05/18/08

I wish this map of current US gas prices factored out the taxes included in the pump price. It seems like what the map mostly shows is the differences in taxes between states (PDF map) and not, for instance, how the distance from shipping ports or lo ...

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 ...

nelson : GTA4 fanfic - Funny, creepy story Tags : fanfic grandtheftauto gta gta4

factoryjoe : Fluid + mobile apps - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fluidapp

Linkorama : Snackr is an RSS Addict's Dream Come True - I'm finding it deserves its own special purpose opml, because it is more distracting than twitter, doesnt synch attention with Newsgator and has a high cognitive load when scanning. Tags : aggre ...

nelson : Iron Man appreciation - Old anthropologist friend of mine has a nice bit about the movie Tags : criticism guns ironman movies

Linkorama : "Atomization of Conversation" - Conversations are indeed becoming atomized and asynchronous. No need for the "Hey, how are you doing?" discussion. Personal dialog is being replaced by a Mini-feed. Tags : attention conversation ...

WANT!!!

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."

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

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

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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.

theodp writes "You probably saw media coverage of Bill Gates showing off touch-screen technology to his CEO play group last week. With the introduction of the iPhone and iPod Touch, touch (and multi-touch) technology — which folks like Ray Ozzi ...

andrewmin writes "SoC 2008 has begun, and with 175 organizations and 1125 students it looks better than ever before. Here's a quick run-down of a few programs that, if they are finished, will definitely be making their way onto your machine."Read mor ...

schliz writes "Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels). The Gigapan is a robotic arm that takes multiple pictures of the sa ...

An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia Foundation Board (which controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barbara Bauer vs. Wikimedia Foundation lawsuit. Wikinews is a collaborative news ...

Corrado writes "There is a big discussion going on over removing a bit of non-preemptable code from the Linux kernel. 'As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptable BKL feature and made the ...

An anonymous reader writes "Websense Security Labs explains the spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and mass-mailing strategies. Apparently spammers are using combination of different tactics — proper email accounts, visual social engineering, and ...

A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is conscious and talking to family after he suffered a seizure in his Cape Cod home and was flown to a Boston hospital.

Two rivers blocked by landslides threatened to flood towns shattered by China's massive earthquake, sending thousands of survivors fleeing Saturday in a region still staggering from the country's worst disaster in 30 years.

President Bush said Saudi Arabia's small increase in oil production will not solve soaring U.S. fuel prices, but he defended the wealthy kingdom Saturday against American lawmakers "screaming the loudest" for Riyadh to open its spigots.

A company rooted in bringing the Internet to the masses, AOL is shifting its focus toward serving niche audiences with the launch of dozens of specialty Web sites.

Unless you're looking carefully, you'll likely miss the fact that the new Asylum Web site for young men is a creation of Time Warner Inc.'s AOL. Same for WalletPop on personal finance, Spinner on indie music and StyleList on fashion.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is conscious and talking to family after he suffered a seizure in his Cape Cod home and was flown to a Boston hospital.

Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see.

Picking a winner of the presidential contest is front and center at what's being billed as the largest astrologers' convention in years.

The federal government isn't used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.

BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese fled their homes on Saturday amid fears a lake could burst its banks, hampering rescue efforts after the deadliest earthquake in more than three decades killed about 29,000 people.

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 ...

Rescue efforts resume in quake-stricken Beichuan, China, after fears of a flash flood spark panic.

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 ...

The title of this movie might be "I Love Alexis Silver," but the box cover photo reveals that Silver might be ambivalent about you. The question we put to our friends this week is: With that baleful gaze, What Is Alexis Silver Really Thinking? Does ...

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 ...

I wish this map of current US gas prices factored out the taxes included in the pump price. It seems like what the map mostly shows is the differences in taxes between states (PDF map) and not, for instance, how the distance from shipping ports or lo ...

How has the record industry changed in the last 50 years? Using the Whitburn Project spreadsheet I talked about yesterday, I've been trying to dig into some of the underlying trends. Today, I'll be tackling the longevity and diversity of pop songs, ...

In 1993, we said goodbye to Frank Zappa, fallen victim to prostate cancer. A 1993 Today Show interview with Frank. A 1993 BBC documentary about Frank. {Parts 2, 3, 4.} "Outrage at Valdez," from 1993's The Yellow Shark. [Zappa mega-post ...

Feeling nostalgic for cheap gas and and a "poke-through air cleaner that jumps when the engine cries"? The Mustang Mach I was the way to swing in '69! But 9 years later, the Cougar XR-7 was the 1978 choice of Cheryl Tiegs for her midnight d ...

Exercising your brain makes you smarter, and there is no better gym for it than the MentatWiki. Researchers believe there is a link between working memory and fluid intelligence in that improving one seems to also improves the other. Lucky for you, ...

PTSD: The War Within. A Marine writes about his PTSD experience. This article from the January issue of the Marine Corps Gazette was written by USMC Staff Sergeant Travis N. Twiggs. Twiggs killed himself and his brother after a long police chase in ...

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, ...

What are you doing now? — — — — There's no words there!!! — — Fill in the appropriate four letter word. — —

....LoudTwitter, an app that publishes tweets to blogs, was excluded because most of its links came from link backs included when the service pushes tweets to blog posts. They didn't get many mentions in posts ....

.... purpose of this blog is to serve as a workspace for my ongoing research projects. These are rather broadly defined, which could lead to some wide-ranging content, but you're welcome to come along and see what develops. Authored by Craig. Hos ...

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 ...

decent speeds downloading music and it imports into your iPhone music library when done  

look at the other side of the camera  

unlike sex and race, your age affects your ability to lead  

it can hit 1440 RPM without any lubrication  

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  

In the comments for my post about The Hoodlum, Mr. Bali Hai said: "A while back, I dug through the IA and pulled out every cult film that had also made an appearance in Mike Weldon's Psychotronic Video guide. I came up with quite a long list." I've b ...

Tonight, I kick off the Seattle leg of my book tour for my new young adult novel, Little Brother, with an appearance at the Elliott Bay Book Company. I've got a jam-packed schedule here, including appearances at the Seattle Public Library on Sunday, ...

The Men Who Stare At Goats is a must-read 2005 book by UK journalist Jon Ronson about the US government's interest in very strange stuff, like Jedi powers, psychic spying, subliminal sound weapons, and the potential to kill something (like a goat, or ...

Esther Dyson has posted the ultimately intimate photos: scans of her brain. Here's one of my favorites: Notice the eyes that seem to follow you wherever you move...[Tags: esther_dyson ]

Ok, so virtual property disputes aren't exactly new, but there's a little wrap up on some of the current issues over at a Canadian website. Most of the issues discussed revolve around Second Life, but the questions of virtual property and other virt ...

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 ...

Making moonshine has gone from a backwoods black art to a high-end hobby practiced by "whiskey geeks" with a taste for top-shelf hooch. Unlike their bootlegging predecessors, who cooked up big batches of white lightning and distributed the illegal ...