05/15/08

A list of infrequent HTTP/ 1.1 status codes. HTTP 220 (The Clooney): Same as 200 with a little something in there for your trouble. (thx, djacobs) (link)

A list of unconventional but useful tips for visitors to NYC. Do a bunch of local New York things: Hang out in Central Park, Explore Brooklyn, wear black, enjoy the free WiFi in Bryant Park (use the bathroom there -- nice). Attend a lecture at the 9 ...

A developer just fixed a bug in the BSD flavor of Unix that had gone undiscovered for 25 years. I guess it finally accrued enough eyeballs to make it shallow. (link)

Related to yesterday's post about photo retouching is this article about how challenging high definition is to makeup artists and actors alike (via house next door) . John Toll is an Academy Award-winning cinematographer who has had limited exposure ...

Bluegrass Vader. I was just about to click away when, bam, instant laughter. (link)

factoryjoe : doctype - Google Code - Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Than ...

Khoi Vinh : Extending Album Art - Humorous takes on famous album covers. Tags : Two Star

Simon Willison : Doctype: / trunk/ goog - Doctype: / trunk/ goog. Google's newly released JavaScript library (pure JavaScript, so more along the lines of YUI and jQuery than GWT). I haven't found the documentation for it yet, but the code is e ...

Simon Willison : goog/ useragent/ iphoto.js - goog/ useragent/ iphoto.js. The Goog library includes code to detect the user's installed version of iPhoto, based on reverse engineering the Mac.com Gallery RSS feeds. This has Mark Pilgrim written ...

factoryjoe : OAuth for Spring Security - Home - As you can probably deduce from its name, the purpose of this project is to provide an OAuth implementation for Spring Security . Support is provided for both OAuth provider developers ...

there are some interesting tools in that list

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

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Google Maps now integrates with Wikipedia and Panaramio. You can see related Wikipedia articles and images from any spot on the map by clicking the “More…” tab.

California Building 220 MPH High-Speed Train from San Francisco to LA: This is so cool I could spit. When this is done, I will fly to LA and take this train north. Provided I am still alive. After getting a green light by State environmental im ...

Falkkin writes "Luis von Ahn and his team at Carnegie Mellon University have launched GWAP, a new web site for 'Games With A Purpose.' By playing these online games, humans help provide data for problems that are hard for computers to solve, such as ...

Stony Stevenson writes "IT staff are 'overwhelmingly' happy to recommend their profession to their children, a survey has found. Three-quarters of nearly 1,000 IT professionals surveyed said that they would 'definitely recommend' a career in the busi ...

Simon Howes writes "After searching for decades, astronomers have found a supernova in our galaxy! So it wasn't little green men we were waiting for. It's located very near the center of the galaxy, about 28,000 light years away, and it's only at mos ...

Michael J. Ross writes "Web developers are oftentimes under pressure to build attractive sites as quickly as possible, and thus they are increasingly making use of content management systems (CMSs), which offer most of the functionality typically nee ...

ancientribe writes "Security suites and online Web scanners detect only a little more than half of all rootkits, according to new tests conducted by independent test organization AV-Test.org. Many of today's products struggle to clean up the ones the ...

An anonymous reader writes "We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end motherboards. Splashtop just ...

Heavy rains and another potentially powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday. The U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors. The Intern ...

The moment that a devastating earthquake struck central China, the hills surrounding the city of Chengdu shook, people ran outside in confused panic, and a thick, white cloud of dust enveloped a mountain reserve.

President Bush put an optimistic face on fading hopes for Mideast peace Wednesday, declaring that Israel's 60-year triumph over war and tragedy shows democracy can succeed everywhere. But Bush's upbeat message was marred by rocket fire from Gaza and ...

Federal officials on Wednesday charged Broadcom Corp. co-founders Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli with falsifying the company's reported income by illegally backdating stock options for five years.

Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the United States, according to comScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors.

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

A Girl Scout has financed her trip to Europe with Thin Mints, Samoas and Do-Si-Dos, possibly breaking a national record in the process. Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, sold 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year, which shatters he ...

The days of the cursing cabbie may be over. A New York City cab driver has been fined $1,000 for launching a foul-mouthed tirade at another cabbie.

DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's deadliest earthquake in decades climbed to nearly 15,000 on Wednesday, as officials warned of calamities downstream from broken rivers and dams strained to bursting point.

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 ...

The UN sharply increases to 2.5m its estimate of those severely affected by Cyclone Nargis in Burma.

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 all know that May is National Masturbation Month, but did you also know it's National Orgasm Month? That's probably not a coincidence, huh? But is it a coincidence that Masturbation Month is also Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month? That does seem app ...

The following list shows the current top 15 Google search results for the query "google" which are not from Google or from direct Google partners (third-party content hosted with Google is OK): Google at Wikipedia Google at Yahoo Finance Touch ...

The homepage of Google China links to a special map showing eartquake information. Auto-translating the homepage text results in: "New! Google launched an emergency situation in the earthquake map, view the latest situation in earthquake relief".

A list of infrequent HTTP/ 1.1 status codes. HTTP 220 (The Clooney): Same as 200 with a little something in there for your trouble. (thx, djacobs) (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 ...

Geese are on the run once again in Chicago, as the City Council overturns its recent ban on foie gras, which had been prompted in part by prodding from animal rights activists. Many chefs (although not all) were furious when the ban was enacted, miss ...

Keeping the meme alive, lolmanuscripts. Except they're really lolwoodcuts. Whatever.

Mr. Rossy is the first man to successfully fly with wings powered by four engines on his back.

Does riding a bike really help the environment? Mr. Green at the Sierra Club says don't over think it, but a couple of folks trying to measure the energy cycling uses aren't quite sure. There are plenty of excuses for not to riding your bike, but i ...

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...

— — See also: Interview with Nicco Mele, the man behind the $1000 reward. — —

I like video comments, didn't think I would but I do. I think people are more responsible and throughtful when their words are backed by their voice and face. — — So when Daniel at Disqus and Loic at Seesmic asked if I would let them use ...

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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 very blasphemous Mac app from 1992 was ported to OS X with new features  

John Campbell's been trying to live off patronage from custom comics and shirts  

I've tried several Twitter meme-trackers, and this is the best  

Bishop's knife trick turned into a harmless game  

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  

Here's another fantastic animation that comix master Chris Ware created for This American Life. This piece tells the story of a couple's encounter (or not) with Jackie Onassis. Link Previously on BB: †¢ Chris Ware animation for This American Life TV ...

Katherine Zoepf of the NY Times goes out driving one evening with group of teenage boys in Saudi Arabia hoping to get phone numbers of girls in cars. A phone number written out on a piece of cardboard is "the classic approach," Fahad said, but mo ...

Over at BB Gadgets, Rob posts about this cleverly annoying alarm clock that requires you to put the three pieces in the correct holes to shut it off. Link...

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 ...

I'm in Las Vegas, and my Blackberry just tried to do a bluetooth pairing with "Brenda Lee." Do we now have a whole new – and easily spoofed – type of Celebrity Encounter? And how many degrees from Kevin Bacon does that make me?[Tags: bluetooth c ...

Do Playboy models love video games? On a first meeting with Jo Garcia, it'd be easy to levy skepticism. She's Playboy's "Cyber Girl Of The Year," beating out 52 weeks of rival models in an online-only competition. It just happens, Garcia said, that s ...

Denis Dyack kept things short and sweet at yesterday's Xbox 360 Spring Showcase event. He wanted to make sure we had plenty of time to play through some co-op on Too Human. The game is releasing on August 19 in North America, but the once four-player ...

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

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“Impromptu” by Charly Steiger. Originally posted by mail from VVORK, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 14, 2008 at 08:20 AM

The UK's Ministry of Defence has started releasing decades' worth of UFO-related files – predictably, some are downright bizarre Originally from New Scientist - Latest Headlines, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 14, 20 ...

The motion picture and recording industries muscled the Los Angeles County politicos to adopt an ordinance declaring piracy a 'public nuisance.' The ordinance was based on inflated financial figures. The measure's key backer received thousands of dol ...