Monday, June 30, 2008

Chief Justice quotes Bob Dylan.


A Bush appointee quotes from "Like A Rolling Stone." Wonder how he likes "Masters of War"?

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Jerry Yang is f*cked.

And it just keeps getting worse.

Green milk jugs.


The one-gallon milk jug, redesigned. Via NYT.

Li Edelkoort moves on.


Dutch design icon leaves Eindhoven.

Benny Lava.

I have no clue. Via Fake Steve.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Mr. Fish.


Brilliant political cartoons from Harper's. (Thanks, Don!)

Chad Hurley talks about YouTube.


YouTube CEO explains "how we did it." Via GigaOM.

North Pole running out of ice.


Maybe by the end of this summer.

New five dollar bill.


Good for a month or so, maybe.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Mental note.


Must start watching Wimbledon.

Bill Gates: the last day at Microsoft.

As of today. An all-star cast.

23 shots in 30 minutes.


Lightweight.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Adolf Hitler's Vista problems.

The Taguba Report.


US general accuses Bush administration of war crimes.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Everybody's doing it.


DIY Yahoo resignation letter.

The iPhone's next killer app.


The next indispensable use of that big display.

Dumb and dumber.


Lowest US consumer confidence since... the first Bush administration! Via The Consumerist.

Bill Gates on Windows usability.



Not so hot.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The Shirt Project.


News diagrammed on t-shirts, available by subscription.

MySpace and working for free.


Trebor Scholz on the economics of Web 2.0.

Barry and Stuart.

21st century Dada?

Monday, June 23, 2008

New "pro-life" pharmacies.


They sell Viagra, but not birth control.

New Mac trojans.


Since you have to download and install it, I'd call it an intelligence test.

All about Snow Leopard.


Excellent piece by Daniel Eran Dilger on Apple's newest iteration of Mac OS X. "No new features," according to Apple, so I guess they're... enhancements.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

R.I.P., George Carlin, you foul-mouthed motherf*cker.

Spot-on.

Life for sale.


Man auctions his life off on eBay, starting today.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

The big picture.


Alan Taylor's great photojournalism blog.

Comcast slideshow.


Pretty funny PowerPoint presentation by angry Comcast employee. Via The Consumerist.

Someone just handed me this...

... at the Third Eye Blind concert. Jack T. Chick - most excellent!

Friday, June 20, 2008

What is good tequila?


Besides a catalyst for disaster? Everything you need to know.

Korol and Kunali.


The Alaska Zoo gets two new Siberian tigers.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Value Village's new marketing.

We're bargain-hunting right now. Looks like Value Village is now
appealing to more cosmopolitan tastes. Maybe a Karl Lagerfeld section soon!

Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer.


Sounds like a headline from the Onion, but it's real. Via Gruber and Cheng. So sad.

Foot number six.


Severed feet washing up in B.C. Gah!

Best iPhone wallpaper ever.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

How to train death squads.


Wikileaks releases 219-page US military counterinsurgency manual.

Onion cat lovers' t-shirt.


"Kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day." Nicely twisted.

Transvestite toilets.


New in Thai schools.

How to.


A DIY project.

Questions for Gore Vidal.


"Well, it was a great pleasure talking to you. I doubt that." Via NYT.

Ya think?


US limits oil speculators.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Gas hits $14.76 a gallon in UK.


Insane.

Face transformer.


Fun site transforms and morphs uploaded facial images. Via Fake Steve. Here's what it did to mine when I chose "feminize."

Amazing tornado picture.


Via Daring Fireball.

Camera noise.


Kyle Gilman's films and videos.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Fix the damned Help window in Leopard.


If you're tired of the annoying "always floating" behavior of the Help window in Mac OS X 10.5.x, here's an easy Terminal command that will get it out of the way.

Tiger Woods - U.S. Open Rally (3rd Round).

Awesome.

Honda FCX Clarity rolls off the line.


Production starts today in Tokyo - Honda's zero-emission sedan. The first commercial production of a hydrogen-cell vehicle.

Dells with free XP are dead this month.


Lucky Windows users increasingly encouraged to "upgrade" to Vista. Don't worry, there's always Ubuntu Linux or Mac OS X.

Are conservatives running out of steam?


George Packer on the intellectual fatigue of the Republican Party. From The New Yorker.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Woman brands date with hot iron.


Might have been fun if he had actually been willing. I'm still not sure about the "R" either.

Download Day.


Help set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours by downloading Firefox 3, probably ready sometime this month. The release candidates have been pretty good.

Hot chicks.


Twirling burning cubes on chains at the Marlin, about midnight today.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

A reminder.

Fun stuff to do for the solstice next weekend.

Nikola Tesla, the forgotten wizard.

Nice, brief overview of my favorite mad scientist.

The 20 unhealthiest drinks in America.


Loads of liquid fat and sugar!

Miracle at St. Anna.


Trailer for Spike Lee's forthcoming film (September 26).

Friday, June 13, 2008

On disconnection.


Mark Glaser on taking the time to unplug.