2008 Aug 18, 11:29"A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why
did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money."
podcast audio economics npr radio mortgage 2008 Aug 14, 9:25"When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the
normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow
White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and
notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber."
comic read download free via:boingboing fiction 2008 Aug 11, 3:58Fellow kindly fixes spelling error on trailer mounted electronic roadway message signs. Pulls up, connects keyboard, reads password off the side of the enclosure, etc. "Not far from my house is one
of those temporary trailer-mounted variable message signs, which for the past several weeks has been advising motorists that ..." I always wondered what it would take on those signs. And if all the
passwords are four characters long...
security hack howto sign humor 2008 Aug 10, 3:33
Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog is an Internet only show you may have already watched and heard everything about. If you missed this
somehow, its a musical by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) staring Neil Patrick Harris as an aspiring super villian who can't get up the courage to talk to his laundromat crush. Its
very funny, fairly geeky, and on the Internet so of course I've enjoyed it thoroughly and have some links to share. It surprised me how many blogs that I don't usually see posting the same things
telling me about it: first on Eric's blog, then The Old New Thing,
and even Penny-Arcade.
Dr. Horrible's again available online via Hulu with commercial interruption.
Check out the official fan site. They link to such things as the owner of Dr. Horrible's house.
He had appeared on Monster House, a reality show about remaking people's homes like Monster Car or Pimp My Ride is about remaking folk's cars, and had his house turned into a evil scientist's lab.
Consequently its a perfect fit for Dr. Horrible and in return the owner appears in one of the final scenes and in the credits as the 'Purple Pimp'. Apparently the purple suit is his. Also on his
blog you can find out what's happened on that big chair that appears in the show. All I'll say about that is, good thing Neil Patrick
Harris wears a lab coat while sitting on it.
At the recent Comic Con some attendees took video of the Dr. Horrible
Comic Con panel (video clips contain spoilers) some of which I've grouped together. Besides the videos containing the creators and stars of the musical who are all hilarious (see Felicia Day's comment on twittering) there's also some excellent bits about a possible second installment and information on the impending DVD. To
finish off this series of Dr. Horrible links check out this Venn Diagram of Felicia Day's work.
dr. horrible doctor horrible humor link roundup 2008 Aug 4, 4:22Satire: "...more than 170 bookmarked sites - personal web pages, blogs, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Flickr and more. Each week Alton surfs the sites for hours to find evidence of
questionable behavior by people in his church. He jots offenses down and incorporates them into his Sunday sermons."
myspace humor religion satire 2008 Jul 30, 1:59Training website to determine what's a bomb. E.g. Catwoman movie poster: "While the movie was bad, and therefore in a way "a bomb", the poster does not pose a threat to anything, not even air
travel."
humor security bomb government satire travel airport 2008 Jul 24, 7:26Fake Facebook page considered libel and gets target big pounds: "Mathew Firsht was awarded 22,000 pounds in damages against an old school friend". Careful what you post...
facebook identity law legal privacy libel 2008 Jul 23, 5:19"Everyone can do an American accent... at least everyone thinks they can. After the BBC's Stephen Robb took a lesson from one of the movie industry's top accent coaches, we asked readers to record
their best US accents."
bbc audio accent language english 2008 Jul 21, 1:12"One proposed test is to add a 'not' to the statement and see if that makes any difference to its plausibility. If it doesn't, that statement is bullshit."
bullshit literature humor 2008 Jul 21, 10:36
Saturday we went to Kirkland Uncorked,
a wine tasting festival near our home. We took the bus and after finding the correct one (they really should have different numbers for buses that are on the same route but traveling in different
directions) made it to the festival. Unfortunately I don't remember any of the names of the wines just which ones I enjoyed by order. Recalling that I enjoyed the first one I had and the second to
last one, doesn't really help me find them again. There were local artists who had setup booths and Sarah got
a lovely necklace. After that we ate at Cactus which, because it was such a lovely day, had all its windows and doors open.
Sunday was quieter. A few household chores and plenty of GTA4. I almost got the One Man Army achievement but I found that after four minutes with six
stars I eventually dropped back down to three stars without realizing it.
wine weekend nontechnical 2008 Jul 18, 1:50On GoogleUnique names for children. "Oh, and I have a GoogleCommon name. I share my name with so many other people that we have our own Kevin Kelly disambiguation website." To avoid race conditions
be sure to use your NIC's ID in the child's name.
name identity google search language kevin-kelly 2008 Jul 14, 2:15"The entourage of the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has an unusual secret weapon. Her security team defends the head of the government with umbrellas. Not ordinary umbrellas, but
unbreakable fighting umbrellas."
humor video weapon security umbrella 2008 Jul 14, 10:27"I'm Dan Kaminsky, and this is my niece Sarah. Sarah has an important message for everybody regarding the Domain Name System."
dan-kaminsky dns video humor security 2008 Jul 11, 1:39Some tracks from Paranoia Agent released by the composer Susumu Hirasawa. That series freaked the hell out of me.
anime music mp3 paranoia-agent susumu-hirasawa 2008 Jul 11, 1:39The ad agency that Microsoft has a new deal with has done all of the interesting or weird ad campaigns I can think of: crazy BK commercials, f'd up Sprite commercials, the KNOW HIV dancing people...
Of course their site is Flash.
ad advertising business 2008 Jul 11, 1:35Furious George comments: "Extensive focus group testing shows that having Seth Rogen present as a relatable everyman enhances positive feelings about the possibility of having sex with Megan Fox, and
hence, using Windows."
ad advertising microsoft 2008 Jul 9, 9:59Lively is apparently a coming soon Google app that's like a web page embeddable version of Second Life.
via:felix42 second-life lively google webservices web2.0 2008 Jul 3, 11:50Another translation error. At least they're upfront about it though.
humor chinese china english language translation error 2008 Jul 3, 10:12"Fast hashing of variable-length text strings", from Source Communications of the ACM archive Volume 33 , Issue 6 (June 1990) Pages: 677 - 680, Year of Publication: 1990, Author Peter K. Pearson,
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
hash programming acm reference 2008 Jun 30, 5:45Erik on writing for games vs books: "Even worse for game writers, the 98% garbage part of a game isn't even usually garbage because instead of reading something boring about the history of Belgium,
the "reader" probably gets to jump a Camaro over a dino
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