Leap second.

The New Year will arrive one second late.

Delicious fish.

Sushi pillows, via ThinkGeek.

Social media trends, 2009.

Via TrendsSpotting.

Google Street View: triumph of technology.

Another good one, via The Register.

30 ways to die of electrocution.

Flickr photoset by Bre Pettis.

Thank You Mask Man.

All voices by Lenny Bruce. (Thanks, Don!)

The death of Polaroid.

Michael Kimmelman on the end of an era.

Choose your own Apple CEO adventure.

Thanks to Jason Chen for doing this. Funny stuff.

Farting money.

New iPhone fart apps pull in $10K a day.

Oppressive type.

Andy Mangold's insomnia pillow.

Extraterrestrial.

Animation by Ivan Rusev. (Thanks, Don!)

Color your world.

Trulee's Xmas gift from Larry.

Hamster on a piano.

(Thanks, Ti!)

TED2009.

The program guide and speakers.

Sponsor an executive.

(Thanks, Bill!)

Fontcase.

Looks like the beta's good to go. Really impressive Mac OS X font manager, so long Apple Font Book. "Manage your fonts. The Apple way." Except Apple didn't make this. Another instance of why strong independent developers matter on this platform. Duh... I think Steve Jobs knows this and thinks it sucks.

Kanye West album generator.

I've given the punch line away by posting Michael Sippey's imagining of the GUI, but the comments illustrate the need for an iPhone app. Comic Sans for the "demo," well, yeah.

Origami hamburger set.

Via UniqueDaily.com.

My kind of marketing.

The Bush shoe.

Selling like hotcakes, of course.

New species?

1068 of them.

English Russia.

Giant compendium -- images of Russian life.

Burger King offers meat fragrance.

BK's hot new meat scent.

Data sculpture.

Andreas Fischer's data visualizations.

Apple's dick move.

John C. Welch has it right. Before any hate begins, I'm working on a Mac now.

Iraq shoe tosser: the animated gifs.

Compiled by Xeni Jardin.

Apple: we don't need to deal with customers anymore.

Seems to be upper management's philosophy.

Dr. Steven Chu at the National Energy Summit.

Our next Secretary of Energy.

The Agrippa Files.

An online archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) by William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh.

Chris Mathews in a minute.

Via 23/6. (Thanks, Craig!)

RIP, Bettie Page.

"It's all just one big lie."

Bernard Madoff arrested for $50 billion fraud.

The torture soundtrack.

I can't believe they didn't include "Futurist."

The bailout.

Via Sarah Lane and buffalobeast.com.

Way down there on the left.

Along with 1931.

Found: briefcase with odd items.

Date: 2008-11-27, 9:31AM PST


Large silver briefcase (metal). No locks. Odd items inside include a 14 inch length of plastic tube about one and a half inches in diameter, a solid rod of plastic about 20 inches long and a little under one and a half inches in diameter. Several tubes of KY jelly (don't ask me, I just found it). Here's the really odd thing: there were five Gerbils in a plastic container with breather holes in it. I put them in a mouse cage with some shredded wood chips, water, and food. Respond to this add so I can return your stuff. If no respone in a week, I'll give the Gerbils to the animal shelter and turn the rest of the stuff over to the Sheriff Dept. Thanks.

Via Best of Craigslist.

Obama speechwriter learns first lesson of Facebook.

What you put on Facebook doesn't stay on Facebook.

Shameless plug.

At the College Coffeehouse. Mobile post.

Private lives of your favorite toys.

Via WebUrbanist.

Start the day off right.

Hai, heil.

A big thanks to PsyWar.Org for providing me with much enjoyment tonight.

$10 can go a long way.

Charlie Kratzer's basement art project.

Facebook fake: 100 friends in four days.

What interests me about this and the author's point is that Facebook is designed to make the sharing of personal information easy. People use Facebook precisely because it allows them to relinquish privacy. The article fails to address Facebook as a privacy dynamic. More thorough analysis in this direction is over here.

Softwear by Microsoft.

Microsoft's new retro line of clothing. It's be great if it was all in blue.

Globular Cluster M13.

From The Hubble Heritage Project. (Thanks, Don!)

Dessert.

The Alaska bar experience.

Welcome to Fairbanks. She has a boyfriend. (Thanks, Aurora!)

The new Depression.

Handy tips.

Shuriken refrigerator magnets.

Great gift idea.

The 2008 Ovatio Awards.

Via Ars Technica.

White Christmas.

Sung by The Drifters, animation by Joshua Heid.

A couple stars.

by Don Cole

Oblivion waits in the light up the road. My grandmother Witcher first showed me Orion as we waited for the paperwork to be finalized letting my mother out of a lunatic asylum. It was 1966 in a dead winter night and we stood outside of a Chinese restaurant in Denver, Colorado. Bare elms stared back at us from some random park across the street. Thin ice crackled under our feet, with little snow, but we were standing knee deep in family treachery. (The photo is from "Wunder" photos on the Underground weather service.)

The photography of Adrian Parfene.

Fashion and more.

Why?

One entire CD, via torrent, created as a single MP3 file. No metadata, no nothing. Just one big file.