05/09/08

Haseltine came from an unusual place to the NSA: Walt Disney Imagineering. Between his overuse of the phrases "bad guys" and "war on terror", there were a couple of interesting moments. In Haseltine's estimation, something called Intellipedia is the ...

I'll admit I don't watch politicians speak that often, particularly in public. So maybe I'm being a little naive here, but San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is nothing short of a magician up on the stage. He talked for 20 straight minutes (his would-b ...

The purpose of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008: To prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment. It passed the Senate earlier this year is expected to be signed in ...

Picking a subject from his upcoming book, Malcolm Gladwell talked about the difficulty in hiring people in the increasingly complex thought-based contemporary workplace. Specifically that we're using a collection of antiquated tools to evaluate poten ...

I'll be at the New Yorker conference today and some attempt to provide an alive weblogging of the goings-on will be made. On the slate are kottke.org tagholders David Remnick, Rebecca Mead, David Chang, Malcolm Gladwell, and James Surowiecki.

jonhicks : Image to Data Droplet for OS X - As Shaun says, while there is an excellent Textmate Bundle for encoding images as base64, I often need this functionality in CSS Edit or Coda, so this droplet is superb! Tags : base64 sidenotes

Andy Baio : Rock Band hates me - a multi-instrumentalist's reality meets fiction

Greg Storey : The five mistakes Clinton made. - So much for her "experience". Tags : Politics

Khoi Vinh : IHT.com: Neat Trick for Eliminating Typographic Widows Tags : Two Star

Khoi Vinh : Cooper-Hewitt 2008 National Design Awards Winners Announced - Congratulations to Michael Bierut and Scott Stowell, among others. Tags : Three Star

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...

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i have some doughts in .net Please clarify me.: Some guy made a weak attempt to get posters on Spolsky’s discussion group to answer a homework question for him. Hilarity ensued. Strong typing is hitting the keyboard with your fists. Weak t ...

Mamma Mia! Papa John’s raking in the dough online: An entire article on CNN about the apparent explosion of ordering pizza on the Net. Dominos Pizza Inc., put its own twist on online ordering early this year by introducing a “Pizza Tr ...

In this edition of "Dr. Syd's House Call," pediatrician Dr. Sydney Spiesel talks with Emily Bazelon about whether ADHD medications pose an added cardiac risk for children.

Dekortage writes "Although it's been up for a few weeks, today is the official launch of FontStruct, a web-based font creation tool. That's right: in your web browser, you can build your own typeface, and download it as a TrueType font. The site's us ...

evanbd writes "After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. 'Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve thi ...

Rikardon writes "Nikko Home Electronics has created a DVD projector that looks and moves like R2D2 — with a remote control shaped like the Millenium Falcon. The specs aren't bad: a claimed projection area of up to 6.6m; built-in DVD and CD play ...

Ian Lamont writes "Terrence Russell has outlined an interesting theory about what industry Apple intends to break into next. He points to games. Forget Pippin II, or an iMac gaming rig — he thinks the mobile realm is where Apple will make a big ...

Esther Schindler writes "CSO has an annotated, zoomable map of real botnet topologies showing the interconnections between the compromised computers and the command-and-control systems that direct them. The map is based on work by security researcher ...

waderoush writes "Aviation enthusiasts have been dreaming of flying cars since the 1940s. But in an old machine shop in Woburn, MA, a team of MIT aero/ astro grads is building what could be the first practical airplane that's also certified for highw ...

The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the U.S. military was stepping up preparations for a relief mission in Myanmar, but he said he couldn't imagine air dropping aid without permission from the closed regime.

The House has passed a housing aid plan to provide $300 billion in refinanced mortgages for struggling homeowners. President Bush says he'll veto the bill. It passed 266-154 with support from 39 Republicans.

Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.

Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.

Time.com - Hillary Clinton began the race with all sorts of advantages, but she and her advisers never grasped how much had changed

Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday.

A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk saying a family outing to the Maritime Aquarium was ruined by dog feces. The woman claims her child's shoes, along with the entire outing, were ruined when her 1-year-old stepped in dog feces ou ...

The driver of a 1997 Honda Civic that struck and killed a dog near Cloquet is suing the dog's owners for damage done to his vehicle. Jeffery Ely was driving on the night of Jan. 4 when Fester, a miniature pinscher, squeezed past owner Nikki Munthe as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill to create a $300 billion mortgage-insurance fund and provide billions more in homeowner aid to stabilize a housing market shaken by a wave of foreclosures.

Kuro5hin.org sure has changed a lot over the years. When it was first fired up it promptly drained what little brain power existed at slashdot including the more intelligent slashdot trolls, which was fine by taco as they've been able to revel in hal ...

The UN says it is disappointed at Burma's slow progress in allowing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone.

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 ...

We've been following Keeley Hazell's life and times for quite a while now, but what do we really know about her? Do we really understand her? More importantly, does she understand us? We've always thought that there was a special unspoken bond betwee ...

Last week I asked Google and YouTube press support (and another Google employee) whether their Scientology channel was paid. The channel was listed in the "Sponsors" section of the site, for one thing, and Scientology has been seen spending many adve ...

Yahoo released a new type of search result for India called "Glue Page." Instead of the usual text listing, some queries -- like blog, einstein or asthma -- will now trigger a comprehensive and very visual result page. This page contains different el ...

Haseltine came from an unusual place to the NSA: Walt Disney Imagineering. Between his overuse of the phrases "bad guys" and "war on terror", there were a couple of interesting moments. In Haseltine's estimation, something called Intellipedia is the ...

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 ...

Beyond the McIntosh. The apple whisperer of New England.

Meatwater: A high-efficiency survival beverage. Don't worry; there is bacon water for your dog or cat, too.

The full length of Tom Davenport's "Born for Hard Luck" featuring Peg Leg Sam, the last of the great medicine show singers/ dancers/ musicians. Too busy to watch? Read the transcript with footnotes. Other films in Davenport's American Trad ...

"It was relatively quiet along the shores of the Big Island in Hawaii for quite some time. But since early March of this year, lava from the Kilauea Volcano flows down again to the coastal plains - which produces new land for the island - and ma ...

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 just uploaded a song I recorded on Tuesday to Pownce. — — After two tries, it worked. You have to be logged in to download the song but anyone can play it. Hmmm. That removes one potential application I had in mind, Pownce as a podcast- ...

Twitter is still my mainstay in microblogging, but I'm using FriendFeed more, and today Pownce removed an important limit that will make it useful in a way that neither Twitter or FriendFeed are. And because all three have APIs and excellent support ...

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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 ...

a multi-instrumentalist's reality meets fiction  

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  

New research shows that the electromagnetic signals emanating from mobile phones can alter your brainwaves. Indeed, the latest studies suggest that mobile phone transmissions can even affect behavior. In one study, scientists from the Swinburne Unive ...

Cabinet Magazine posted a great feature on the secret history of Cybex-like exercise machines. Apparently, the first "gym" filled with mechanical fitness contraptions was built by Swedish physician Gustav Zander in the late 19th century. The article ...

The Sky Factory deals in fake skylights and windows. Their SkyCeilings and Luminous Virtual Windows are photos of the outside that fit into standard ceiling or window grid systems. Fluorescent and LED backlighting is also available. It's like having ...

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. ...

Activision saw a record $2.90 billion in net sales for the fiscal year ending March 2008, the publisher announced today - $602.5 million was in the fourth quarter alone, as compared to $312.5 million during the same period last year. Activision's pr ...

We've seen the theme before: Video games, forsaking all outdoor activity to play them, can lead to obesity. Recently someone sent me a video, which does a great job of getting that message across. It also reminds me of this idea I had last year for a ...

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 ...

Trippy CGI visuals take the checkered flag in the Wachowski brothers' new movie, with actors planted firmly in the back seat.