March 2008
http://twitpic.com/12n <- It’s snowing!
February 2008
More Aural Love For Obama →
Will.i.am gathered some more friends to produce another Barack Obama-loving music video. This one’s just as moving as the last, but it’s still got it’s got Ryan Phillippe - and what…
Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the... →
Now the FBI thinks it has identified the culprit in the Colorado swatting as a 17-year-old East Boston phone phreak known as “Li’l Hacker.” Because he’s underage, Wired.com is not reporting Li’l…
Comcast Will Charge You $2 To Stop Sending You... →
We don’t mean to influence the “Worst Company In America” voting, but check this out: if you call Comcast and ask them to stop sending you anything other than your bill, they’ll agree but quietly…
[Hero] Billboard Liberation Front helps out... →
(Boing Boing)
Barack Obama Tells Crowd that Homophobia is Not... →
Ben Smith at Politico reports on a question and answer session at a Barack Obama rally in Beaumont, Texas yesterday: “An interesting moment came when he was asked a question about LGBT…
I come back from the bathroom and I catch my cat drinking my beer. Damn cat.
http://twitpic.com/10h <- NPR is serious about that Americans Swap Faiths story. It showed up in most of their podcast feeds today. :)
[NewsFlash] Prince Harry let loose on the Taliban... →
Yahoo
Russell Beattie on Twitter →
Russell Beattie: Think about any other online community system ever created — from Usenet to The WELL, IRC to Slashdot to Digg. All of them have had to deal with the core problem of idiots on the…
How not to be an asshole or encourage assholism on... →
A handy guide.
why have a searchbox on a site that, after I hit SEARCH, it says search is coming soon? remove it til then
GlassBox →
GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and…
Maxim Publishes Review of Black Crowes Album They... →
The review in Maxim’s March issue gives the Crowes’ “Warpaint” a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five. The band posted an exasperated statement on its Web site last week saying the Maxim…
48% of teenagers bought zero (0) CDs in 2007 →
Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry’s painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, according to a report released today.
New typography term: Keming (improper kerning) →
From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: “Keming” — improper kerning. Link (Thanks, Alex!)
New typography term: Keming (improper kerning) →
From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: “Keming” — improper kerning. Link (Thanks, Alex!)
Comcast Hires People Off The Street To Fill Seats... →
We pretty much ignored yesterday’s FCC hearing concerning Comcast’s traffic shaping activities, as the whole thing seemed like a bit of grandstanding. However, it’s fairly stunning to find out that Comcast has admitted to hiring people off the street to fill seats at the hearing, blocking out many Comcast critics who were turned away once the room was full. Comcast claims that...
Andrew Cuomo subpoenas Comcast over traffic... →
New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has issued subpoenas to Comcast over its blocking of file sharing. For Cuomo’s long arm, this case is quite a stretch: Less than 0.5 percent of its 24 million subscribers are in New York. (Photo by AP/Mike Groll)
[Obvious] Diebold accidentally leaks the winner of... →
The Onion
It's-a-me! Mario Bar! →
We pooled our vast knowledge of mixing and alcohols (this is Denmark, after all) to craft ten unique Mario-theme drinks. They not only look like their corresponding characters, but they taste like them too! Okay, well, not actually like the characters the
iPhone 1.1.4 installed. ZiPhone seems to Jailbreak it. Fun!
iPod/iPhone firmware update 1.1.4 released →
Just connected my iPhone to iTunes. More details as they come in.
FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment” →
Listening to the FCC hearing today, which was called in response to Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic on its network, it seemed like Chairman Kevin Martin may be rethinking his laissez-faire stance on Network Neutrality. Martin said that network management practices should be “open and transparent” to the end user and that the FCC would be “willing and able” to intercede in cases of abuse....
Poll Shows Obama Is Seen as More Likely to Beat... →
For the first time in a New York Times/CBS News Poll, he moved ahead of Mrs. Clinton nationally, with 54 percent of Democratic primary voters saying they wanted to see him nominated, while 38 percent preferred Mrs. Clinton. A new USA Today/Gallup Poll rel
FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment” →
Listening to the FCC hearing today, which was called in response to Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic on its network, it seemed like Chairman Kevin Martin may be rethinking his laissez-faire stance on Network Neutrality. Martin said that network management practices should be “open and transparent” to the end user and that the FCC would be “willing and able” to intercede in cases of abuse....
FCC chair to Comcast: Stop lying about file... →
At a Congressional hearing, Comcast executives said the company needs to filter some traffic to keep the flow of data constant on its networks — like blocking BitTorrent file-sharing, as it was caught doing last fall. Federal Communications Commission head Kevin Martin is having none of it. “I think it’s important to understand that the commission is ready, willing and able to...
Poll Shows Obama Is Seen as More Likely to Beat... →
Senator Barack Obama has built a commanding coalition among Democratic voters and is now viewed as the candidate best able to defeat Senator John McCain, according to a new poll.
Judge Rejects RIAA 'Making Available'... →
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected the RIAA’s ‘making available’ theory, which is the basis of all of the RIAA’s peer to peer file sharing cases. In Atlantic v. Brennan, in a 9-page opinion [PDF], Judge Janet Bond Arterton held that the RIAA needs to prove ‘actual distribution of copies’, and cannot rely — as it was...
Gothamist: Baking Substitutions →
Halfway through that chocolate chip cookie recipe and realize youâre out of brown sugar? If, like many New Yorkers, youâre not on borrowing terms with your neighbors, here are some handy substitutions you can make for common baking ingredients
Stewart Makes Fun of McCain at Oscars →
Stewart Makes Fun of McCain at Oscars
How The Bush Administration Exploited Terror... →
The Nexus of Politics and Terror. Keith Olbermann presents a detailed timeline chronicling the Bush administration’s exploitation of terror threats for political gain over the last 6 years. It shows how each revelation of an intelligence failure or a Democratic political victory was followed almost immediately by an alert of a new threat from al Qaeda. Larger version here.
14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds | MakeUseOf.com →
While youâre most probably already familiar with the idea of RSS feeds and Feedreader (No? See this video) , there are several other ways you can make use of feeds.
Top 20 Ruby CMS →
This article contains a breakdown of all known (to me) Ruby on Rails content management systems to date. It is revised from its previous version, fixing a few inconsistencies and adding two new content management systems to the list!
Japanese Store Lets Customers Trade HDDVD players... →
The Japanese electronics retailer Edion is deeply ashamed it sold its customers HD DVD gear. So ashamed they that they’re allowing buyers to swap in Toshiba HD DVD boxes for Blu-ray players. A little more investigation reveals that the trade must occur during March, and consumers only need pay the price difference.
[Interesting] Over 300,000 New Zealanders sign... →
Stuff.co.nz
Hilarious - Mike Huckabee on Saturday Night Live →
Huckabee shows a self-deprecating sense of humor about the mathematical impossibility of him winning the Republican nomination
CERN photos in Nat'l. Geo: The God Particle →
Photographer Dave Bullock, whose work I’ve blogged here many times before, says,
When I opened up this month’s National Geographic I was filled with amazement and a bit of envy. World class technical photographer, Peter Ginter, shot these really outstanding shots of CERN. His technique is unmatched.
Link.
[Asinine] White House announces domestic wiretaps... →
Reuters
SXSW 2008 Music Torrent - 764 artists, 3.5 GB →
This is an unofficial torrent of the artists that will be featured at the 2008 South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. There is one song from every artist, all in one convenient free download!
Boy’s Killing, Labeled a Hate Crime, Stuns a Town →
An eighth-grade boy was shot to death inside a California junior high school shortly after publicly saying he was gay.
"Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40... →
“Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company’s products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to Yahoo’s engineers. Those people, he said, are what Microsoft needs to go after Google.” - Gates on Yahoo
I think we can all agree that this is bad. →
Inside the world of war profiteers: From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.
Oh, The Onion: Pornography-Desensitized Populace... →
Oh, The Onion: Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At. (link)
TUAW Responds: iPhone LoJack - The Unofficial... →
iPhone LoJack solution. He wanted his iPhone to “call home” regularly in case of loss or, let’s be more realistic, theft. Over the past week, I finally had a chance to give this request some time, and I put together findme. It’s a command-line program tha
Bush: 19% approval →
“Seventy-seven percent of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing, and 79 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy.”
Translation: I'm About to Start Crying →
Jock #1: Dude, that bitch broke my heart. Jock #2, eating a burrito: I know, man. You were always so unhappy, and I wanted to, like, slap you around and make you happy. Jock #1, singing softly and staring blankly at the ground: I’m all out of love, I’m so lost without you… Jock #2: Look, man, we boys, aight? But when you start singing cheesy-ass love songs to a chick that cheated...
Old School! →
Girl #1: So, did you MapQuest it? Girl #2: No, we gas-stationed it! Tyler, Texas Overheard by: emi
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Why Is Adobe Trying To Add DRM To Flash? →
The EFF’s Deeplinks blog has an excellent discussion about Adobe’s plans to add DRM to Flash. Flash has become something of a defacto standard online, and it’s partly the lack of included DRM that allowed this to happen, encouraging creative uses, such as mashups. However, with the latest version of Flash, apparently Adobe wants to include DRM. As the EFF notes, this clearly is...
Supreme Court declines to hear NSA wiretap case →
The Supreme Court has decided against hearing a challenge to the NSA wiretapping program brought by the ACLU.
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