February 2009
146 posts
Who doesn’t love the Chucks look? No one. Who... →
Who doesn’t love the Chucks look? No one. Who doesn’t love the Chucks’ flat-footedness, resulting in total podiatric discomfort after ten minutes of walking? I don’t.
Well, good news, everyone….
The craziest interview I've ever read →
The craziest interview I’ve ever read:
Portland Tribune: How did you get started in this business?
Pamela Barrett: I picked up a cat show judge at the airport because that was part of helping…
Google Flags Entire Web as Malware →
Didn’t take long to fix, but man, what a mistake.
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January 2009
152 posts
P-DUB-D&D365-365 by PDub
Armed with 2... →
P-DUB-D&D365-365 by PDub Armed with 2 grocery bags filled with props and costumes, and a pocket full of quarters. A young family goes to the supermarket and commandeers the 25 cent…
Fireball: The John Gruber Story
It’s an honor to... →
Fireball: The John Gruber Story It’s an honor to have been involved in Dan’s project. Frankly, this is the kind of role every actor waits for his whole life. What a cast. And,…
Cambodia's disappearing capital: Lake inferior →
The poor pay for a property boom
Correction to this article
THE fading colonial charm of the French-built Renakse Hotel in Phnom Penh has faded for good. The last guests have been pushed out and the…
Trigger Google search from command line script →
I did actually write one small Python script, which I probably use a dozen times a day. It lets me trigger a Google search from the command line. In Terminal I just type something like gs bacon or…
Morning Coffee, Google Street View by... →
Morning Coffee, Google Street View by veen (Former Google employee) Jeff Veen, waves to the Google camera van as he enjoys his morning coffee. Awesome.
Ducklings →
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why is this so funny? this should not be this funny.
Just because it’s old. →
It may be time to admit that acupuncture is little more than a placebo: Entitled Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo…
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New strategy game to "encourage pride in young... →
Back last year, we took a look at the way in which some groups were pushing out video games purely as a form of propaganda. Whether or not those particular games were affective in…
New New Yorkers →
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Despite having never been, I have beef with New York. I’m sure I would love it there for all sorts of reasons, but I can’t stand the amount of self-regarding, navel-gazing, smug…
Police arrest man for trying to pimp teens at West... →
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I was just riding past this motel on the bus this morning thinking what a seedy place this always looks like.
Thanks to Trick for pointing out this Times article about…
Google Search Still Growing →
Mike Arrington: Of the 137 billion estimated total searches performed in the U.S. last year, 85 billion were done on Google. What’s even more impressive is that nearly 90 percent of all the…
Final Fantasy XIII battle system exposed, explored →
Few games of this entire console generation are has highly-anticipated as Final Fantasy XIII. As one of the biggest entries in the series and the first multi-platform one (not counting…
West Seattle scene: Mid-winter sunset →
Just couldn’t resist.
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Archdiocese sued over former Holy Rosary priest →
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Fr. Sarkies was the pastor when I attended HRS. Good thing I stayed out of church as much as possible.
In March 2006, we reported on Holy Rosary’s announcement that Father …
It was only supposed to be a joke. →
A completely fake interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming language: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would…
On being expected to save the world. →
Dennis Overbye reflects on Obama’s call to “restore science to its rightful place”: Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth. That endeavor,…
Happy Birthday, Instapaper →
Instapaper was launched 1 year ago today with this post on my tumblelog. It was met with great feedback and shortly got some high-profile links, starting prominently with John Gruber’s. I…
Space Elevators →
Amazon’s Kindle 2 to Debut February 9 →
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I’m very curious. If it’s half the ugly and half the price, I’d be all over it. They need to poach some of the guys from the iPod team.
At a special event hosted by Jeff Bezos.
David Attenborough gets hate mail? →
David Attenborough, the voice of several thousand hours of nature films, gets hate mail from viewers who believe he should be crediting God for nature’s beauty. Telling the magazine that he was…
Automobile arriving from the eastern sector of... →
Automobile arriving from the eastern sector of Berlin being halted by West Berlin police.
West Berlin, Germany. February 1953, Ralph Crane.
Three small children leaning against large sign... →
Three small children leaning against large sign that reads ENTERING NEW DEAL/SPEED LIMIT 25 MILES PER HOUR.
Fort Peck, MT. November 1936, Margaret Bourke-White
Streaming video cannibalizing DVD rentals, says... →
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I know I watch half the netflix DVDs I used to now that I just stream through the xbox.
Those who make use of Netflix’s ever-popular “Watch Instantly” streaming service rent…
How many babies can fit inside one woman? →
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Great headline.
A California woman gave birth to octuplets Monday after 30 weeks of pregnancy. The six boys and two girls ranged in weight from 1 pound, 8 ounces, to 3 pounds, 4…
Coastal Weather Radar →
It is time for all those interested to push for a coastal weather radar in our region. As I have discussed in this blog and in a web page on the topic, …
Non-believers again, Muslim world edition |... →
Every second counts →
Fun little game from Ze Frank that I hadn’t seen before: Every Second Counts. You’re challenged to hold the mouse button down for 0.2 seconds, 0.4 seconds, then 0.6, 0.8, and so on. You need to be…
** A Vodka Movie by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and... →
** A Vodka Movie by Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric** I will never, ever, ever get sick of watching this. I’m in the midst of a giant Tim & Eric thing right now, and seeing their crazy…
Seen on the Sound: New cranes, Tacoma-bound →
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I always love watching these ships come in. They look so incongruous.
Thanks to Chas Redmond for sharing the view (from Gatewood) of the Port of Tacoma’s 4 new cranes,…
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Errol Morris Blog -... →
Errol Morris interviews White House photographers about which photo they think best exemplifies W.
It Might Be Cool →
Long story short -
Customer drops off USB... →
Long story short -
Customer drops off USB thumbdrive (as instructed) with the picture they want on their edible-image cake. Inexperienced employee asks, ”Really? They want this on the cake?”
Craft vendors in Pike Place Market, 1975 →
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Good to see Pike Place Market fashion hasn’t changed a bit.
Seattle Municipal Archives posted a photo:
See our online exhibit for a history of the market. Item…
Dolls Resembling Daughters Displease First Lady -... →
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Ty really never came back after the Beanie Baby craze died down. This is the toy company equivalent to Britney Spears shaving her head.
Other dolls in the TyGirlz Collection include…
Microsoft Reports $100M Decline in Zune Revenue →
Down 54 percent from the year ago quarter.
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Scott and Sandwich →
merlinmann posted a photo:
Coffee? Check.
Beer? Check.
Tennis Ball? Check.
Hand sanitizer? You bet your ass, check.
Let’s do this thing.
mrgan:
Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist... →
mrgan:
Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)
Every one of Monk’s notes in here may as well be gospel, but one that stood out for me:
“A genius is the one most like…
The awfulness of Billy Joel, explained. →
This may seem an odd moment to bring up the subject of Billy Joel. But the recent death of the painter Andrew Wyeth revived a long-standing debate over whether his art is respectable or merely…
Undergrad student in Malawi develops a localized... →
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Nice!
One of my undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematical Sciences Education programme at the Malawi Polytechnic, a constituent college of the…
Snow Leopard screengrabs leaked.
Rumor is,... →
Snow Leopard screengrabs leaked. Rumor is, Talking Moose finally goes pure Cocoa. [via: Gruber via Chock]
Guardian Interview With Andy Hertzfeld →
Nice little video interview with Andy Hertzfeld on the Mac’s 25th anniversary. He shows the prototype motherboard he used to write the device drivers for System 1.0.
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Pirating the 2009 Oscars →
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That’s how I watch all Oscar nominated movies these days. “This is for Academy consideration only, do not distribute.”
Speaking of Andy Baio, his annual analysis of bootleg…
"Jobs’ power has always been not to invent the... →
“ Jobs’ power has always been not to invent the iPod, but to realize that an iPod needs to be invented. When someone comes to him and says, ‘Here’s an idea for a product,’ he’s the guy who says, ‘You…
Archimedes developed calculus? →
According to a Greek text that was overwritten with Christian prayers, Archimedes worked out some of the principles of calculus over 1900 years before Newton and Leibniz. He called it The Method.
NAME THAT SONG! →
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Who ruvs you baby? You do Dr. Fang.
This is a family friend of mine who I also used to work with.
Here are some videos that I recorded of him when we had nothing to do at work.
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The Real Deal On Day One, Obama Sets a New Tone... →
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I do flinch from the “HOPE” poster type of Obama enthusiasm. What I see, and which I think is the reality, is that we have a competent, knowledgeable president that is a member of…