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- The 10 Worst Rap Album Covers Ever Made #
- I have to say, M$ Tee is my winner. (But Tec-9 and Tricky Daddy come in at a damn close second.)
- YouTube: AFSCME #
- The fuckin' union that works for you.
- All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter #
- It's so beautiful I could cry. I specially emailed this to my work so I could view it on the 24" screen I have there.
- Have You Secured Notepad? #
- Man, this is awesome: if you try to View Source in IE7, it will pop up a dialog asking permission to run Notepad, because Notepad has higher privileges than IE. See, this is what I love about IE: so broken that it's hilarious.
- Paul Graham: Why to Not Not Start a Startup #
- Compelling stuff. I kinda work for a startup, so I guess I'm okay for the moment. (1/4 founder, by his measure.)
- Then Why Is Their PR So Bad? #
- Interesting story where MS accidentally sends their secret dossier about a reporter to the reporter themself. Looks like they had really done their homework. But with all this effort, how do they come up with crap like squirting? Maybe they should assemble a dossier on Ballmer.
- Welcome to the Internet, Suckah! #
- John McCain, American Presidential Candidate, has his MySpace page hacked. You hotlinkers, you never learn! Update: picked up by The Daily Show!
- David Lynch on Product Placement #
- I'm thinking Azrael will like this one.
- Penny Arcade - Armadeaddon #
- Man, how much do SOAD suck now? That aside, though, this is pretty cool - a PA comic series set to music with fades. Surprisingly effective.
- DI: Mincemeat and the Imaginary Man #
- Brilliant bluff by British Intelligence in WWII. Amazing that they were able to pull something like this off.
- Regular Expression to Detect Prime Numbers #
- Driven by a one-line Perl script. Freakin' incredible, I would never have thought it possible to detect primes with a regex. Powerful little bastards, those things.
- Russian Stolichnaya Beer Commercial #
- This is one is intentionally funny. Right in the eyes!
- Estonian ad for beer, I think #
- Heavy with symbolism. I love the dance moves at 0:43.
- Estonian Chicken Mince Ad #
- Or possibly a horror film.
- DI: A Fluke of Nature #
- What an incredible lifecycle. I've actually read about this once before, maybe it was on a Wikipedia adventure? At any rate, this creature is my new hero.
- Pennypacker: Search PA Comics with the possibility of finding something! #
- PA's search sucks, but now this Firefox extension (you can search on the site without actually having the extension) lets people tag the comics. It has proved its value already; finally, I was able to locate the classic.
- W3C and the Overton window #
- A really interesting analysis tool applied to the W3C's ineptitude.
- YouTube: Crazy Frog Bros. #
- Yay for YouTube! I love the Matrix moves at 1:45.
- WSJ on Twitter #
- I try very hard to be open-minded about it, but fuck me if Twitter isn't totally stupid. I suppose there's some kind of angle to the pre-emptive WHERE R U thing, but apart from that...
- The right to criticize programming languages #
- His opening premise is excellent, even for people who will never program. Reading onward, it gives a really interesting overview of a number of languages' strengths. It humbles me, as I know so few of them, and my hatred is not nearly so developed as his. It also reminds me that I totally need to learn Lisp. Also, best programming quote ever: "I keep trying to make my programs a bit less dead." Don't we all.
- Improve your forms using HTML5! #
- Yay, forms with sensible defaults, and really easy client-side validation! This is many years overdue, and very welcome. But ew, that syntax. No quotes around your values? Inputs inside labels? It makes me feel ill.
- How a statistical formula won the war #
- Have I posted this before? Well, I am sorry. But I mean, it's beautiful. Okay?
- A New CAPTCHA Approach #
- My memories of this movie are all happiness, no substance. I think there were dinosaurs in it?
- Beijing's Olympic Stadium #
- Looks a bit like a torture chamber.
- Why Apple is the best retailer in America #
- Those freakin' clever bastards. It throws a spotlight on how mindless most other retailers are. Let's just do what everyone else does!
- DI: The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind #
- Another fascinating psychological study that (for reasons of gross ethical violations) can never be repeated. I am currently half-way through Lord of the Flies, and look forward to finishing it next summer. (See also Wikipedia article.)
- Air Travel: More Dangerous Than You Might Think #
- There is a spoon.
- World Map, Proportionally Redrawn #
- Some really interesting ones - compare the military spending to war deaths, for example. (Full set.)
- Paul Graham: Is It Worth Being Wise? #
- Not sure I agree with everything said here, but Graham makes an interesting and insightful disctinction between wisdom and smarts. I'm just stoked people are even talking about this stuff, in between their busy schedules of "so, what did you do on the weekend?"
- DI: The Deepest Hole #
- I love the aspect of the human spirit that draws people to ideas like, "let's dig a really fucken deep hole." Not for any reason. Just because it'll be awesome.
- Black Sheep Trailer #
- There are certain films New Zealanders do well; I think this may be one of them.
- Starbucks chairman warns of "the commoditization of the Starbucks experience" #
- From the 'duh' file. "Clearly we have had to streamline store design to gain efficiencies of scale and to make sure we had the ROI on sales to investment ratios that would satisfy the financial side of our business. However, one of the results has been stores that no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store." Yes, well, ROI and soul generally don't hang out together much.
- HTML5: Nice Doctype #
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional is very trendy these days (certainly with me), despite all the murdered kittens. Could HTML5 be the next step? I believe it is non-XML compliant, which strikes me as a backward step.
- WordPress Download Compromised #
- The perils of popularity. Looks like they're handling it well (where rule #1 of handling it well is, don't try to cover it up).
- Say Everything: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock'n'Roll #
- It's the end of privacy as we know it, and we feel fine. Sort of the elephant in the room really, it's so normalised for us to be putting all this stuff online ("all my friends are doing it!") that we don't give it much thought.
- Idiocratic Design #
- Some fantastic stills - I think Gruber called them "typography humour" - from Mike Judge's Idiocracy. Did you hear about this film? I certainly didn't. Anyway, the post also links to glorious bling.
- Why Aren’t More Women in Science? #
- This is actually only a review of a book with that name, but pretty interesting already. I must admit that I struggle to really move beyond the obvious stereotypes when puzzling this issue.
- Giant Sinkhole Swallows Guatemala Homes #
- It's always humbling to survey the effects of Mother Nature.
- Keeping MySpace Online (Just) #
- An insightful behind-the-scenes look at the multiple rebuilds and huge array of hardware that has been thrown together in an attempt to keep up with MySpace's enormous growth. On the one hand, they sound a bit foolish (ColdFusion?), on the other, you respect that they are riding along the cutting edge of current technology (serving 39 billion dynamic pages per month).
- Paul Graham: Learning from Founders #
- "Suits, for example. Suits do not help people to think better."
