05/16/08

Michael Bierut celebrates the elegantly simple design of the Brannock Foot-Measuring Device. Charles F. Brannock only invented one thing in his life, and this was it. The son of a Syracuse, New York, shoe magnate, Brannock became interested in impro ...

A short list of the world's most dangerous gangs. (link)

An interview with the makers of a film about secondhand clothing in Haiti. Shell says Haitians sometimes dress better than Americans because they are used to tailoring their secondhand clothes to fit. While the pepe market makes it difficult for Hai ...

Joan Acocella on the paradox of New Yorker's seeming rudeness and helpfulness in public spaces. [New Yorkers] make less separation between private and public life. That is, they act on the street as they do in private. In the United States today, pu ...

A tiny coat built out of living mouse stem cells that was a part of the Design and the Elastic Mind show at MoMA was killed because it was growing too fast. Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, had to kill the coat. "It was growing too m ...

factoryjoe : Hyperconnectivity Study – Validating our Thinking - Interesting research about "hyperconnectivity". Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: hyperconnectivity, research, nortel,:monkchips

factoryjoe : Why I'm going to Vidoop - "So it's not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I'd explain a little of ...

factoryjoe : Vidoop secures Messina and Norris » Silicon Florist - Great writeup and interview with me about joining Vidoop and the future ahead! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: vidoop, portland, openid ...

Andy Baio : California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban - systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period

deusx : Where do you connect with the Michigan Technology community? | Own Page One: Search Engine Visibility Blog - Online Marketing Strategy and Tips - "In a conversation with an out-of-stater earlier this week, I was asked what's going on i ...

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

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The topic of motorized bicycles has come up on these pages before (here & here), and all along I’ve been wanting to do more than just talk about it. Last fall I took the plunge and committed cash toward that end, and bought myself a kit. An ...

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.

Now that Americans are receiving their economic-stimulus checks, Slate V imagines an online government quiz that teaches us what to do with the money.

Andy Guess points out an interesting approach taken by a Missouri university to limiting (and limiting legal exposure because of) on-campus, on-line copyright violations, as described at Inside Higher Ed: "In order to download (or upload) files on an ...

stoolpigeon writes "IHT is running a David Pogue review of the Chumby. The Chumby is a small computer embedded in a soft case. The Chumby hardware and OS are open and the review mentions that the device already has a large developer following, cranki ...

An anonymous reader writes "I attend a state university where a new building has recently been put in, and a new budget put in place. They have decided to upgrade all the computer systems involved in the department, with a few slight exceptions. From ...

Jay Maynard writes "The judge in Capitol Records v. Thomas said today he's thinking about granting a new trial because he may have committed a 'manifest error of law' in his jury instructions. He says that his instruction that simply uploading music ...

Noah Shachtman on Wired.com's Danger Room reports that Monday, the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB introduced a two-year, $11 million effort to put together hardware and software tools for 'Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement.' ...

bowman9991 writes "Hope this one isn't true! An early negative review calls the upcoming "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" movie predictable, lacking in tension, and a fan's worst nightmare. SFFMedia believes this new Indiana Jones ...

In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.

Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.

China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster.

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder ...

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds — that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that mult ...

In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.

A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record.

A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County Gener ...

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That's pretty much what happened to a Cumberland County couple arrested and charged with whacking each other with a frying pan.

YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's earthquake could soar to more than 50,000, state media reported on Thursday, as rescuers struggled to help survivors and hope faded for thousands buried under rubble.

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 ...

China's government fears more than 50,000 people may have died in the Sichuan earthquake, state media say.

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 ...

Those crazy young folks and their cellphones—they just won't put them down for anything! Kids today can't live without the newfangled mobile technology that allows them to stay connected to their BFFs no matter where they are or what they're up ...

The Boing Boing blog joined the Billboard Liberation Front and the Monochrom group to erect a "great firewall of China" near the Google headquarters company sign in Mountan View, California. Their work starts at minute 5: One commenter at Boin ...

"Suicide" is a potentially important search query because it may be entered by people contemplating committing suicide. Both Google and Yahoo in 2008 give relevant results of sites trying to help people or educate them on the subject; at both search ...

Michael Bierut celebrates the elegantly simple design of the Brannock Foot-Measuring Device. Charles F. Brannock only invented one thing in his life, and this was it. The son of a Syracuse, New York, shoe magnate, Brannock became interested in impro ...

For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they've ...

FusionMan is back! Yves Rossy (previously discussed) showed off his flying wing in his most daring stunt to date, leaping from a plane to perform aerial maneuvers over the Swiss Alps. (CNN video) He plans on using it to cross the English Channel la ...

Lori Drew was charged today for her involvement in the MySpace-related suicide of Megan Meier last fall.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an excellent resource for matters philosophical. There you can be enlightened on such diverse subjects as paradoxes existential or logical, Greek or American philosophers obscure to the wider world, philosop ...

While Alaskan senators get mopey about polar bears and climate change, the capitol city is busy cutting their power use... even if it is a bit against their will. The Snettisham Hydro plant suffered a massive avalanche this Spring, taking out the mai ...

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...

The SwitchABit platform was developed because we noticed that an ever more complex flow of ideas and information is being facilitated by editorial systems and aggregators such as Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Seesmic, Qik, Ustream, YouTube, ...

Today I'm at the Berkman @ 10 conference in Austin Hall on the Harvard Law School campus. It's a reunion of sorts, of people who have been part of or interested in Berkman Center. I was a fellow there between 2003 and 2005 and worked on getting blogs ...

.... student – teacher relationship has a sense of equality and harmony. Pendergast, D. & Bahr, N. (2005). Teaching Middle Years. Rethinking Curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.   Authored by mopsy87. Ho ...

.... 12:16 is done with book pulling and is hungry. Time to go eat outside! # 14:24 OMG, this person who has been talking in our office for the last half hour has a very loud voice. # Automatically shipped ...

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 ...

systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period  

for a more practical example, see Tufte-style charts in 11 lines of Nodebox code  

some nice 8-bit art in the popular section  

For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they've ...

all the Pink Floyd ones made me laugh  

humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game  

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

Ryan sez, "Chicago is touting their new 'intelligent' 700+ camera network as being able to flag suspicious activity without human intervention, based on operator-defined criteria within the video frame. Video is archived for 30 days in a 60 terabyte ...

Debcha sez, "This is an incredibly arresting stop-motion video, both in technique and content. Entirely composed of paintings on public walls, sidewalks, and other spaces, it follows a creature as it undergoes a mindbending series of transformations ...

From "Stories from the Near Future," the 2008 New Yorker Conference -- Yoky Matsuoka, the director of the neurobotics laboratory at the University of Washington, discusses how brain signals can control prosthetic limbs, and other advances in the ...

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 ...

John begins by pointing to Publius, a set of essays and discussions about the Net's many "constitutional moments." But his overall topic is, as Yochai Benkler frames it, whether the networked sphere expands democracy. E.g., photos and videos of the m ...

NCsoft reported a 43 percent year-over year drop in profits to $7.7 million, a decrease was due to a write-off expense for costs associated with The Blackstar Chronicles. The futuristic MMO, in development by Spacetime Studios, was ultimately dropped ...

I am not ashamed to admit my slight bias towards Silent Hill. I am an unapologetic fan of the series so it should come as no surprise to discover that this was the the title I was most looking forward to seeing at Konami's Gamer's Night. Between watc ...

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

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Scientists prepare for "seven minutes of terror" as the Phoenix spacecraft attempts to land on the surface. Originally from BBC News | Science/ Nature | UK Edition, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 15, 2008 at 07:31 AM

“Prism” by Melanie Schiff. Originally posted by mail from VVORK, ReBlogged by jwinter on May 15, 2008 at 07:22 AM

CNET staffers are joking that CBS bought their company purely for the coveted News.com domain name. But nobody is complaining about the windfall. "The scuttlebutt †¦ around here is that News.com will be used for CBS' News operations and that our Ne ...