2008

Jul

Truth Commission

Conflux Festival will be in Manhattan this year? Unpossible!

First comment on http://is.gd/X67 hits it, I think. Twitter isn’t all we have, and nobody is...

Photograph of a turtle consuming a strawberry

Transparent end-to-end encryption for the...

The McCain campaign has discovered teh Interwebs: http://gotham.wecanbelievein.com/

Give this man $8.34: http://tinyurl.com/6gqfor

Sean Tevis could be the first True Internet Candidate.

Very grateful to the me of yesteryear for having the sense to back up That One File.

Houseplant Picture Studio

Last Breath in Alaska

Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno

The double slit experiment, from here. From what I’ve been told, they simplified some parts,...

Graffitio: Really it’s not anonymity that’s the...

Was fixating so much on FISA’s telecom immunity, I’m unclear what will be legal going...

Patton Oswalt's high school commencement...

The creepy pencil

Going to see Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World tonight at Film Forum,...

The first web server, a NeXT workstation used by Tim...

The cycle goes like this: beg, pull, fetch.

Rebuttal to "Facebook is the new AOL"

'Public' online spaces don't carry speech,...

There is no such thing as New Wave

“There are two types of programming languages: the ones that...”
— Bjarne Stroustrup via...

Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever

Jun

Creatures spotted in the Catskills: 1 porcupine, 2 raccoons, 6 frogs and an equal number of...

Off to pick up the rental car that will take me to the Catskills for the weekend. Back on Monday.

An interventionist projector to inject additional imagery into tourists’ photos. The text...

George Carlin is way funnier on YouTube than on Hulu.

Genetically engineered bugs eat agricultural...

The board that regulates rents for one...

Dog at Union Square

Bees by Caribou. See also the iPhone ringtone version.

New ringtone: Bees by Caribou. I can’t get enough of that guitar lick. Or: let’s test...

According to Wikipedia, the toaster was invented 200 years after people started eating toast (via...

David Karp (founder of Tumblr): This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. via Andy...

Apparently the Internet Explorer team sent a cake to Mozilla...

Paul Otlet was a Belgian who predicted the Internet in 1934

The Truth About Barack Obama

Code Rush, the Mozilla documentary from 2000. Andy Baio bought a used VHS copy from Amazon and...

Awake mulling over a project I would be insane to start working on. It’s something about...

Teach the Controversy

Reverse Graffiti, via laughingsquid

Evolution observed for the first time in a...

“Progress toward greater justice and freedom is neither...”
— Richard Rorty via Clay Shirky

An animated short on procrastination. via waxy

Roosevelt Island Tramway

A petition against DRM-encumbered Audible...

Do we really need a few billion locavores?

No-A/C sleeping tip: Prepare a glass of ice water. Drink water. Refill glass and soak up water with...

A quick summary of the 2008 Democratic primary. via kottke

A longish, surprisingly positive, article on...

Science Machine via Gavin McGovern

Moving van: Catching up with some old photos.

Anil Dash on Hillary's off-key...

My sins. From Dopplr’s new carbon impact feature.

Alec Lopez from Google Adwords wants to know if I am the person who manages the marketing for the...

Purple and Brown

May

Michael Pollan on the seminal question: Why...

Apparently May is Religious Intolerance Month. Google News for “Marine coin” or...

Aaron Swartz on Bloggingheads.tv

FeynTube replaces YouTube comments with...

Earth’s satellites (full size), probably not anywhere...

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

Also, thanks @wnyc! Radio Lab, On The Media and Brian Lehrer are essential podcasts.

My public radio karma has been replenished: I’m now a monthly supporter of WNYC and The Sound...

Josh Klein’s crow vending machine presentation at TED. Go Josh!!

A music video for The Avalanche’s Frontier Psychiatrist. See also: Alex the Parrot in the New...

Ivan Krstić, former developer at OLPC, on why...

A 60 Minutes segment from last year on the One Laptop per Child project.

L train stuck at 3rd Ave. Something requiring a police interview with a passenger in the station.

Charlie Rose interviews Paola Antonelli, curator for MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind. My...

We should create an open Twitter network not because of stability, but for more variations on...

After fancy Tom’s of Maine toothpaste was lost to airport goons, dug up a tiny tube of...

Returning to NY with a little more perspective on things (funerals can do that) and a lot of...

Oh, right, a possible third route is that they might provide an *actual* friend timeline over...

Apr

A documentary on painter Francis Bacon from the BBC program The South Bank Show. Found via Dean...

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately...”
— Peter Drucker, by way of Evan...

Oh, right, that’s called reality. But with more of me finishing my projects on time.

Wanted: a game with awesome graphics, realistic physics, edgy story line where the outcome is that I...

Ben Fry’s All Streets: All of the streets in the...

“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.” — Alfred Hitchcock

Bush on Abbas: a man who “rejects the idea of using violence to achieve objectives, which...

“Of course I know Central Park is rectangular and not square....”
— Massimo Vignelli, via Anil...

Verdict: not guilty

Puddleblog in the Brooklyn Paper

Leonard Lin on TechCrunch's public flogging...

Map of Iranian blogs, from the Berkman Center: Given the...

Men’s Vogue is selling limited edition signed copies...

“If you do bother, you will set an example for other people....”
— Michael Pollan in his...

How Hillary can still win, via bullshit

Hail to the Twitter

Detour to Blue Sky bakery was foiled by lack of wallet.

Spotted somewhere around here. (I didn’t take the...

From The Register: In April last year, London design...

“In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism...”
— Edward O. Wilson

“If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s...”
— Bill Clinton, in 2004

⌘-S, alt-tab, ⌘-R. Look. Think. Alt-tab, typetypetype. Rinse, repeat.

I made (yet another) Twitter client for the iPhone! Give it a try over at http://itwtr.com/

I think this happened all the time in the 80s.

http://chirrp.net/e0/0

That was rather uninspired, but it is after 2am.

CNN is like the worst "news" source. Ever.

The outer cemetary loop

A kitty theremin?

Andre Torrez: The Droste Effect is when a package...

The Soiling of Old Glory: On April 5, 1976, at an...

The Flickr video [kicked your puppy|peed in your milkshake|didn’t close the freezer all the...

Typographic pet peeve: angle quotes (») used to represent an arrow. It’s a quotation mark!

Smells Like Content by The Books Most of all the world is a place where parts have always been...

I can’t help but draw a connection between this video (posted to Kanye West’s vimeo...

Muxtape recommendations based on your last.fm...

Andy Baio redesigns waxy.org

Opening shot of the movie Manufactured Landscapes.

In case you missed it, Clay Shirky on the Colbert Report. (Click the link for a higher quality video...

The first Olympic torch relay was conducted for the 1936...

Copenhagen airport: I walked down this tunnel, on and on,...

Back in New York, ready for action.

Filmbyen: I think this means “film studios” in...

Random Danish guy on ShiftSpace: “It’s like buying a used medical book.”...

“There once was a man named Bertold. Who drank beer when the...”
— Unknown

Brandan Eich on JavaScript's popularity

It’s WordPress upgrading day! Then off to Denmark for the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop:...

Talking about ShiftSpace tonight at DorkbotNYC http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/465080/

From Navy Times: Airman Jacob Larsen holds...

Long lost Muppets bloopers.

Mar

Two guys rockin’ their shamisens.

Kingfisher, with a fish.