05/12/08

Advice for 1985: how to survive a nuclear blast. (via delicious ghost) (link)

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)

factoryjoe : The Blood Brain Barrier - "Simply put, you have to have the ability to broadcast an acuity for successful guesses. We're at the doorway of gesture farming, where individual gesturers go beyond implicit behavior harves ...

factoryjoe : Twitter / twtooltrack - Tracking Twitter aficionados and tool developers. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, tools

Greg Storey : When View Source attacks. - I wonder how often this happens in the newspaper and television industry. Tags : Design

Simon Willison : Byteflow Blog Engine - Byteflow Blog Engine. This looks like the most full-featured of the Django blog engines by a pretty big margin, including OpenID client and server support. A product of the growing Russian Django community.

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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Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

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Now, I realize that Hulu got lot of crap for being a YouTube ripoff, and I know NBC got a lot of crap for pulling all its stuff off every video sharing site in the world, but… Hulu is awesome. Seriously. I don’t know how I ended up the ...

Apple - Education - iTunes U: This is the audio version of OpenCourseWare, I suppose. Apple has gotten a bunch of high-end schools to contribute lectures to iTunes, which are available for download, and appear to be free (I didn’t find any wit ...

An expectant mother asks Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, how to deal with her revulsion to the smell of snack and lunch foods eaten by her co-workers.

billybob2 writes "VIA has released 16,434 Lines Of Free & Open Source code that enables Linux natively to use the framebuffer on VIA's graphics chipsets. This comes a month after VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and document ...

Consul writes "What is the oldest piece of code that is still in use today, that has not actually been retyped or reimplemented in some way? By 'piece of code,' I'm of course referring to a complete algorithm, and not just a single line." The questio ...

Das Capitolin sends us to Benchmark Reviews for an in-depth feature on DDR3 memory that begins: "These are uncertain financial times we live in today, and the rise and fall of our economy has had [a] direct [effect] on consumer spending. It has alrea ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency are using techniques inspired by their experience with outer space to make new and better products here on Earth. Certain compounds and alloys which are not normally viable can be made in different ways once fo ...

An anonymous reader brings us IBM Developerworks' recent analysis of how the NSA built SELinux to withstand attacks. The article shows us some of the relevant kernel architecture and compares SELinux to a few other approaches. We've discussed SELinux ...

sproketboy writes with news that a developer named Marc Balmer has recently fixed a bug in a bit of BSD code which is roughly 25 years old. In addition to the OSnews summary, you can read Balmer's comments and a technical description of the bug. "Thi ...

Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 21 people in three states.

Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies — one of the first international shipments — sank on its way to the disaster zone.

Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win.

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.

Emily again topped the list of most popular baby girl names last year, registering as No. 1 for the 12th straight time. Jacob led among names for boys for the ninth year in a row.

Reuters - Iconic singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honor bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians -- his own spider.

Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman who had found it on her windshield hadn't.

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

YANGON (Reuters) - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers said on Sunday that thousands will die if emergency supplies don't get through soon.

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 ...

Clashes flare outside Beirut as Lebanon's army struggles to contain fighting between Shia and pro-government groups.

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 ...

Advice for 1985: how to survive a nuclear blast. (via delicious ghost) (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 ...

Gen. Vang Pao's Last War. "The U.S. government relied on Vang Pao and his Hmong soldiers to battle Communism in the jungles of Laos. Why is the Justice Department now calling him a terrorist?" The Hmong in America and Vang Pao were previ ...

But remember, talking to the dead can be dangerous. "All peoples of earth posess this natural ability," says Nicole Zapruder, who has been communicating with the dead since she was 4 years old. People aren't disputing her ability to use th ...

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Party Like It's 2008 [SLNYTOE] Almost every wrong prediction about this election cycle has come from those trying to force the round peg of this year's campaign into the square holes of past political wars. That's why race keeps being portrayed ...

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...

To every yin there's a yang. Here's a brilliant counterpoint to what I've been writing here about decentralizing Twitter. I've excerpted the last paragraph because it is some of the best tech writing I've ever read. Wonderful. — — Echova ...

From time to time people ask what the images in the margins of Scripting News mean. I don't think I've ever answered the question on the blog itself. — — There are many answers to the question because they mean whatever you want them to m ...

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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 ...

store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML  

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  

Roger Ebert traces the roots of Internet culture to science fiction fanzines: Then the university intervened, and I found myself publishing The Spectator (not precisely an original title), a weekly tabloid of arts and politics at the University of Il ...

Musicians who play tabletop RPGs, rejoice -- here's a detailed guide to using polyhedral dice to improve your musical skills. The d12 is Schoenberg's dream die. Music majors, rejoice! Now the dice gods can determine your tone row for you. The d12 i ...

Scott Beale reminds us that... Roboexotica USA, a celebration of cocktail robots, takes place from 8pm-2am this Saturday, May 10th [that'd be today] at Space, 354 5th Street in San Francisco. I won't be there myself, but I'll look forward to the twee ...

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 ...

Parade magazine today reports on the top ten names for baby boys and girls this year:JacobEmilyMichaelIsabellaEthanEmmaJoshuaAvaDanielMadisonChristopherSophiaAnthonyOliviaWilliamAbigailMatthewHannahAndrewElizabethOk, but I seem to meet more and more ...

Kieron Gillen has a nice meditation on difficulty and games over at the Escapist: where do you find it these days? Gillen opines that real difficulty, something "balanced expertly on the precipice between hard and unfair" (like his example of God Ha ...

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

Claiming that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in vaccines, triggers autism, attorneys for two Oregon boys take on mainstream medicine in a federal court Monday.