2009 Jul 31, 5:57"Is it worth the sensationalism and scaremongering? The endlessly inaccurate and dangerous science reporting? The pointless and news-free lifestyle articles? Do newspapers that prioritise stories
based on celebrities and spectacle rather than importance to the world deserve to exist?"
via:sambrook internet news journalism media 2009 Jul 29, 11:00"Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it."
humor journalism health via:bengoldacre news science 2009 Jul 29, 10:58Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine promotes and discusses the concepts in his book "Free" on the Charlie Rose show.
charlie-rose chris-anderson wired free internet web economics video interview via:bengoldacre 2009 Jul 28, 5:07Suggests that local news must provide the raw facts and only in particular cases do a 'story' on top of that -- not everything needs to be a story.
news via:sambrook journalism 2009 Jul 28, 4:27Timelapse construction of Disneyland.
timelapse disney disneyland history video via:waxy 2009 Jul 27, 11:28Olivia Wilde (I know her from House) who will appear in Tron Legacy gives an interview at Comic-Con that includes "...her experiences working with Jeff Bridges (she had to put her fist in her mouth
to not ask about “The Dude”)."
humor interview house olivia-wilde tron tron-legacy wired jeff-bridges dude video 2009 Jul 27, 5:29"A twice-daily updated collection of some of the best reading on Wikipedia."
wiki wikipedia daily reference blog via:ethan_t_hein 2009 Jul 24, 5:29Contains a few operators I hadn't seen, like '~[word]' for results that contains the synonym of the word, '*' for wildcards within quoted phrases, and 'info:[URL]' for their cache results, links to
and from the page, etc.
via:sambrook google search operators technical 2009 Jul 23, 2:59"hand-typed from original scans by the Virtual AGS project; in the comments, numero mysterioso and hope hope hope"
humor code space programming via:waxy technical 2009 Jul 20, 11:27Various Weezer songs remixed on Game Boys, NES, etc.
music mp3 free remix weezer 8bit via:xblah 2009 Jul 20, 11:21Ahab vs Moby Dick rendered fighting game style.
humor literature moby-dick tshirt shirt purchase shopping videogame via:boingboing 2009 Jul 20, 5:04On robot tattoos.
humor comic via:waxy robot tattoo captcha 2009 Jul 15, 10:48"With a little help from Bill Gates (who secured the rights using personal funds), Microsoft is presenting a series of lectures on physics by Richard Feynman." The videos have subtitles, annotations
and links.
richard-feynman video bill-gates microsoft research physics education via:kottke 2009 Jul 14, 4:28"Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called Firefox? I just – (applause) – I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was
surprised that State doesn’t use this browser." Starts at 26:30 in the video.
firefox government via:boingboing video browser web clinton technical 2009 Jul 7, 6:16I'm a sucker for the WWII propaganda posters.
humor twitter google propaganda poster flickr wwii via:swannman 2009 Jul 6, 3:47Howto make your own garden including pre-made plans like the 'Plant it and Forget it' garden.
via:jen howto diy garden for:hellosarah 2009 Jul 6, 3:02"This music video was shot for Sour's 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP'. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries
around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam."
via:waxy sour music-video music video crowdsource youtube 2009 Jul 1, 6:21"The QR code, used to store and decode small bits of data via printed symbol, received an artistic rendering by SET as part of its campaign for Marc by Marc Jacobs." I like the idea although in this
case its not very subtle or different from a regular QR code IMHO. Also, I was surprised that my phone could still read the QR code in this form.
qr qrcode marketing art internet mobile technical 2009 Jul 1, 2:24Stats on HTTP servers and HTTP server response headers. "Current statistics are based on a sample of 84604 probed servers, gathered in the last 386 days."
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