05/14/08

Ok, we've done books so let's move on to movies. From the book by Steven Jay Schneider comes a list of 1001 movies you must see before you die. Since it's less time consuming to watch movies rather than read books, I did a lot better on this list...I ...

Doug Dyment reveals his secrets to packing light for trips. Dyment has two big tricks for packing a bag correctly: Don't let any space go unused, and wrap your clothes in bundles."If you're packing a pair of running shoes, say, don't forget there's ...

A short list of items lost in taxi cabs and how they were returned. Thierry Belisha and Haimy Mann, jewelers from Montreal, left a suitcase full of diamonds and other gems in the back of a cab they took to La Guardia Airport after a show at the Jaco ...

A bunch of examples of contemporary typography...lots of ideas to riff off here. (link)

Now-and-then photos of people who drive the same cars for long periods of time. (link)

Greg Storey : Singular adj., 1. Airbag Industries. - Merriam Webster can suck it. Tags : Internet

factoryjoe : Nine Inch Nails the ultimate Web 2.0 band - One week ago Nine Inch Nails surprised their fans with a special treat giving away their new album Slip absolutely free on their website... Saved By: Chris Messina | View D ...

nelson : 100 essential Jazz albums - Great list with links to purchase. Note the lack of Amazon associate IDs in the links; d'oh! Tags : jazz music via:kottke

adamrg : The only 7 investments you need - Interesting in the ease of simplification. I'm hoping to start putting a few more dollars into investments in the future, and I'm currently teaching my students about investments and finance. Tags : finance ...

Jeremy Zawodny : Craigslist Files Countersuit Against eBay - Craigslist Files Countersuit Against eBay: go get 'em!

go get 'em!

seems to be a decent tool for what I need it to do...

"Clutter is anything we don't need, want, or use that takes our time, energy or space, and destroys our serenity."

there's some pretty good advice in there

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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 ...

Obama's got the Rev. Wright, McCain's got the Rev. Hagee. In this animated editorial cartoon, Mark Fiore wonders: Can anyone escape the politics of guilt by association?

waderoush writes "The majority of the comments on last week's Slashdot post It's Not a Flying Car — It's A Drivable Airplane were critical, even dismissive, of Terrafugia's work to build a two-passenger airplane with folding wings that's also c ...

mytrip notes a News.com article reporting that Google has begun blurring faces in its Street View service, which has spawned privacy concerns since its introduction last year. Google has been working for a couple of years to advance the state of the ...

nuke-alwin writes "Stephen Hawking has traveled to South Africa in search of Africa's Einsteins. The project will create Africa's first post-graduate center for math and physics. The British government has unfortunately decided not to back the projec ...

esocid writes "WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and others. Windows users (only) can browse through ...

Charter Communications has begun sending letters to its customers informing them that, in the name of an "enhanced user experience," it will begin spying on their traffic and inserting targeted ads. This sounds almost indistinguishable from what Phor ...

dmbasso writes "Continuing its strategy to support FOSS application on the Windows platform, Microsoft mailed the Blender developers asking how they could help improve the experience of Blender users on Windows. Groklaw puts it in perspective using S ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic presidential race nearing an end.

Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 is certain to rise as the buried are found.

The Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oi ...

Riding a hot streak that has doubled its stock price in the past three years, Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling the dice on a $13.2 billion acquisition of technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp.

Eight months into his tenure as CEO of Electronic Data Systems Corp., Ronald Rittenmeyer is overseeing the sale of the company, something he says he never planned.

AFP - Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.

A weeping Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub. "I feel so bad for all the physical and mental pain you've gone through," the Grammy-nominated rapper told the victim. "This has take ...

A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.

DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll in China's earthquake climbed past 13,000 on Tuesday and looked likely to rise much higher after media said some 19,000 people were buried in rubble in just one area.

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 ...

A major search and rescue operation is under way in China, after a huge earthquake in which at least 12,000 people died.

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 ...

Jana Cova has not, to the best of our knowledge, ever done guys on film. Oddly, or not, we don't mind her limited repertoire in the slightest—especially when, as in Digital Playground's latest Celeste release "Jana Cova: Erotique," we get to se ...

Google updated the panorama photo imagery of Manhattan as part of Google Maps, and for this update also blurred the faces of persons shown in the pictures. Google at their maps-related blog writes, "This effort has been a year in the making -- workin ...

Google released Friend Connect, a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative "OpenSocial," and also adds social ...

Ok, we've done books so let's move on to movies. From the book by Steven Jay Schneider comes a list of 1001 movies you must see before you die. Since it's less time consuming to watch movies rather than read books, I did a lot better on this list...I ...

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 ...

For the 2nd year in a row Tina is crowned la Reine des Reines (link & video in french). Le Combat des Reines is an annual event in the Swiss canton of Valais dating back to 1922. Limited to cows of the local Hérens breed, the battle consis ...

Do You Want To Know RIGHT NOW How You Can Drive Around Using WATER as FUEL and Laugh At Rising Gas Costs, While Reducing Emissions and Preventing Global Warming?

All the cuteness you need today.

MUTO - Seven minutes of wall-painted animated joy by blu (previously)

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'm at the offices of Betaworks in New York, meeting with CEO John Borthwick who I know for many years from AOL. — — They have built a product called Firefly which is rolling out tonight at the Tech Meetup in New York. — — H ...

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 ...

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.... digital portfolio of my High School and College collection of my best work and projects, my education work history and a little bit about me. Feel free to learn more and leave a comment for me bitches. I will respond ASAP. Authored by wking. ...

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 original is on GameFAQs  

a winner in Google's Android developer challenge, this looks very useful  

from the creators of the wonderful Understanding Games series  

read more about the announcement, with some fun examples  

he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism  

Flickr photoset compared NYC locations to their GTA counterparts  

I'd love a slim wallet too, but your mileage may vary  

Jake Adelstein was the first US citizen to work as a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, but he quit after getting death threats from the Yakuza. He has a book coming out called Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the P ...

This Saturday, May 17, the SF in SF reading series will host authors John Shirley and Daniel Marcus in conversation with Terry Bisson. These free readings in San Francisco are some of the best science fiction events going anywhere in the world, and t ...

Joshua sez, "DefectiveByDesign.org has published an open letter urging libraries to embargo the use of DRM immediately, as well as a template for citizens to personalize letters to their local libraries urging them to stop using DRM technologies." Li ...

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 ...

He's doing well, although the recovery is going slower than he'd like. Men well, ethanz.[Tags: ethan_zuckerman ]

newVideoPlayer("vivapinata2.flv", 463, 387,"");Here's some video from the hot-off-the-presses Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. Just wait a second through the vaguely unsettling snuffling and groaning animal sounds, and be treated to some cute footag ...

Army of Two, Burnout Paradise and the continued strength of Rock Band drove Electronic Arts to $1.127 billion in sales for the fiscal fourth quarter, an 84 percent increase over the same period last year - but rather than turn a profit, EA took a $94 ...

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

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»Study for the Dispersion of Information«, 2005 by Jan Jakub Kotík. Originally posted by mail from VVORK, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 13, 2008 at 09:43 AM

Dean Robert Storr, explores the consequences of when patrons wrestle power from museum curators and directors. What does such a move mean for the public? In the end Storr thinks Eli Broad should have just gone traditional. However, the public not LAC ...

Wired.com readers' responses to news of the first genetically-modified human embryo ranged from outrage to enthusiasm. Here's a sampling of recent comments.