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 • Batman vs. MDMA • Fake commercial for "Burn a Quran Day" • WTF should I make for dinner? • Vice interviews famed psychedelic chemist Alexander Shulgin • What happens when you hang 100 $1 bills in a tree? • Google launches "Google Instant" • New time-lapse video of Japan by Samuel Cockedey • Atlanta appeals court: It's "nonracial" to call an adult black employee "boy" • Warez raids in Europe hit close to Wikileaks • Fire tornado photos • 70% of US federal spending reports don't add up • Bombing Guam with dead mice • The joy of the Digital Comics Museum • Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix • How a wristwatch works - film from 1949 • What parents worry about, what parents should worry about • Login screens from Penn and Teller BBS, 1987 • US federal IT spending: a wasteland of misbegotten contracts • Ukrainian salt mine therapy for asthmatics • Updated Flickr attribution link-generator • Secret copyright treaty: USA caves on border laptop/phone/MP3 player searches for copyright infringement • Apple's iPod harvest: hands-on with new Shuffle, Nano, Touch • The beauty and wonder of a squid's eyeball • HOWTO make shotgun shell candles • Print and fold envelopes lined with Google satellite maps • Hipster dinosaurs • Cat Parkour • '70s biker magazine covers • FDA may okay first genetically-modified animals for human consumption MetaFilter
• Quantum Chess! • I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over • I laughed, but then I cried. • Hero Rats, We Called 'Em. • Mind over matter. • "Hand it over. It's been long enough. " • The Cake Felt 'Round the World • September-issue reviews: Covers of fashion mags dissected • A Unified Theory of New York Biking • Robble Robble • "Increasingly illiterate, disgusting and meritless." • Flying 101 • They like Diet Coke. • Domestic Conflict, Explained by Stock Photos • Not that there's anything wrong with that... • Hold the mayo; hold the freedom • Or you could just vacation in a washing machine, I guess • Gravitational wave detectors: the universe ripples, they listen • Google Scribe • Hard to believe how far we've come • Watch • Nectarine Demoscene Radio • Le Carre on 'the Russification of Britain' • the city & ʎʇıɔ ǝɥʇ Antipixel
No one knows je ne sais quoi like us  Can all of this still work? Should it? Let us see (and why not?). Here is a picture of... • Yakushima: a view of the southern coastA rough coast through a long lens. This was taken from the verandah of the room where we were staying. • Osaka Steamship #5It all comes together in this one, my favourite of the bunch. It's a superb illustration and perfectly pitched advertising: beautifully executed and richly sentimental. • Picturing the moonMy daughter taking a picture of the moon on Yakushima. • EijyuushaAs of about 1:20 p.m. last Wednesday afternoon, I am a permanent resident — 永住者 — of the great nation of Japan. • Yakushima forestA good example of the type of forest you see on Yakushima just under a kilometre or so above sea level. (Now with desktop versions.) • Planet Earth: now with more obesity than hungerAnyone inclined to a sense of genuinely absurd injustice will not be surprised to learn that the obese now outnumber the hungry. • Osaka Steamship #4My least favourite of the bunch, but why exactly? • Two onigawara from YakushimaOf course you knew you were going to see onigawara from Yakushima • Specially trained attack medakaI noticed they seem to go after the larvae that give them a bit of a chase, ignoring the easy ones right in front of them. They're sporting about it, and not unaware of the thrill of the hunt, bless their carnivorous little souls. I hope they prosper and multiply (within balance). • Vigourously ongoingImagine a roughly circular granite island 12 kilometres in diameter which rises to a series of peaks approaching 2 kilometres above sea level, the highlands of which receive, on average, 8,000 milimetres of rain a year (yes, that's 8 metres of rain annually). You'd expect the water and the rock to come to some pretty interesting arrangements over the millennia. On Yakushima they most certainly have, and negotiations are vigourously ongoing. • Osaka Steamship #3 -- let the vulture soarSpeaking of islands and journeys by sea, we reach the halfway point in the Osaka Steamship series with this postcard, certainly, to my eyes, the weirdest of the bunch. • Yakushima here we comeWhere the trees have "the power of words" • Osaka Steamship #2Is it rude to blog at dinner? • Osaka Mercantile Steamship postcardsFound in the second-hand bookstore today a set of postcards representing great advertising moments from the history of the 大阪商船会社 -- or the Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co. Ltd., as one of the postcards has it. I'll post some over the next few days. Eyejabber.com
Aaron Swartz
"capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman" -- C. Wright Mills • Campaigners, Please!• You Don’t Know John (Maynard Keynes) • The Perils of Parfit 1: Credible Commitments • Management, Organizing, Mobilizing • Brought to You by the Letter S • The Political Philosophy of Toy Story 3 • That Sounds Smart • How to Get a Job Like Mine • A Reading Machine • The Anti-Suit Movement • The Reason So Many People Are Unemployed Hypergene MediaBlog
 • Is the economy really this bad? • Roundup of We Media Miami session: In search of a new kind of story • Introducing Footnote Pages • We're launching something at TechCrunch 50 today • Why I hate Flickr • CNN: Vets pay tribute to fallen comrades at virtual Vietnam wall • First 48 hours of The Wall • The Wall on CNN • Free Vietnam photos from Footnote and The National Archives |
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Wil Wheaton dot Net
 • Seattle! You can see Marian Call with Molly Lewis and Jason Finn on Thursday! GO GO GO! • PAX After Action Report, Part One • Video of my reading from PAX Prime: Triple Word Score • minor #PAX schedule change (Friday and Sunday) • My 2010 PAX Prime Schedule • You may ask yourself, "well, how did I get here?" • a quick one while i'm away... • random thoughts from vancouver • In which I am a HPOA Dr. Laniac's Laboratory
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on the Internet  Hey, I'm back. I've been invited by my friend the Freewayblogger to start posting on Tales of the Freewayblogger. So, at the very least, I'll cross-post here. I just put up my first post, Escalation by any other name smells just as stupid . (or over there on TotF) • My Bad Attitude on displayMy Bad Attitude on display - in the Huffington Post's March edition of the Contagious Festival. Pass it on . • I've moved the focus to the daily news blog and newsletter2006: If you're wondering about the dearth of articles, it's because I've moved the focus to the daily news blog and newsletter . Articles will continue, less frequently, or when i have something long-winded to say. • Let your mouse do the voting!Let your mouse do the voting! Freewayblogger and Dr. Laniac have entered the Contagious Festival. If you want more political music, check out Political Collage on the music page. Abu Garum is my fave. • Booshian English: The President's literary preparation for the State of the UnionThe State of the Union, 2006. Booshian English: The President's literary preparation for the State of the Union . Bonus moment: a statement so surreal I feel the need to include an audioclip as evidence I'm not making it up. And speaking of surreal, the freedom talk runs into the arrest of Cindy Sheehand for a t-shirt. • Doh! I jinxed myself• When the War on Dissent Gets Creepy When the War on Dissent Gets Creepy . Geez, Toledo gets all Mideval on Mike Ferner's ass. • Taking advantage of some unexpected downtimeTaking advantage of some unexpected downtime . Bashing Lou Dobbs in the Big O Tire's waiting room. • It's a Beautiful WorldIt's a Beautiful World . A new song from my soon to be completed musical project, "Dr. Laniac's Bad Attitude". • I've moved the focus to the daily news blog and newsletterIf you're wondering about the dearth of articles, it's because I've moved the focus to the daily news blog and newsletter . Articles will continue, less frequently, or when i have something long-winded to say. Waxy.org
• An Open-Source History of Mondo 2000 • Pixeljam and James Kochalka's Glorkian Warrior • Kickstarter at SXSW 2010 • Interviewing Ted Rall on Comics Journalism in Afghanistan • Regarding Foursquare and Please Rob Me • DEN.net and the Top 100 Websites of 1999 • Pirating the 2010 Oscars • Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters • Kind of Bloop On Sale • Code Rush in the Creative Commons • Joining Kickstarter • Meme Scenery • Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis • 419 Scammer Gets Honest • Kickstarter Launches! • Category Inflation at the Webbys • Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital • Waxy.org at SXSW Interactive 2009 • Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall • John Hodgman on "meh" • Robin Hood's "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 16 Languages • Pirating the 2009 Oscars • The Faces of Mechanical Turk • Musicians Get Meta in Guitar Hero and Rock Band • Deconstructing Google Mobile's Voice Search on the iPhone • Yes We Did • Girl Talk's Feed the Animals: The Official Sample List • Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey • Found Footage: Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant Video, Swimsuit Competition • Kickstarter • Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk • Interview with David Winton, Director of "Code Rush" Mozilla Documentary • Oddpost Co-Founder Launches Bandcamp, Publishing Platform for Musicians • Computability: Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows' Computer Video from 1984 • Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" • Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now • Friendfeed and Flickr • Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture • Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000 • The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips • The Machine That Changed the World: The Thinking Machine • The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer • The Machine That Changed the World: Inventing the Future • The Machine That Changed the World: Great Brains • BBC Two's "The Net," Episodes 2 and 5 from 1994 • Star Wars Kid: The Data Dump • Garry Kasparov Griefed by Flying Penis • The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity • The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History PigDog
The Online Handbook of Bad People of the Future  Reefer madness or a government fabrication? • LINK: Bride price: $2.7 millionYou can't make this stuff up: in Abu Dhabi, the winner of a camel beauty contest was sold to a Dubai prince for $2.7 million. • LINK: San Francisco to Honor President BushNaming schools, public buildings, and city streets after politicians and presidents is a long and honored tradition in this country. With President Bush slated to leave office in just a few more months, residents of San Francisco are already gearing up with a ballot initiative to rename a public facility after our departing 43rd President. If the ballot measure passes, San Francisco's shit will be processed by the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. • LINK: Charlton Heston is Soylent GreenCharlton Heston, inadvertent star of Bowling for Columbine, died on April 5, 2008 at the age of 84. Unconfirmed reports indicate that he shot his eye out and a BB gun was pried from his "cold, dead hands." • LINK: wikileaks.org DNS censoredIt's not prior restraint, because you can just memorize http://88.80.13.160/ • LINK: Bush Announces Economic Stimulus Plan, Stock Markets PlungeOn Friday President Bush announced an economic stimulus plan. The plan was short on details, vague on implementation, fuzzy about who would be helped, but sharply targeted when it came to how many taxpayer dollars should be spent -- about one percent of the nation's GDP -- somewhere between $140 and $150 billion dollars. • FEATURE: Live from Macworld 2008I have been camped outside Moscone Center, waiting for Macworld Expo to open, since 4:00 in the morning. Not this morning, since 4:00 in the morning January 4th. I had to be in line so I could be among the first to hear what new products Steve Jobs would announce. Getting a report two minutes after the announcement from someone's blog or Macworld.com just wouldn't do. I had to be FIRST. I had to hear it FIRST, directly from Steve Jobs.This day could change my life. • LINK: Alex Jones manhandled and arrested on trumped-up charges by NYPD!Last night in New York City, a big monster cop raced into a crowd of demonstrators during an early street action for the 9/11 anniversary, specifically singling out documentary filmmaker and popular talk show host, Alex Jones, and handcuffed him with extreme prejudice and excessive grunting, nearly chopping the media activist's hands off. • LINK: ...and people wonder why I counsel against bombingA DynCorp security employee watches over the A.E.F. destroying poppy fields in Uruzgan. • COLUMN: CIA "Family Jewels" More Like "Numb Nuts"When I first heard that the CIA was about to release several hundred pages of previously classified material that would shed light on its various operations, I laughed hard enough to scare the clown next to me into a career as a mime. I'd seen declassified material before. Most of it involved pages with vast swaths of black redaction clouding any seriously useful information. Between the blackness were little glimpses of wretched wrongness that no one in their right mind would tak... • LINK: Free Paris!Yeah, so Paris got out of jail free, and I for one hope she stays out. Cause I got no time for the haters. I celebrate Paris Hilton. • LINK: It can't happen hereJohn Yoo has my undying respect. Anyone who can make John Ashcroft into a defender of liberty is an evil genius of the first order. • LINK: Finally, the MSM does some real reportingKnock, knock, knock... is this thing on? Hello??? Anybody out there? Guess it doesn't matter. Anyways, I'm back, for one article at least, maybe more. So what's all the big deal that drags Johnny Royale out of his drunken stupor? Well, ok, I'm still in a drunken stupor, but I have something to say. • REVIEW: Bat Boy -- The MusicalThe mountains are a horrible place to raise cows. No doubt about it. When people try, strange things happen. Like Bat Boy. Kottke.org
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