05/17/08

Fractal furniture! One could imagine a Powers of Ten video with drawer pulling instead of zooming. (link)

[Part four of a recurring series...part one, part two, part three.] According to the Indian National Crime Bureau, there were 6,787 dowry deaths in India in 2005. A dowry death occurs when a woman is killed or commits suicide due to coercion by her ...

Oklahoma City is repairing the state's busiest highway by tearing it down and building a park in its stead. In Oklahoma City, the interstate will be moved five blocks from downtown to an old railroad line. The new 10-lane highway, expected to carry ...

The Wii Fit, the new exercise peripheral for the Nintendo Wii, was reviewed favorably by a number of people for the New York Times. A fitness professional at the Sports Center at Chelsea Piers gave it pretty high marks: "Actually I think it's pretty ...

A list of ways to get yourself excused from the jury pool in the R. Kelly child pornography case. I (heart) R. Kelly. Nothing gets prospective jurors booted faster than telling the prosecution they are a fan of Kelly's. Just ask the woman who called ...

factoryjoe : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The vanishing personal site - "But if world domination is your goal, think twice before offloading every scrap of you." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: identity, ...

factoryjoe : The Gillmor Gang » Blog Archive » Gillmor Gang 05.15.08 - The Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Dana Gardner, and Robert W. Anderson - ask former Twitter architect Blaine Cook about Twitter internals in ...

factoryjoe : Inside Apple R&D -- Apple Patents Realized- MacLife - Interesting look at possible Apple products. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: iphone, apple, patents, tablet

Rod Begbie : Irn-Bru: If - Excellent advert from Irn-Bru: A staggeringly accurate glimpse into the Scottish psyche.

Rod Begbie : The Best of "Manny Being Manny" - ESPN's Baseball Tonight runs down some of the best WTF?! Manny moments. Tags : baseball boston espn mannybeingmanny mannyramirez redsox video

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(Note: Read the first comment to this entry. There’s more to the story than what I wrote here.) Oh Yeah? Fork You!: Pidgin, the IM client, forked over — get this — a resizable text entry window. The developers, for whatever re ...

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 ...

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.

D Ninja writes "Yesterday, Lockheed Martin was awarded the $1.4 billion Air Force contract to build the next-generation global positioning satellite system. This occurred after a series of delays as the Air Force decided between Lockheed and the comp ...

A Bill that could allocate more than $1 billion over the next eight years to combat those who trade in child pornography has been unanimously approved by a Senate panel. "The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to send an amended version of ...

Stony Stevenson writes to tell us that in a recent interview, Marc Henauer has revealed that security researchers are falling behind now that malware is starting to be able to change its signature every few hours. "Unfortunately the know-how and cons ...

Peer writes "The dutch government has officially decided that it will no longer use voting machines (Babel Fish Translation) for elections. So it's pencil and paper from now on. Activists have been campaigning against the use of voting machines for s ...

holy_calamity writes "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was founded in 1958 after the Soviets shocked the world by launching Sputnik. New Scientist recounts the history of the agency charged with protecting the US from 'technological surp ...

cyteen02 writes "We run a data processing and tracking system for a customer in the UK. We provide a simple Web site where the customer can display the tracking data held in our Oracle database. From these screens they can query based on a combinatio ...

President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.

Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on internation ...

A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins.

Cable operators are riding high heading into this year's industry trade show, which kicks off this weekend.

Former satellite TV provider EchoStar Corp. on Sunday will demonstrate its first product for cable companies at the industry's trade show: a unit that can tune in television and act as a cable modem.

A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish" has sold at auction for more than $400,000.

It happens to all of us. You fall in love with someone's looks... but then he's not quite what you expected. Even, sometimes, if he's a cat.

A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.

Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect.

BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000.

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 official death toll for Burma's cyclone disaster jumps to nearly 78,000 with 56,000 missing, state TV says.

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 ...

Tired of getting sand kicked in your face? Can't wait to beat up those neighborhood bullies? Then build your strength with the bloggers in today's roundup of some of our favorite moments from the sex blog scene as they go through the paces of strenuo ...

This is one of the weirder and more interesting logos to show on the Google homepage: in disco neon colors, Google today celebrates the anniversary of the first laser. Wikipedia explains (footnotes removes, my emphasis): A laser is an electronic-o ...

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 ...

Fractal furniture! One could imagine a Powers of Ten video with drawer pulling instead of zooming. (link)

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 ...

There is something creepily colonialist in Madonna's attitude to Africa. First we had the White Man's Burden -– now we have the White Madonna's Burden. More and more celebrities are treating Africa as a wide-eyed child that needs a Hollywood ...

A transatlantic tunnel, hurrah!

Chicagofilter: In Search of the Delta Tamale

Iron Man, who represents an imperial America, can only win Pyrrhic victories. Spencer Ackerman of Tapped Online has a nice history of the Iron Man comics that reads the character's alcoholism, Civil-War overzealousness, and persistent blundering "int ...

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, ...

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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 Weezer frontman's been vlogging on YouTube; the moustache is unnerving  

from the Atari Joyboard to the Wii Fit  

the aborted draft by The Fugitive screenwriter made its way online in 2005  

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 ...

QA Create sells these elegant cufflinks made from Scrabble tiles. You pick the letters! They're $15.99. Link (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)...

Did you know archive.org has lots of cool old feature films in the public domain you can download for free? Here's one they just added to the archive that looks promising: The Hoodlum, from 1951. I'm downloading it now. (Here's the RSS feed for recen ...

Here is an old soulful cover of Sam Cooke's "Having A Party" by Greg Dulli, former frontman of one of my all-time favorite modern rock bands, Afghan Whigs. The first national magazine article I ever wrote, for Alternative Press, was about the Whigs, ...

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 ...

This morning, we've had two unconference sessions, here at the Berkman tenth anniversary conference. And I have to say, as far as I can tell, it's going really well. The participants (formerly known as attendees) filled in the grid of times and place ...

Here are some shots of Dinosaur King for the Nintendo DS from the Sega event attended by our ever busy Dr. Crecente. Dinosaur King is a game based off of an anime based off of a card game, if I've got the progression correct, which pretty much means ...

I'm about to beat feet to a Sony Computer Entertainment America related event, so who knows what I'll be playing this day. Hopefully, something exciting! For the rest of the weekend though, I'll be hunkering down with a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Ha ...

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

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Left to right: Plan for the Ocular Harpsichord - Louis Betrand Castel, Bainbridge Bishop’s Colour Organ, Alexander Wallace Rimington’s Colour Organ With a 6-foot square frame above a standard harpsichord and 60 small windows of differen ...

As Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT researchers has now explained exactly how some birds use their long, thin beaks to defy gravity and transport food into their mout ...

Charter Communications, one of the nation's largest ISPs, says its users can opt out of its plans to spy on their web usage to serve more targeted ads. But what few technical details are available suggest that there's no way to skip the spying part, ...