellige ...

DSLreports piece says Comcast may impose a 250GB monthly limit for customers. If you go over, you pay $15 per 10GB. — — Since I got shut down last month for being in the top 1/ 10th of 1 percent of their customers, without notice, I'm in ...

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....The other album is the downloadable Nine Inch Nails - The Slip. Yes, I downloaded it because it was free. No, I don't own any other NIN, but I do have memories of some of the more popular songs over my time. I prefer the Portishead, but am not ...

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  

This $8600, 1470 piece Craftsman toolset contains more pieces of precision metal than I could possibly use -- but it sure looks purdy all laid out there, doesn't it? Link (via Dvice)...

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John spotted this vintage wrist-mounted scrolling map from 1927, an antediluvian wrist-mounted GPS: At first glance, this 1927 map watch is pretty nifty: an antediluvian GPS, don't you know. It was called the Plus Fou ...

If this morning's Swedish cardboard playhouses gave you a nosebleed with their 370 Kroner pricetag (approx US$3,221,145.22), you can always make one yourself, with a set of plans like these: It is easiest to start with a large cardboard box such as a ...

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 ...

Moveon.org is recommending that we donate to the International Burmese Monks Organization, which already has a network of local people in place. Moveon.org thinks that money donated to the monks via Avaaz.org is more likely to do good quickly there. ...

newVideoPlayer("HazeKorn.flv", 463, 387,""); In this "mature-rated" video Jonathan Davis of Korn talks us through his decision to write a song about Ubisoft's upcoming shooter Haze. It is the first time he's ever worked on music for a game. To prep ...

Fight Night is back! And so is Mike Tyson! The ear-chewing ex-convict who hasn't made a video game appearance since Codemasters largely reviled Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing will be featured in Fight Night Round 4, now in development at EA Canada. Sa ...

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 Recording Industry Association of America's top litigator has been named a judge to the Colorado Court of Appeals. Richard Gabriel, who prosecuted the nation's first file sharing case to go to a jury, assumes the post July 1. There was no immedia ...