WANT
in Wired shares a rich geek's personal library

Book worms?
in Mill Creek librarian keeps word, eats worms

Fascinating talk on the psychology of evil behavior by Zimbardo. His Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) created a Abu Ghraib-like environment in just a few days, using Stanford university students in a mock jail setting.
in Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes

interesting concept.
in The World, Justified

I always suspected you were a cat.
in Why it's hard to work at home.

This looks cool. I can't wait to get an iphone!
in Flickr Find: iPhone sketches

I don't like the new design
in Facebook confidently faces design change backlash

Don't cut funding for Hawaii's libraries!
in Hawaii libraries may have to cut back again

Be careful!
in Synthetic Turf Hazards

Go Congress!
in Despite an economy in shambles, a military stretched to the breaking point in two wars and seven years of civil liberties abuses that we still do not know the full scope of; Congress has decided that it simply cannot wait another day without passing H. Res. 1255 — a resolution honoring Toby Keith’s commitment to members of the Armed Forces.

This looks cool! gonna take the demo for a spin
in Kenaxis 3 Releases with New Features for Laptop Musicians

Melendez also did Snoopy's voice. RIP.
in Peanuts' animator Melendez dies

interesting slideshow of images of the twin towers which still adorn many nyc graphics
in Twin Towers, All Around Us

I keep waiting for adobe to implement this in their software, that crazy nested generative stuff
in Painting with LEGO?

interesting read
in Ambient Awareness: on being ‘digitally’ close

oh the humanity
in glamorous natalie hungry to have no strings sex - w4m

wow. I'm glad the Grafton PD is tackling the most dangerous criminals and not at all abusing their power and their community's funds.
in Wisconsin: Tough On Crime

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

* Edward R. Tufte

in Typophile

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
in BEER

Lord—Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.

* Note slipped into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Thursday 24 July 2008 [13].

in Obama '08

Thanks for the hot buttered soul, Mr. Hayes.
in Isaac Hayes Passes Away at 65

Athanasius is the Man!
in Musurgia Universalis by Athanasius Kircher, a key work of musicology

good for them!
in Olympic stars sign protest as US activists seized

not a good week for our animal friends.
in Man Had Sex With 400 Cows

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out
in Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

oh man...
in Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading

despite the strange choice of stuttered video and cheesy setup, this video shows an interesting UI prototype.
in Aurora (Part 1) on Vimeo

not again!
in Sixth human foot found in Pacific Northwest

actually, that sounds like an advanced ninja technique-several layers of disguise
in Men dressed like ninjas steal drugs from North Andover pharmacy 'with military precision'

sad, sick world
in "Brangelina" babies finally unveiled on Web

Footnote is a great site!
in Footnote.com: Historical documents and the people who love them

Land of the free, home of the brave, indeed.
in American federal agents can now take your laptop, iPods without reason

oh brother
in HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

th.anks f.or re.mov.ing do.ts
in Delicious Gets New Look, Loses Dots

That's one handsome cuy!
in Guinea pig festival in Peru

ok...
in Ballooning priest's body found in ocean off Brazil

yikes
in Body of Briton found in suitcase in Brazil

dammit, Todd, brush up on your Eliot!
in Main Branch of Pittsburgh Carnegie Library Tagged by Vandals

thanks for the update!
in Best twitter status ever

"Turning the Pages" is an amazing way to browse through some of the world's rarest and most beautiful books.
in Turn the Pages of Rare Books...with Technology

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7
in Open Thread

* "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." ~ Potter Stewart

in Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing

picture...disturbing
in Methylene Blue: Miracle Alzheimer's drug?

mmm...menus...
in Libraries: delicious!

another test
in Richard Dawkins Foundation

I dunno how the policeman's going to get out of that one. Sickening to watch, but at least police brutality is harder to hide now.
in Critical Mass bicyclist knocked over by NYPD

and the card attached would say "Thank you for being a friend"
in And Now Your Friday Downer: No 'Golden Girls' Made It To Estelle Getty's Funeral [Thank You For Nothing]

that's a good one.
in President's Radio Address to the Nation - July 26, 2008

Abelard and Heloise in their teens
in PBS falls on hard times

what about .914?http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/04/drunk-bulgarian-050104.html
in RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level

you are the first...
in Baby's First Internet

This looks cool!
in Belkin GoStudio Recorder review

This is a good start, but needs to be taken further.
in Looking at Libraries

You can find the whole series here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UcIQb5wK6eQ
in Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief - Part I

This is an honor for Bush, but I fear it will tarnish the reputation of the sewage plant.
in An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace

ok, put your pants back on! we'll close gitmo. :)
in Law Blog - WSJ.com : Covington Partner Demonstrates Treatment of Detainees

Turn that up!
in As Slow As Possible

somehow I doubt that the law will have much of a deterrent effect.
in Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies

what's a dollar?
in Spying on the World's Largest Power Utility

It's Let's Paint TV! http://letspainttv.blogspot.com/2006/12/behind-scenes-at-lets-paint-tv-be.html
in The Treadmill Desk: Exercise for the Sake of Hacking

boy I need to read this!
in Weeding out clutter and emotional and physical baggage

Mr. Man said it best "Simply because it's coming straight out of Brooklyn
It sounds so out of sight I got the blind people lookin
It's Mr. Man the act, boy what? You get stolen
I'll cut your ass in half and leave you with a semicolon"

in Has modern life killed the semicolon? - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine

1972 Can - Ege Bamyasi
1973 Can - Tago Mago
1974 David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
1975 Can - Landed
1976 Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1977 David Bowie - Low
1978 Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
1979 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1980 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
1981 Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
1982 The Clash - Combat Rock
1983 Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
1984 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
1985 Run D.M.C. - King of Rock
1986 The Cure - Standing on a Beach
1987 The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
1988 Joy Division - Substance
1989 De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
1990 The Go-Betweens - 1978 to 1990
1991 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
1992 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
1993 A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
1994 Portishead - Dummy
1995 Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
1996 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
1997 V.A. - Deep Concentration Vol. 1
1998 Air - Moon Safari
1999 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
2000 Outkast - Stankonia
2001 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002 2 Many DJ's: As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
2003 King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
2004 Franz Ferdinand
2005 Edan - Beauty and the Beat
2006 CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
2007 Flight of the Conchords - First Season songs
in Geeky list time: Pick an album for every year you've been alive | The A.V. Club

ah, so that's where they go!
in YouTomb: Videos removed from YouTube for copyright issues

Numbers stations are great. Check out the 4 cd set from irdial.
in Attack of the numbers radio

very cool!
in Grafittimation. Amazing.

the best definition of happiness I've found was the one I saw on a sign outside of a Honolulu car repair shop: "Happiness is a choice, not a reaction."
in Gross Happiness Index

http://flickr.com/photos/pantufla/8856421/in/photostream/
in Memory Maps

chin up. 201 days to go...
in The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency

eres borinquen de verdad.
in The Evolution of Fear

I should mention that some of the images are not so yummy :)
in The Wellcome Library

Dog is dead.
in I Can't Believe It's Not Kant!

err, what about stealing from the living?
in Economic Slump Leads to Resurgence of Grave Robbing

today must be "dirty monday" on the bd :)
in "Can You Hear Me Now?" "No, but I just shoved a cell phone up my ass!"

hakuna matata?
in Myth of 'Vagina Dentata' Becomes Horror Film

Beautiful drawing
in Mr. Fooster – Travelling on a Whim celebrates its launch at Art of Navigation in San Francisco!

I'm hoping that this diagram is not to scale.
in Rent-a-Dildo.com - How It Works

Yeah, what are the morticians going to do?
in Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it

still no cure for cancer
in Artificial brain predicts death-row executions

why not? this race is perhaps the most-covered, most significant ad campaign in the world.
in Barack Obama and his iPod: Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen

yeah, that's because I don't think that's an idea worth spreading!
in TED: Ideas worth spreading

awesome! Friday, September 19, 2003
ok me is good man

// posted by charles @ 3:25 PM
ok me is good man
you can e-mail at charlestwo@alaska.net

// posted by charles @ 3:23 PM
ok me is good man i live in anchorage alaska .me is 8yrs. old

// posted by charles @ 3:16 PM
in When blogging goes nowhere

didn't know he was still alive.
in Germany seeks extradition of Nazi guard from US - NYTimes.com

Hi hergart, it looks like this will be a memorial page for Jack: http://www.myspace.com/fspace
in Jack Marquette: 1948-2008

Nice! I could see a high school adaptation of the Odyssey-"Fast Times at Ithaca High"?
in Odysseus' Bloody Homecoming Dated to 1178 B.C.

try this link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo
in Libraries

jeez, when is someone going to get this right? This looks pretty cool though.
in Dual-Screen Ebook Developed, Navigates in Real Page-Turn Style [Ebooks]

hilarious.
in The Website Is Down

sorry, Art Torrents lists many torrents that are on an invite-only site. For other arty torrents, check out Freaky Flicks (http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com/)
in Isidore Isou (Jean Isidore Goldstein) - Treatise on Slobber and Eternity (1951)

Yowza!
in Back To Jerusalem

That's why I pay cash.
in Trust in Multi-Billion $$$$$$$ "Trust" Companies?? What a Sick Joke!!!

Anyway, the usual New Yorker caption contest entries are lame. Hopefully some better comedy writers will find this site.
in The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest

I guess this offers some people a sense of control over the unpredictability of life, but why not spend that time building some levees?
in Midwest Worshippers Hear Good News: River Cresting

wow, interesting.
in Circumcision--Cutting the competition

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pantufla/sets/220847/
in Vegan Competitive Eating

http://www.users.qwest.net/~broger1/pluckme.jpg
in Garkov: Garfield + Markov chains

I can't pick a favorite: "Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman", "Chicken without sexual life", or "Husband and wife's lung slice". Astounding.
in China renames menu items for Olympics

I like to think of the massage parlor, bald tire, and marriage counselor visit all happening to the same guy. Let's just say that bad credit isn't his only problem.
in Your Lifestyle May Hurt Your Credit

hmm, kind of interesting, but not going to take any photo restorer's job away.
in AKVIS Retoucher 3.0 (Default branch)

Nice work. Modernist architecture is perfect for Lego
in LEGO replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye

jeez
in Guy kidnaps ex-girlfriend to get ironing done

wow!
in Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes

Cool
in Smithsonian copyright-free images on Flickr

I will not rest till they are eradicated.
in No Stinkhorns

http://del.icio.us/pantufla
in Del.icio.us

This is my page: http://www.last.fm/user/donkeykonguk/
in Last.fm

I'm at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pantufla
in Flickr

and then an exclamation point
in Mark Simonson notes that the period typography in the Indiana Jones...

That guitar looks cool. How is it different from using a sustain pedal?
in Amazing new guitar from Moog

Yeah, it's a new meme. It's from the film "Downfall". Even Hitler's not happy about it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C7dkK6r2mHU
in Hillary's Downfall

glad you like it Jessica
in "The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous"

Pointless
in You Know What You Can Do With That Tongue? Make Some Art With It!

hmmmm
in "A Lesbian Wedding"

Cool!
in Gorgeous Art Deco fan