05/19/08

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 ...

jcgregorio : Open Source versus Open Standards

deusx : Pen Quest - "The quest for the perfect pen" Tags : blogs pens writing

Milo Vermeulen : MUTO by BLU - an ambiguous animation painted on public walls - MUTO by BLU - an ambiguous animation painted on public walls [more]

nelson : Xbox 360: 30% failure rate - My console died. Apparently that's not uncommon. Tags : badtech failure games hardware xbox xbox360

nelson : Xbox towel trick - One recommended fix: deliberately overheat your console. No frickin way, thanks. Tags : badidea badtech games hardware xbox xbox360

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)

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

(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 ...

Mark Jordan Legan sums up what the critics are saying about some of this week's new movie releases: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Reprise, and How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer.

dcblogs writes "The Chinese outsourcing market, at $1.7 billion last year, is growing at 38% a year, according to research by the Everest Group. This is creating opportunities for Westerners who want to go to China, learn the language, and help these ...

oschobero writes "According an article from the Times, customers in shopping centers are having their every move tracked. Using cellphone signals, the system can tell when people enter the center, how long they stay in a particular shop, and what rou ...

BenderFan writes "The first review of the next Futurama DVD, The Beast With a Billion Backs (out in the US on June 24), has appeared online. And the reviewer liked it — a lot." (I hope it's as good as Bender's Big Score.) Read on for reader sub ...

Greg Walton brings us a lengthy story from Rolling Stone which describes China's comprehensive surveillance project, dubbed Golden Shield. The 'Great Firewall of China,' which we've discussed in the past, is but one aspect of Golden Shield. It also i ...

DarkSarin writes "Given that solutions like iChat can seamlessly video-conference for multiple parties on the Mac, and that others are semi-commercial, like Oovoo (which recently left beta and is no longer free for more than 3-way calls), what do you ...

Astronomers led by Simon Driver of Scotland's University of St. Andrews have discovered that interstellar dust shades us from as much as 50% of the light emitted by stars and galaxies. The scientists compared the number of galaxies we could see "edge ...

China will spend three days marking the moment when tens of thousands died in a devastating earthquake, while hope of finding more trapped survivors dwindled Sunday and preventing hunger and disease became more pressing.

President Bush lectured the Arab world Sunday about everything from political repression to the denial of women's rights but ran into Palestinian complaints he is favoring Israel in stalled Mideast peace talks. "Freedom and peace are within your gras ...

An American sniper was removed from Iraq after he used a copy of the Quran for target practice, the military said Sunday, a day after a U.S. commander held a formal ceremony apologizing to Sunni tribal leaders.

Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in "Second Life." A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a typical avatar in the popular virtual world.

The Internet is routinely used when making buying decisions, but its influence is small compared with offline channels such as friends and sales personnel, a new study finds.

AFP - Residents of Naples, fed up with the stench from months of uncollected rubbish, on Sunday used the waste to barricade streets in protest at the long-running crisis.

An American sniper was removed from Iraq after he used a copy of the Quran for target practice, the military said Sunday, a day after a U.S. commander held a formal ceremony apologizing to Sunni tribal leaders.

A steady stream of vehicles pulled along the shoulder of the road to get a look at it: an enormous, hairy pig that apparently had been struck and killed by a vehicle.

School officials say they are appalled by altered photos — including heads on different bodies — in hundreds of McKinney High School yearbooks delivered this week.

BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - A fresh tremor in southwestern China killed three people on Sunday, injured 1,000 others and sent thousands of people already traumatized by last week's massive earthquake fleeing their homes into the streets.

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 announces three days of mourning for the victims of the quake and the Olympic torch relay will be suspended.

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, ...

Some of the most insane journeys in recent time include Harry Lee 'The Hawk' McGinnis' walk around the world, Helen Thayer's 4,000-mile trek across the Sahara, Andrew Thompson's speedwalk across the Appalachian Trail (2000 miles), and others. These ...

A story in three parts from a volunteer in Sierra Leone about the begins of a small homegrown biodiesel industry: getting their vehicle, making fuel for it, and scaling it up. For those curious how it's done, they got their recipes online here.

Tips for getting ahead in the increasingly competitive low cost small laptop market: When you go to Getty Images, grab some stock photography of smiling kids in a classroom and photoshop in your product, you better make sure your competitor hasn't us ...

They Chose China is a documentary about the 22 western POWs who chose to defect to China after the Korean War armistice.

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 ...

I hope someone wires up a Coke machine to Twitter next  

nice network analysis and node graphs towards the end; Scoble's tying disparate groups together  

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

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, ...

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  

NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program student Drew Burrows, 28, engineered a "virtual girlfriend," and showed her off at a recent Tisch School of the Arts show: It's simple to behold – a single mattress, tucked into a dark, curtained back room ...

A visualization of the purported marketshare of various online social networking services. It's super interesting, but incomplete: I wonder where the data on China is? Click for larger size. From Le Monde, via Azeem Azar on twitter, via Tim O'Reilly' ...

hover bacon tux bra salt mints cups coffee vodka previously on web zen: bacon zen Link, Web Zen Home and Archives, Store (Thanks Frank!)...

Obama has gone on blog and on camera with Blogher.[Tags: obama blogher politics ]

My summer will be filled with exactly the same things my school year is (herding students along to enlightenment, reading, and research), minus pesky seminars, but for the younger generation, gainful summer employment is getting harder to come by. O ...

Tucked into Boing Boing's look at the timeline of fitness gaming controls is something called the "Atari Puffer." It went unreleased because of the video game crash, but it sounds like, well, a blocky game representation of off-camera work in the por ...

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 ...

Hunger for news about China's worst earthquake in three decades is forcing the Chinese government to let information flow in ways it hasn't before. The uncensored opinions of Chinese citizens are appearing online, providing a powerful source of first ...