05/11/08

How this whole When Obama wins thing got started: some Adaptive Path folk musing about state name changes if Obama won: Dan was twittering something about Alabama, but wrote "Alambama". He joked that when Barack Obama wins the election, certain stat ...

A sad Kermit the Frog sings Elliot Smith's Needle in the Hay (complete with The Royal Tenenbaums parody), NIN's Hurt, and Radiohead's Creep (in which Kermit says "fucking"). (via buzzfeed) (link)

Truly awesome photos of the plume from Chile's recently reactivated Chaitén volcano merging with a lightning-infested thunderstorm. (link)

Jezebel's 2008 Harper's/ Harper's Bazaar mashup, I'd like you to meet Andrew Hearst's 2005 Harper's/ US Weekly mashup. (link)

Chip Kidd's copy of the New New Times reveals the truth behind Russia's new President: Trickery. (via book design review) (link)

deusx : WFMU's On The Download - "WFMU's On The Download collects MP3s from the fringes once a month: new sounds, obscure audio, found sound, and other sonic stimulants unique to WFMU. " Tags : mp3s nifty odd radio sounds

deusx : Advanced OAuth Wrangling - Laughing Meme - "And as its a 85 slides to be given in 45 minutes you can imagine that there is a fair amount of information missing from the slides" Tags : oauth slides webdev xtech

deusx : Charlie's Diary: Bang, Bucks, and Delivery in Recompense - "If your novel is six times as long as normal, it needs to deliver six times as loud a climax." Tags : novels writing

deusx : Blocks and Files - Data recovered from Seagate drive in Columbia shuttle disaster - "The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing." Tags : challenger har ...

43folders : Macworld | Create good queries in Spotlight

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody: Clay Shirky gave a heckuva talk at the Web 2.0 Expot about what he calls “the cognitive surplus.” Here’s the theory — After the industrial revolution, Americans had ...

Up and Then Down: This is a fascinating article about all aspects of elevators. It’s set amid the story of a guy who got stuck in an elevator for 41 hours, but it touches on things like elevator phobias, the social aspects of elevators, and &# ...

Mark Jordan Legan sums up what the critics are saying about some of this week's new movie releases: Speed Racer, What Happens in Vegas, and The Tracey Fragments.

The Future of Things covered the introduction last month of HP's DreamColor display, with 30 bits/ pixel, developed in conjunction with DreamWorks Animation. The display is aimed at the video production, animation, and graphics arts industries. HP pr ...

An anonymous reader writes "A Seattle Times editorial notes that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will put author Mark Steyn on trial for his book 'America Alone,' which has angered Muslims in Canada. Steyn is a columnist for the Canadian m ...

Science News reports on recent research indicating that any kind of multitasking while driving is dangerous. Not just the obvious distraction of juggling a cell phone, but even talking to a passenger or listening to a book on tape. The researchers us ...

A number of readers are sending word that the blogosphere and Twittersphere are alight with reports of Microsoft's new block on messages containing YouTube URLs. Both MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger reportedly implement the block. One blogge ...

e5rebel writes "Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs. It is an effort to stop Linux dominating this market but Microsoft is insisting on limiting the hardware specs of these devices."Read more of ...

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft still has not adopted Silverlight, and uses Flash all over its websites. "Despite all the controversy over Microsoft using Silverlight to take over the rich internet market from Adobe Flash, the software giant se ...

Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.

Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign. In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before bei ...

Hezbollah gunmen melted off the streets of Beirut Saturday, heeding an army call to pull the fighters out after the Shiite militants demonstrated their military might in a power struggle with the U.S.-backed government.

EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.

Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites.

The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory — a surprising victory, surprisingly large.

The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.

About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches.

The U.S. Forest Service is looking for the "SpongeBob fanatics" who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite factions on Saturday reached a deal to end fighting between militia and security forces in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has killed hundreds of people, officials said.

Dry dock workers of the Curacao Dry Dock Company (CDM) discovered dangerous levels of blue asbestos while conducting routine repairs on the Freewinds, flagship of the Church of Scientology's Sea Org and home to the Flag Ship Service Organization (FS ...

Hezbollah agrees to pull its gunmen out of Beirut after Lebanon's army settles tensions with the government.

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 ... · We stay the same age, but those crazy hipster kids seem to just keep getting younger (and nakeder.) · Of course, we never thought these people would ever come of age, but somehow they made it! &mi ...

I sent a couple of people the following question: "What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?" Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips ...

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 ...

How this whole When Obama wins thing got started: some Adaptive Path folk musing about state name changes if Obama won: Dan was twittering something about Alabama, but wrote "Alambama". He joked that when Barack Obama wins the election, certain stat ...

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 ...

vagabondish "The Travelzine for Today's Vagabond" offers lots of tips for travellers. And if, like me, travel isn't really in your near future, you can check out the dispatches.

The Heartbreak Campaign. "Increasingly opposed to the Vietnam War, Robert F. Kennedy struggled over whether he should challenge his party's incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, in 1968. His younger brother, Teddy, was against it. His wife, Eth ...

The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree. "The occupation of Iraq will cost $3 trillion, America's most expensive conflict since WWII. Can YOU spend that money better? Here's your chance to go on a virtual $3 trillion shopping spree and prove it!" [V ...

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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...

Oh the political debate is getting interesting! — — Assuming the Democratic nomination is actually decided, then what is Hillary Clinton's future role? — — Last night on Larry King I heard Carole Simpson, a black woman, suppor ...

The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. In recent memory, the browser wars, the Java wars, before that there were wars over email APIs, desktops, GUIs, networking standards, you name it, if there's money to be made in controlling u ...

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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 ...

the Winamp/ Gnutella creator made a formidable ProTools competitor; amazing to see it go from this to this  

I'm embarrassed to admit I found the Happy Days clip (in French) for Jeff  

an application for Lily turns DOM elements into audio  

high quality videos in three torrents from the music video community  

I loved Bioshock's story but not the gameplay, so this should be a fun ride  

random sampling of 150 people's clipboards, categorized  

one of the most amazing hacks I've ever seen; don't miss the demos further down the page  

Flickr's Joe D! has a laugh-out-loud set of 75 "refaced" US bank-notes, in which the various dead presidents are reinvented as a series of ever-funnier defacements. Link (Thanks to everyone who suggested these!)...

Mashup artist Rench has released a free album of "gangstagrass" music -- hiphop mashed with bluegrass. The mixes are really good, in that, "Hey, who knew those two really different flavors worked so well together?" way that makes mashups so much fun ...

A St. Petersburg, FL TV station reports on a family with a 3-year-old boy so has a rare mdical condition that prevents him from sleeping. His parents must watch him around the clock, taking turns to sleep during the day. Rhett has never taken a nap o ...

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 ...

When I blogged about Flyp on Tuesday, I didn't know it was about to run an article about Charlie Nesson's poker university, a place where students learn about life by playing poker online. The article is short and showy, but it'll give you the idea.. ...

Slate contributor Sudhir Venkatesh is a Columbia sociology professor who has written a book about street gangs, even going so far as to run with one in Chicago for a book. So, naturally, Grand Theft Auto IV would intrigue him. His verdict on the game ...

While academia occasionally manages to maintain the veneer of being 'civilized,' academic battles of words can frequently be just as epic as anything occurring outside the Ivory Tower — even when couched in elegant language and well-reasoned po ...

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

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All too often movies make shocking science blunders, but here are a few rare gems that make a valiant effort to get it right Originally from New Scientist - Latest Headlines, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 10, 2008 at 09:02 ...

A new survey is monitoring a million massive stars to see if any suddenly disappear, imploding to become black holes Originally from New Scientist - Latest Headlines, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 10, 2008 at 09:02 AM

Jon Edwards recovers data from computers wrecked in floods and fires. He has retrieved info from a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003. The drive held scientific data -- some was radioed to Earth ...