Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Please
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/04/please.html
"please don't feed fingers to the animals"
Nylon Sling Pack for All MacBooks : Incase Products
http://goincase.com/products/detail/nylon-sling-pack-cl55026
"Designed with reinforced protection and an across-the-body shoulder strap for added comfort and weight distribution, the Nylon Sling Pack is the slimmed down alternative to a backpack."
Nylon Backpack for All MacBooks : Incase Products
http://goincase.com/products/detail/nylon-backpack-cl55027/3
"Designed with a reinforced notebook compartment, plush faux-fur lining and padded ergonomic shoulder straps, the Nylon Backpack offers the ultimate in protection and comfort."
Emotional Buswell admits to chair-sniffing incident - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2230492.htm
"Yesterday Mr Buswell refused to be drawn on an allegation that he sniffed the chair of a female staffer in late 2005. "
PROCASE Macally Peripherals
http://macally.com/EN/Product/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=206
"Suede wrist rest for comfort and also protects the surface"
Use your MacBook camera to see who's using your laptop | FlatulentFish
http://www.flatulentfish.com/drupal/node/24
"Dylan O'Donnel published a simple method to capture a user's picture using the MacBook's built-in camera when a user logs in."
Implementing a syntax-higlighting JavaScript editor in JavaScript
http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/story.html
"A brutal odyssey to the dark side of the DOM tree"
scans_daily: Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak.
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5408800.html
"Mister Bookseller is unsurprisingly about a bookseller, but what's curious is that his shop seems to have a copy of each book ever--- in fact, it has all the books ever."
Twinkle Twinkle Little iPhone, How I Wonder Where You Are | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/twinkle-twinkle.html
"Here's a great idea: Twitter+Location+iPhone. Twinkle is just that; a Twitter client which taps into the iPhone's location finding feature to let you tune into tweets from nearby people."
Blogging for Personal Branding » SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/trishaokubo/blogging-for-personal-branding
"10 Steps to Building Your Personal Brand via blogging, using nationally-recognized fashion blog Omiru"
Six Sites: Is there a need for New Newsreader?
http://log.sixsites.com/post/31759431
"All the online newsreaders are so UGLY!"
Content Syndication with Case-Hardened JavaScript
http://kentbrewster.com/badges
"In just a moment, we'll be off and running into the wonderful world of single-line-include JavaScript badges."
DONHODGES.COM - PAC MAN'S SPLIT SCREEN LEVEL ANALYZED AND FIXED
http://www.donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm
"Pac-Man suffers from the well known split screen when level 256 is reached. We will examine how and why this occurs, and create a patch to fix the program’s bug."
Fling Media: Making Google Reader for Fluid
http://flingmedia.com/articles/making-google-reader-for-fluid
"Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader."
AtomPub and OAuth - DiSo Project | Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/diso-project/browse_thread/thread/7e969e7c8ded6037?hl=en
"So, I'm still trying to get AtomPub working with OAuth"
Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub: OSCON 2008 — O'Reilly Conferences, July 21 - 25, 2008, Portland, Oregon
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4359
"The Jabber/XMPP protocol and PubSub extension offer a Web scale, standards based, and increasingly popular way to build stream oriented web services."
I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Ted Dziuba
http://teddziuba.com/2008/04/im-going-to-scale-my-foot-up-y.html
"Shut up about scalability, no one is using your app anyway."
random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4171
"it really is true that if you haven't done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app from prototype to large/giant-scale on a UNIX stack, then you really don't know shit."
Portal/Rickroll Cake - Instructables - DIY, How To, food, craft
http://www.instructables.com/id/PortalRickroll-Cake
JRat the Java Runtime Analysis Toolkit
http://jrat.sourceforge.net
"The Java Runtime Analysis Toolkit is a low overhead, easy to use, open source performance profiler for the Java platform. JRat monitors an application's execution and persists performance measurements. This data can then be viewed and analyzed using the
Coding Horror: Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001105.html
"Personally, I think it's absolutely irresponsible that WP-Cache like functionality isn't already built into WordPress"
Introducing the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/04/introducing_the_1.html
"With Y!OS, we’re moving from a model in which each Yahoo! property develops much of its own technology to one where we share common data and frameworks that can be easily surfaced across multiple Yahoo! properties and off the Yahoo.com "
Slimmy :: The Front Pocket Wallet Alternative. Made for people who love slim and simple.
http://www.koyono.com/Slimmy-Slim-Wallet-Alternative-p/m17546.htm
"Slimmy: The Slimmest Front Pocket Wallet on Earth."
ALL-ETT Billfolds
http://www.all-ett.com/products.asp#allett
Steal This Pitch: How To Bring The Weird In Your Near-Future Stories
http://io9.com/382916/how-to-bring-the-weird-in-your-near+future-stories
"The weirdness will swarm exponentially, making the world of 2028 easily as jarring as 2008 would seem to a visitor from the Reagan era. So how can we, as writers and storytellers, create a believable medium-near-future world?"
Elsewhere I'm: Relationship Update Stream
http://elsewhere.im
"The Relationship Update Stream is an endless feed of social relationship data, designed for web services to be able to send and receive information when changes to social relationships on their service occur."
Subversion For Writers
http://strangenoises.org/subversion-for-writers
nes system built into game cartridge [casemod] on [technabob]
http://technabob.com/blog/2008/04/21/nes-system-built-into-game-cartridge
"The Fami-Card started out its life as an original Super Mario Brothers cartridge. French modder Kotomi carefully ripped out its guts and transplanted them with the innards of one of those NOAC (NES on a Chip) system clones."
Hemingway for Wordpress 2.5 | Xiaoka Notes
http://notes.xiaoka.com/hemingway
"This is a port of Hemmingway for Wordpress 2.5."
mengwong - Camping at Napa
http://mengwong.livejournal.com/49292.html
"Move to California. Become a hippie. Eat less meat. Take your Whole Foods cloth bag to the Farmer's Market. Stop driving. Ride a bike. And visit wine country!"
Bite-Sized Publishing from Burst Fiction
http://ckwebb.com/publishing/bite-sized-publishing-from-burst-fiction
"At around 1000 characters, these one-shot stories are attracting a growing audience."
DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080422-drm-sucks-redux-microsoft-to-nuke-msn-music-drm-keys.html
"Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any moment—no matter what your expectation was when you bought it."
Wait, How Old Is My Kid Again?
http://www.pirnat.com/2008/04/22/wait-how-old-is-my-kid-again
"Then all that’s left is to cron it to run daily, and point your favorite RSS reader at the feed. Voila! You’re on top of exactly how old your kid is, and quickly on your way to becoming Parent of the Year."
WordPress › AsideShop « WordPress Plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/asideshop
"AsideShop is a WordPress plugin which allows you to show aside posts on your blog's front page in a different way without theme template modification."
misia: A Modest Proposal
http://misia.livejournal.com/1055120.html
"Men who do not wish to be kicked in the balls at all must wear a large visible official "No Kicks, Thanks" badge at all times, including when swimming, showering, and sleeping."
Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software
http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/freedom
"Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time." Claims to require a reboot to re-enable networking early.
Chatterous
http://www.chatterous.com
Interesting chat groups app with jabber, gtalk, feeds, email, and web interface
Spectator :: Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6326
"Spectator is a Firefox extension that collects data about how Firefox is used. This information is used to better understand what people value in the browser."
dk.brics.automaton - finite-state automata and regular expressions for Java
http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/automaton
"This Java package contains a DFA/NFA (finite-state automata) implementation with Unicode alphabet (UTF16) and support for the standard regular expression operations (concatenation, union, Kleene star) and a number of non-standard ones (intersection, comp
NEW Never Before Seen Kids In the Hall! Car Fuckers from KidsInTheHall
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/41f325e282
"Car Fuckers. Ever wonder what really goes on when you leave your car at the mechanics?"
Burst Fiction - Shiny Mudballs
http://burst.trajectoryscifi.com/post/30311930
"Damn, but these creepy critters are picky."
Burst Fiction - Limits of Immortality
http://burst.trajectoryscifi.com/post/32192176
"Tell me, then: Why are we not drunk on a rooftop tonight?"
Burst Fiction
http://burst.trajectoryscifi.com
"An active e-zine of one shot short stories, around 1000 characters in length, set in near contemporary times but with scifi tendencies. "
Web App + Offline = Crappy Client App at The Furrygoat Experience
http://www.furrygoat.com/2008/04/21/web-apps-offline-crappy-client-app
"Really? Do people really want this?"
Play The Endless Zombie Rampage, a free online game on Kongregate
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Weasel/the-endless-zombie-rampage
Blake's 7: How To Get Into Rebel Space Opera Blake's 7
http://io9.com/379249/how-to-get-into-rebel-space-opera-blakes-7
"But how can you discover this show for yourself? Here are some handy tips."
Charlie's Diary: Authorial input
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/04/preemptive_alert.html
"The author is responsible for delivering the stuff between the covers of the book, and has a legal right to have their name on the cover ... and that's about where their involvement in the layout and design of their book begins and ends."
Arete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete
"In its earliest appearance in Greek this notion of excellence was bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function; the act of living up to one's full potential."
The Fishbowl: Cluetrainwreck
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/19/cluetrainwreck
"Joining in the online conversation is a great way to connect to your customers. But only if you’re prepared to be human and honest."
Why the great British breakfast is a killer - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article3758517.ece
"You never see anyone with a degree eating a fry-up; they're too intelligent to consume it, says Times restaurant critic"
5 reasons I won't be getting on the open id train - Warpspire
http://warpspire.com/features/open-id
"My problem is how OpenID full on assaults user experience."
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org
http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax
"From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989."
The Richard Branson Guide to Making Money With Blogs | Copyblogger
http://www.copyblogger.com/richard-branson-blogging
"You’re not a writer. You’re not a content producer. You’re not a blogger. You’re an entrepreneur."
HOWTO Bake a killer Yoda cake - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/howto-bake-a-killer.html
"When Star Wars artist Chris Trevas told us his girlfriend and foodie blogger Julie Foxworthy baked him a one-of-a-kind Yoda birthday cake, I was super-impressed!"
Seed: Suspending Life
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/04/suspending_life.php?p=y&page=all
"Some lucky evolutionary accident ensured the mammals' safety through a deep sleep, and that accident may still be dormant within us. That which allowed our ancestors to survive millions of years ago might also be a means of our survival now."
ASCII by Jason Scott: Twilight of the Area Code Master
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000634.html
"So way back in my teens, I could tell you where an area code was. All of them."
Commentary: An 'average' American will never be president - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/15/roland.martin/index.html
"The narrative about our presidential candidates being just regular folks is a tired myth that gets repeated each and every day. And their efforts to show that they are "just like us" are really pathetic." Nor *should* an "average" American be president.
Grateful Palate - Bacon of the Month club
http://www.gratefulpalate.com/?p=Category_11
Electronic discovery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_discovery
"Electronic discovery, or "e-discovery", refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with information in electronic form. In this context, electronic form is the representation of information as binary numbers."
30 Rock MILF Island T-Shirt, NBC New Arrivals , NBC Universal Store
http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/detail.php?p=59176
"The TGS staff is obsessing over the new ''reality'' hit 'MILF Island'. With 20 super-hot moms, 50 kids, and no rules... it's easy to see why."
MacMod.com - Your Mac Modification HQ - Powerbook to Desktop
http://www.macmod.com/content/view/1118/2
"It seemed a shame to throw out such a tough old machine because of a screen problem. So I decided to join the case modding fraternity."
Scientists Flesh Out Plans to Grow (and Sell) Test Tube Meat
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/invitro_meat
"In five to 10 years, supermarkets might have some new products in the meat counter: packs of vat-grown meat that are cheaper to produce than livestock and have less impact on the environment."
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: The new pygmy hedgehogs you can keep like a pet hamster
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-pygmy-hedgehogs-you-can-keep-like.html
"The cute pets are a quarter of the size of a normal hedgehog and are fully domesticated and don't carry diseases or fleas. They love being handled and rarely curl up in a defensive ball."
Front Page :: Prevayler
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki/;jsessionid=3B198679178756513AA3DDE1D1549A0E
Why There Aren't More Googles
http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html
"If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."
Trapped: Online Only Video: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators
"the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours."
The Final Ethernet - C64 Ethernet Cartridge
http://www.dunkels.com/adam/tfe
"The possibility of connecting the Commodore 64 to an Ethernet local area network has been a collective dream in the Commodore community for decades."
IT Discovery — Intelligent, Strategic Email Discovery
http://it-discovery.com
"By a happy coincidence, the two primary difficulties inherent in searching emails — its sheer volume and its "noisy" nature — are susceptible of recent developments in machine learning technologies that make this task manageable. This is what IT Disc
Ben Heck outdoes himself (again) with the Apple IIGS laptop - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/14/ben-heck-outdoes-himself-again-with-the-iigs-laptop
"Based off an original IIGS motherboard, the one-of-a-kind laptop features a 15-inch color screen, custom acrylic keyboard, a CompactFlash-based hard drive, and -- most importantly -- a glowing blue IIGS logo that flashes yellow during disk access."
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The news will find us
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/27/the-news-will-find-us
"If the news is that important, it will find me"
Spring Lake man broke into neighbor's apartment to rent porn movies on cable, police say - Latest News - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/spring_lake_man_broke_into_nei.html
"The man was arrested after a Spring Lake woman received a cable bill for $284 for adult movies she did not rent."
Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 - Waxy.org
http://waxy.org/2008/04/exclusive_google_app_engine_ported_to_amazons_ec2
"AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure."
Install and configure MySQL 5 with MacPorts | 2 tablespoons
http://2tbsp.com/content/install_and_configure_mysql_5_macports
Apache Wicket - Home
http://wicket.apache.org/index.html
"With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again."
Enron Email Dataset
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron
"It contains data from about 150 users, mostly senior management of Enron, organized into folders. The corpus contains a total of about 0.5M messages."
Using Movable Type's Publish Queue | Movable Type Docs
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/administrator/publishing/publish-queue.html
"If you have enabled and configured Publish Queue, when a user saves an entry, leaves a comment, or performs any action that would publish new content to your blog, the system puts that publish action into a queue. Jobs in this queue are then processed by
Gadgets: A Fleshlight Turned Into an Input Device Lets You Control Your Computer By Fucking It
http://gizmodo.com/378314/a-fleshlight-turned-into-an-input-device-lets-you-control-your-computer-by-fucking-it
"You didn't think you could use this to Photoshop, did you?"
Ubbi dubbi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubbi_dubbi
"Although popularized by the long-running PBS television show ZOOM and by Bill Cosby (in his Dentist Sketch and his voice-over of the character Mushmouth from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), Ubbi Dubbi and other variations were in use many years before th
Getting started with bento making: Are bentos right for you? | Just Bento
http://justbento.com/handbook/getting-started-bento-making/are-bentos-right-for-you
"I know that a lot of people get seduced by the idea of jewel-like little boxes of food greeting them for lunch. But before you embark on the bento route and start collecting bento boxes and cute supplies and so on, ask yourself these questions"
A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/we-need-a-new-p.html
"But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
Coworking: Solo But Not Alone
http://www.concentratemedia.com/features/CoWorking0003.aspx
"But being tied to the house isn't the antidote for being tied to the office, which is why coworking – working together, but separately – is gaining momentum in Ann Arbor and around the world."
nihilogic: Super Mario in 14kB Javascript
http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html
"Here's an experiment in keepings things small and confined to one Javascript file."
ThinkGeek :: 1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/a0f3
"These camera sunglasses certainly aren't x-ray specs, but they do capture 1.3 megapixel still images (at a resolution of 1280x1024)."
Become a victim of the OBSIDIAN blackout — and make history | 7th Son: J.C. Hutchins' Podcast Novel Trilogy
http://jchutchins.net/site/2008/04/09/become-a-victim-of-the-obsidian-blackout-and-make-history
"Now, you’re not an actor. You’re not a movie director. But you’re more than capable of creating creative, compelling, “authentic” content, because you are a creative, compelling, authentic individual. Be confident in your abilities. I have abso
Apple Remote Control Solutions and more - Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
http://twistedmelon.com/mira
"Designed exclusively for the Apple® Remote, Mira takes it beyond Front Row and gives you personal control for any application, on any Mac®."
Cycling '74 || Product soundflower
http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower
"Soundflower is a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio w
Rogue Amoeba - Audio Hijack Pro: Record any audio on Mac OS X
http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro
"Audio Hijack Pro gives you the freedom to listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro - it's the cornerstone of your digital audio experience."
Rogue Amoeba - Fission: Lossless Audio Editor for Mac OS X
http://rogueamoeba.com/fission
"Fission is a streamlined audio editor designed to get you editing in minutes, not hours. Fission lets you copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files, all with no quality loss!"
Take my book. It's free. / Giving away books as podcasts is new way to promote sales
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/05/DDS7VUH5M.DTL
"By rising to prominence without the financial backing of a mega-publisher, Sigler has defied the industry's modus operandi"
Adactio: Journal—Mi.gration
http://adactio.com/journal/1433
"It remains to be seen whether I’ll stay at Magnolia. Even though it is functionally and cosmetically superior to del.icio.us, that might not be enough"
Stupid Apple Remote Tricks | Macinstruct
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/79
"If you've purchased a Mac recently, you probably have an Apple Remote. This nifty little device allows you to enter Apple's Front Row interface and control your Mac from afar. "
Matias Half Keyboard & 508 Keyboard
http://www.matias.ca/halfkeyboard/index.php?refID=7
"The revolutionary Half Keyboard and 508 Keyboard allow you type with just one hand, using your existing skills."
8bitrocket.com: Am I a MID-CORE gamer?
http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspage=7625
"If you have a great action, sports, puzzle, RPG, simulation, or other type of game that costs about $20-$30 and can be played in one hour sessions, I’m your target market."
Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL?p=8389
"If you’re stressed out over 5,000 RSS feeds chances are good you’d be stressed by any profession you chose."
Nick Bradbury: Throwing Away Your Code
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/throwing-away-y.html
"When you see software which shows great attention to detail, keep in mind that some poor sleep-deprived geek spent weeks refining those details, even though they'd rather be playing Rock Band."
AntiRSI - TECH.inhelsinki.nl
http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi
"AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress. It does so by forcing you to take regular breaks, yet without getting in the way"
Simons' Basic.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n11/60_Simons_Basic.php
"Simons' Basic offers not only a solution to the problem but almost makes the 64 into an entirely new computer. (Probably the one it should have been in the first place.)"
Secret Experiment » My son, Luke
http://secretexperiment.com/photo/my-son-luke
COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes
http://www.colourlovers.com
"COLOURlovers gives the people who use color ... a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews."
Jon Henley on the fate of the semicolon | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/04/france.britishidentity
"An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon's days are numbered; worse, the growing influence of English is apparently to blame."
Buy Metroid Gunship Series Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Gunship - Order Now!
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-8x-49-en-70-2laz.html
"The model has been painstakingly recreated from original game files to bring about the most accurate representation of Samus Aran's gunship from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes"
Real Life Futurama - Nerdcore
http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/2008/04/03/real-life-futurama
Mark Bernstein: Nelson on Tinderbox
http://markbernstein.org/Apr0801/NelsononTinderbox.html
"At a symposium in West Virginia, Nick Montfort asked Ted Nelson to describe a few programs that "could be used to enlarge the mind and liberate people""
Invader ZIM: Bolognius Maximus Episode Trivia - TV.com
http://www.tv.com/invader-zim/bolognius-maximus/episode/97848/trivia.html
"Jhonen Vasquez wrote this episode because he said he wanted an episode like The Fly, only stupid."
Taste Me, I’m Delicious « Meetzorp!
http://meetzorp.com/2008/03/06/taste-me-im-delicious
"I had to stop with dinner prep and devote some serious time to pointing at the cat and laughing as she craned her head around backward and lolled her tongue out as far as it would go while she tried to lick the back of her own neck."
Technology Review: Snakelike Robots for Heart Surgery
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20516
"Known as the CardioArm, the curved robot has a series of joints that automatically adjust to follow the course plotted by the robot's head."
Nostradamus
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/Nostradamus
"We have used a Sony Playstation 3 to correctly predict the outcome of the 2008 US presidential elections. In order not to influence the voters we keep our prediction secret, but commit to it by publishing its cryptographic hash on this website."
Hash Collisions (The Poisoned Message Attack)
http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/lucks/HashCollisions
"Collision resistance means that it is infeasible to find two different inputs M and M' with the same hash H(M)=H(M'). Note that many collisions exist, but it has to be infeasible to actually find even a single collision!"
The Ubik Corporation
http://www.philipkdickfans.com/ubikcorp.htm
"Instant Ubik has all the fresh flavor of just-brewed coffee. Your husband will say, Christ, Sally, I used to think your coffee was only so-so. But now, wow! Safe when taken as directed."
Made in England by Gentlemen Ronald bitch slaps customer
http://www.made-in-england.org/936
Evaluating social bookmarking sites « PargoNet
http://pargonet.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/evaluating-social-bookmarking-sites
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fpargonet.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F04%2Fevaluating-social-bookmarking-sites
Bits & Pieces: Can you pick the real Burt Reynolds?
http://bitsandpieces1.blogspot.com/2006/12/not-burt-reynolds.html
Explore - Polyvore
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/explore
"Polyvore lets you create sets composed of individual images using an easy to use, drag and drop editor."
Second Futurama DVD In June
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=51430
"In their latest extraterrestrial exploit, Bender, Fry, Leela and the crew encounter a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles and find themselves involved in a disturbing--yet sensuous--interplanetary love story. "
designboom shop: 'tyvek wallet' by dynomighty design inc., USA
http://www.designboom.com/shop/tyvekwallet.html
"blue and white bi-fold wallet with text printed in a classic dot matrix font."
Chekov 40 Years and Counting! - Slice of SciFi
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2008/04/03/chekov-40-years-and-counting
"A commemorative magazine has been created as a gift for Walter Koenig on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Chekov’s first appearance on our television screens: September 15, 1967."
Whatever » Reader Request Week 2008 #10: Meeting Authors (and Me)
http://scalzi.com/whatever?p=581
"One aspect of fame — even the rather meager portion of it that I and most authors have — is that more people know you than you know, and they have a relationship with you that you don’t have with them."
Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080401-why-authors-and-publishers-need-not-fear-online-piracy.html
"Given the difficulty of breaking into print in the traditional way, the Internet looks to many aspiring authors like a powerful new way to distribute content and find an audience; it has promise, not peril."
Guncho - Good News, Everyone! - rec.arts.int-fiction | Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_frm/thread/c2de0832846ca71e
BBC NEWS | Health | Daily caffeine 'protects brain'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm
"Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests."