June 2008
96 posts
Know Your Vines →
Teaser for the new James Bond film Quantum of... →
Teaser trailer for the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
WatchWonderland: Lego, it’s the future
From Harvard Magazine, an appreciation of the work... →
From Harvard Magazine, an appreciation of the work that the Hubble telescope has done since its 1990 launch into orbit. The “Pillars of Creation” may be the most iconic Hubble photograph ever…
“ha! Deutschbag! - classic.”
– Bambi Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
Vol. 18 | No. 73 →
It has been a while since I stop my DVR during commercials, but this new ad for HP’s touch screen computer was pretty fabulous.
The Price Of Food: 2007 Versus 2008 →
The Smallest Letter in the World →
A nice surprise: inside a folder of oversize type proofs, I found a stowaway: A Specimen of Printing Types by Joseph Fry and Sons, Letter-Founders, 1785. Like many contemporary type…
“Hey, you know what would go perfectly with this grain? Water.” “Dude. Look...”
– Shouts & Murmurs: Animal Tales: Humor: The New Yorker
xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel →
Barack Me Obamadeus →
Malware bots as papercraft →
In order to raise awareness about the various malicious bots looking to colonize your computer via the net, Symantec/Norton have whomped up a couple of downloadable cute malware papercraft bots…
Future Lawyers of America →
“Mama? I had an idea for something we should do. It’s written on the fridge.”
The magnets are disappearing lately, so I was surprised he’d managed to write anything. I looked over. It was nonsense.…
The Olympic starting gun gives the runners on the... →
The Olympic starting gun gives the runners on the inside of the track (near the gun) an unfair advantage because the sound reaches the outer lanes later and the loud bang scares inside-lane…
Bambi Fail →
Thx Strider
Do Not Use iTunes to Make Bombs! →
One of favorite random sites to read is Freakonomics. There is always something that I never thought of before on there, and today was no exception. They pointed out a clause in the…
A day in the life of the iPod Doctor - Jun. 24,... →
ATM Fail →
Thx Phillipp S.
Software Security WIN
DanceCharge strap converts sinful self-expression... →
An experimental kinetic energy recharger will be strapped to the arms of a few music fans as they whip and snap their taut, delicious teen bodies through England’s Glastonbury Festival this…
Goatse Ride →
Iconic Microsoft Photo Reshot →
The iconic photo featuring the 11 original Microsoft employees taken on Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company’s move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle has been reshot. One person is…
Do Not Use iTunes to Make Bombs! →
One of favorite random sites to read is Freakonomics. There is always something that I never thought of before on there, and today was no exception. They pointed out a clause in the…
FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet →
David Weinberger writes, “The FCC is suggesting that it will make a slice of spectrum available for free Internet access to users, so long as the providers filter out all the porn…and, if the…
Pig Survives For 36 Days Under Chinese Quake... →
A pig has for 36 days under the rubble of the Chinese earthquake by eating charcoal and drinking rainwater. The pig has been purchased by a museum who will take care of it for the rest of…
Babies →
Happy 96th, Alan Turing! →
Robert D sez,
Today would have been the 96th birthday of cryptologist, mathematician and father of almost everything digital Alan Turing. That he was persecuted for his homosexuality to the…
UserFriendly →
UserFriendly
Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns... →
I’m awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free/open music player for GNU/Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago while I was still on the road. When I first surveyed all the music…
Greg Knauss on Mozilla’s Ersatz UI Chrome →
Greg Knauss in Suck over eight years ago, on the then-new Mozilla’s “skinnable” UI chrome: Oh, sure, somebody will labor mightily to produce a skin that looks just like each native OS, and he or…
Road Rage →
Amazon reader reviews of Denon's $500 scam... →
Denon’s $500 ethernet cable, ostensibly for use in Denon Link hookups, is easy to mock. But it’s Amazon’s readers who mock the hardest:
“If I could use a rusty boxcutter to carve a new…
This Is A Pylon →
Quentin Tarantino's next movie: Inglorious... →
Quentin Tarantino’s next movie: Inglorious Bastards. Here’s le plot: A band of U.S. soldiers facing death by firing squad for their misdeeds are given a chance to redeem themselves by heading…
Grisly snowglobe scenes: Walter Martin and Paloma... →
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz’s Travelers series features limited edition prints of grisly, Charles-Addams-esque scenes in snowglobes and on landscapes. Link (via Gizmodo)
Man Gets Windows Vista to Work With Printer →
Not a fake headline. (Via Jacqui Cheng.)
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MPAA sez, "We shouldn't have to prove infringement... →
In an amicus brief filed in the Jammie Thomas trial, lawyers for the MPAA argued that it was unreasonable to ask copyright holders to prove that infringement had taken place before awarding them…
Security Alert: Ubuntu Linux kernel... →
Multiple buffer overflows were discovered in the Ubuntu Linux kernel and can be corrected by upgrading your system to latest kernel version.
9.5 Million Songs Per Day →
On February 27th, Apple announced that it had sold 4 billion songs total in the iTunes Music Store. Today, Apple quietly announced that it has now sold over 5 billion songs. Let’s do some…
Tasers Not As Safe As Previously Thought, 1/3 Of... →
Who would have thought jolting a body with a shit-ton of electricity isn’t super-safe? I know I’m shocked (!). According to a report compiled by CBS News and the Canadian Press, tasers are…
About 2 hours ago, the Mars Phoenix rover... →
About 2 hours ago, the Mars Phoenix rover twittered that it had found evidence of ice on Mars. Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars!…
Thinking Ahead →
9.5 Million Songs Per Day →
On February 27th, Apple announced that it had sold 4 billion songs total in the iTunes Music Store. Today, Apple quietly announced that it has now sold over 5 billion songs. Let’s do some…
Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids'... →
Michael Geist continues his ongoing series on activities that will be illegal under Canada’s new copyright act, the so-called Canadian DMCA (Bill C-61). Today, backing up DVDs and scanning school…
Oregon folds: Legislative Counsel's Comittee says... →
Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez,
Justia and Public.Resource.Org were invited, along with Karl Olson our counsel, to testify before the Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee. We were joined by a…
“Man, when Peter Parker started doing the emo dance in Spider-Man 3, that...”
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Airplane Pilot Shares His Thoughts | Your America... →
“I should really work on a better theme”
– Me
US seizes Danish dress-shop's payment to Pakistan... →
Carsten sez, “The owner of a small dress shop in Maribo, Denmark, orders six dresses in Pakistan for a value of $205 and pays by bank transfer - only to find that the transfer is intercepted by the…