Month: October 2009

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86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: “what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?” [Boing Boing] Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:29 PM PDT

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Google Wave Notifier Add-on for Firefox [That Smith] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:14 PM PDT

Fail to the Redskins: Worst-Run Franchise on the Planet [FanHouse] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT

Iconic Photos Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:51 AM PDT kottke remarks that “It’s one notable photo per post plus some context.” Pretty nice…

SkyTran – The future of travel. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT “SkyTran is a new transportation system, currently under development at NASA Ames Research and other locations. Light-weight vehicles ride above ground traffic on a magnetic levitation (maglev) micro freeway, also called the guideway.” Very cool; too bad it will never happen…

NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System [NPR] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT “NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.”

IMDb Turns 19. Yes, 19. Older Than The Web Browser. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:32 AM PDT “If you load up the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) today, you’ll see a new logo commemorating its 19th birthday. Yes, that’s really old for the Internet. Google, by comparison, is 11. Meanwhile, Yahoo is 14. IMDb is so old in fact, that is pre-dates the first web browsers.”

7 Reasons Why I Switched to Google Chrome from Firefox [webstudio13.com] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:24 AM PDT

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YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net [Wired.com] Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:50 PM PDT Pretty wild…

The death of language? [BBC] Posted: 19 Oct 2009 11:48 AM PDT “In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world’s languages would have ceased to exist. ”

YouTube Comment or e. e. cummings? [McSweeney’s Internet Tendency] Posted: 19 Oct 2009 09:25 AM PDT

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Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax – Boy in the balloon [Gawker] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 06:54 PM PDT

Solomons Island Sunset 2 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:16 PM PDT driko posted a photo:

Solomons Island Sunset 1 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:16 PM PDT driko posted a photo:

Black-Eyed Susan Macro 3 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:13 PM PDT driko posted a photo: A macro taken of a flower in a black-eyed susan garden in Solomons Island.

Black-Eyed Susan Macro 2 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:12 PM PDT driko posted a photo: A macro taken of a flower in a black-eyed susan garden in Solomons Island.

Black-Eyed Susan Macro 1 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:12 PM PDT driko posted a photo: A macro taken of a flower in a black-eyed susan garden in Solomons Island.

Marge Simpson in Playboy [ohnotheydidnt] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 11:10 AM PDT NSFW and sad for me on many levels…

Baltimore Ravens – Organized Chaos [YouTube] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT Really well done video of defensive highlights from last season.

Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction [YouTube] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:34 AM PDT

Pasta: Edible Geometry and Italian Genius Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:26 AM PDT Pictorial overview of pasta shapes

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‘Daily Show’ Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking ‘SNL’ Instead Of Their Guests (VIDEO) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 09:57 AM PDT

50 Years of Space Exploration [Flickr] Posted: 16 Oct 2009 09:55 AM PDT very nice infographic showing which spacecraft visited which planets etc.

Douglas Adams – Hyperland (1990) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 05:49 AM PDT As fimoculous posts, “Douglas Adams made a 50-minute ‘fantasy documentary’ for BBC Two in 1990 about hypertext and virtual reality called ‘Hyperland’.”

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SPACEWAR – by Stewart Brand – Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 07:55 AM PDT kottke.org writes: “Spacewar was one of the first video games and in 1972, Rolling Stone sent a 33-yo Stewart Brand to document the early days of computing as entertainment. The photographs were taken by a 23-yo Annie Leibovitz.”

‘Magnetic electricity’ discovered [BBC News] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT “Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones.”

25 Free Online Tools for Web Designers, Developers, Freelancers and Individuals Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:26 AM PDT

Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:06 AM PDT “Interesting” theory ;-): “I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.”

Hybrid Cars May Include Fake Vroom for Safety [NYTimes.com] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:04 AM PDT “’One possibility is choosing your own noise,’ said Nathalie Bauters, a spokeswoman for BMW’s Mini division, who added that such technology could be added to one of BMW’s electric vehicles in the future.” Oh, that will not be good…

Iceland Crushed by Europe [Strange Maps] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 03:57 AM PDT

I’m quite bummed to hear that Captain Lou Albano has passed away… 🙁

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Grass Droplets 4 [Flickr] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:32 PM PDT driko posted a photo: Live View on my Canon 40D greatly improves my macro shots. I had a lot of fun with these droplet shots…

Grass Droplets 3 [Flickr] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:32 PM PDT driko posted a photo: Live View on my Canon 40D greatly improves my macro shots. I had a lot of fun with these droplet shots. I’m amazed at the visual effect of these almost-spherical drops…

Grass Droplets 2 [Flickr] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:32 PM PDT driko posted a photo: Live View on my Canon 40D greatly improves my macro shots. I had a lot of fun with these droplet shots…

Grass Droplets 1 [Flickr] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:31 PM PDT driko posted a photo: Live View on my Canon 40D greatly improves my macro shots. I had a lot of fun with these droplet shots…

Cool VLC Features Worth Knowing [ghabuntu.com] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:25 PM PDT

Captain Lou: We Love You! [WWE Universe] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:16 PM PDT I’m quite bummed to hear that Captain Lou Albano has passed away… 🙁

Tumors feel the deadly sting of nanobees Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:09 AM PDT “Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers attached the major component of bee venom to nano-sized spheres that they call nanobees.”

100 years of Big Content fearing technology [Ars Technica] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:55 AM PDT “For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content’s own words.”

More Airline Fees Mean Less Revenue Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:11 AM PDT “And guess what? The airlines that added bag fees most quickly and on the most bags last year are exactly the ones that had the largest year-over-year revenue fall in this year’s first quarter.” I’m so glad that this is true, although it sounds like airline executives are blissfully ignorant…

Microsoft ropes in Family Guy to pimp Windows 7 [The Register] Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:02 AM PDT Wow, this sounds really lame: “‘The cornerstone of the effort is the exclusive Windows 7 sponsorship of an upcoming television event devoted to the comedy of Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show.’ … Redmond and MacFarlane are apparently taking the idea of ‘commercial-free’ to the next level, with the ‘original FOX variety special Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show.’ They promise ‘simplicity for viewers’ with no ads or promos – just ‘unique Windows 7-branded programming that blends seamlessly with show content.’”

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Google Maps Building Maker – Create 3D buildings online Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:30 PM PDT

Introducing Google Building Maker [Official Google Blog] Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:29 PM PDT “We like to think of Building Maker as a cross between Google Maps and a gigantic bin of building blocks. Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – both of which we provide. When you’re done, we take a look at your model. If it looks right, and if a better model doesn’t already exist, we add it to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. You can make a whole building in a few minutes.”

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FUCK THE CLOUD [ASCII by Jason Scott] Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:44 AM PDT “By the cloud, of course, I mean this idea that you have a local machine, a box running some OS, and a vital, distinct part of what you do and what you’re about or what you consider important to you is on other machines that you don’t run, don’t control, don’t buy, don’t administrate, and don’t really understand.”

DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:31 AM PDT “This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven’t yet seen proof that he didn’t. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation.”

Roger Ebert: Does anyone like 3-D? [Spectator.co.uk] Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:06 AM PDT

Periodic Table of Elements Posted: 13 Oct 2009 07:52 AM PDT very nice table showing uses for each element as compounds, alloys, and in their natural states This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Version Download | Download any old version of software! Posted: 13 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT

God is not the Creator, claims academic [Telegraph] Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:59 AM PDT “Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the Hebrew. She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world – and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals. “

6 Icon Packs You Will Actually Use Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:11 AM PDT

45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts [Noupe] Posted: 13 Oct 2009 04:28 AM PDT

Michael Moore: Do You Want Airline Pilots to Be Working Two Jobs? Posted: 13 Oct 2009 04:27 AM PDT If any of this is true, then this is messed up: "very little attention has been paid the mind-blowing stuff in the film ["Capitalism: A Love Story”]: pilots on food stamps, companies secretly taking out life insurance policies on employees and hoping they die young so the company can collect, judges getting kickbacks from the private prison industry for sending innocent people (kids) to be locked up. The profit motive – it’s a killer.“

Remember The Task [Adobe AIR] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:10 PM PDT

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Lightroom Journal: Saving Time with Local Adjustment Presets Posted: 12 Oct 2009 10:08 AM PDT

35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography [Wired.com] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 10:07 AM PDT Amazing stuff…

superf4 Posted: 12 Oct 2009 10:05 AM PDT “SuperF4 kills the foreground program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the foreground program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself what to do. You can also kill a process by pressing Win+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse. You can press escape or the right mouse button to exit this mode without killing a program. ”

AV Components: Anatomy of 6 Remote Controls [Electronic House Info and Answers] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 09:52 AM PDT

101 Free Games 2009: The Best Free Games on the Web from 1UP.com Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:21 AM PDT

StarWars.com | The Offical Star Wars Soundboard Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:17 AM PDT

The Hunt For Gollum · High Definition Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:14 AM PDT

Sixty Symbols – Physics and Astronomy videos Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:12 AM PDT

How to Buy a Mattress [Get Rich Slowly] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:10 AM PDT

History Animated Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:07 AM PDT

How To Copy a DVD with VLC 1.0 [the How-To Geek] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:56 AM PDT

Red Rock Canyon Cliffs 3 [Flickr] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 06:40 AM PDT driko posted a photo: Another panoramic view of cliffs in Red Rock Canyon.

Red Rock Canyon Panorama 4 [Flickr] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 06:40 AM PDT driko posted a photo: Another panoramic view of cliffs in Red Rock Canyon.

Red Rock Canyon Panorama 3 [Flickr] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 06:40 AM PDT driko posted a photo: Another panoramic view of cliffs in Red Rock Canyon.

Red Rock Canyon State Park Panorama 1 [Flickr] Posted: 12 Oct 2009 06:39 AM PDT driko posted a photo: This view of Red Rock Canyon State Park is right off of the main highway.