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June 2009 Archives
11:04 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Bursting soap bubbles at ZuZu Top, nine high-rez photos that illustrate the art in physics.......
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9:45 AM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Windows 7 Buyer's Guide: Which Edition is Right for You? Maximum PC sorts out the different versions of the new Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft. But the real news is the price (too high, unless you pre-order now) and......
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9:12 AM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Sneak Peek: The Book Of Genesis -- Illustrated By Robert Crumb. See some of it at ComicShop. (The New Yorker publishes the first three chapters, but the online version requires a subscription.) '60s alt-comics illustrator Robert Crumb tackles the......
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5:18 PM Sat, Jun 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Circle the Cat. You can definitely waste some time with this game. Once, Twice I succeeded. A lot depends on the arrangement of dark dots you're dealt at the start. Here's one way:......
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8:31 AM Sat, Jun 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Jeff Koons This seems to be the iconic image. via VVORK, which also finds two more: Michael Jackson White, 1997-1999 by Paul McCarthy Harm Van Den Dorpel The art muffles the raw weird that becomes apparent when you try......
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8:22 PM Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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My friend Doc Searls offers his view of the Web's handling of the breaking news of Michael Jackson's death: Living Ends. This twitter post, from @KNX1070 four minutes ago, says Michael Jackson is dead. Google News' latest, from Fox, says......
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2:24 AM Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dateline: Space. From the Lens Blog at NYT, what the astronauts saw. My favorite, of a dune field in Saudi Arabia from space that looks like textile design: NASA photo Vaguely related: A very trippy animated moon, an APOD from......
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5:08 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Let's make the web faster - Google Code Tutorials There are plenty of ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in their everyday work. These practices have......
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10:22 PM Tue, Jun 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Rickie Lee Jones - Glasgow 2001 While fans might have longed for Chuck E's In Love, the song might have been too hip and cool for the mood of the evening, which is marked by the majestic and operatic (in......
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2:33 AM Tue, Jun 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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Ingenious: Washing machine that uses one cup of water. Telegraph (UK). It's from Xeros Ltd, there's a demo video, and you can't buy it yet. First, hotels will test it. Federico Feline: Moscow Cat Theater. The video suggests it's......
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10:55 PM Sun, Jun 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Hot Father's Day gift: Since newspapers stopped using petroleum-based ink, they haven't been the tinder they used to be. Enter the Weber 7416 Rapidfire Chimney Starter. 10 minutes from match to cooking fire. Papa Joe smiles. Truth telling: My dad......
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12:28 PM Sat, Jun 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Ongoing, since 10:50 a.m. Statement from the President of the United States on Iran YouTube: FREE IRAN channel, updating frequently. Live Video from Tehran Iran Twitter Videos : RT Iran Videos being shared on Twitter right now. @TehranBureau: Terse, chilling.......
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2:24 AM Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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The old one is on the left, the new one on the right. Yes, subtle. The fox has been toned down, given more feathers in the fur, and the world has changed. Mozilla User Experience Designer Alex Faaborg explained......
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6:13 AM Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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It looks as though Microsoft has come a cropper again. It's not on the scale of Microsoft Bob, but Microsoft Australia's promotion of the new IE 8 manages to be both way too cute and rude: Ten Grand is......
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12:13 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Politico offers a glimpse of some healthy-looking snap peas in the new White House veggie garden as Michelle Obama and helpers from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington harvest lettuce and eat peas off the vines. The occasion was the......
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1:20 AM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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After Sasha Frere-Jones wrote about the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in the New Yorker (Serendipity: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble's sturdy family business), filmmaker Reuben Atlas sent along a clip from the documentary he's been making about them for three years, along......
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11:09 PM Sun, Jun 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News. New York's Jewish Daily Forward reports, It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of......
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5:18 AM Sun, Jun 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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These are unfamiliar sights to a New Englander: The gates of Malibu -- 23 photos at the Los Angeles Times. Here's to the creative residents of Malibu and the architects, woodworkers, glass artisans and metal sculptors they employ to......
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9:37 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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www.facebook.com/username is the place to be at 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning if you want to grab a Facebook domain name that's your own name. Facebook Vanity URLs: 10 Things You Need to Know. Nuts and bolts from InfoWorld about......
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5:48 AM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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A Cupcake CNC rapid prototyping machine like this one is to be built from a kit at AS220 this weekend. I'm copying this post from AS220 Labs in its entirety -- if you're interested in watching or helping to......
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3:54 AM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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MCT A BLT with heirloom tomatoes. BLT From Scratch--Summertime Challenge! from food writer Michael Ruhlman. A collective challenge for all of you who really love to cook: Make a BLT from scratch. From scratch means: You grow your tomato,......
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11:58 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version This has been around for a week or so, underbilled by the Wall Street Journal as "Bonnie Tyler + Snark = Friday Viewing Pleasure," elsewhere as, "What if music video lyrics......
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6:00 PM Tue, Jun 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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JFK airport in New York is 12.3 miles from LaGuardia airport in New York. The New York Airport Service bus costs $11. Charles Joplin chose to fly, for $493.47, and has a ticket to prove it. Joplin is a member......
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11:44 PM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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AP A customer buys a Boston Globe from a street newsstand in Boston today as the newspaper's largest union, the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial, advertising and financial workers, was voting to reject the company's latest offer. The Globe......
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2:07 AM Mon, Jun 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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SETI, which searches for alien radio signals, is seeking your ideas of whether we should answer, and what to say, if we find them. L.A. Times (How do you greet an extraterrestrial? ): Now, the private Bay Area organization has......
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3:00 PM Sat, Jun 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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Google's Tetris-like logo leads its search pages today. More special logos: Holiday Logos and Events, Google Logos Collection (unofficial). The photo below, of a Tetris screen at a video arcade in Brooklyn, is by Mark Lennihan of AP. 25......
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12:49 PM Fri, Jun 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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It's been a long, hard week -- I've been coding till my eyes grew crusty -- and this made me chuckle. "Poor cat" came next, but it's undeniably funny. Blender Defender is a kitchen-counter blender one-third full of water, its......
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11:24 PM Thu, Jun 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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base26: Built with Processing is a graphical representation of four-letter words, lots of four-letter words, and the relationship among them. The pattern -- sturdy four-letter workhorses of our language such as book, door, sell, sing and swig -- is......
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12:47 AM Thu, Jun 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Google Squared results for "Jon Stewart" show it does not watch The Daily Show. I'm helping garden blogger Pat Feinstein identify her ferns using the new Google Squared's "structured data" search: ferns. Browsable, with photos, Squared's cultural knowledge is......
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12:42 AM Wed, Jun 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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Birdsong Radio, Live Dawn Chorus Bird Song Station Scroll down to the "Live Dawn Chorus Birdsong Stream." Metafilter identifies it as, "a 25 minute loop of birdsong recorded as a test pattern." These tweets are a hoot. I'm going to......
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11:27 PM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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Outdoor gym, Al-Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq (2009); detail of a photo by Richard Mosse, Saddam's Palaces: An Interview with Richard Mosse at BLDBLOG. Photographer Richard Mosse returned from Iraq with shots of the imperial palaces of Saddam......
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7:20 AM Mon, Jun 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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What Makes Us Happy? in The Atlantic is Joshua Wolf Shenk's account of an attempt to document the entire lives of hundreds of men. It's a long tale. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all......
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