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
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 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 21:38 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 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.
Thu Jan 24 2008 10:52 EST Bug Labs: Products:
It's almost like... a general-purpose computer.
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 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 10:13 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
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.
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 12:38 EST The Last Reef by Gareth Lyn Powell:
to read before I read "Flotsam" starring Shweta Venkatesh
Thu Jan 31 2008 09:06 EST:
Complete text of spam: "Court.Truly madam if God."
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