2008

Aug

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

“A nice, middle-class person, their main ambition in life is...”
— John Cleese

More PhotoSynth goodness. This stuff blows me aways.

Martin Seligman: What positive psychology can help you become If ever there was a talk to change...

Jul

“That little picture window, framed in white with...”
— Jason Santa Maria – Shake it...

Feist on Sesame Street (via BobbyBenson85)

2008 Tour de France - The Big Picture - Boston.com

As for the mystical connection between painters and programmers, the famous Lloyd Bentsen put-down...

Apple vs Microsoft (via nicepaul)

Big Ideas: Don’t get any - ‘Nude’ by Radiohead (via r2builder)

Jun

Malcolm Gladwell - Reinventing Invention (in...

May

Alisa Miller (TED Talks) - Why Americans know less than ever about the world

Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008

Daily Image - Penguin of the Day for May 7, 2008 - British...

Apr

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly From the movie Once, which is beautiful.

Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion

Mar

“Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable...”
— Clark’s Law

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately...”
— Hanlon’s Razor

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable...”
— Clarke’s 3rd law

“There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there...”
— Flon’s law

Obama Speech: A More Perfect Union

Feb

Ironic Sans: Idea: A new typography term

“‘There are no atheists in foxholes’ isn’t an...”
— James Morrow

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole...

Breugel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (via The...

Jan

Scott Ritter on the Iranian Nuclear Program

2007

Dec

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather...”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Daily Coyote: I Wish I Could Make This Face

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we...

Nov

Go Ahead, Rationalize. Monkeys Do It, Too.

Oct

Scenes from “The War Tapes”: Deborah Scranton on TED.com

“For one thing, there isn’t actually any such thing as...”
— Fearing Fear Itself - New York...

“The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported...”
— The Raw Story | General claims...

Garry Kasparov (via YouTube)

Vicious animals, polar bears.

Sep

“You know, you need to talk to economists. I think I got a B...”
— The Shrub yet again (via Think...

“I thought an interesting comment was made — somebody said to...”
— The Shrub (via Think...

“an expert is someone who feels confident working at the edge...”
— miss kate underground

“The true scientist, however passionately he may “believe”,...”
— How dare you call me a...

Nothing Nice to Say - the world’s FIRST online punk...

“[President Bush] thanked his “Austrian” hosts...”
— Dazed Bush forgets what...

Go here to vote (half way down the left column of the...

I personally believe that beauty pageants are like such as not just about looks and are like such as...

Overheard in Australia, Bush tells minister...

Aug

Daily Show: Three Generations of “America to...

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (via siimteller)

My keyboard, naked.

“…from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history,...”
— US Comptroller Slams US...

“Each day someone rides, walks, skates or car pools to work,...”
— My Visit to Trek: Two Guys in...

“Last year [David Rockwell’s] firm was hired to design...”
— At the New JetBlue Terminal,...

Penguins! in Time

“The first [bullshit] detection tool is a question: How do...”
— Scott Berkun on How to detect...

“I first realized the worthlessness of stuff when I lived in...”
— Paul Graham on Stuff

Jul

The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (1961)

I officially hate four wheel drives.

The abandoned ducklings raised in a teacup | the Daily Mail

“Every time you start thinking about taxonomy, go do three...”
— Merlin Mann talking about his...

Tilt SCREAM Pong (via cheewee2000)

More on the Newton/iPhone theme

Alan Russell: Why can't we grow new body...

Hindu Prayer Shouted Down in US Senate

Full size version

“Melbourne City Council last night decided against resuming...”
— Illegal city brothels to...

Soft on Crime - New York Times

Jun

“One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement that...”
— Infoshop News - Exxon Hacks...

Old school, new school. From Engadget.

This light switch was seen in Sun’s offices. The...

A dog meets virtual soccer

Now that’s what I call a paw! From the Herald Sun.

Asylum Seekers: No Work and No Play

The Dunning-Kruger effect

Countries that haven’t adopted the metric system. Good...

Twitter / StephenColbert

How to give yourself the best chance of a...

Jeffrey Sachs, Reith Lectures 2007

Russell's teapot - Wikipedia

Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for...

Johnny Depp being serenaded by tiny pirates. Watch the whole thing…it gets better and better...

Hedgies.com Such a shame there are no hedgehogs in...

The beckoning promise of personal fabrication...

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem...”
— Bertrand Russell

The real Computer Monster (via batman1971)

“…your pains and pleasures are too small a theatre for...”
— Bob Thurman paraphrasing the...

Steve Ballmer’s car.

Steve Jobs’ car

May

Linux Car Crashes At Indy 500

Bill Moyers on the costs of the Iraq war

RE: Hater Comments from the Sarcasm video (via Paperlilies) People are really not very clever,...

VIDEO ABOUT SARCASM (IRONIC/SATIRICAL) (via Paperlilies)

Green electricity

Signed up for green electricity today. Cost is about 30% more than standard for 100% wind. See...

Nokia's 1100 handset: over 200 million...