December 31, 2004
December 29, 2004
December 28, 2004
Over one-third of college graduates are also strict creationists
of those one-third, 100% need to go back to remedial science class or forfeit their degrees
Anti-Christmas trend is false, and religious conservatives are lying about the sources
1.2 meg animated .gif
Fine Contemporary Craft meets Medieval Technology
buy fully functional miniature Trebuchets, Guillotine and Catapults
December 26, 2004
December 22, 2004
Ten Things President Bush Doesn't Want You To Know About Scalia and Thomas
two coders sneak into Apple every day to develop a program which eventually gets included in OS8
USPS site only accessible in IE/win in a really bad way
Mark Pesce's article about BitTorrent and P2P networks
"Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers?"
December 21, 2004
Why Microsoft has so few excellent products...
a response to Scoble's dumb proposal
Kerry internet chief Zack Exley responds to criticism
Zack Exley
December 20, 2004
Q: Mr. President, can we know things about the legislation you're about to propose? A: No and don't ask again
shot-by-shot recreation of Michael Jackson's Thriller
December 19, 2004
December 18, 2004
December 17, 2004
logos w/ poles photoshopped out
Why do they hate Jesus so much?
"They're not defending Christmas... they're defending Christmas-themed merchandising."
December 16, 2004
overload of digital files pushes user to listen to old, trusted, artists
theories of ancestral flavor in tetrapods on a solid footing
Elaborate PowerPoint presentation culminated extensive brawl probe
December 15, 2004
building a map of "safe neighborhoods" through simple social software
quicksand may indeed exist without water
Michael Crichton's State of Confusion
"State of Fear" misrepresents scientific positions and theoris concerning global climate change
MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site
mt-comments.cgi are shutting shutting servers down due to high spam loads
December 14, 2004
Winning a War For the Disconnected
to read: "The Pentagon's New Map" by Thomas P.M. Barnett
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
reporter who unearthed the CIA-Contra-Crack connection is found dead
Google to scan famous libraries
information wants to be free
December 13, 2004
December 12, 2004
National missile "defense" sheild doesn't work in the rain
Good thing we are sinking in $10 bil/year into something that doesn't work - well, goodbye Seattle!
G.I.s' Paychecks Fund Truck Armor
Armor good, raiding the payroll accounts bad: how about taking money from the "missile shield" which can't hit the side of a barn?
The 1906 Aerial Photographs
December 11, 2004
FCC to investigate Summer Olympics for indecency
I kid you not - someone got his/her knicker's in a twist over the opening ceremony. When will America grow up?
December 10, 2004
Santa, Please bring the world "Family Guy: The Movie" for Christmas
new climate science blog by scientists aimed at journalists and laity
a fascist to visit the whitehouse
Alabama state Senator who wants to ban books is invited to the whitehous by the President
Setting the record straight regarding the assignment of women to front-line roles in the U.S. military
December 9, 2004
font porn
Josh Marshall's respons to Peter Beinart's The New Republic essay
Newly Homeless Above 5th Ave., Hawks Have Little to Build On
more on the destruction of Pale Male's nest
Google search for "I Love Jews" no longer asks if you meant "I Love Jesus"
December 8, 2004
Disney's War Against the Counterculture: Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever
in this case for knitting, but can be used for other purposes
Where are affordable, but cool places to live as a career/lifestyle choice
Shhh - Society for HandHeld Hushing
from coudal partners
Pale Male's 11 year old Fifth Avenue nest removed upon order from building's co-op board
David Beckham as Joseph, Posh Spice as Mary, (and even better) Samuel L. Jackson as a shepard, The Duke of Edinburgh, Tony Blair, and Bush as a wise men.
The Supreme Court has a sobering look at interstate wines.
aggregators who don't check "If-Modified-Since" get throttled to save bandwidth
December 7, 2004
99.8 percent of "Nipple-gate" complaints were from one group
These people should STFU and turn the TV off
December 6, 2004
Seeds of change: Nicholas Reville on Downhill Battle's Blog Torrent initiative
Sparkline PHP Graphing Library
Tufte for the masses!
Various Artists - Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka
soundtracks to porn movies
December 5, 2004
American Cinematographer article on Kubrick's Zeiss lenses for 'Barry Lyndon'
Stanley Kubrick's Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lens
Built by Carl Zeiss Oberkochen for NASA for Apollo, and used in 1975 for Kubrick's film, Barry Lyndon.
The Annual 12 Days of Christmas
Annual PNC "Christmas Price Index" shos costs of goods on the decline, services on the rise
December 3, 2004
View Picture - Architectural photographic library
a specialist architecture and interior design picture library
spam designed to look like it's coming from someone else
by far, one of the better design memes to spread (use it for good NOT evil!)
December 2, 2004
MT-Blacklist Bug: Don't Delete Weblogs
MT-Blacklist 2.0b could cause a second weblog to be deleted when using MT’s "Delete Weblog" command.
toys from erector sets to blocks to legos
December 1, 2004
Experience Design Reading, Books, Magazines, Resources
damn huge bibliography
iPod Photo might have a "feature" which discourages the storage of porn
it randomly flashes images from other folders and album art when viewing a slideshow
make pop-up cards
Good Idea/Bad Idea? Ever wanted to say what was on your mind to other drivers?
Volokh rounds up Roe v Wade polls
A majority of Americans want to uphold Roe
I really don't have a yardstick to decide the voracity of these articles, just passing it on (so to speak)
nyc-based photoblog
Man arrested for riding in Critical Mass prooves he wasn't there from 2nd Ave Deli receipt
GOP cuts science funding but increased funding for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
wtf indeed
