Posted 3 hours ago
podtatiy: head over to washingtondc.craigslist.org and try to find nathalie over there. click on the title. she's not here.
in glamorous natalie hungry to have no strings sex - w4m
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in glamorous natalie hungry to have no strings sex - w4m
Posted 4 hours ago
"some of my best friends are chinese?!?!?!": "Desde aquí quiero manifestar que tenemos un gran respeto por Oriente y sus gentes, algunos de mis mejores amigos en Toronto son de origen chino..." also, the use of the word "oriente" or "oriental" to gloss over the differences among east asian people is also ignorant and verging on racist.
in Lithuanian basketball players or bull fighters…
Posted 6 hours ago
somehow i missed that brad fitzpatrick went to work for google. i guess he just didn't dig working at 6 apart after they bought livejournal.
in One Year.
Posted 7 hours ago
Also, looking into this i just found: http://www.treadmill-desk.com/2007/06/anders-burvall.html which is an interestingly detailed design and implemenation.
in The Treadmill Desk: Exercise for the Sake of Hacking
Posted 22 hours ago
Lucia_zriese: this post was brought into babbledog from over at craigslist austin. you may want to visit the original post over at the craigslist site and respond there.
in We need your help- Egg donor (San Antonio)
Posted 22 hours ago
this is a bizarre (and hopefully untrue) story. it is true that facebook has a massive audience but is struggling to turn that into anything like a massive amount of money.
in Mormons to buy facebook?
Posted 1 day ago
busted by the Baidu cache would be a more accurate headline. Clearly this is blatant fraud by the Chinese Olympic committee.
in China Olympic Committee Busted by Google Cache?
Posted 1 day ago
i'm confused by this posting because i saw this presentation over a week ago on the internet. was it supposed to be secret?
in MBTA Court Documents from the "Subway Hack"
Posted 1 day ago
this is only going to cause *more* confusion. which bags? with nothing else in them? so where do you put your camera and camera charger and ethernet cable and headphones and paper notebook and pens and keys and business cards and *all* the other crap you carry in your laptop bag now. yet another expected display of incompetence from the TSA. security theater evolves and endures and no one is any safer.
in Starting today, TSA will let you leave your laptop in certain bags when going through airport screening
Posted 1 day ago
to be honest, i'm not a big chocolate fan, either. sorry, pinky!
in InstaCake: Make a single-serving cake in a few minutes
Posted 2 days ago
looks like it's heading south of $4 even in seattle. jim's prediction of $4 nationwide by june, back below $3 by september is looking shockingly prescient right now.
in Gas at $5.00 in the U.S. - betting pool open
Posted 2 days ago
this is so, so sensible. a 21 drinking age with an 18 join-the-army and vote age never made any fricking sense. end it, finally.
in College presidents seek drinking age debate
Posted 2 days ago
jessica: that's just naive. the MBTA has been caught with a crappy system and it will be very expensive to fix. the natural (and cost-effective) reaction is to shoot the messenger and burn the message. problem solved. this is just the legal version of how one accomplishes that. of course, it won't work because the exploits and analysis will leak out (or someone else will redo the same analysis) because the problems are there and will not go away. but for the bureaucrat who staves off that day even for a little while with a bit of legal maneuvering, call it a win.
in MIT student defends MBTA hacking research
Posted 2 days ago
what will they do with their newfound power? i suspect we are one, short-but-powerful step from dominion by the penguins. i, for one, welcome our new flightless avian overlords!
in the latest Norwegian knight... is a penguin.
Posted 3 days ago
the LED technology is supposed to be brighter, more even, use less energy and last longer, right? sounds like a win to me.
in RUMOR: Apple prepping new LED-backlit Cinema Displays
Posted 3 days ago
ok, but aside from that. i mean, come on! everyone has their downsides. :-)
in 300-pound violent boy unwanted on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Posted 3 days ago
i also really disagree with the "attend in person" strategy. it's almost impossible to get tickets to almost anything. the only way to really watch the olympics is to download (or stream from nbc.com) the stuff you want to see.
in Are we losing perspective by only seeing the best?
Posted 9 days ago
i don't love legos. and now i will run and hide from the wrath of chuck.
in Question of the Day: Do You Say "Lego" or "Legos?" [Question Of The Day]
Posted 14 days ago
i'm heading to vancouver, b.c. on sunday. i'll sort this thing out and report back. :-)
in Sixth human foot found in Pacific Northwest
Posted 14 days ago
i love the olympics, but this olympics is a tragedy. china's ridiculous polution problems, crazy restrictions on reporters and athletes, the algae in the ocean all make china fundamentally unsuited to host the olympics. the IOC should *never* have approved china's bid.
in Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Posted 16 days ago
what the hell kind of a rule is that? is this just a scheme to make the interminable baseball games actually come to an end? it'll never work. the essence of baseball is boredom. this ruins everything!
in Olympic Baseball's Wacky New 11th Inning Rule
Posted 20 days ago
smckenzie23: i frequently have to google up your political references. i guess i just don't spend enough time reading about american politics.
in What's the best diaper rash cream if you have reeeeeaaally bad diaper rash?
Posted 21 days ago
i can't believe that the IOC is caving to stupid china internet/reporter censorship after they repeatedly promised to not pull this kind of crap. i am personally in favor of them cancelling the olympics at this point.
in IOC admits internet censorship deal with china
Posted 21 days ago
this is the first really substantive good news about alzheimer's in a long time. it's hard not to get over optimistic, but this looks so, so promising.
in Methylene Blue: Miracle Alzheimer's drug?
Posted 22 days ago
seems like a lot of the web is that way. that's why i love that two of my credit cards (bank of amercia and citibank) both offer one-time use credit card numbers in an automated system. cuts down on the worry.
in (www.cnbbiz.com)supply 2008 sunglasses,prada,gucci,POLICE,LV,D&G
Posted 23 days ago
amanda: joke and all, but heart disease is the biggest killer of american women, so it's not just a man's problem.
in Blogging’s Glass Ceiling - NYTimes.com
Posted 24 days ago
in all seriousness, democracy is hard. dumb people (all of us) vote for candidates based on our prejudices and fears as opposed to their (our) best judgment about who is honest, and who can lead the country. democracy is hard. let's go shopping. :-)
in World writes open letter to McCain
Posted 24 days ago
i've watched hulu before. it's good for people who can't be bothered to just download stuff with bittorrent. the network at panera this morning isn't good enough for me to catch up on my "smarter than a 5th grader", though. :-)
in Kiss a couple of hours good bye...
Posted 24 days ago
digg can't catch a break. the story implies that there was either (1) a serious technology/IP problem or (2) a serious cultural mismatch in the team. (2) doesn't seem unlikely since google are hardcore geeks and digg founders are technically savvy but more much media-oriented than technology-oriented. i don't know what (1) would be.
in Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”
Posted 24 days ago
it's only slightly beyond the language that was actually on dawson's creek. and i *loved* dawson's creek. y'all will hate me but i wish this show were real. i would watch it.
in PBS falls on hard times
Posted 24 days ago
seems like a natural outcome of the critical mass ethos which highlights the existing conflicts between bikes and cars in most cities. i'm not sure what a better method might be. cities seem unwilling to promote safe biking commute infrastructure and motorists are angry and entitled and dangerous. CM is still needed, therefore.
in Critical Mass Mess
Posted 25 days ago
iphones are great. they're going to be even better when they get tactile response technology (sometimes called 'buttons'). :-)
in Babbledog t-shirt spotted at Apple Store opening!
Posted 34 days ago
the watchmen truly is one of the great graphic novels of all time. and the movie *looks* at first glance to capture a lot of what is great about the look and feel and vision of the novel. what worries me more is the deeper texture of the story--the concern about vigilante/freedom/fascism/safety issues and the way that we all struggle with tradeoffs among them. our political climate is ripe for such a story, but movies are bad at making textured, difficult characters and stories.
in Here is the ‘WATCHMAN’ TRAILER! - GeekTyrant
Posted 34 days ago
i thought profit was step 3. this really needs to be streamlined.
in Step one: torture foreigners. Step two: torture your own citizens, but only the criminals. Step three: widen the definition of 'criminal' to include "hostile intentions" toward the state.
Posted 37 days ago
terrible UI but very nice machine animations if you can find them.
in Kinematic Models for Design (Geometry of Pure Motion)
Posted 37 days ago
I read that this list was leaked. Does anyone have a reference to the FDIC problem list of likely-to-fail banks?
in Back in business: IndyMac reopens Monday - CNN.com
Posted 37 days ago
arkansan: what don't they get? that this goes too far for satire? that this will be damaging to obama because americans actually think obama is a terrorist or a muslim or something?
in Obama slams Muslim portrayal - Mike Allen - Politico.com
Posted 37 days ago
"war of northern agression" my ass.
in i don't expect anyone but me to get this, but it's brilliant.
Posted 37 days ago
colby: price will probably go *down* given the exchange rate. :-)
in Anheuser-Busch no longer American owned. What are we gonna sell next? Freedom?
Posted 37 days ago
i guess i'm just not a radiohead fan. this song is seriously boring and that overwhelms the value of a gimmicky music video + gimmicky online release.
in Google -- Yes, Google -- Premiers Radiohead's 'House of Cards'
Posted 41 days ago
i cannot, for the life of me, figure out why people watch golf on TV. at least when you play it you get to walk around and be frustrated. when you watch it on tv, you're just frustrated at home on the couch. (insert joke about teenagers dating here)
in Woods will become world's first billionaire athlete by 2010
Posted 42 days ago
i guess i don't understand why it's a problem.
in Hairy hybrid: Half grizzly, half polar bear
Posted 42 days ago
i thought this was going to be left-wing anti-mccain kookiness. instead i get a well-reasoned, sensible, intelligible legal argument why mccain just was not a natural born citizen and cannot be president legally. they even acknowledge that due to politics that an inelibible candidate might become president anyway, but that does not change the law. it's interesting to see the contradiction with lawrence tribe's opinion.
in Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship
Posted 42 days ago
i was hoping to download this now that i missed it, but i can't find a good torrent. anyone?
in Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns
Posted 42 days ago
i must just be ignorant. i don't understand how any of this invalidates the 'no ex-post-facto law' part of the constitution.
in Senate Joins House in Caving to White House Immunity Demands
Posted 45 days ago
oh, interesting. i did think that that was turned off a long time ago. it was a weird business model for sprint. i wonder how this dovetails with sprint's odd dalliance with 802.16 (wimax)
in Sprint Broadband Direct Goes Offline July 31 - Service you thought died long ago finally does...
Posted 45 days ago
i have to admit that i am baffled by the whole "speculation driving prices" meme. it's incoherent on its face. speculators take contracts that have risk based on price moves. if they are right they make money. if they are wrong, they lose money. the provide valuable indicators of risk in the market. russ nelson did an excellent write-up of this issue years ago.
in Let's Tell the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Where to Go
Posted 48 days ago
I have been running gentoox with mythtv on my xbox for a few years. i'm interested to see what i might do with this distro. the main issue is: i'd love to see this work on my xbox. probably not going to happen. :-(
in See what LinuxMCE can do for you.
Posted 49 days ago
jessica: no. they sent out reports about it but they have not arrived yet. :-)
in Real Snail Mail
Posted 49 days ago
or just for some?
in "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." YouTube error
Posted 49 days ago
chuck: doesn't nvidia have closed source drivers? ati has been a bit crap but amd bought them and they recently announced a completely open source driver (no binary firmware anything) that they contracted suse (novell) to write for them. that's not available yet, but it is v. interesting.
in I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog)
Posted 51 days ago
jessica: why does that make a difference? why did the guy have to go outside at all?
in Want to get away with shooting 2 people because you think they are doing something wrong?? Move to Texas!
Posted 51 days ago
this is actually interesting. for those who don't read french: teleatlas and google entered into a 5 year deal that gives google the right to use the teleatlas geographic information, but licenses *back* to teleatlas the geographic modifications that googles users produce. google has been rapidly rolling out the ability of people to 'mark-up' maps with information about points of interest and with personal photos taken at various sites. now all of this will be licensed back to teleatlas. wikimaps are clearly the future. this centralized stuff is not tenable.
in Accord strat gique entre Google et TeleAtlas (TomTom)
Posted 51 days ago
no soy borinquen, pero fui criado en puerto rico (de familia norteamericana y argentina)
in The Evolution of Fear
Posted 51 days ago
the clinton camp have been ranting about conspiracies this whole primary season. it's so annoying.
in Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers - New York Times
Posted 51 days ago
what a bizarre and intriguing idea. now i want to see the documentary. baseball never really caught on outside of the US, japan and parts of the caribbean. it's interesting to think about why that is and whether baseball makes any sense at all in israel.
in Holy Land Hardball
Posted 52 days ago
tornado lover: you still alive?
in When Tornadoes Attack: What a Tornado Taught Me About Our Stupid Obsession With Gadgets (And Why We Still Love Them)
Posted 52 days ago
They went through 50 prototypes. This has got to be good.
in The Brown Corporation
Posted 52 days ago
gothicnation79: what?!?! if you think that there really are women with teeth in their vaginas you may need to do a little bit more biology and anatomy reading. either that, or i'd like to see a reference cited to support your claim that this is real.
in Myth of 'Vagina Dentata' Becomes Horror Film
Posted 52 days ago
i've never seen this before. at first glance it's beautiful and compelling.
in Mr. Fooster – Travelling on a Whim celebrates its launch at Art of Navigation in San Francisco!
Posted 52 days ago
quebec's system is very different from the rest of canada's, chuck. overall, the canadian system works very well and *much* better than the US system. the quebequois system did, indeed, have a prohibition against all private health insurance that was struck down by the canadian supreme court last year. since then it has been getting better, too.
in Second Thoughts About Socialism
Posted 53 days ago
things are going to be so great when we have no idea what valid domain names are. reminds me of the clownpenis.fart skit on saturday night live.
in New Rules Could Mean Hundreds of New Domains
Posted 54 days ago
The evidence of the failures of the justice system seem to be adding up. When the republican governor of illinois pardoned all death row prisoners you know that the system itself is indefensible.
in Artificial brain predicts death-row executions
Posted 55 days ago
yeah. dirty sanchez. that's what we all come to babbledog for.
in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Orgy : Sexual hypocrisy and the Internet.
Posted 55 days ago
i think this is a terrible idea. it's going to make the internet dramatically more difficult to use for most users and increasee the power of google, as users give up completely on trying to remember domain names other than a select few.
in Internet overhaul wins approval
Posted 55 days ago
this story about civet coffee makes the rounds every year or so. i'm not sure why it's such a compelling idea, but clearly it is.
in Weasel Coffee
Posted 55 days ago
you're not a kindle or sony reader fan?
in Dual-Screen Ebook Developed, Navigates in Real Page-Turn Style [Ebooks]
Posted 57 days ago
Laura Esquivel wrote a truly mediocre book a while ago called La ley del amor that included a CD of opera music. It wasn't just that the book was kind of bad. it was that the music was weirdly disconnected and irrelevant to the story. Also the music was opera, a genre of which I am not fond.
in Neal Stephenson's new book, Anathem, will come with a CD of music.
Posted 57 days ago
intersting. i wonder why this "bump" from winning the primaries has taken so long to show up in the polling.
in Who Do You Believe: CW Or The Polls? Obama By 12 in The LA Times Poll
Posted 57 days ago
We've been waiting for this to happen for some time. It's painfully obvious that the only reason for google to do the analytics product is that they wanted the http logs of all those sites. And this is probably only the first product that they're going to build with them.
in Google Sells Your Analytics Data (finally)
Posted 57 days ago
heh. what is the connection between the segway and medical marijuana? i don't think i'd like to ride a segway stoned.
in NY Assembly Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
Posted 57 days ago
totally worth watching. the cop one is the funnier of the two: "people are inherently stupid."
in Don't Talk To The Police
Posted 58 days ago
chuck: anytime someone says that i'm thinking something through too hard, my reaction is usually that they're not thinking about it hard enough. :-) this is about art. and what's the basis for the art? a tag cloud. and what is a tag cloud? a really, really bad user interface design practice that is confusing and hard to use. the art is *designed* to evoke reactions based on the idea of tag clouds. so it is totally appropriate for amand and me to talk about our reactions to tag clouds.
in Cryptonomicon via tag cloud
Posted 58 days ago
mabrown: the article fails to deliver. in the end they decide that the idea isn't that feasible at all.
in Victoria's Circuit: Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion
Posted 59 days ago
did this guy go through with it? i read about this a while ago and never saw the end of the story.
in Markets in everything: lives for sale
Posted 59 days ago
It's not that god was mad so he sent floods. It's that he is merciful so he sent volunteers and made the floods end. Clearly.
in Midwest Worshippers Hear Good News: River Cresting
Posted 60 days ago
this is actually a nice writeup of citizenship laws in the context of another stupid internet rumor. the meta question is: 'are human beings just too stupid to use the internet?' since we seem to just believe any crap we read on it, it's possible that the memes have won. they have created a meme propagation facility without precedent and the truth doesn't matter any more. cable news is a joke compared to the internet's ability to spread lies.
in Native Son
Posted 61 days ago
questions: 1) why would anyone buy any telco in this day and age?; 2) why would they do it in a *leveraged* transaction? 3) *especially* why would a teachers' pension fund buy a telco in a leveraged transaction; 4) in Canadia? that is all. :-)
in Canadian court lets pension fund buy Bell Canada
Posted 61 days ago
what qualifies this as "odd news"? this probably happens 5000x per day across the US.
in Ex-cook pleads guilty to putting hair in steak (AP)
Posted 61 days ago
Interesting history of the andre the giant and obey giant art phenomena of the 90s. And it's also a really well done documentation of what looks like an obvious case of plagerism.
in Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Posted 61 days ago
yeah, i'm not sure. in particular, the thing that people *really* use flash for is streaming video (youtube, et. al.). i don't see how srpoutcore does that. http://vaughanknight.com/blog/2008/06/sproutcore-vs-silverlight-vs-f.html even says "Sproutcore might have some shiny features out of the box, but true open standards are already being offered in many forms, including Google's GWT. How one would do video streaming via Javascript starts to hurt my brain."
in Apple looks to SproutCore to kill Flash
Posted 62 days ago
What do babbledoggers say? Do y'all care if we drop support for IE6?
in Movement in the death of old browsers and IE 6
Posted 62 days ago
is this the third sign of the coming apocalypse?
in Cubs, White Sox putting Chicago on top
Posted 62 days ago
I just finished listening to the audiobook of Oscar Wao. It was, quite possibly, the best book i've ever read. It has a particular and hilarious mix of "modern decent literature", latino magical realism, sci fi themes, historial fiction, and modern urban experience. I hear that even non-spanish speakers have loved it, in spite of how much spanish is in the book. Also notable: i believe this book will be the definitve historical novel on the subject of trujillo, the infamous dictator of the dominican republic. and on that subject, the novel is devastating.
in Authors@Google: Junot Díaz
Posted 62 days ago
arkansan: that may be where we diverge. i thought that one was funny, too :-). but i have family from the southern midwest and south ('bama, arkansas, the state of misery, KY) so i guess i would find it funny. they're probably all cousins. :-)
in 6th foot found on B.C. south coast
Posted 62 days ago
the answer of the article: "it depends". shocking. i should really go into the personal financial advice business. i think i could do a really nice job.
in Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Before You Retire?
Posted 62 days ago
I love the related link: "should you pay off your mortgage before you retire." mostly babbledog has really good related links, but sometimes they are hilariously bad. was it the "off" (as in the foot was cut off, the mortgage was paid off ?) i supposed we'll never know.
in The Canadian Severed Foot Mystery
Posted 62 days ago
that's a funny typo. :-)
in Mother pleads not guilty in cyber-bullying suicide test case
Posted 63 days ago
I found absolutely nothing new in this piece.
in A little bit of Google's secret sauce
Posted 63 days ago
Nice to see a picture of what the cars actually look like. It's funny they're using a prius in this case.
in Google Street View Car Stopped By Police
Posted 63 days ago
neat idea, Ren.
in Carnegie Mellon system estimates geographic location of photos
Posted 63 days ago
ac: problem with what? i don't have a problem at all. i was just curious. i know almost nothing about archicad and am surprised to constantly see so many people finding this post.
in ArchiCAD 12 - Sneak Preview
Posted 63 days ago
i predict this will be a very short-lived cause. What more is there to say? stinkhorns are scary, stinky things.
in No Stinkhorns
Posted 63 days ago
this has a very chuck norris feel about it. i'm looking forward to what else people can do with it.
in Rumors the Obama campaign shouldn't try to correct.
Posted 63 days ago
I don't really know why i think it is awesome. I just do. Sulu is gay and getting married. I feel really good about the way that things are going in this respect in the US. I will admit now that I *totally* underestimated the importance of legalizing gay marriage. I thought it was kind of dumb and I was totally wrong.
in Sulu to Marry His Boyfriend
Posted 63 days ago
Ummm. Ummm. OK. You have now reached the end of the Internet. There's nothing more to see here.
in Little Girl Defines YouTube
Posted 63 days ago
this is fascinating. computer security people all deride security through obscurity, but they frequently ignore the fact that it works really, really well. it cannot save you against a concerted attacker, but it can prevent a concerted attacker from focusing on you in the first place.
in Security through obscurity
Posted 64 days ago
i'm starting to think this makes sense, given some of the other names that have been floated.
in Why Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as veep
Posted 64 days ago
race is more textured and more complicated on a global basis than one might expect.
in S Africa Chinese want black rights
Posted 64 days ago
13 things i learned about reading american sports coverage: it's jingoistic. From the lead: "Europeans are weenies. The play of Gasol, Vujacic and Rachmoninov was softer than John Tomase's muffin tops. Collectively they played like the kind of worthless, slimy Eurotrash that only gets aggressive with drunken American tourist chicks. They showed all the willingness to help out defensively that their countries showed in Bosnia."
in 13 Things I Learned From the Celtics Championship
Posted 64 days ago
chuck: you should take the badass recommendations system from babbledog and bolt it onto reddit.
in Reddit releases source code?
Posted 64 days ago
I *hate* it when people get 1970s art deco confused with 1930s art deco. It's just such a classless mistake to make.
in Mark Simonson notes that the period typography in the Indiana Jones...
Posted 64 days ago
Only unedited mail headers will suffice. This is clearly just another instance of the Obama campaign exagerating his credentials. Now we're supposed to believe that he is some kind of a computer genius, too? Sending email by himself without help in the middle of the night. Come on! It's just not credible.
in Barack Obama Can Use a Computer
Posted 64 days ago
Gore is just the guy to say "elections matter". :-)
in In Endorsing Obama, Gore Says, "Elections Matter"
Posted 64 days ago
Quoting wikipedia: "In October 2002, Hagel voted in favor of authorizing the use of military force against Iraq."
in And Obama's veep is ... a Republican?
Posted 65 days ago
nice. classy. seriously, though, it will be interesting to see if the obama camp has the kind of manipulative, devious, backstabbingness that seems to be required for modern politics. the clintons certainly do.
in Obama hires Patti Solis Doyle
Posted 65 days ago
and the complaint is that he should have wanted to be ordinary? i don't even understand what some of the complaints about politicians are these days.
in The Trains, The Trains
Posted 65 days ago
zimbabwe is a catastrophe in progress and it's getting insufficient coverage in the US-based media.
in Manipulation of Poll Result Under Way
Posted 65 days ago
obama as a feminist. nice spin. not clear that he's not.
in Obama as the feminist son.
Posted 65 days ago
In this election, "different" == "black" and is code to bring out the racism in white people. the flag lapel thingy, the focus on his middle name, the reverend wright stuff was all about that. unlike previous politicians in a similar situation (jess jackson, e.g.), obama has been extremely successful at convincing white voters that he is not completely different from them.
in Mitchell Bard: The Media Is Already Demonizing Obama as Being Different
Posted 65 days ago
"i am not in favor of privatizing social security but i would like younger workers to be able to put a few of their tax dollars into an account with their name on it." heh. a private account? :-)i do worry that we will never find a way to get out of this retirement/pension mess. it's clear that the benefits are not sustainable given current population trends (people living longer, the size of the baby boom generation compared to the younger generations after them). so without a significant reduction in benefits or increase in taxes, it just ain't gonna happen.
in John McCain ...
Posted 66 days ago
david, i could almost agree with that. but i'm just not a fan of manufactured holidays, i guess.
in What's the best thing to do for Dad on Father's Day?
Posted 66 days ago
that video is wonderful.
in Why isn't the media reporting the fact that John McCain called his wife the c-word?
Posted 66 days ago
sam brownback is appearing lots of places recently. i heard him talking about his appology to native peoples bill recently. and now this. i see more coverage of brownback now than when he was running for president. any theories about what could be going on here?
in Brownback: We Depend on Dads
Posted 67 days ago
even swimming is getting easier for muslim women. the new style is head-to-ankle body covering and long sleeves because the new synthetics have lower resistance then skin. women obviously wear swim caps, so i think except for the most extreme societies (those that require full face covering), this should work.
in Saudi women vie for Olympic rights
Posted 68 days ago
i'm sharing this story with the 'internet memes' cause. support the internet meme cause!.
in Things that are younger than John McCain
Posted 68 days ago
$500 ethernet cable? why are audiophiles so stupid.
in The World's most expensive Ethernet cable?
Posted 69 days ago
i'm pretty cranky about the way that people have cross-contaminated my veggies with all their animal-based bacteria. veggies would be safer if they'd keep the poop off of them!
in Rooting Out the Rotten Tomatoes
Posted 69 days ago
nokia 6310i for those who don't want to bother to click through to the site.
in Best mobile phone ever made
Posted 69 days ago
my (somewhat evil) friend jason's comment: "do you think the school would have minded if they had had a fake columbine?"
in School defends drunken driving hoax - CNN.com
Posted 69 days ago
"A 15-year-old has been charged as an adult for bringing a gun to his Southeast Side elementary school on Monday. " wth?!? 15 year old in *elementary* school.
in Eighth-grader charged as adult for bringing gun to school
Posted 69 days ago
Yeah, looks really reasonable, chuck. nice find!
in Is your mechanic telling you the truth?
Posted 70 days ago
Hulk Woman vs "I got a crush on Obama" lass. It's really quite wonderful to have pure spoof, now that we don't have to watch the Democratic Primary anymore
in McCain Gets Hulking Girl to Do Battle With Obama Girl
Posted 70 days ago
Moving the center of politics to the midwest is powerful and interesting. Never before have we seen such a move away from the coasts' role as political/economic leaders of the country.
in Obama moves DNC operations to Chicago
Posted 70 days ago
this story is wonderful and rich. the battle inside a rational economist between reason and sentimentality. i laughed. i cried. love it. thumbs up. :-)
in How to Get Hannah Montana Tickets (Freakonomics-style)
Posted 71 days ago
why do we have to go to china to get our football on the web? why do advertisers not see this as just one more distribution medium, especially for live events where the adverts aren't easily avoided?
in Live European Cup Soccer
Posted 71 days ago
david, yeah, even with air travel i came out below average. weird, eh? i guess i just don't travel that much. or these estimator tools aren't that great.
in Compute your carbon footprint
Posted 71 days ago
the brits are obsessive about pint size and fullness. pints in britain are marked with a special seal indicating that they are manufactured to contain 20 imperial fluid ounces (568ml). beer inspectors (i kid you not) roam the country with rulers, ordering rounds and then measuring whether the head on the beer is disallowably large or not. the guy in this article who says that brewers want 1 1/2 inches (almost 4cm!) of foam is full of crap.
in A Pint-Size Problem
Posted 71 days ago
jerry: that post came to babbledog from craigslist san diego and it was over two months ago. my guess is that the seller already sold that some time ago (and wouldn't want to ship it to colorado). sorry!
in GRAVE DIGGER 12 VOLT POWER WHEELS RIDE ON CAR (SAN ELIJO HILLS) $100
Posted 71 days ago
thinker: newstin does look interesting. the news in different languages is cool, but the navigation all stays english, so i don't think this is going to catch on much.
in Newstin - Global Social News Platform
Posted 71 days ago
Or rather: "Oz is a multi-paradigm language that is designed for advanced, concurrent, networked, soft real-time, and reactive applications."
in Tutorial of Oz
Posted 72 days ago
well, clearly it buys them the information about who is getting what information from what sites and putting it where.
in Google Has an RSS Embedding Tool
Posted 72 days ago
i have seen this same clip used to make fun of other subjects. i wonder if this is a proto meme. i haven't yet figured out the source of the clip.
in Hillary's Downfall
Posted 72 days ago
Well, that is progress. Now if only they would turn on bash by default and ship with the necessary gnu tools.
in "What Is a Linux Guy Doing at Sun"
Posted 72 days ago
i totally agree, jhota.
in MacRumors.com : Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 Keynote Live Coverage
Posted 72 days ago
seriously cool. this is a really nice web interface to a very complicated data exploration problem. programming to the linux kernel is tough and this would make it easier.
in The Interactive Linux Kernel Map
Posted 72 days ago
i haven't used fedora in a long time. is it as annoying as it always was? :-) i got frustrated by the 'upgrade every 6 months' character of it. that's useless for servers. centos on the server makes way more sense, to me.
in Upgraded to Fedora 9 and Samba broke.
Posted 72 days ago
i'd like to see this updated to include more information about kernel development outside of the US and western europe.
in A Tale of Four Kernels
Posted 73 days ago
So, I guess he did it, after all. Weird to think about a high-profile kernel programmer killing his wife. I wonder what happens to Reiserfs now.
in Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina's Body
Posted 73 days ago
amanda: in a fit of hilarity, i read that as "librarians", too. so i was trying to think about what country librarians would be tortured in.
in Liberians tell stories of torture, pain to special commission
Posted 74 days ago
i don't atually know anyone from Penza Russia. Anyone else?
in Reply to I Love PINK..
Posted 74 days ago
i'm hoping you trade longer life for steadily decreasing cognitive function. that way i can be old but not really know it. score!
in Red Wine Straight from Fountain of Youth
Posted 74 days ago
what an awesome story of science
in Heartwarming Family Tradition Illustrates Heart Wrenching Global Trend
Posted 75 days ago
a better link at the associated press tells the story: "Water distorted preflight readings in three of the plane's 24 sensors, making the aircraft's control computer force the B-2 to pitch up on takeoff, resulting in a stall and subsequent crash."
in B2 Stealth Bomber Crashes Video
Posted 76 days ago
this is clearly the better thread about the $100 hamburger. the other thread is nonsense.
in $100 Hamburger Bites the Big One
Posted 76 days ago
more than half of what is funny about these comments is how painfully british they are. :-)
in spEak You’re bRanes
Posted 77 days ago
this just points out how badly unrepresentative alexa's sampling is.
in Left-right asymmetry in the online world?
Posted 77 days ago
we should submit this page to reddit so that we can get people to reddit up a babbledog link of a asylum inclusion of a revision3 story about an asylum homage to bacon. then maybe someone can digg that.
in Asylum Gives Props to Rev3 Giving a Shout-Out to Asylum's Collection of Bacon Pictures
Posted 77 days ago
tiger's right. no one watches hockey anymore. :-)
in Penguins steal amazing victory from Detroit in triple overtime
Posted 77 days ago
mccain has his work cut out for him. perhaps turd blossom can help him out.
in TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless
Posted 77 days ago
OTOH, youtube cannot be expected to try to figure out who is the copyright owner in all cases.
in Radiohead to Prince: Hey, that's OUR song
Posted 78 days ago
I really enjoy the smug mug blog. they do so much writing about the amazon infrastructure, challenges and approaches, that it's the best resource for someone curious about using ec2 or s3.
in SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)
Posted 78 days ago
They are divorced from reality, but they have legitimate beef and if you were on the other side, you would be cranky. media coverage of and influence of all campaigns is troublesome. the coverage of the campaign is always all about the race and never about the substance which is interesting.
in HillaryClinton.com - blogHillary
Posted 80 days ago
i thought this was going to be the gun or the woman flashing her boobs, but this is much funnier than either.
in Weirdest google maps image I've ever seen. What do you think??
Posted 80 days ago
Dustin: I haven't used newsgator. is it worth trying out? what do you like about it?
in Integration with RSSMountain.com
Posted 81 days ago
That's wacky, for sure. My guess is that such a pregnancy would never have gone to full term in an environment with better prenatal screening. The medical care in the Northern Territory of Australia must not have been very good.
in Miracle Baby
Posted 81 days ago
This story is still poorly understood by technical people that I talk to. The attitude seems to be: Manning is a good guy and wasn't doing anything wrong. That misses the point badly. If it were not manning and it were a bad guy, no one *still* would have noticed and they could have done really, really bad things. No one is watching this stuff closely enough.
in Renesys Blog: Securing the Root
Posted 83 days ago
This thing is frickin fantastic. Anyone who was ever an Iggy Pop fan will love every page of this thing.
in Iggy Pop Concert Rider
Posted 83 days ago
and the shy bladder syndrome link. that one's on target. so to speak.
in The Lady Urinal with a Splash of Gold
Posted 83 days ago
it's a nice ad and his spanish is pretty good for an english speaker.
in Barack Obama To Puerto Rico: I'm Mexican, Too! [Campaign Ads]
Posted 83 days ago
cross platform. or more specifically, it's a vulnerability in the flash VM that works on IE/FF and on windows/linux/mac/everything is my understanding. cool, eh?
in Flash 0-day vulnerability
Posted 85 days ago
we're trying it out for a couple of days to get some data and then we'll probably roll back to think about it for a while
in What do you think of the new babbledog landing page?
Posted 85 days ago
weird. i wasn't able to source that definition in any of the online dictionaries i looked at. i need better online dictionaries, clearly.
in RoyalTournament.org
Posted 86 days ago
it's amazing to me just how little coverage hockey gets these days. run-of-the-mill baseball games are getting more coverage than the stanley cup. did they kill the league with the strike and the skipped season? did the fans go away never to return?
in The 2008 Stanley Cup
Posted 86 days ago
heh. i'm not getting one mostly because... i don't have a wii. :-)
in the ad for the Wii Fit that Nintendo wisely rejected...
Posted 89 days ago
how the hell do you hit a building in montana with a plane? the place is empty! this is a spectacular failure.
in Plane crashes into Mont. building, kills pilot
Posted 89 days ago
this is the best comment about this incident: "Hillary says all kinds of crazy things and that's why people don't like her." heh.
in Waiting For Somebody To Get Shot Is Not A Campaign Strategy
Posted 90 days ago
i've been watching this become a broader meme from the jezebel site. it's rare to see a spreading meme on the internet that is substanceful and positive, but this is one of them.
in The Rise of Bodysnarking
Posted 90 days ago
although ostensibly about the democratic primary, this article has the best, concise history of puerto rico for a north american audience i've ever read.
in Puerto Rico’s Moment in the Sun
Posted 90 days ago
nice thinko there, colby. a thinko is more interesting than a typo because it reveals normally hidden mental structure.
in David Cook wins American Idol
Posted May 22, 2008
my coworker, earl, has a $10k bicycle built partially out of titanium. this will cause its value to plummet down to $9.2k.
in New Process Could Cause Titanium Price To Tumble
Posted May 22, 2008
those ads always seemed so dumb to me. the service requires that you *not* purposefully disclose your SSN to anyone and yet, the dude did. so moronic.
in Fraud-prevention pitchman becomes ID theft victim - CNN.com
Posted May 22, 2008
*snorts* coffee out his nose. this may not be as funny to those of you who haven't spent time in puerto rico, the dominican republic and new york. there are hilarious rivalries between boricuas (puerto ricans) and quisqueyas (dominicans), exacerbated by the fact that puerto rico is part of the US and its citizens have US passports, whereas dominicans have to take crappy boats to mayaguez and fake their accents to catch flights to new york. dominicans tend to be blacker, too, and shadism is a real thing in latin america. this is a wonderfully rich smear campaign.
in Obama: Too Dominican [The Campaign]
Posted May 22, 2008
It really does seem sort of around-ass-to-get-to-elbow. on the other hand, it's certainly true that bridge/interface technologies like twitter make implementation and integration much easier.
in Software: Using Twitter for Home Automation
Posted May 22, 2008
The Things younger than john mccain blog proves that this meme is powerful. Mccain is really, really old and it's going to be a serious issue in the election.
in Did McCain screw himself when he promoted speedy adoption of HDTV?
Posted May 21, 2008
where do you get a projector with decent resolution for sub-$300, gregg (given the cost of other components, like cables and a screen would be ~$100 or more)?
in TG Daily - Samsung demos 82” 2160p HDTV
Posted May 21, 2008
i don't understand why the debian maintainers didn't try to push their patch upstream for *two* years. You don't maintain a local patch to security-critical software for any amount of time without getting it thoroughly vetted by experts in that software. this is a major failure for debian, in my view.
in Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco
Posted May 21, 2008
(i don't speak or read any korean but google translates (badly) lots of languages into english.
in 김인호돼지박사 한국형우주관 응^응=응 우주화시대 응원해주세요
Posted May 21, 2008
truly creepy pictures. but compelling as hell.
in Man + Animal = "Manimals" = Eerie Portraits
Posted May 21, 2008
barcamp boston sounds like it was a lot of fun. i'm sorry i missed it.
in At Least One Librarian Attended BarCamp …
Posted May 21, 2008
wow! what a geogeous photograph of a georgous man. Here is a detailed account of Bowie's arrest on marijuana charges in Rochester, NY in 1976.
in David Bowie Mugshot
Posted May 21, 2008
sure, that's a facile (and probably not innaccurate) explanation. but people are *buying* macs over $1k and they're really not buying many wintel machines over $1k. remember also: this includes *gaming* machines (which are 100% windows boxes). so the stat is even more impressive.
in NPD: Apple corners premium market; Apple’s market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
Posted May 20, 2008
when will clinton drop out? seriously. this is getting painful and stupid.
in Obama to reach delegate milestone today (AP)
Posted May 20, 2008
best quote from that article amanda linked to: "“I wish you would come at this with a little bit of reality,” said Sen. Rick Olseen, DFL-Harris. “If you don’t want people to have sex until they’re 35 or 40, just say so.” " heh
in How do you fix a broken school district?
Posted May 20, 2008
dammit. i'm supposed to be a royals fan, having gone to high school in kansas city. still, a no-hitter is cool.
in Jon Lester No Hits the KC Royals.
Posted May 20, 2008
There is clearly more backstory here than is being discussed publicly. I don't understand (1) why ICANN didn't get the existing L-root address/prefix from bill manning when they took it over; (2) why bill would actually provide *answers* to dns queries to the old L-root address when he says he's just studying how many people are asking.
in Ghosts of Root Servers Past--ICAN