Thu Jan 03 2008 10:29 EST Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal:
RIAA admits that they refuse to make products people want: "Watch for Compilations that are 'Too Good to Be True'" (must be pirated) via delong
Fri Jan 04 2008 14:05 EST Official Google Blog: Baby steps to a new job:
actually heartwarming
Sat Jan 05 2008 10:33 EST A Users Manual to Seat 21C - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog:
Airplane humor is fresh again
Sat Jan 05 2008 22:00 EST YouTube - Indian Sweet Child of Mine:
How come this sort of greatness never shows up in the ads during Namaste America? It's all Western Union and rice.
Sun Jan 06 2008 10:00 EST Versions of The Ramayana:
What? The Amar Chitra Katha cartoon is not the definitive version? Seriously, maybe I'd like it more if I tried an original.
Sun Jan 06 2008 11:42 EST Charles Peters - Judge Him by His Laws - washingtonpost.com:
Obama: great project manager, or the greatest project manager?
Sun Jan 06 2008 14:21 EST
The Hindu : Entertainment Chennai / Personality : Ramayana in all its hues
:
There have been lots of Ramayana satires. And R. has a greater variety of creatures.
Sun Jan 06 2008 14:27 EST Locana: Sita continues to be abandoned:
King Rama has to please his subjects and end the scandal. He's no longer an avatar of Vishnu. Many reasons to abandon Sita. And Ravana doesn't rape her because he's cursed.
Sun Jan 06 2008 21:12 EST Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture :
Gotta write this up; it is a fun game and it works well in WINE.
Sun Jan 06 2008 21:35 EST » RESTful Thoughts on a Web 2.0 Python Project - DevChix - Blog Archive :
The dialogue approach to RESTful design
Sun Jan 06 2008 21:38 EST HostMonster - Web hosting:
One of the prebuilt-MythTV-box-makers I'm investigating
Sun Jan 06 2008 22:15 EST http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Vanilla-Extraction/?ALLSTEPS:
Seems really expensive, but i guess only a little more expensive than good vanilla extract from the store
Mon Jan 07 2008 16:35 EST TSA | Transportation Security Administration | Wait Times:
Wow, an actually useful service from the TSA
Wed Jan 09 2008 09:26 EST A Year in O'Reilly Books (2007):
Apparently I'm a best seller
Wed Jan 09 2008 16:52 EST Religious Education Archive: 19th Century Mormon Publications : Browse:
For Mom.
Thu Jan 10 2008 11:40 EST Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Iterative Algorithmic Plastic Sculpture: Fimo Fractals:
"In fact, we needed no blue at all."
Sun Jan 13 2008 22:59 EST Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore - Project Gutenberg:
A classic among classics--not that I've read it.
Mon Jan 14 2008 09:02 EST World War I - Et Al...: Yesterday I Met A Hero:
"There a few heroes remaining in my hometown and yesterday I met one of them. His name is Leonard Richardson." (It's not me.)
Mon Jan 14 2008 13:05 EST Urgent Attention Demanded | Scam Warning:
"My name is Mr Leonard Richardson , a bank accountant,I will need your assistance in this business transaction." Also not me.
Wed Jan 16 2008 10:07 EST forre.st | storage:
Hard drive obsession, part 1
Wed Jan 23 2008 21:46 EST Access Control for Cross-site Requests:
People have been solving the problems I wrote about
Thu Jan 24 2008 09:40 EST What’s New with Wu » Blog Archive » The Donnas:
Tim Wu, you card
Thu Jan 24 2008 10:52 EST Bug Labs: Products:
It's almost like... a general-purpose computer.
Thu Jan 24 2008 12:29 EST Pirate Shenanigans on the High Internets « deep ape:
Now that's classy backbiting humor.
Thu Jan 24 2008 16:43 EST Tastefully Done - Webcomic Artists Showing It All (2008):
Just in case you wanted to see dirty pictures drawn by Kris
Thu Jan 24 2008 16:46 EST Liberal Fascism by The Editors (Book) in Humor:
As long as i'm linking to Lulu stuff by my friends
Sat Jan 26 2008 07:28 EST Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens :
"The burden of proof is on the individual to show they're legally entitled to be in the United States" WTF via riana
Sat Jan 26 2008 07:37 EST The Practical Nomad blog: New travel document requirements for USA citizens:
I should ask my jet-setting sister whether this is bozo nuts, real, or both
Sat Jan 26 2008 08:52 EST As We May Think:
At last, a legit copy online
Sat Jan 26 2008 18:50 EST Gamasutra - The Future Of The Real-Time Strategy Game:
RTS games are actually games of tactics because the fighting is divorced from political context
Sun Jan 27 2008 10:09 EST Return to Manzanar:
Tell me this was a crazy dream
Sun Jan 27 2008 10:13 EST graphpaper.com - Interaction Design Style (My IA Summit 2007 Presentation):
Oh God, I need to grok all this by Thursday, all of a sudden I need to be able to evaluate design critically
Sun Jan 27 2008 21:49 EST I Had A Dream I Was Your Hero - The Kindness of Strangers:
Fanfic and online community save a kid's mental health
Mon Jan 28 2008 10:54 EST The Papers of Benjamin Franklin:
Weird possibly bogus license
Mon Jan 28 2008 11:14 EST Debian Package of the Day :
OK, it's back now
Mon Jan 28 2008 12:14 EST Luminous Prose:
glad Frances read it, and I hel_ed, before she died
Mon Jan 28 2008 14:52 EST 50 Years of LEGO: Nine Sets I Have Known and Loved - Boing Boing Gadgets :
Wow, I had 6 of these. Update: No, I had 5 and coveted one so badly it now feels like I had it.
Mon Jan 28 2008 23:13 EST Gomoll Research + Design:
researching the competition
Mon Jan 28 2008 23:14 EST adaptive path » product experience strategy and design :
researching the competition
Tue Jan 29 2008 14:25 EST Steve Martin thing:
Analyzing a joke kills it, but Steve Martin kills jokes as a matter of course, so it works out. "I will now suck this stool into my lungs! Oh darn."
Wed Jan 30 2008 08:34 EST Crooked Timber » » A million foreclosures:
"households are now treating their debts to banks with the same calculating attitude that corporations have long shown to their workers and other creditors, paying them if it is profitable to do so and defaulting otherwise."
Wed Jan 30 2008 10:25 EST Fleeting Expletives - Thoughts upon finally reading MGM v. Grokster:
FTW, as the kids [Gruber and Lopp] say
Wed Jan 30 2008 12:38 EST The Last Reef by Gareth Lyn Powell:
to read before I read "Flotsam" starring Shweta Venkatesh
Wed Jan 30 2008 22:53 EST Rands In Repose: Ninety Days:
Just reread. A new job tradition?
Thu Jan 31 2008 09:06 EST:
Complete text of spam: "Court.Truly madam if God."
Fri Feb 01 2008 11:06 EST:
Note to self: mystery loaf is busted
Fri Feb 01 2008 12:10 EST Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Microsoft plus Yahoo? The sum is less than the parts:
Had to wait till California woke up to get decent analysis on MSFT->YHOO. Thanks, Scott.
Sun Feb 03 2008 20:39 EST YouTube - Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video:
I wonder what McWhorter is thinking about the loss of the formal register right now
Sun Feb 03 2008 21:48 EST Apologies All Around âJeff SoesbeâFlash Fiction Online:
Good for the length, first publication by a VP friend
Sun Feb 03 2008 22:05 EST Habemus Dialogum - We Have a Dialog : Things Blog : Cultured Code:
Could it be that "this event is repeating" dialog boxes are a solved problem?
Sun Feb 03 2008 23:47 EST Groklaw - The Microsoft v. Google-Lee Hearing:
Among other things, why smart people leave for new jobs
Mon Feb 04 2008 00:09 EST Endowments Widen a Higher Education Gap - New York Times:
Remind me to give anonymously to Berkeley - anonymously so I don't get on a zillion mailing lists
Mon Feb 04 2008 07:23 EST Bitch Ph.D.:
Argh! I thought we solved the call center capacity problem with eblocks!
Tue Feb 05 2008 08:11 EST Schneier on Security: A Good Security Investment by DHS:
omg, that isn't dumb
Wed Feb 06 2008 08:18 EST Back on the Map: January 27 - May 4 2008, Queens Museum of Art:
I've peeked at what's left of this map and it's in sorry shape.
Wed Feb 06 2008 09:12 EST:
Creepy "hello from frances" spam
Thu Feb 07 2008 23:15 EST Untitled Document:
Greatest mythological of all times!
Thu Feb 07 2008 23:16 EST The Gallery of Transport Loss:
These are the guys making my browser so slow
Fri Feb 08 2008 13:15 EST YouTube - Where WoW Dances Came From:
To watch, from Christopher at work. "male night elf is rather amusing. Female night elf is Britney Spears."
Fri Feb 08 2008 13:33 EST Bitch Ph.D.:
A citizen needs self-confidence to enforce decency without having to hide behind policies other people have ratified.
Fri Feb 08 2008 15:23 EST YouTube - Brenda Dickson "Welcome to My home" ~ Part 1:
The original.....
Fri Feb 08 2008 15:24 EST YouTube - Brenda Dickson Parody part 1:
...and the parody
Fri Feb 08 2008 17:20 EST
BrickArms
:
Molded click-brick weapons
Fri Feb 08 2008 22:52 EST volity.net | Digital Games for Analog People:
How general is this client?
Mon Feb 11 2008 22:11 EST Spamology:
I hoped it would be like the Baby Name Wizard Voyager. Instead, it was Unix! I know this!
Mon Feb 11 2008 22:20 EST:
Loose Brains Down Planes
Thu Feb 14 2008 09:37 EST When free books aren't really free - Feb. 8, 2008:
For reference; I have a big NYCB draft I'm working on about this
Thu Feb 14 2008 22:26 EST » Auto-creating MySql and Postgresql Databases with Powerful Python Tools - DevChix - Blog Archive :
by gloriajw
Fri Feb 15 2008 01:16 EST Daily Sci-Fi Webcomic: Starslip Crisis by Kris Straub - Archive » Future War Part I:
I've so been there.
Sat Feb 16 2008 20:11 EST Dr. Rivka - God and Mammon, part II.:
Rivka : Barack Obama :: purple-hat woman : who?
Sun Feb 17 2008 19:58 EST Open Rob Sayre’s Open Mozilla Open Blog » Blog Archive » RESTful Partial Updates:
I'm doing something like this at work, in case anyone cares
Sun Feb 17 2008 21:57 EST Coastal Contractor: Vacation-Home Security:
Peter Norton's house restored from backup
Sun Feb 17 2008 22:33 EST Untangled:
SUBSCRIBED
Mon Feb 18 2008 20:32 EST Andy Hertzfeld's Apple performance review | developer.* Blogs:
Surprisingly interesting (faint praise, I know)
Mon Feb 18 2008 21:12 EST Possets, Bottled Happiness:
Indie perfume, recommended in Pandagon comments, perhaps more to my taste than Black Phoenix
Tue Feb 19 2008 13:53 EST Paleontologists Reconstruct a Monster Frog - New York Times:
nb. a Pac-Man frog is a kind of frog, not (just) a metaphor
Thu Feb 21 2008 09:53 EST http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Cardboard-Magazine-Box/:
feels like this should be useful to us
Fri Feb 22 2008 16:23 EST Cody's Books moving to smaller space:
What the hell? Telegraph store shut down, 4th St store moving to Allston & Shattuck, near Other Change of Hobbit and the comics shop. Anirvan should be happy
Fri Feb 22 2008 21:30 EST FrontPage - Piecepack Wiki:
PIECE pack
Sat Feb 23 2008 06:39 EST I Dream of Barack:
I think I have had dreams with Obama in them; have to try to remember
Sat Feb 23 2008 06:54 EST Brutal Women: Bowling, Beer, & Brutal Women:
"Now I have no idea what I want or who I am, because all I want to do is swill whiskey and fuck the night away and chain smoke and get on a plane to Marrakech... and then I realize I already did that, and it brought me here. "
Sun Feb 24 2008 15:28 EST In Thriving India, Wedding Sleuths Find Their Niche:
Reminiscent of "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"
Sun Feb 24 2008 17:40 EST Did You Hear the One About the Christian Comedian? - New York Times:
A female comedian who's incontrovertibly making it. Thanks to YouTube, a supportive family, Christianity, and singing. How much like RLP?
Sun Feb 24 2008 20:43 EST Bookstores in New York City (Manhattan):
It's tough to believe that a document that's fixed-position plain text autoconverted to HTML hosted on Geocities would be accurate.
Tue Feb 26 2008 08:36 EST Princeton Class of 1933 Website:
to read, via Kottke or something.
Tue Feb 26 2008 14:51 EST Girlebooks - free ebooks by the gals | Ebook Download:
Sounds fun. (didn't I read about this in Oxford Book of Humorous Prose?)
Tue Feb 26 2008 22:40 EST Underground Value: Notes From Buffett Meeting 2/15/2008:
"I know people on the Forbes 400 list whose children would not hide them." Today I accidentally made a guy think about whether anyone would miss him if he died.
Thu Feb 28 2008 07:41 EST Apple - Trailers - Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden? - Trailer:
With theme song by Rockapella? I hope?
Thu Feb 28 2008 07:44 EST Diary Of A Mad Fashionista: TRIUMPH ON BROADWAY!:
Selling vintage clothes and jewelry to rich women. That was interesting.
Thu Feb 28 2008 08:20 EST Obsolete Skills: Skills/Blowing The Dust Out Of A Nintendo Cartridge:
Obsolete skills, active arguments
Sat Mar 01 2008 07:25 EST Language Log: You say feminine, I say masculine, let's call the whole thing off:
HA! We are redeemed! And why the hell should nouns be gendered anyway?!
Sat Mar 01 2008 19:44 EST
Examining Evidence: Did Duchamp simply use a photograph:
Oh, this one they saw fit to reference in the Tate
Sun Mar 02 2008 20:37 EST Personality Plus: A Twin Takes Over - New York Times:
YAY Elisa for a NYT writeup! Hmmm, she's been in Met Diary a bunch of times, and her wedding announcement made it in too..
Mon Mar 03 2008 14:32 EST CD of campaign songs from contentious elections:
a lovely companion to Oscar Brand?
Wed Mar 05 2008 09:08 EST This should scare me more than it does. « By Erin Ptah:
Erin Ptah, amazing author, tries to decrypt her own repressed memories.