05/13/08

A slideshow featuring well-designed tables of contents. There's an associated Flickr group if you fancy sharing your own. (via designnotes) (link)

How to find images on the internet, an extensive list of links and resources. (link)

FontStruct is an awesomely simple online font creation tool. Just draw on a grid with simple Photoshop-like tools, save, and download a TrueType version of the fonts you've just created. If this had been around when I made Silkscreen, it would have t ...

Brand Tags asks people what they think of in association with particular brands and then the results are displayed as tag clouds. For instance, Playboy, Nike, Apple, and MTV. See also Celeb Tags. (link)

In last week's New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell talked about inventions, scientific discovery, and how it's possible to "manufacture" ideas. In 1999, when Nathan Myhrvold left Microsoft and struck out on his own, he set himself an unusual goal. He wante ...

Jeremy Zawodny : eGO Cycle - eGO Cycle: WANT!

Andy Baio : BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme - amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme

deusx : Becuase it's just the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. Tags : funny gaming hookers via:missadroit wow

deusx : FoodFeed - What are you eating? - "Post your updates at the format: @having eggs and bacon" Tags : diet food twitter

plasticbag : Domestic sell all kinds of weird and awesome vynil stickers and stuff to put on walls - I think we're going to try and get some of these for the Brickhouse office to design it up a bit. The more it feels like a teenager's bedroom, the mo ...

WANT!

most excellent

"Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)."

now that's just damned funny!

"Which raises an interesting question: Is reading this book cheating? Is it the equivalent of just reading the answer key before an exam?"

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)

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.

PHPNerd writes "Over at space.com is an interesting article about the first space lawyer. He graduated from the University of Mississippi. 'Any future space lawyer might have to deal with issues ranging from the fallout over satellite shoot-downs to ...

emj writes to tell us project jDome has started actively soliciting consumer feedback and, of course, donations. They are currently promising to deliver their "180 degree FOV monitor" this year for a pricepoint of around $200. The videos and talk hav ...

coondoggie writes to tell us that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be taking a look at contactless payment systems and the consumer protection issue surrounding them. "RFID technology provides obvious benefits, the FTC said. For example, the a ...

Techdirt is reporting that Canada may be considering a "three strikes" policy which could see users internet access privileges revoked for file sharing violations. "Given how secretive the industry and the government have been about new copyright law ...

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Procera Networks is launching a new weapon on the deep packet inspection (DPI) front. At $800,000 these 80 Gbps tanks aren't going to be sitting in everyone's closet, but it could mean that more traffic shap ...

The New York Times is reporting that a school district in Texas is trying a new angle in combating truancy. Instead of punishing students with detention they are tagging them with electronic monitoring devices. "But the future of the Dallas program i ...

A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.

The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Departmen ...

Wearing a flag lapel pin, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic president ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. is negotiating to buy information technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. in a deal that could help the world's largest personal computer maker win more consulting contracts with large companies and government a ...

The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd.

A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.

Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court.

Doris Smith went downtown early Monday to see about getting tickets to Barack Obama's rally. Advance seats were sold out, she said, and the only option was to stand in line for up two hours or more and hope for the best.

Police say a tuxedo-clad western New York man was drunk when he took a riding lawn mower out for an early morning spin.

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - A earthquake devastated southwestern China on Monday, killing close to 9,000 people and trapping hundreds of others under flattened schools, factories and houses.

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 ...

At least 8,500 people are killed when a 7.8-magnitude quake hits south-western China, state media says, and the president urges "all-out" efforts to rescue survivors.

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 ...

You might want to bring a scorecard to watch this video, because you could have some trouble keeping track of where everyone is. There's a lot of arms and legs and other body parts being intertwined, and we lost the plot more than once while trying t ...

Adam Lashinsky of CNN/ Fortune posted an interesting piece on Google's brain drain -- more and more employees leaving to create their own, less bureaucratic and thus more agile start-ups -- and Google's present and future challenges. Like balancing ...

Bernhard Warner at the Times Online blog writes: For many Romans, these are jittery times. For the first time in a generation, the mayor of the Eternal City, once a left-wing stronghold, is on the political right. Gianni Alemanno, a former neo-Fas ...

A slideshow featuring well-designed tables of contents. There's an associated Flickr group if you fancy sharing your own. (via designnotes) (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 ...

Phil Schaap has hosted a jazz program for the past twenty-seven years on WKCR, Columbia University's radio station with unapologetic passion and a depth of familiarity that comes, in part, from the personal relationships he had with the musicians t ...

Looking for relatively-secure employment, decent wages, and the satisfaction of helping Planet Earth? There's a coming shortage of workers in the Waste Water Treatment industry! (via) Although you're gonna wanna hurry up and get your application in. ...

"Žižek!" is a feature documentary exploring the eccentric personality and esoteric work of the "wild man of theory": the eminent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7. Democracy Now! did a t ...

A collection of comic book scripts from writers such as Brian Michael Bendis, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore.

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 ...

.... WIN. Do your boots make sparks when they DDR? :D # 18:33 Kinda in love with the song "Firefly". It's better than having "Leaving On a Jetplane" stuck in my head still! # 22:15 Back in Brockville. # Automatically shipp ...

.... fly free.  More information on that later!  In addition, this Tuesday we will be having our field trip to the Museum of Natural History, to see their butterfly exhibit.  We leave at 9 am and should return by 1 pm.   Authored by jill123. Ho ...

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 ...

some of the user-contributed video on Current is great, as is the original programming  

amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme  

could Processing.js be the beginning of the end for the closed-source culture of rich media tech?  

I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features  

I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever  

Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's game built on passive web surfing  

most won't do this because it takes too much time, even though it's far more effective  

Watch this officer try to catch several men jumping out of a van. (via Arbroath)...

Comedy writer and Army Man publisher Jack Handy wrote a great "Shouts & Murmurs" in the most recent the New Yorker. Here's a small sample: The plow with the four-leaf clover symbolizes the luck of the farmer. The quicksand represents the travails ...

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we saw mugshots of the dumbest thieves in New York State, foresaw the return of crappy Tiger-style LCD games, and played with a frightening WowWee Chatterbot. John converted a houseplant's meaningless biometric readings i ...

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 ...

Remember Shawn "Napster" Fanning? TechCrunch is reporting that Electronic Arts is about to plunk down $30 million on Rupture, a social network for gamers that Fanning started up with co-founder Jon Baudanza, who'd both become EA employees in the deal ...

You may remember Threewave Software best for the original "Capture The Flag" Quake mod. These days, the studio's known for developing the multiplayer component of several major titles, most recently Touchstone's Turok and EA's Army of Two, and is cur ...

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

Researchers at Cornell University genetically modified a human embryo in a "proof of concept" experiment in 2007, a British paper is reporting. The experiment prompts questions about what sorts of genetic modifications scientists can ethically undert ...