July 2008
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Haunted Pussy & Friends
Eine Kleine Kleinmusik →
This is a hell of a good season for audacity. If you haven’t tuned in to Joe Klein’s fight with the smarmy bullies of the Jewish Right, here’s what you’ve been missing. Last month, Joe Klein…
Pakistani Consulate bombed; NATO Commander in... →
Bomb blast outside Pakistani consulate at Herat wounds one. Aljazeera International interviews Gen. David McKiernan, who sounds to me just like Barack Obama on Afghanistan— saying that he…
creative commons hi-res photo of the day: Lotus... →
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: right; padding: 3px;} Lotus center, originally uploaded by tanakawho.
hi-res…
Why newspapers shouldn’t die →
Dan Gillmor:
Newspapers have at least two more huge opportunities.
First is to open the archives, with permalinks on every story in the database. Newspapers hold more of…
Esquire’s upcoming 75th Anniversary e-ink cover... →
BBG’s interpretation of the upcoming cover
Joel over at BBG has a great interview with deputy editor Peter Griffin from Esquire and I’m excited to see the e-ink cover for the 75th…
John McCain & Britney Spears (via YouTube) →
favorited a video on YouTube John McCain & Britney Spears 1:16 pm - Comment
Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use →
The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a…
Rififi To Close (?) - Redux →
Rififi | Photo: Maryanne Ways
We apologize for interrupting New Video Wednesday, but the rumor mill is churning once more and multiple sources are saying that the fate of Rififi has…
Group Responds To McCain Ad: Britney And McCain... →
Shared by Eric Mortensen
pretty funny. more pointless tit for tat…but at least it’s amusing.
Here’s a fun video response to McCain’s Obama-Britney ad from ProgressiveAccountability.org,…
Brando's SATA HDD Multimedia Dock includes... →
Darren Murph via Engadget shared by 6 people Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage
Brando’s SATA HDD Stage Rack doesn’t stay the same for very long, as it seems a…
should you be suspicious of t. boone pickens and... →
Short answer? Yes. For the full greenwashing story, Jessica explains…
you can find links to additional info on the blip.tv postpreviously on wtg:
congress pounces on stephen…
To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on... →
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing shared by 5 people A new Rand Corporation report comprehensively surveys the ways that terrorist groups have been disbanded in the past: “Military force was…
should you be suspicious of t. boone pickens and... →
Short answer? Yes. For the full greenwashing story, Jessica explains…
you can find links to additional info on the blip.tv postpreviously on wtg:
congress pounces on stephen…
Tryptich Study for 9 monitor installation →
Choreography and Sound: Nancy Garcia
Performers: Sari Nordman, Deborah Karp and Sally Im
171 Metro logos from around the world →
Shared by Eric Mortensen
try sorting them by similarity.
Design Observer points us to this exhaustive collection of Metro logos from around the world. Since most metros around the…
Hi: I'm Stupid →
My favorite part of the 2008 presidential campaign is watching normally sentient reporters tell me how John McCain is either reticent about talking about his POW experience, or ambivalent, or…
Perspctv Tries To Level The Election Playing Field →
A new Web startup is attempting to offer a balanced approach to election-based news.
Perspctv compiles mainstream media coverage along with blog reports and even Twitter mentions of John…
Ted Stevens Indictment Virtually Guarantees Dem... →
Huge, huge news out of Alaska: In a major development that all but ensures that Dems will make a major Senate seat pickup in a state that hasn’t elected a Dem to Congress since 1974, incumbent…
Face Swapper Privacy →
This is a cool hack. Face swapping software finds faces in a photograph and swaps the features in the target face from a library of faces. This can be used to “de-identify” faces that appear in…
The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for... →
Like a skinny, quivering, burned-out meth addict stealing to support a drug habit, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said yesterday that due to declining gas tax revenues, the Highway…
Five Books I Recommend to Everyone →
I hate the idea of a cannon of good books one must read “before you die,” or that sort of thing. Many of these are books aren’t beloved so much as revered. Has anyone ever felt…
Even With Bugs Fixed, Cuil Doesn't Cut It →
I revisited Cuil.com today after Blogging very negatively about it yesterday, and the results were a little better than those reported ealier. But after doing several searches, it appears…
McCain Adviser's Horrifying Iraq Track Record:... →
Over the weekend, The New York Times noted that some of John McCain’s foreign policy advisers from the “realist” camp are uneasy with the amount of influence enjoyed by neoconservatives like…
C'mon people! Get it together! →
After just the first verse of “Chocolate Jesus,” Tom Waits abruptly stopped his band to admonish the crowd. “If you’re going to clap along,” he scolded, “please work together. You need to elect…
Yahoo Music Does the Right Thing: Issues Refunds... →
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb shared by 5 people Last Thursday, we reported that Yahoo Music was going to shut down its store and DRM licensing servers on September 30, which was…
Video: Button Hack For Speak & Spell [Speak... →
Shared by Eric Mortensen
nifty. i’m a sucker for glitchy sounds…but this 6:30 vid is about 6:00 too long.
Naked City - July 28, 2008 →
This week for Naked City TV, I went backstage with the Wet Spots - learn about how Cass King and John Woods met, their inspiration for the Wet Spots, and how they brainstorm some of their…
The Five Percent Solution →
This column is about a new chat system called Talkinator, which I find very exciting, but to do it justice first I have to cover some of the emerging — but not often recognized — realities of Web…
They Say: Autism is Linked to Watching TV →
Shared by Robert Scoble
Interesting that TV watching might be having an effect on kids in early life.
If you ever suspected it was no coincidence that the
rise in childhood autism…
McCain Adviser's Horrifying Iraq Track Record:... →
Over the weekend, The New York Times noted that some of John McCain’s foreign policy advisers from the “realist” camp are uneasy with the amount of influence enjoyed by neoconservatives like…
Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD (via... →
favorited a video on YouTube Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD 1:57 pm - Comment
MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why... →
Last week, we wrote about how the massively successful opening of The Dark Knight showed (once again) how little an impact “piracy” has on movies. But don’t tell the movie industry that. The LA…
NYPD Officer Assaults Man Riding Bicycle →
Shared by Eric Mortensen
just sent a complaint to nypd police chief raymond kelly regarding this.
A video camera caught a NYPD officer running and violently shoving a man off his bicycle…
Fun with the Droste effect →
Via this Digg post, I found this awesome image manipulation tool called MathMap, and a Flickr group of photos using Escher’s Droste effect.
Mathmap has been around for a while, as…
Fox News= W. T.V. →
Scott McClellan admits on Hardball that the White House fed Fox News hosts talking points. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow point out that in the US, the government is forbidden to propagandize…
My Hiatus From Twitter - Why You Should Join Me →
Shared by Eric Mortensen
protesting nike because they use child labor = activism. not eating kfc because of animal cruelty = activism. being the 1000th person to post a rambling diatribe about…
No Free Lunch: Obama and Nietzsche in Berlin →
Would a President Obama offer a free lunch for the Europeans? Hardly so, at least not if one carefully reads Barack Obama’s Berlin speech of July 24, delivered — after much hassle about the…
Good news: Steve Jobs is an arrogant prick, but... →
Quincy Pince-Nez via 9 to 5 Mac shared by 5 people Whatever… people can speculate all they want. Steve may or may not be sick. Apple will continue to sell lots of Macs, iPods…
Would you Peek at an e-mail only handheld for $20... →
The “less is more” approach is somewhat similar to the 90/10 rule that James previously wrote about. Keeping functionality to a limited space but making sure that functionality is used…
Late George Carlin Interview →
December, 2007 interview excerpt with George Carlin, conducted by WFMU’s onetime-Special Events Coordinator Jenni Matz, now entrenched over at the Archive of American Television (and…
Jane Mayer "The Dark Side" 7/23/08 (via YouTube) →
favorited a video on YouTube Jane Mayer “The Dark Side” 7/23/08 2:20 pm - Comment
80s Estonian Meat Commercial (via YouTube) →
favorited a video on YouTube 80s Estonian Meat Commercial 12:40 pm - Comment
Rock Port, Missouri, is First US City to Generate... →
(Photo by Steve Morse) Not to be outdone by those crazy Danish bastards out on the isle of Samso, Science Daily reports an equally crazy group of Missourian bastards in Rock Port now…
How "EOM" Makes Your Email More Efficient [Email] →
Brad Isaac via Lifehacker shared by 10 people Yesterday, I sent a quick email to let people know what time I was arriving on site. It was something simple like: “Brad will be…
creative commons hi-res photo of the day: epiphany... →
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: right; padding: 3px;} epiphany, originally uploaded by john curley.
hi-res…
Rube Goldberg Machine Is Made of 100,000... →
Artist Scott Weaver spent 35 years working on this toothpick structure of San Francisco, which required 100,000 toothpicks and has a ball that rolls through the entire thing in Rube Goldberg…
If M.C. Escher Did Augmented Reality: Julian... →
I really adore Julian Oliver’s work; he’s constantly finding ways of making three-dimensional, virtual spaces more expressive. We’ve seen Quake as a musical instrument, gaming actors as insane…
Keep It Simple →
I was working on a draft of a post digging into all the problems with Sen. McCain’s explanation of why he’s all for Maliki’s 16 month timetable for withdrawal and dead-set against Obama’s 16th month…
drugs →
Some background first with me and drugs. Kids at school were calling me straightedge before I even knew what it meant. I can’t really say why I never did anything but I just didn’t want to. It was…