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George Clooney in Men Who Stare At Goats movie

The Men Who Stare At Goats is a must-read 2005 book by UK journalist Jon Ronson about the US government's interest in very strange stuff, like Jedi powers, psychic spying, subliminal sound weapons, an...
Vintage Japanese robot gallery

Wired's posted a photo gallery from the new show of vintage Japanese robots opening at the Sci Fi Museum in Seattle. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created me...
Sofa/bookcase

If you know me, you know I love bookcases built into EVERYTHING. This sofa (the Flexform Oltre) with bookcases in the arms: no exception. Link (via Cribcandy)...
Laika the astro-dog tin toy from 1958

This 1958 Japanese tin toy features Laika, Sputnik 2's brave cosmo-dog. Poor Laika. Link (Thanks, Erin!) See also: Laika - graphic novel tells the sweet and sad story of the first space-dog...
Microsoft and NBC enforce the nonexistent Broadcast Flag, WTF?!

Danny O'Brien from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, Vista users are complaining that Media Center refuses to let them record broadcast digital TV shows on NBC. Here's a screenshot of what they'...

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I wish this map of current US gas prices factored...

I wish this map of current US gas prices factored out the taxes included in the pump price. It seems like what the map mostly shows is the differences in taxes between states (PDF map) and not, for in...
Fractal furniture!

Fractal furniture! One could imagine a Powers of Ten video with drawer pulling instead of zooming. (link)...
● Nine things I learned this week, 04

[Part four of a recurring series...part one, part two, part three.] According to the Indian National Crime Bureau, there were 6,787 dowry deaths in India in 2005. A dowry death occurs when a woman is...
Oklahoma City is repairing the state's busiest highway by tearing...

Oklahoma City is repairing the state's busiest highway by tearing it down and building a park in its stead. In Oklahoma City, the interstate will be moved five blocks from downtown to an old railroad...
The Wii Fit, the new exercise peripheral for the Nintendo...

The Wii Fit, the new exercise peripheral for the Nintendo Wii, was reviewed favorably by a number of people for the New York Times. A fitness professional at the Sports Center at Chelsea Piers gave it...

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Huckabee Gun Routine.

This just in… Huckabee, idiot.
TV Pundits Exposed

Hat tip to Talking Points Memo.
Phonedellic

Last night I went to see Crowded House at The Fillmore in San Francisco. No one was smoking weed. And about a third of the crowd was, at some point or another, texting on their cell phones and Black...
Einstein v God

Einstein on religion:The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless p...
Nature and Human Nature

The military rulers in Myanmar continue to block aid and food for the masses of people devastated by the cyclone (an event that is being played down on state TV). The leadership is also still focused...

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Fever Dream Tickets

That was an astounding speech John McCain delivered this morning in Columbus, Ohio. On almost every issue except Iraq, it was a ringing declaration of rhetorical (though not always substantive) indepe...
First, Shoot the Moderators

Sunday’s Times mentions a notion (first reported by Bloomberg) that is prompting some blogosphere discussion: In a sign of what could be an extremely unusual fall campaign, the two sides said Saturd...
Ouch, My Head Hurts

A whole bunch of e-mailers—and you know who you are—have sent in messages pointing out certain moronic mistakes in arithmetic that I made in in one of my after-Pennsylvania posts. Even though I fl...
Drug-War Bulletins

Three of them: 1. In Seattle, a fifty-six-year old man died last Thursday after being refused a liver transplant because he had followed his doctor’s recommendation to use marijuana to ease the symp...
Plus, They Have Beautiful Beaches

Both houses of the Hawaii state legislature voted yesterday to override Governor Linda Lingle’s veto of the National Popular Vote bill. With that, Hawaii became the fourth state to pledge itself to...

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Wigleaf

Wigleaf has published its list of “best fictions” for 2008, including a number of stories from elimae and elimae authors.
The Driftless Region (Where I Live)

Camera-phone snap. Galena Territory. Jo Daviess County (Illinois). Driftless region.
William Topaz McGonagall

A selection of poems from “the world’s worst poet” are set for auction today. William McGonagall was mocked by literary critics and had food thrown at him during public readings, be...
More Court Shenanigans

The latest issue (June 08) of Harper’s Magazine includes a lovely excerpt from “a deposition given over two days last year by Aaron Wider, CEO of HTFC, a mortgage investor, to Robert Bodzi...
music changes wine’s taste

Add this to the growing list of studies on the subjectivity of the human mind and wine. Turns out, not only are people incapable of telling white wine from red, or the quality of wine based on price &...

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More evidence that ad CPMs are higher in the Tail

Following up on my post about how niche social networks can command higher ad CPMs than the big generic sites such Facebook and MySpace, here's some new data from PubMatic that makes a similar point a...
The real meaning of there's ain't no such thing as a free lunch

Econ geeks like me know George Mason University economist Russ Roberts as one of the best commentators on the dismal science, not only for his Chicago-school clarity but also his ability to communicat...
You may be on Facebook, but the money's in the Long Tail

I've argued before that social networking should be a feature, not a destination, and that the one-size-fits-all model of Facebook and MySpace will eventually give way to a multitude of narrowly focus...
DIYDrones and GeekDad at Maker Faire This Weekend

Two of my side projects--DIYDrones and GeekDad-- are going to be at Maker Faire this weekend in San Mateo. We're going to be in booth 166 in the Expo Hall (click on the map for detail), all day Sat an...
Seth Godin asks: Should human-powered search abandon the Long Tail?

My friend Seth Godin, CEO of human-powered search engine Squidoo, has been reading the press on the search debate between huge range and high quality and wonders if the Long Tail has something to say...

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Bruce Lee: Productivity Dragon

The aptly named "Positivity Blog" recently had a rather compelling overview of Bruce Lee, Productivity Guru. Like our own dear Merlin, Mr. Lee was from the Bay Area and took a lifelong interest in...
43f Links for May 7th

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - “The small steps in kaizen don’t set off fight or flight, but rather keep us in the thinking brain, where we have access to our crea...
Links and Resources for the Chronically Disorganized

N S G C D | Home I’m still in a de-cluttering mode these days (more on that soon), so I was intrigued by this resource, which arrived this morning via Mrs. Folders. While primarily a trade gr...
James Fallows on GTD apps

Bright side #5: interesting GTD software, including for Mac The Atlantic writer (and recent Mac convert) James Fallows covers three apps that have caught his attention, including OmniFocus, ThinkingR...
Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge

Via a Toot by Jeff Atwood comes this thoughtful post by Tantek Çelik on how email is no longer working for him. His first reason is a biggie: 1. Point to point communications do not scale.

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Thoroughbred Breakdowns and Preakness Predictions

The breakdown of Eight Belles in this year's Kentucky Derby, just a few years after Barbaro's broken leg in the Preakness, has a lot of people worried about the safety and welfare of thoroughbreds. St...
More On Your Worst E-Mistakes

In case you didn't get your fill from our previous post, the e-mail guide Send -- by The Times's OpEd editor, David Shipley, and former Hyperion Books editor-in-chief, Will Schwalbe -- has a lot to sa...
The Perils of Free Coffee

As prices go, "free" is an interesting one. Dan Ariely plays with the idea in his book Predictably Irrational, as does Seth Godin -- and Chris Andersen has gone so far as to suggest that "$0.00 is the...
Prediction Markets in Science

In a short piece in the latest Science journal, about the Promise of Prediction Markets, we provide a short review of the literature on prediction markets -- how and why they work, and the accumulated...
Show Us Your Food: A Q&A With the Authors of What The World Eats

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio. Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio sat down to a meal with 30 families in 24 countries, photographing their one-week food intake and talking to them about food, dietin...

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Troglodyte homunculus

I’ve successfully resisted the temptation to post one of the Bill O’Reilly meltdown videos that have been popping up this week - until now. This one is the funniest of them by far, selon...
‘Bladerunner’ Wins Appeal

Double amputee Oscar Pistorius (featured previously at Neatorama) has won an appeal and will compete to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. The 21-year-old, who runs on specially adapted carbon fibre b...
Steve Job’s and 6 Other Memorable Commencement Addresses

Dear graduating students, Our pal mental_floss has a neat post about the 7 Memorable Commencement Addresses, just in case yours isn’t really up to par. For example, here’s Steve Job’...
Crazy Raspberry Ants Eat Electronics

First it was killer bees, then Argentine ants … Now, welcome our electronic-eating ant overlords: It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents o...
The Best Invention Since Peanut Butter

Here’s the best invention since, well, sliced bread and peanut butter: Easy PB&J Jar by Sherwood Forlee: Peanut Butter: it’s the greatest invention ever. The only downside to it, thoug...

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"Ladies First" by Eric Feezell

Weekday articles from The Morning News...
"Food Network Kicks Its Programming Up a Notch" by Jon Methven

Weekday articles from The Morning News...
"Meir Comes Clean" by Michael Rottman

Weekday articles from The Morning News...
"The Bitterest Pill" by Kevin Guilfoile & John Warner

Weekday articles from The Morning News...
"Girl Lessons" by Jessica Francis Kane

Weekday articles from The Morning News...

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Little Infinite Poem

To take the wrong road is to arrive at the snow, and to arrive at the snow is to get down on all fours for centuries and eat the cemetery grass. To take the wrong road is to arrive at woman woman wh...
Best album of all time?

So far, my quizzees have answered: Swans are Dead Blue Pet Sounds My Aim is True Mine? Loveless.
Notes from Dante in Love

Dante originally called The Divine Comedy "Vision" T.S. Eliot said people stay in Hell only because they cannot change The Latin word for "knowledge" sapientia, means the distinctions of the tongue, t...
Neutral Milk Hotel Review

It's been almost exactly 10 years since I wrote this review of Neutral Milk Hotel's album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. 10 years! That album hasn't meant any less to me after all this time. The revie...
The use of moods

Aw, thank you sweet people for worrying about my being sad. A few books and I was good as new pale green spring grass. It was just a mood. From the Anne Carson I was reading yesterday: He hugged his...

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Lessig Blog: Closed until June

As tiny compensation for (almost) spending more time on the road than at home each year, when our first child was born, we started the best tradition I've ever known: 1 month, off the grid, somewhere...
TotalRecut remix contest

TotalRecut has today launched a remix contest: "What is Remix Culture?" I'm a judge (as close as I'll ever get to that title, but now twice -- just finished judging the Obama in :30 contest)...
fantastically cool code to watch

This is something to watch, as its potential to enable real integration is amazing: Apture. Apture Getting Started Tutorial from Tristan Harris on Vimeo...
Z's book is out

JZ's book is out. It is in the brilliant Yale Series of brilliant (and Creative Commons licensed) books (which includes Yochai's as well). But you can (and will want to) buy it the old fashioned way,...
37 helpful comments later

After thinking through the 37 helpful comments posted to my post about comment policy, I've decided to start slowly as proposed. That means:I have adopted a policy of deleting personal attacks on othe...

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links for 2008-05-16

Heather Gold: Free at last “Openness is good. Closet is bad.” (tags: justice video)...
35

Today I turn 35 and here’s what I’m thinking abut. I’m thinking about depression. I’ve been severely depressed several times in my life. When depression is a well you visit wit...
Growth

When we moved from our old place, I had to chop down this Fred because it was so huge it couldn’t be moved. So I went totally Paul Bunyan and chopped it down to its base. Now, life begins again.
links for 2008-05-13

(RE)VELATION :: Remix The 613 “We are collecting text and audio ‘remixes’ of the 613 mitzvot for an art piece which will debut at DAWN, a special event at grand opening of the Contem...
New in Fray: Hosing Down the Prostitutes

We posted another fantastic story from Fray issue 1: Busted! tonight. Check it out - this one’s a doozy. There was very little for teenagers to do in Vegas in ’82. Sure, you could go to a movi...

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Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones

decent speeds downloading music and it imports into your iPhone music library when done ...
Bill O'Reilly's Producer

look at the other side of the camera ...
"Things Younger Than McCain" creator on the subject of ageism

unlike sex and race, your age affects your ability to lead ...
V8 Engine built out of Lego Mindstorms

it can hit 1440 RPM without any lubrication ...
Let's Write a Song with Rivers Cuomo

the Weezer frontman's been vlogging on YouTube; the moustache is unnerving ...

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Go Buy Microcosm Right Now!

Carl Zimmer may be my favorite science writer around today (others seem to agree), so I'm excited to report that his new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life hit the shelves yesterday.
Are You A Gifted Interface Designer? Come Work At Outside.In!

We're actively looking for a lead designer at outside.in right now. As you might imagine, this is an incredibly cool job. Yes, there's opportunity to work with a great group of people at a growing com...
The Silent Room Tone

I didn't actually get to see the now infamous Mark Zuckerberg interview yesterday at SXSW, but having read through about six thousand blog posts about it, I feel as though I've seen it. And, naturally...
Games and the iPhone

Two quick thoughts on the iPhone announcement today: First, an open question: does this mean the only way you can do over-the-air syncing of calendar events and contacts (a feature I really, really wa...
Brooks/Cheney

David Brooks writes about Obama and Clinton's Jefferson-Jackson speeches last November in his column this morning: Obama sketched out a different theory of social change than the one Clinton had impli...

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Robert Rauschenberg on process, change, boredom, and more

This obituary of Robert Rauschenberg contains some great quotes from the artist… An improvisatory process was what mattered most to him: Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is...
AfriGadget: Constrained Creativity

AfriGadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. A team of bloggers and readers contribute pictures, videos and stories from across the continent. Inspiring stuff. This guy made a...
Haste is a form of violence.

I’m an extremely fast paced, frenetic person, but I’m learning to calm down and chill out. In a book I picked up recently this sentence is repeated in every chapter: “Haste is a form...
Product Blog update: GTD with Backpack, Getting Real case studies, updated Ta-Da List Widget, etc.

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Extras New version of Ta-da Lists Widget released Having problems with your Ta-da Lists Widget? Then go ahead and download v1.3, released today.
Start a meeting by looking backward

The whole 37signals thing gathered in Chicago for a pow wow last week. How do we start a meeting? By celebrating. No confetti or streamers. Just a recap of everything we’ve accomplished since...

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Beating Google ?

Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google...
The Ala Carting of Video on the Net - Will it lead to disaster ?

Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research wrote an amazing report entitled And Now for the News...The Emperor Has No Clothes". If you can get a copy, read it. Starting with the disappointing but expected ne...
Talking Mavs

There is no worse feeling in sports than being eliminated in the playoffs. It's an exclamation point on a disappointing season. Like everyone else, I try to look back and see what we did right and wro...
The Biggest NBA News this week that you didnt read...

For all of you who missed it, which is pretty much everyone, FIBA, the international basketball body modified many of their rules to parallel those of the NBA. Here is an overview: "BEIJING - Interna...
An NBA Fun Fact

Is it possible for the shot clock to have more time on it than the game clock ?Those of you paying close attention to the Suns vs Spurs game might have noticed during the 2nd overtime, Ginobli grabbed...

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What is normal memory, and how to avoid Alzheimer's

Sue Halpern on what the latest medical research can tell us about "normal" memory, and how to avoid Alzheimer's....
Misogyny I Won't Miss - Marie Cocco

Marie Cocco on things she won't miss about the Democratic primary race. I will not miss walking past airport concessions...
The Pentagon's Five Step Plan For Making Iron Man (for real!)

Brookings Institution: A Look at the Pentagon's Five Step Plan For Making Iron Man Real. (via tl)...
Donate to the Red Cross

The NYTimes Lede has an interesting overview of just what the Red Cross does every day of every year. Your...
Things may be quiet around here....

I have sustained a minor injury that restricts my ability to type. If this weblog is slow or even silent...

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XO Laptop (OLPC) Signed By Geek Superstars @ ROFLCon 08 - eBay [del.icio.us]

All the speakers from ROFLcon signed this XO laptop (me included) which is now up on ebay...
Spit and polish for a Seattle icon | KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional [del.icio.us]

Awesome shots of the Space Needle getting a steam cleaning for the first time...
Official Google Reader Blog: Brand new Google Reader for iPhone [del.icio.us]

Finally. I've been waiting almost a year for an iphone version of Google Reader that does a river of news instead of individual items and gets rid of "mobile HTML" links.
Social media before the internet: a case study < Perhapses [del.icio.us]

Britt's story of Transworld Skateboarding stepping on toes, and joining the staff years later.
Elsa Mora: Flower Girls :) [del.icio.us]

Insanely beautiful art from flowers...

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Universal electricity bill doubles

According to Badastronomy the universe generates (or is that consumes?) half a trillion dollars of power per cubic light year per hour, not a quarter of a trillion as was thought until yesterday.
Is Google Beatable by Re-inventing Search?

Powerset have a demo out and its interesting, technically proficient and built by a solid team, but winning requires questioning the premise: is better search a problem and is it solved by changing th...
Crossing the Chasm Jumps the Shark

Leigh Himel sensibly questions whether Crossing the Chasm is still relevant Not only are many technology products part of a mature market where design is a premium over features (expensive hifis have...
The habitable zone for life in the universe just became much larger

“To summarize: these things sit on uranium, drink bleach and eat solid rock”. Link...
I bequeath to you all my dung

The Guardian today has a good article on why Origins.net’s latest genealogical database is a particular gem, putting online a particularly rich set of English wills from 1470 to 1856. The wills...

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Drunken air part two

This is a film that Sharon Stiteler took yesterday of our bees buzzing around in my plum trees. I actually started wanting the bees because of the plums, because there were never any bees when they we...
Drunken air

Under the plum trees, covered in blossom before they get leaves (so they look drifts of snow) the air is so thick with the scent of plum blossom that it's like walking through wine.
Brief Trademark Ponders

A few interesting links related to Trademarks (not to be confused with copyright, but people do, and so do I). For example, the Open Rights Group (of which, last time I looked, I was Patron, but I don...
what you can't help doing

Sorry about the font-mess of yesterday's post. I did it using Safari on a PC, and the result was hellish. Obviously these are not two things that work well together when playing with Blogger. And each...
Beware the wrath of an Angry Penguin

I got back from Australia and realised that the Waterstones story cards were meant to have been completed and returned by last Friday. They were sent out on April 14th, but, due to human error, mine d...

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Tall Tales

A number of people have asked about a story I told at the Moth about my early days in the newspaper business. The Moth is a wierd and wonderful club in New York City founded a few years ago by...
War on Drugs, con't

Just to be clear: I'm not advocating that steriods be legalized. In fact, I think that's probably a terrible idea. I'm simply puzzled. The professional sports establishment is in the midst of a major...
The War on Drugs

From the January 14, 2008 Sports Illustrated: Page 36: "Then, on a late touchdown run against Arkansas on Nov. 23 [LSU quarterback Matt Flynn] separated his throwing shoulder. Two painkilling inj...
Free Fernando Vina (part two)

I'm still mystified by certain aspects of Major League Baseball's drug policy. Consider the following: An aging pitcher is suffering from a variety of persistent injuries. They are healing slowly. He...
Free Fernando Vina!

From an Associated Press press article today, on ex-major leaguer player Fernando Vina admitting to using Human Growth Hormone: Slow to recover from knee and hamstring injuries, Vina played only 61 ga...

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Paparazzi 2.0: Coolspotters Launches

A few days ago, my ex-colleagues from ESPN.com launched a new site: Coolspotters. It’s a soon-to-be gigantic database of public figures and the products they use. Want to see what watch Barack O...
The Least Appetizing KFC in the World

Believe it or not, the KFC pictured below (about two blocks from my house) is still open for business. Walking into a KFC is sketchy enough when it looks like an actual restaurant, but I can’t i...
Jason Kottke: Master of the Set Up

I've only met Jason Kottke once. A few years ago at SXSW, I said hi, we chatted for a few seconds, and that was that. Although I'm occasionally in his sidebar and he links to Mike Industries every so...
Video of the Eating of a 50 Year Old Pine Bros Cough Drop

Several months ago, I wrote a post longing for the unending tastiness that is the now discontinued Pine Bros cough drop. Then, my girlfriend found me an auction on eBay for a box of them (that I proc...
The Mojo Channel is Super Nice

If you live in the U.S. and have high-definition cable service, there’s a good chance you have a channel way up in the nosebleed section of your dial called “Mojo”. If you haven̵...

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Paste to Win! (A Twitter Contest)

If you haven't been following my Twitter account, you're missing all the fun! In between going aggro on teakettles, taking an unseemly joy in crude wordplay, and in general trying to channel my incess...
"Where did this boat come from?"

Peggy Whitson is a 48-year-old biochemist who fell from space and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The eight people who greeted her didn't quite understand that they had encountered a spaceship go...
People and Ideas

These are the things I saw yesterday that I thought were interesting, entertaining, and inspiring. First, Erika Hall, Copy as Interface. (See more on the Mule blog.) | View | Upload your own Mena Trot...
Not Rude, Familiar

While New Yorkers don't mind correcting you, they also want to help you. In the subway or on the sidewalk, when someone asks a passerby for directions, other people, overhearing, may hover nearby, dis...
I work at the new Six Apart (in New York!)

Five years ago, I said I work for Six Apart. At the time, that sort of thing was a big deal, not because of me, but because so few of us who loved blogging could get a job doing what we loved. Since t...

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kaizen and fight or flight

Via [43Folders](http://www.43folders.com/2008/05/07/43f-links-may-7th) *(Merlin, glad to see you back stringing together more than [140 characters](http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies) at a time!)*, this...
rauschenberg on erased de kooning drawing

I went looking for a bit of Rauschenberg on YouTube this morning, and came across this quick [four and a half minute piece](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCWh3IFtDQ) on one of my favorites of his, t...
everything you hear is a decision

Andrew Bird has a great post in the Times today about the [process of recording music](http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/cheap-thrills/). It's a great look into the thousands of li...
next up, our own executive chef

Join Six Apart and you too can get your hair cut by co-founder Mena Trott.
i miss my keyboard shortcuts

There's very little motivation for Microsoft to do this, but oh how much would I love to have all the keyboard shortcuts for menu and dialog navigation be available in Excel 2008 for the Mac that were...

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Oh, look, another web app

You’ll agree that, of all the Twitter-related apps springing forth every couple hours, few have much real use. Summize seems to be doing a pretty good job offering real-time search of a mountain of...
Gaggia

A short poem by Dean Allen Water, electricityIn such close proximity Soon minerals will make herAn ex-espresso maker...
No symbolism whatsoever

Cherries? Foliage? Cherries under foliage? Nah, I got nothin’.
A chicken in every pot belly

Where we live you’d be hard pressed to find anyone under 70 (and even then, at any time other than Sunday morning before family lunch) making poule au pot, but nonetheless it is I think one of the v...
Screenwipe

During that rather gruesome thing I went through last year there was a lot of content piped through the Mac Mini to the fickle and aging television. The percentage of garbage was high, but in every du...

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Looking for the Mouse in Media: Clay Shirky on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus for Public Good

"The imagery is geological: the release of trapped deposits. He thinks we can reverse the time sink for people once marooned on the receiving end of a one-way system that didn’t care what you t...
The Presses Stop But the Press Goes On: Capital Times Lives on the Web

The Cap Times was re-born to Madison on Saturday. Ambivalence was felt about the lost authority of print-on-paper news. Generational blues were sung, a flying leap taken. Now a progressive newspape...
"Where's the Business Model for News, People?"

It’s remarkable to me how many accomplished producers of those goods the future production of which is in doubt are still at the stage of asking other people, “How are we going to pay our reporter...
From Off The Bus to Meet the Press

In between there is uncharted territory. Mayhill Fowler's report quoting Barack Obama at a fundraiser ("It's not surprising then they get bitter") was posted at OffTheBus Friday afternoon.
The Love Affair Between McCain and the Press Sprains the Brain of the Liberal Blogosphere

"Though I await further reports, talk of some blogospheric war makes little sense to me. We're in a dynamic situation here. And one of the biggest unknowns is: will Obama match McCain in radica...

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A web show

SkyNews makes a loose and cas’ half-hour show just for the web:...
There’s no controlling the flash

There’s a quaint story in today’s Guardian revealing the futility of government attempts to control speech and assembly. Police in Leeds are hoping to prevent an outbreak of internet-enabl...
A distributed strategy for news

I’ve been talking with folks lately about the need to develop distributed strategies for news, which includes: * Widgets that enable people to embed your news (and links and brand) anywhere. * A...
A mouse roars

Poor Yahoo. It only goes from worse to worse. They might finally get rid of ineffectual Jerry Yang but then they might get Mark Cuban in the boardroom along with Carl Icahn’s slate. Cuban has an...
The plummeting value of newspapers

Now there’s a second huge writedown of the value of a recent newspaper purchase. * Lee and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, from Paid Content: Back in March, newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises (NY...

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TEDAfrica 2008 plans suspended

From Chris Anderson, Curator of TED, and Emeka Okafor, TEDAfrica director: Regretfully, we're having to suspend plans for our TEDAfrica event scheduled for the end of September 2008 in Cape Town, Sout...
Stephen Hawking meets Nelson Mandela for AIMS

Above: Professor Stephen Hawking met South Africa's former president, Nelson Mandela, in Houghton, Johannesburg, today. From left to right are Stephen Hawking, Neil Turok, Nelson Mandela, Pik Botha an...
What's wrong with what we eat: Mark Bittman on TED.com

In this fiery and funny talk from the 2007 EG (Entertainment Gathering) conference, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few pl...
The bad news about the news: Alisa Miller on TED.com

Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US news media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.
The amazing intelligence of crows: Joshua Klein on TED.com

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machin...

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Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part Two)

A discussion of continuity in film -- "Casablanca," "That Obscure Object of Desire" -- and in life.
Play It Again, Sam (Re-enactments, Part One)

An in-depth look at the controversial use of re-enactments in documentaries -- like the well-known "milk shake toss" from "The Thin Blue Line." Are they directorial fraud or a tool for cinematic truth...
Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie Chart

How readers fared solving the "Which Came First?" mystery.
Cartesian Blogging, Part One

Replies to reader mail -- and then some.
Which Came First? (Part Three): Can George, Lionel and Marmaduke Help Us Order the Fenton Photographs?

The mystery of the Crimean War cannonballs, solved at last.

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