10/06/08

Evan Roth has been putting metal plates with messages and symbols cut into them into his carry-on luggage when he goes through security at the airport. Here's Roth's idea, which he calls "TSA Communication" and tells me has already made it through t ...

Several photo series of fashion models transforming into different outfits. It's amazing how different they can look with changes in makeup, hair, and clothes. (link)

A Helvetica-themed version of Monopoly. (via df) (link)

I know I've posted this one before but I'm probably gonna post it each time I run across it. That's chef Kin Jing Mark stretching and dividing dough into super-thin noodles. Seeing this when I was a kid made a great impression on me about the wond ...

A map of the world showing a simulation of all of the air traffic in a 24-hour period. Here's a higher-quality video. Like Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns videos, only not just covering North America. (link)

deusx : Exclusive: Obama to call McCain 'erratic in crisis' - Mike Allen - Politico.com - "Branding his opponent as "erratic in a crisis," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having ...

Linkorama : Cops Twitter - Mountain View already has Google and free Wi-Fi. So The Phantom wasn't all that surprised when the Mountain View Police Department announced last week it had joined Twitter, a social-networking and micro-blogging Web s ...

deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The Pain of the Field Major - "I spend a lot of my time doing what might be called generous work for many folks online, but experiences like this make me consider how few of my audience I might actually like in exte ...

deusx : Daily Kos: Open Thread - the candidates as trains Tags : election politics train wrecks obama biden mccain palin

Linkorama : Five Myths About John McCain : Rolling Stone - Not a Washington outsider, top gun pilot, the central hero of the POW camp, straight talking reformer and "puts country first" Tags : politics mccain campaign truth

still wine based but maybe worth another try?

get your copy for tonight's debate!

ah, I just love stories like this

yes, there is only one iterator per hash and that's kinda stupid at times.

I've been wondering that too

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RAM raiders: inside secrets of the cyber hackers: Here’s a great story about white-hat hackers testing the defenses of Symbolic Motors in the San Diego area. It’s a blast to read, and part of a larger article at the London Times. He ...

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web: There are so many amazing ideas crammed into this 18-minute talk, it’s hard to list them all. At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is onl ...

That Elena was born on this day in 2005.

rifles only writes "A German techie has found a remarkably simple way to discern some of the content of encrypted volumes containing images. The encrypted images don't reveal themselves totally, but in many cases do let an attacker see the outline of ...

Khemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. Fr ...

UniverseToday has an interesting look at geomagnetic reversal, the process in which the Earth's magnetic poles trade places. The article cites known trends and recent studies to debunk doomsday myths and unsubstantiated claims about the process. One ...

Ian Lamont recently asked Google if they planned to extend their transcription of books and other printed media to include public records, many of which were handwritten before word processors became ubiquitous. Google wouldn't talk about any potenti ...

Wired is running a story about a case the Supreme Court will be hearing on Tuesday that relates to searches based on erroneous information in government databases. In the case of Herring vs. US 07-513, the defendant was followed and pulled over based ...

darkeye writes "I'm facing a difficult dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing heavily to an open source project, making considerable changes to code organization and quality, but the work is unfinished at the moment. Now, a company ...

With the passage of the $700 billion rescue package, the financial industry will face greater congressional scrutiny in coming weeks and months.

Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and th ...

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.

A jury on Friday acquitted the former top lawyer at computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. of illegally tampering with his stock option grants to boost his pay package.

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

Germany joined Ireland and Greece on Sunday in guaranteeing all private bank accounts, putting Europe's biggest economy at odds with calls for a unified European response to the global financial meltdown.

That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds.

The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy.

This is an explanation of economics. There's no way to avoid some boring details and glazed eyes when talking about such things. However, I promise to avoid some of the jargon which will send you running to wikipedia, if you in turn forgive me for s ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel moves to reassure savers that their deposits in German financial institutions are safe.

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 ...

A look back at the week that was ... · Mazel Tov! · Time flies when you're looking for online filth. · It finally happened! "Pirates II!" If only someone had told us about it beforehand. · Suddenly we're not very hungry. & ...

You can check the upcoming (Google) Android phone by T-Mobile in a rotateable view as well as in an emulator that lets you click through the menus. The emulator is rather incomplete though, so on a lot of screens you'll be seeing dysfunctional mockup ...

Google added text-to-speech capabilities to some Knol articles, like the one titled "File Formats in Digital Photography". You can download the MP3 as well as hit a Listen button in the top right. The quality of the speech output -- I strongly suppos ...

Evan Roth has been putting metal plates with messages and symbols cut into them into his carry-on luggage when he goes through security at the airport. Here's Roth's idea, which he calls "TSA Communication" and tells me has already made it through t ...

Somehow, a 22-year-old University of Alaska student named Richard Millay got his hands on a videotape that's eluded the media since John McCain asked Sarah Palin to be his running-mate — original footage of her 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant. Of cou ...

A recent LA Times Piece bemoans the lack of freedom today's children enjoy. Given the rise of such articles, is this a shared consensus? Judging by the reaction's to Lenore Skenazy's child rearing practices, maybe not. The explosive popularity of ...

Any Top 100 list of UK comedy shows has the famous Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketch in the top ten. Silly word play, songs and Ronnie Barker's fabulous timing, made them TV blockbusters for 16 years. Presenting a brief youtube linkdump... ...

The remake of Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is finally finished The 1990 adventure/ rpg game from Sierra has been almost eight years in the making by AGDInteractive Studio, who already remade Sierra's King's Quest I and II. The game is fully in ...

CERN has published the full technical details of the design and construction of the LHC and it's six detectors (1589 pages, 115MB).

I wonder if Kathleen Parker wants to save males with mudblood....oops, because I am stupid I deleted the last deep thought. The universe weeps.

Bringing a stack of books to Drinking Liberally tonight, 6-? at Tangier at 18th and Lombard, in case anyone wants them. I'm starting to get multiple copies of stuff sometimes. You know you want to be the proud owner of Kathleen Parker's "Save the M ...

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...

If there are any Republicans out there... — — I know some of you are honorable people, good Americans, taxpayers, people who love your families, pay your taxes, do your best to live by the Golden Rule. People who try to do the right thing ...

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The whole Stack Overflow team got together in person at Fog Creek's shiny new office in New York City for a roundtable discussion about the future of StackOverflow.com, which is up as this week's podcast. Shanah Tovah u-Metuka! Not loving your job? ...

Why doesn't somebody make this? It's a power strip It's a network hub It's a USB hub You clamp it onto the back of any desk This would make it easy to plug in laptops, USB peripherals, and all your rechargers at your desk without crawling arou ...

reminds me of an ant colony  

it's got a beat and you can dance to it  

finally, some innovation in the photo sharing space  

Truphone was the first VoIP app, but didn't support Skype calling  

very useful, though it'd require servers to enter the number in each group  

there are several other good stories in that thread; related: a Hole in the Wall camp counselor's tribute  

he talks about how digital distribution makes topical parodies much easier  

My time is almost over and there's still gobs of stuff I wanted to share with you. So here's a brief list of things I would feel just terrible if I didn't let you know about. 1. Robots and Monsters: A Charitable Menagerie, is back. They launched in 2 ...

Rick Veitch is the comics writer and artist who got famous for the Swamp Thing issues he drew for Alan Moore, and is probably still best known for a later issue he planned (the infamous cancelled #88) in which Swamp Thing went back in time, met Jesus ...

My pals Eric and Julia of Ramshackle Solid made acorn flour this year, and in their blog they showed how they did it. Once the flour is dried out it may be a little coarse. You can put it in a cleaned out coffee grinder to get a finer texture. A good ...

Often, on the back of a 'Do Not Disturb' sign is a 'Make Up My Room Now' message of some sort. But, now matter how they phrase it, isn't it the same as an "I'm Out, So This Would Be a Good to Rob Me, Especially If You Are ...

If Haze didn't float your boat, and it didn't float many, Free Radical's right back atcha with TimeSplitters 4. Of course the game has been officially officially known for some time, but FR put up three concept art scans on the official website earli ...

Is President Palmer still doing the Allstate insurance ads? Why didn't he tell us about this? It seems the U.S. auto policy underwriter wants to test whether video games can help make 50-year-olds (and up) into better drivers. Allstate's offering spe ...

Found near the ice rink in Central Park.

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volte-face: an about-face. Originally from Dictionary.com Word of the Day, ReBlogged by Other Options on Oct 4, 2008 at 11:57 AM

If a false entry in a database leads to an unconstitutional police search that reveals illegal drugs, does the government get to hold it against you? That's the question the Supreme Court will tackle on Tuesday. Wired.com