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Each vignette is the plastically calculated rendez-vous on an html table of two separate images that remain on their respective hosts.

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by frederic reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 5:50AM

Originally posted by frederic from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 22, 2006 4:59 PM

Today, we're going to play a little game: Kid Rock or Floyd Landis?

Originally from shey.net reblog reBlogged on Jul 22, 2006, 3:33PM

Originally from shey.net reblog, on July 22, 2006 2:46 PM

I'm very happy to report that our third son, Dean Berlin Johnson, was born yesterday afternoon, weighing in at 9 pounds, 11 ounces (!!). It was a very smooth delivery, despite the fact that this kid is the size of a two-month-old, and both mother and child are doing great. Father, needless to say, is delighted beyond words.

In a strange way, getting to meet him the first time yesterday seemed even more moving than it was with the first two. With your first child, it's just so impossible to imagine that they're going to grow into a little person with such vivid, distinct characteristics. With the second child -- particularly if he/she is the same sex as the first -- you kind of assume that he's just going to be variation on the theme of the first one. But our two boys are just amazingly different in so many ways now, and so when I saw Dean for the first time, I felt this incredible surge of curiosity: so what are you going to be like?

I'm titling this post "Dean" for Google's sake. I think it would be most excellent if everyone would link to this page, and drive this post up Google's results for the word "Dean." I think it would help him get a head start in the world to have a lot of pagerank right out of the gate. So instead of sending flowers or food baskets, just link...

Originally from stevenberlinjohnson.com by stevenberlinjohnson reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 4:17PM

Originally posted by stevenberlinjohnson from stevenberlinjohnson.com, on July 21, 2006 11:04 PM

Revision 2.59 of the Google Maps API adds four new features, including speed improvements, custom cursors, and an accuracy attribute for the geocoder, the Google Maps API Official Blog reports. Meanwhile, Andre Louis writes to tell us about his project,...

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 8:41AM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on July 21, 2006 11:04 PM

By popular demand, we’ve got shirts being printed and they’ll be available soon. I know I’ve wanted one and will wear it off the bike, at races, events, and everywhere else.

The response to Bike Hugger has been great, better than expected, and we appreciate it. Here’s an example from Winky

I love this — in fact I love it so much I want to buy t shirts. Isn’t that the ultimate show of loving something creative and idealists — turning it into a retail experience.

Considering a retail experience, if the shirts sell well (and I think they will), we’ve got a whole line in mind, as well as schwag. If you’re interested in a shirt, post a comment and we’ll get them to you first.

Going into the Fall and the next cycling season, we’ll sponsor a women’s cycling team and you’ll see us at more events. Look for even more Bike Hugger.

Originally from Bike Hugger by DL Byron reBlogged

Originally posted by DL Byron from Bike Hugger, on July 21, 2006 11:04 PM

The Independent has a great infographic on its cover today depicting which countries support the immediate ceasefire in the Middle East demanded by the UN and which do not:

That message would take up less space as words, but somehow the impact wouldn't be quite the same. (thx, g)

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 12:00PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 21, 2006 11:04 PM

This week’s Time Out New York is running six pictures of Japanese manhole covers I took in 2002. It’s part of the cover story on “how to make New York better by stealing the best ideas from other cities.”

The photo editor found this old blog post and contacted me.

(And seeing it in print, I think the first photo is upside down. I always thought it was birds against the sky, but now I think it might be flowers against a river...)

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 1:04PM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on July 21, 2006 11:04 PM

I’m attending HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) in NYC this weekend. (It’s walking distance from House 2.0, so if you’re thinking of coming down and need a place to crash, drop me a line.)

Stopped in this afternoon to see a really fun lock-picking demonstration by Barry “The Key” Wels and Marc Tobias (workshops running all weekend) and to hear Richard Stallman talk about free software (inspiring, and a little frightening.)

There’s some great stuff coming up this weekend, including an un-conference-esq “Third Track“, sessions on phone and VOIP phreaking, social engineering (Kevin Mitnick’s also talking), consumer electronics hacking, the end of privacy, Kitchen Hacking, and a session on collecting resources to create a physical “Hacker Space” for creative hacking and collaboration (reminiscent of Coworking.)

If you’re attending and want to meet up, ping me.

Originally from Amit Gupta's Blog by Amit Gupta reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 7:30PM

Originally posted by Amit Gupta from Amit Gupta's Blog, on July 21, 2006 11:01 PM

Celebrity chef Bourdain on the USS Nashville, safely evacuated from Lebanon.

Originally from megnut.com blog by michael@ruhlman.com (Michael Ruhlman) reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 4:35PM

Originally posted by michael@ruhlman.com (Michael Ruhlman) from megnut.com blog, on July 21, 2006 10:55 PM

Next week I'll be doing a guest blogging stint over at the Epicurious Epi-Log. Editor Tanya Wenman Steel is going on vacation and has graciously asked me to fill in for her. Updates will continue here as usual but I'll also be doing something a little different over there for the week, so be sure and check it out.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 9:19AM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on July 21, 2006 10:55 PM

It took 6 hours and 40 minutes for the Oneonta Tigers to beat the Cyclones at Keyspan Park yesterday, marking the longest game in the history of the New York-Penn League. 9,004 people attended the annual "Kids Camp Day" game, which started at noon. About 200 dedicated fans (or at least those who were too drunk to stand up after 20-odd innings of drinking draft beer from 22-oz. souvenir cups) remained until the end of the game — nearly 7 hours later.
Longest Game in League History [Cyclones Homepage]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 11:47AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 21, 2006 10:53 PM

The story of Zingerman's Deli and how the company expanded while remaining local and committed to its ideals. The author of the article wrote a book called Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big and Zingerman's co-founder Ari Weinzweig was a speaker at Taste3.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 7:02PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 21, 2006 10:52 PM

Friday's Foaming Rant: Beer me, Floyd

Jason O'Grady's Foaming Rant for this week is a little foamier than usual. He wants to know just what was in the beer that Floyd Landis said Wednesday would help him deal with his 10-minute loss on Stage 16.

Then, at a press conference on Thursday, after Landis chased down an 11-man breakaway, killed them and ate them, built a new bicycle out of their bones, and roared away in a pillar of fire to win the stage to Morzine and jump back to within 30 seconds of the yellow jersey, he mentioned beer once again.

Since we've got to know what wondrous potion could turn us all from Freds to Floyds, O'Grady is undertaking an experiment on our behalf, working his way from Anchor Steam to Zywiec Porter (what, no Abita Ale?) in the name of science.

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by Frank Steele reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 4:33PM

Originally posted by Frank Steele from Tour de France 2006, on July 21, 2006 10:47 PM

I think lots of cellphone calls went like this yesterday morning, "dude, whoa, DUDE, Landis!" I was getting updates on the train, Pam had coworkers at her desk most of the morning, and Greg (a teammate, and cycling buddy) said his customers were calling him all morning saying things like, "that was OUTLANDIS!"

That incredible ride has the magic of transcending the avid fans to those who only watch it once a year -- I also saw instant messages light up with Landis exclamations. My neighbor was clearly "very excited" by the ride, asking Pam all kinds of questions and during a panel discussion yesterday at Webvisions, it was all I wanted to talk about!

My favorite quote was from Hinault referring to the ride, "I was bad yesterday but I’m the best and I’ll prove that today." It can work, it’s like a Hinault Coup (he's good, cause he was like me!)." And what Floyd said in his press conference, "you better drink some Coke, cause I'm going."

It was the best and most incredible ride I've ever seen. Dude, whoa, Landis!

So, who did you call? Was your phone ringing with Landis calls?

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by texturadesign reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 11:13AM

Originally posted by texturadesign from Tour de France 2006, on July 21, 2006 10:47 PM

Web site TechTree has a pretty comprehensive guide to which default services you can do without on a clean install of Windows XP. But what is a service, you ask?

Each service in Windows is essentially... an application that stays running in the back doing its job when required. Now each service takes up some memory, which isn't good if your system has a low amount of memory (like 256MB or less). Fortunately, not all of the default services are required by all users, so you can turn some of them off to free up some memory.

Whether you've got a computer at home that's low on RAM-juice or you just want to streamline your power PC, this guide lets you know all the unnecessary crap you can do without. I'd recommend reading the purpose of each service before disabling every listed item willy-nilly, but you may be able to free up a significant chunk of RAM with the right tweaks. — Adam Pash

Guide to Useless Services (Windows XP SP2) [TechTree]

Originally from Lifehacker reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 4:00PM

Originally from Lifehacker, on July 21, 2006 10:45 PM

Learn how to post your very own video blog with a free video blogging tutorial from Freevlog.

Setting up your own video blog, or vlog, is made easy with this practical step by step. You do need to actually, you know, film something and upload it to your computer, and that knowledge is expected before starting this tutorial.

However, once you've finally captured that perfect video of your cat licking himself, Freevlog takes you through what you'll need for Zippy's world wide web premiere. — Wendy Boswell

Video Blog Tutorial [Freevlog]

Originally from Lifehacker reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 12:30PM

Originally from Lifehacker, on July 21, 2006 10:45 PM

david posted a photo:

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on July 20, 2006 11:57 PM

Slate.com | The Tour de France almost killed me, by Andrew Tilin

I know I already posted about l'Etape du Tour, the amateur ride that traces one stage o the Tour, this year Stage 15 up l'Alpe d'Huez. Normally, I would just paste this on to the bottom of that story, but I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to spotlight it separately.

It's by Andrew Tilin, who sets off on l'Etape with friend Peter, “a high-level amateur racer.” If you want to find out what this ride is like for someone who rides about as much, maybe a little more, than you do, here's your chance. The author has experience in marathons and long triathlons, but says nothing has left him as “stuporous” as the climb up l'Alpe d'Huez.

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by Frank Steele reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 12:16AM

Originally posted by Frank Steele from Tour de France 2006, on July 20, 2006 11:57 PM

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by katuah reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 12:14PM

Originally posted by katuah from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 20, 2006 11:55 PM

I'm kinda getting tired of all the muni-WiFi talk.

First of all, folks talk about it as the data-manna from heaven. Nah, it's only another access method. If done right, it could unleash a whole new level of creativity and products. But, it's still not going to be a walk in the park for users - it's still going to be a tad complex.

Second, muni-WiFi will not kill mobile phones. So, enough about crying about loss of market from either side of the argument. Operators, make value instead of stonewalling. WiFi geeks, you're still going to need a mobile phone, whether it has a WiFi or WCDMA antenna.

Third, muni-WiFi is not new. Does anyone remember Ricochet? I think there was another one called Metro-something or other. That was almost 10 years ago.

Fourth and last, I do agree though that muni-WiFi today has a better chance than the previous umpteen attempts. This time around, there is better connectivity from the base station, more devices in customer hands, and a greater demand. I am not sure, though, if this is the cycle of build-out that will actually take root.

Eh, back to my regularly scheduled program.

Originally from Lifeblog by charlie reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 11:32AM

Originally posted by charlie from Lifeblog, on July 20, 2006 11:54 PM

Today was the most amazing day of an amazing Tour de France.

Floyd Landis splintered the field on the day's first climb. Phonak went to the front and pushed the pace, and then Landis attacked. The GC riders initially countered, but Landis lifted the pace and rode away, with about 130 kilometers and five climbs to go. Landis hunted down an 11-man break then time-trialed alone to the finish line, holding a punishing pace to his first career Tour stage win.

Oscar Pereiro's Caisse d'Epargne team couldn't bring the gap down, and finally, as it reached more than 9 minutes, dropped back, and CSC took over. The gap was slowly reduced until on the day's last and hardest climb, CSC's Carlos Sastre launched a withering assault on the remnants of the peloton.

It was too late to catch Landis, but Sastre hoped to stay ahead of Landis on GC, and to crack Pereiro and possibly take the race lead. Pereiro kept his head, and limited his losses enough to maintain his yellow jersey. For now.

Despite huge gaps between riders on the road, the Tour only gets closer: Pereiro now leads Sastre by 12 seconds, Landis by 30 seconds, and Klöden by 2:29. Landis is the best time trialist of the group, and Saturday's time trial looks decisive.

Landis is the 9th American to win a Tour stage: Landis, Hincapie, Armstrong, Zabriskie, Hamilton, Lemond, Hampsten, Phinney, Pierce.

Top 10:
1) Floyd Landis, Phonak, USA, in 5:23:36
2) Carlos Sastre, CSC, Spain, at 5:42
3) Christophe Moreau, AG2R, France, at 5:58
4) Damiano Cunego, Lampre, Italy, at 6:40
5) Michael Boogerd, Rabobank, Netherlands, at 7:08
6) Frank Schleck, CSC, Luxembourg, at 7:08
7) Oscar Pereiro, Caisse d'Epargne, Spain, at 7:08
8) Andreas Klöden, T-Mobile, Germany, at 7:08
9) Haimar Zubeldia, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 7:08
10) Cadel Evans, Davitamon-Lotto, Australia, at 7:20
Full results

Overall:
1) Oscar Pereiro, Caisse d'Epargne, Spain, in 80:08:49
2) Carlos Sastre, CSC, Spain, at :12
3) Floyd Landis, Phonak, CSC, at :30
4) Andreas Klöden, T-Mobile, Germany, at 2:29
5) Cadel Evans, Davitamon-Lotto, Australia, at 3:08
6) Denis Menchov, Rabobank, Russia, at 4:14
7) Cyril Dessel, AG2R, France, at 4:24
8) Christophe Moreau, AG2R, France, at 5:45
9) Haimar Zubeldia, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Spain, at 8:16
10) Michael Rogers, T-Mobile, Australia, at 12:13
Complete standings

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by Frank Steele reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 12:02PM

Originally posted by Frank Steele from Tour de France 2006, on July 20, 2006 11:54 PM

As the Village Voice explains, Silence of the City publishes Talk of the Town pieces that have been rejected by the New Yorker. When McSweeney's started off, didn't they publish work rejected from other newspapers/magazines? (via b&a)
Update: "McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected by other magazines." More here. (thx, steve)

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 11:38AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 20, 2006 11:54 PM

Beautiful Evidence is both the title of Edward Tufte's latest book and an accurate description of the document itself. Like few other mass market publications, BE is lovingly hand-crafted, a physical manifestation of the ideas expressed in its pages; the text and images therein could be about another subject entirely and you might still get the point: "Words, Numbers, Images - Together" (the title of the book's fourth chapter).

Case in point. Pages 123 and 124 fold out into a spread depicting Charles Joseph Minard's famous infographic of the disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia by France. But unlike most magazine and book fold-outs, the page that folds out is cut 1/2 inch narrower than the underlying page so that a) a bit of the page underneath peeks out, providing a visual cue for unfoldability, and b) there's no difficulty when you go to refold the page with getting it caught in the book's crease or otherwise undesirably bending/creasing it. The fold-out design is a small thing that the casual reader might not even notice, but it demonstrates the care that went into the production of the book (and perhaps the reason why Tufte took so long in writing/designing it).

The gang at 37signals noticed similar craftsmanship in the writing and presentation:

"What struck me is how you almost never have to hold something in your head while turning the page...he usually finishes his thought within the two pages you can see...and when you flip, it's something new...that's an excellent self-imposed constraint...'whatever i need to say, i'll do it here.'" Jason replied, "Yes, I love that. I noticed that more on this book than others. The image and text is in one spread so when you turn you are turning your attention to a new idea. If you have too much to say than the space allowed then you are probably saying too much...it definitely makes it easier to design the book too...you can design each spread as if it was a standalone poster."

What I've also noticed about Beautiful Evidence is the lack of reviews in mainstream publications; I can't find a single newspaper or magazine that has published a review. Compare that to the releases of Gladwell's Blink, Remnick's Reporting, and Anderson's The Long Tail, for which reviews started appearing almost everywhere before the books were even available. Those books were written for mass audiences and backed by large publishing companies with ample PR resources and plenty of review copies to go around. In contrast, Beautiful Evidence is self-published by Tufte, which means it's beautiful, personal, and done just right, but also invisible to the mainstream press. Not that Beautiful Evidence is being ignored -- the blogosphere is talking about it and the Amazon Sales Rank is currently about 600 (which doesn't count online sales directly from edwardtufte.com) -- but it deserves the consideration of the mainstream press.

(View @ Amazon)

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 3:51PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 20, 2006 11:53 PM

In addition to Meg's two posts, I'm adding this essay by a supertaster, David Leite, who runs the excellent website, Leite's Culinaria, which won the Beard award this year for best food site.

Originally from megnut.com blog by michael@ruhlman.com (Michael Ruhlman) reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 3:44PM

Originally posted by michael@ruhlman.com (Michael Ruhlman) from megnut.com blog, on July 20, 2006 11:52 PM

That famous chef's cookbook you love so much was probably not written by that famous chef. The FT looks at who really writes the cookbooks and tests all those recipes. [via TMN]

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 3:39PM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on July 20, 2006 11:52 PM

The ad at Green Parkon on Jubilee line. It is a bit of a hard read, but you get the point.

This ad made me furious. How stupid and unresponsible do you have to come up with this dumb idea. Not to speak of suggesting it to a client and finally for the client to approve it. There is acute shortage of water in the world. Even the Mayor of London sent us a 'personal' letter urgeing us to save for example not to water plants. Then I see Vittel encourageing people to waste even waste as a competition which will just put fuel on the fire. If you share my anger lets not buy their water. With me they just lost one customer for life!

Originally from ChristianLindholm.com by Christian Lindholm reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 4:21AM

Originally posted by Christian Lindholm from ChristianLindholm.com, on July 20, 2006 11:52 PM

It worked! Back in March, I saved a bunch of avocado pits and set them up to sprout. Only one of them survived, and this morning I went ahead and planted it in a pot.

» Read more on Vox

Originally from alaina browne lives here by Alaina reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 11:12AM

Originally posted by Alaina from alaina browne lives here, on July 20, 2006 11:51 PM

Michael Frumin writes that Eyebeam is now accepting applications for the next round of R&D Fellows in the R&D OpenLab:

We are looking for hardware and software hackers, techno arts-and-craftsters, and new types of open source makers to come to New York City and develop experimental creative technologies and media. The OpenLab represents an opportunity for selected individuals to work in a state-of-the-art digital fabrication laboratory, to collaborate with a range of talented technologists and artists from diverse and hybrid backgrounds, to gain international exposure for innovative work and to directly enrich the global DIY community, free culture and the public domain. Join past OpenLab Fellows and projects like MintyBoost, OGLE (OpenGLExtractor), SlashLinks, LED Throwies, Contagious Media and FundRace and make your mark on the Public Domain.

It's hard to overstate how awesome Eyebeam is. Any one of these projects could be the basis for a multi-million dollar company, but they choose to donate their work back to the public domain instead.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 3:38PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on July 20, 2006 11:51 PM

Dream: After sleeping at a new apartment, burgled at old apartment (bike stripped, apartment key gone). By chance, run into bike thief sleeping at neighborhood garage. Hit him with my bike wheel (good weapon!). Then he seems congenial and willing to give back my stuff. While walking to get it, I ask him if he knows anything about my keys. He says, let's see. We go into my old building (he unlocks it). In the lobby two friends of his are sleeping on mattresses that have appeared overnight—they take up the whole foot of the stairwell. Thief explains: his girlfriend is an artist but needs to cram, hence all the stuff in their otherwise bohemian lifestyle. He lets me in to the 3rd floor apartment—not mine. Heading down to the 2nd floor I wake up. Voices in the hall.

Originally from Letters to an Unknown Audience by ezra reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 5:03PM

Originally posted by ezra from Letters to an Unknown Audience, on July 20, 2006 11:51 PM

Jesse James Garrett talks with Steven Johnson about Interface Culture. I know part 2 is coming, but I just want this interview to go on forever. p.s. Dean!

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 21, 2006, 6:19PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 20, 2006 11:51 PM

Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals, making them bigger and a little less Real. But seriously, I had always wondered how 37s was going to grow and this is a bit of an answer to that question. Congrats, guys. (thx, steve)
Update: Tom has some thoughts on Bezos' next investments, most likely 31functions.com, 25description.com, and 19options.com.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 9:50PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 20, 2006 11:51 PM

We're very proud to announce that Al Swerengen has made a small private equity investment in Mule Design Studio. To celebrate the occasion we opened some canned peaches.

Originally from Mule Design : Off the Hoof by mike@muledesign.com (Mike Monteiro) reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 7:14PM

Originally posted by mike@muledesign.com (Mike Monteiro) from Mule Design : Off the Hoof, on July 20, 2006 11:51 PM

Now listen all your mother effing cocksuckers, I don't want to hear nothing about no other cocksucking t-shirts you want to buy, there ain't no other cocksucking shirt you cocksuckers need than this mother effing cocksucking shirt, ok?

Plus it's Mike's cocksucking birthday, so go give him some cocksucking love.

Wait. That's not what I meant. It seems I don't know how to use that word properly.

Originally from Awesome! by S H reBlogged

Originally posted by S H from Awesome! , on July 20, 2006 11:49 PM

Rhonabwy: “Yep, step by step. I took the easiest possible track for installation—installing with SQLite support. Not what you’d probably want to do for any sort of production world, but lovely for quick development.”

Originally from ranchero.com by Brent Simmons reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 9:10PM

Originally posted by Brent Simmons from ranchero.com, on July 20, 2006 11:47 PM

A black-and-white graphic from the Globe and Mail (direct link to image). A map-intensive Flash presentation from the Guardian. A Google Earth layer (KMZ format) showing the attacks on both sides -- now, of course, it can be viewed...

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 10:00PM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on July 20, 2006 11:47 PM

Let's see how many people are comparing YouTube to Napster. Ah, hey, look at that -- quite a lot.

Today's example: last night's great Daily Show piece on net neutrality, already conveniently available for your pleasure, (mostly) ad-free. Thanks, YouTube!

Originally from shey.net reblog reBlogged on Jul 20, 2006, 11:40PM

Originally from shey.net reblog, on July 20, 2006 11:47 PM

Brick v Asphalt. Brick streets add character and calm traffic. And one neighborhood association president noted estimates that indicate the higher price of restoring brick is more than offset by lower maintenance costs and longer life than asphalt. Some neighborhoods are removing asphalt and restoring the old brick streets underneath. (via)

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 12:02PM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on July 20, 2006 12:23 AM

it's a process, struggle, and let things pass. be grateful, without ego.
sound: high and dry, radiohead

Originally from lifeblog by Jesus Park reBlogged

Originally posted by Jesus Park from lifeblog, on July 20, 2006 12:23 AM

With all the 2.0 hype, I think it’s unfair to unanimously declare all new Internet startups as 100% junk. It can’t be much more than 95%. So I thought it would be an interesting diversion to switch the tone of my writing for a change. Here are some tips I have for these would-be entrepreneurs to thrive and survive the next 24 months.

Originally from unmediated by yatta reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 12:29PM

Originally posted by yatta from unmediated, on July 20, 2006 12:21 AM

According to Michael Ruhlman, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is stuck in Lebanon, where he's enjoying the mojitos but still scared. Ruhlman also takes this opportunity to ruminate on the term "celebrity chef:"

Why do we have to use celebrity chef? We don’t call Wynton Marsalis the celebrity musician. We don’t refer to Annika Sorenstam as the celebrity golfer, we don’t say celebrity actor and we don’t say celebrity celebrity, though surely there are those, someone who’s famous only for being famous. As far as chefs go, are we calling them celebrity chefs to indicate they don’t cook anymore? We should consider this.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 5:12PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on July 20, 2006 12:16 AM

Here’s a short interview at PingMag with L.A. cutie-pie illustrator couple (just scroll down the interview, you’ll see a photo) Kozyndan (that’s Kozue and Dan = Kozy-n-dan), who just opened their exhibition at Paul Smith SPACE in Shibuya, Tokyo. They have a blog too (but it has no RSS feed! How can I track their every post without a feed?!)

One of your first questions, as it would be for me, would be: How do two illustrators create a single piece together? Their answer:

Kozue: It depends. Sometimes, it’s just one of us finishing off a piece and other times we would draw an illustration together. The usual process is that we draw rough sketches with a pencil on paper and scan it in. Then we start to color it in on Photoshop. If you take a closer look, you can see the lines drawn by a pencil on the background.

Honestly, that still doesn’t answer the question, so it, along with how many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, will have to remain shrouded in mystery. What ain’t a mystery, is how amazing their work is. The image above is only about a quarter of a full-360 degree panoramic illustration they did. You can view it in full size and rotate spin around the QVTR here.

Originally from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog by Luc reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 6:08PM

Originally posted by Luc from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog, on July 20, 2006 12:16 AM

From Gothamist, How to Steal a bike in NYC. Most interesting, is all the comments about how everyone’s bike get stolen in NYC. Maybe the Neistat Brothers should’ve tried their own Yellow Bike program and observed the response.

Originally from Bike Hugger by DL Byron reBlogged

Originally posted by DL Byron from Bike Hugger, on July 20, 2006 12:13 AM

Valve "Portal" demonstration video. Yikes; it's like M.C. Escher designed a video game.

Originally from Hack the Planet reBlogged

Originally from Hack the Planet, on July 20, 2006 12:13 AM

david posted a photo:

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on July 20, 2006 12:13 AM

Hilarious!
(via Clusterflock)

Originally from Cynical-C Blog by Chris reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 11:09PM

Originally posted by Chris from Cynical-C Blog, on July 20, 2006 12:13 AM

This just in: real, honest-to-goodness, printed tee shirts featuring the “Hel-Fucking-Vetica” design that I produced for El Boton some months ago. The feedback I got back from that button was sufficiently positive that I decided to take a chance and run a limited number of these shirts to sell here at Subtraction.com.

They’re printed on high-quality, light blue American Apparel tees in super-sexy cyan and magenta, echoing the original button design without veering too far off into its divisive, hot pink color scheme. The good news is that they’ve literally just left the shirt printer’s yesterday afternoon, but the bad news is that I have about ten days of vacation starting tomorrow, so I won’t be able to start selling them until I get all my ducks in a row, probably sometime in August or early September. Stay tuned, and keep that credit card handy.

Right: Tees on tap. Just printed “Hel-Fucking-Vetica” tees.

Originally from Subtraction by Khoi Vinh reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 11:18PM

Originally posted by Khoi Vinh from Subtraction, on July 20, 2006 12:13 AM

Spicy Mangoes and More
"One of Red Hook’s best treats is the weekend fare at the soccer fields (around the corner from the pool). There are a number of vendors there selling a delicious and affordable selection of South and Central American dishes... This was a new one for me — fresh mango sprinkled with salt, chili powder, paprika and lime. THIS IS REALLY GOOD!" [423 Smith]

Spartan Souvlaki
"The gyro is killer. Available in multiple formats, the mystery meat is best enjoyed in the version found among the 'Spartan Specials,' where $6.15 gets you a sandwich so big, the pocketless pita can't contain it. Bulging out the top are red ripe tomatoes (the place prides itself on perfect tomatoes), curling strips of oozing meat, purple onions, romaine, and a tzatziki made with so much raw garlic you can smell it as the waiter foots it across the room." [Village Voice]

After the jump: Christie's Jamaican Patties, Provence en Boite, and Cafe Lafayette

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 10:47AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 19, 2006 10:55 AM

The Crown Princess cruise ship, which was christened by Martha Stewart before it embarked to the Caribbean from its home terminal in Red Hook, experienced a steering problem yesterday that caused the ship to roll to one side. According to the Times, "the upper decks were flooded and the elevators were inoperable. Gym equipment flipped over, TVs fell off their shelves and shattered glass was strewn across the deck." One adult and a child were critically hurt, 12 people were seriously hurt, and about 70 suffered lesser injuries. According to Chris Broadbent, a 33-year-old honeymooner from New York City, "Tuesday night's movie on the ship was supposed to be Titanic." Steering problems or not, who wants to watch Titanic on a boat? That's just creepy.
Cruise Ship Mishap Injures Dozens [NY Times]
Disaster on High Seas [NY Daily News]
We're on a Cruise to Nowhere [Brooklyn Record]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 19, 2006, 10:02AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 19, 2006 10:55 AM

I was going to shoot a pic of the *T*T myself and post it but William Drenttl beat me to it:

via The Design Observer 07.14.06:

Move It Down . . . A Little to the Right

Detail, Guggenheim Museum facade under renovation. Photograph by Chris Kasabach, 2006.

One of the great artifacts of American architecture is being renovated in New York City. Scaffolds are up, and paint and surface stucco are being removed. And what do we find?

That some years ago, some poor sign installer went to put the first letter of the name of the museum up on the wall, and someone screamed, "No, you idiot! Lower! Much Lower! Get it down close to the edge. And a quarter-inch to the right."

That the building is the Guggenheim Museum, and that the architect was Frank Lloyd Wright, makes this photographic detail especially interesting.

Detail, Guggenheim Museum facade under renovation. Photograph by Chris Kasabach, 2006.

Tying letterforms to the soffit edge — emphasizing the horizontal line — was clearly Wright's intention early on, as evident in his drawings. I could be wrong, but I don't think he ever floated text. Wright tended to use text in an "active" way to emphasize building lines and datums; or packed in a square panel, expressing a planning module. (Mies van der Rohe would float signage, but generally preferred to have none.)

Guggenheim Museum, perspective drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1951.

I'm not sure that it was Frank Lloyd Wright who art directed this correction. It could have happened years later. (Perhaps an architectural historian or typographer among our audience can shed some light on this.)

As they say, though, design is in the details. These are the kinds of little decisions, one at a time, hundreds cumulatively, that make a great building great.

Originally from NEWSgrist - where spin is art by noemail@noemail.org (joy garnett) reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 1:32PM

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (joy garnett) from NEWSgrist - where spin is art, on July 19, 2006 10:53 AM

"I think that there are some moments in life which belong only to those who live them, and to no-one else. The moment when one refuses to play always appears stupid in the eyes of others. But what value has the pride of the collectivity when compared to the intimate pride of the individual?"

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:53PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 19, 2006 9:22 AM

"I need to implement some sort of CAPTCHA based on Strunk & White. If you can't tell me the difference between 'continual' and 'continuous,' I don't want to talk to you."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:58PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 19, 2006 9:22 AM

There's been a lot of buzz lately about the death of electric cars, but gearheads 'round the world are eagerly awaiting the July 20 arrival of a new electric sports car from a startup by the name of Tesla Motors. 

Yes, an electric sports car. Actually, when you think about a sports car as a device focused on pure driving enjoyment rather than as A-to-B transportation (kind of like the automotive equivalent of a Ducati 999), going electric makes a lot of sense, for a couple of reasons.  If all you're going to do is carve up a twisty canyon road on a Sunday morning and drive a loop back home, there's no need to worry about where your next jolt of juice will come from.  Second, there's the inherent nature of electric motors, which develop maximum torque at zero RPM.  It's torque, not horsepower, that makes for a sparkling drive.  A torquey electric motor will give you neck-snapping acceleration and a scintillating oomph in the small of your back.

Tesla's car is likely to be very, very good from a performance standpoint: based on the DNA of an established sports car marque, it should combine stellar handling with a 4-second 0-60 time.  Fast, nimble, fast, fast.  And though the automotive landscape is littered with failed startups, Tesla Motors is chaired by Elon Musk, who spoke about rockets at TED2005, has a great track record of creating viable technology ventures, and is about to launch another one.

Here's to electric cars.  Only 23 hours, 32 minutes, 56 seconds to go...

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (Diego Rodriguez) from TED Blog, on July 19, 2006 9:20 AM

In an earlier post, I had reviewed Gimp - a robust image manipulation software which is installed by default in most Linux distributions. Gimp can no doubt be held at par with the industry leader Adobe Photoshop atleast in creating images for the web. But sometimes a situation arises where it is not feasible to use a GUI based software to modify images; perhaps because the machine does not have a

Originally from All about Linux by Ravi reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 12:45PM

Originally posted by Ravi from All about Linux, on July 18, 2006 10:01 PM

re-nourish.com. Resources on sustainable graphic design. “Definitions, tips, links, information and inspiration to aid in the development of a sustainable and more environmentally conscious graphic design craft.” (via)

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 8:48PM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on July 18, 2006 9:59 PM

NYT: Four cookbooks for newlyweds. The author makes a good case for each of these, but my list would be different:

• How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. It really does what the title says, and should be given to anyone setting up house for the first time.
• The Passionate Vegetarian, by Crescent Dragonwagon. I love this book for its enthusiasm, its variety, and its solid education about cooking every basic food (except meat). The dishes in this book have been more inconsistent than the others on this list, but I think that's because each of her recipes has such a strong point of view, if you will. She is not afraid to judiciously recommend shortcuts and convenience items, unlike most of the other cookbooks I own—she really wants you to cook. I would recommend this book to anyone (vegetarian or not) who wants to expand their repertoire of food approaches, or who has had trouble learning to think about cooking without meat.
• World Vegetarian by Madhur Jaffrey, (currently, the book I most frequently cook from) for any couple (vegetarian or not) who loves international cuisine. This really is food is from all around the world, the information about basic approaches and ingredients is very thorough, and the recipes I have tried have been consistently delicious.
• I guess my 4th recommendation wouldn't be a cookbook at all, but a subscription to Cooks Illustrated, once described by a friend of mine as a "serial education in cooking". Clear directions, good variety, and reliable product recommendations.

What would you recommend?

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on July 18, 2006 9:58 PM

"I think I speak for all writers, when I say that I am delighted by marketing efforts of any sort."

— Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell, commenting in The Guardian on film-style trailers for books, being released online by publishers to build demand for new titles

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (June Cohen) from TED Blog, on July 18, 2006 9:55 PM

- read all about pirates and get heavily into pirates
- plan trip to Georgia (the one in the Caucasus) via the Black Sea
- stop confusing my grandparent's old flat with paradise on earth. This obsession is driving me round the bend. I can smell the place when I wake up in the mornings
- go to Budapest to find books
- read detective stories in German
- get sarah to look at these: yesterday I saw Afghan tapestries of Soviet tanks, helicopters, rocket launchers, with a border of bullets. Something similar is here.

Originally from the lady upgrade project by mr tibbles reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 12:13PM

Originally posted by mr tibbles from the lady upgrade project, on July 18, 2006 9:55 PM

Here's an intriguing piece from Davey D on the question of: "Is Hip Hop's Audience Really 80% White?" (Bakari Kitwana famously took on this issue in one of the chapters of his book, Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop.)

Davey drops a bunch of zingers. I had no idea, for instance, that Arbitron counts Asian American radio listeners as white, a fact that skews the numbers unbelievably in places like the Bay, LA, and New York--hell I'd make a safe bet it even wrecks the stats in Seattle, Jacksonville, southern Virginia, and Houston. Apparently, 80+% of hip-hop listeners in Hawai'i are white!

Davey's argument is that the idea of "80% white" was floated in the early 90s in order to bring ad moneys into Top 40 stations that had begun playing rap. It was never a fact, more like a good sales pitch turned into "common sense"...kinda like "look, man, Iraq has weapons of mass destruction"...:

The truth of the matter is that this 80% white Hip Hop fan myth has long been a nice marketing tool used by media corporations to justify ad revenues for Top 40 radio stations. Here's a little background on this.

Back in the late 80s and early 90s, many rap artists complained how the urban (Black) radio stations did not play rap except on the weekends and even then it was only in the mix late at night. Chuck D highlighted this concern in his song 'Don't Believe the Hype'. He goes into further detail about this lack of support by Black urban programmers in a song called 'How to Kill a Radio Consultant'.

According to Black radio programmers they avoided playing rap, because it was affecting their advertising. In spite of Hip Hop's cross over success with groups like Run DMC and the 'positive, vibe that existed within rap at that time-(it was the Golden Era), many companies associated Hip Hop with violence done by Black people. Hence a Black radio station playing Hip Hop was likely to have difficult time getting money...

A must-read...

Originally from zentronix: dubwise & hiphopcentric by Jeff reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 12:58PM

Originally posted by Jeff from zentronix: dubwise & hiphopcentric, on July 18, 2006 9:55 PM

Here it is, the awful truth. After sampling In-N-Out Burger twice this past weekend (a cheeseburger with raw onion and, 4 days later, a Double Double w/ no onions) and having had several Shack Burgers this year (my most recent one was a couple of weeks ago), an adequate comparison between the two can be made. The verdict?

The Shake Shack burger wins in a landslide. It's more flavorful, features a better balance of ingredients, and a yummier bun. On the french fries front, In-N-Out's fresh-cut fries get the nod.

Courtesy of Mena, something to keep in mind: a cheeseburger at In-N-Out is $1.85 while a similarly appointed Shack Burger is $4.38, almost 2.5 times as much. SS french fries are nearly twice the price of In-N-Out fries. The burger comparison is an unfair one because, despite its location and style, Shake Shack is a restaurant and In-N-Out is a fast food joint. That the burgers are even close enough to compare -- and make no mistake, I still love the In-N-Out burger -- says a great deal about In-N-Out.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 6:11PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 18, 2006 9:45 PM

Wes Anderson To Film In India. I am going to do a movie with my friend Wes [Anderson] in India, and that’s not going to be a buddy comedy movie. [I play] one of three brothers, and they go on this journey in India. I haven’t really spoken to Wes yet in regards to what I can really talk about. [ thanks pmh ]

Originally from Turbanhead.com by Administrator reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:09PM

Originally posted by Administrator from Turbanhead.com, on July 18, 2006 9:45 PM

It wouldn't be my top choice for a game based on a Nintendo movie (come on, Legend of Zelda!) but it's an interesting one: apparently there exists a trailer (which isn't loading for me right now, unfortunately) and a website.

Here's the original advert. As a huge AC fan, I'll admit to some excitement over this development, but it's still a bit odd. What's fun about the game, in my view, can't really be translated to a linear narrative medium like film. But it might be fun.

Trailer still isn't loading for me. In the meantime, enjoy this lovely video of piano versions of AC songs. So relaxing!

Originally from game girl advance by jane reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:21PM

Originally posted by jane from game girl advance, on July 18, 2006 9:45 PM

"More features are coming at Digg, and we have screenshots of two of them from a Digg tester - Digg Stack and Digg Swarm. Swarm and Stack will launch on Monday, July 24, 2006. Scott Beale took photos of earlier versions of these products (swarm, stack) from the Digg launch party last month. As far as I know the shots below are the first clean images on the web."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:32PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 18, 2006 9:45 PM

A day or so ago I started seeing references to AJAX timelines, by Simile in a few blogs. Thinking that they looked rather interesting, I've taken a couple of hours to integrate them in to SVN::Web. The work's been carried out on this branch, if you want to follow along. The code works well enough to draw a scrollable timeline of Subversion commits.

Originally from use Perl by nik (posted by brian_d_foy) reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 3:59PM

Originally posted by nik (posted by brian_d_foy) from use Perl, on July 18, 2006 9:40 PM

I got up (Seattle, PDT), made coffee, fed Cap'n the pug, turned on OLN, and sat down with the laptop just as the riders started climbing Alpe de Huez! Landis is just riding them off his wheel, including Cadel Evans. No dominating attack, no look, or smacking his hand on the table.

Landis is riding the tour his way. Leipheimer is up there!

Best quote so far from Paul, "riding on 200 grams of courage." 2nd best quote from my wife who asked why Schleck has a yellow number, "is that a rental number?"

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by texturadesign reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 10:44AM

Originally posted by texturadesign from Tour de France 2006, on July 18, 2006 9:37 PM

Eyebeam is accepting applications for the next round of fellows for the OpenLab. Artists, technologists, designers, hackers, git in there.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 5:28PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 18, 2006 9:36 PM

We're glad to see that Atlantic Yards Project is getting plenty of attention in the press and around the blogosphere. According to the Brooklyn Papers, more than 2,000 New Yorkers attended Forest City Ratner's "affordable housing information meeting" last week at the Brooklyn Marriot:

Many in the predominantly black crowd came from outside of Brooklyn and saw the development from beyond the prism of local controversy that has pitted residents of Prospect Heights and Fort Greene — who believe it will destroy the neighborhoods’ character — against Ratner boosters like Markowitz, who cheer the affordable housing and jobs the project may create.

Many attendees were disappointed that only 225 apartments will be reserved for families of four that earn between $21,270 and $28,360. The majority of the units will go to families that earn above $42,540." This news also helped fuel the fire of the DDDB (Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn) anti-Ratner rally on Saturday, which featured speeches from Park Slope's Steve Buscemi and Brooklyn native Rosie Perez...

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 11:35AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 18, 2006 9:35 PM

Chris Klapper's SWARM of insect-like baby dolls suspended from the ceiling by cables and springs.

Originally from we make money not art by Regine reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 1:07PM

Originally posted by Regine from we make money not art, on July 18, 2006 9:33 PM

New York Times realizes the obvious: "It is only now, nearly five years after Sept. 11, that the full picture of the Bush administration's response to the terror attacks is becoming clear. Much of it, we can see now, had far less to do with fighting Osama bin Laden than with expanding presidential power."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 12:43PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 18, 2006 9:31 PM

"Things get odd in the crooked house of Seifert Surface, located hundreds of meters up above an island called, appropriately enough, The Future. But it doesn't require an earthquake. To enter the hyper-dimensionality of Seifert's home, all that's necessary is to push the big button on the marble table in the foyer. From that point, you're sucked into its warped, infinite reality."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 4:16PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 18, 2006 9:31 PM

It's nice to be told you are wanted. But it's even nicer to feel like you're home. That is the...

Originally from Behind the Blazers Beat reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 7:56PM

Originally from Behind the Blazers Beat, on July 18, 2006 10:24 AM

Can't quite place that tune? Musiclens is a free German, search app. to find and explore music by varying the balance of several criteria --adjust between ear-busting to silent, or from instrumental to vocal; it also includes keyword and time period search.

Also, Last.fm music search recently went live, completing a beta phase begun last fall. Last.fm creates personalized radio stations by combining a user's favorite songs with an algorithmic recommendation feed taken from a network of users with similar tastes.

Last is similar to Pandora in its offerings (with the addition of a social space and communication tools between users). But Last's analytics rely on the frequency songs are played (by a user and their social network) and a folksonomy of tagging. In contrast, Pandora radio derives from the more ambitious Genome Music Project, which uses musical attributes and elements to create its search analytics.

If keyword search is hampered by orthography and text spam, imagine the challenges in harnessing ambient audio into a durable search engine--probably harder than Quaero would guess.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on Jul 17, 2006, 8:04PM

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on July 18, 2006 10:24 AM

Here comes the Nanofood. George Elvin describes the future of high-tech food.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on July 18, 2006 10:18 AM

This tent is a bit bulky and heavy (3.5 kgs) for hiking, but good for car or bicycle trips. The cool thing is that it sets up in 2 seconds. You just have to throw it in the air and boing!, you are ready to sleep in two seconds (hence its the name). I found that two seconds for fold-out is realistic, except when it lands on its roof and, you've got to roll it over, adding a few more seconds. Once done, you've got to pitch it down with 2 stakes if the wind is moderate, 4 more if there is any more wind.

The manufacturer, Decathlon, claims one needs 15 seconds to fold it away. With some training you can get it down to less than one minute, for sure, on a lazy day, including all accessories. You just have to expulse the remaining air, and put it in the bag. When folded it is a disc a bit larger than a 28-inch bicycle wheel (around 80cm in diameter). It's too large to fit into a backpack, but you can hang it on the exterior of a pack. If you do that you'll look like a dwarf holding his shield. It could fit on the back of a bike, but really it is made for car camping.

The tent sleeps two. The room is 145 x 245cm, so it could be possible to sleep three, but not for a long time. One advantage is that the roof is flatter than an igloo, like in a tunnel. Inside it's a pretty standard tent, with a double roof, and nets for venting.

All in all, it's not the perfect tent, but a good tent, light enough, larger than a regular pop tent, and a lot of fun. I like to open it several times just because it's amazing.

-- Marc Lacoste

2-Second Tent
$70
Available from Decathalon

Originally from Cool Tools reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:00AM

Originally from Cool Tools, on July 18, 2006 10:18 AM

Rich Medina & Bobbito at Fort Greene Park

7 to 8:30 PM: At Fort Greene Park (DeKalb and Washington Park Street), CityParks Concerts presents respected DJ and spoken word artist, Rich Medina, with author, magazine columnist, editor, sneaker culture historian, and accomplished DJ, Bobbito Garcia (a.k.a. DJ Cucumberslice). Free.
Cyclones vs. Oneonta Tigers
7 PM: At Keyspan Park in Coney Island, the first 2,500 fans will receive cooler bags. The Cyclones extended their longest winning streak of the year to seven games, with a 6-4 win over Vermont last night. Tickets from $6 to $13.

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 9:28AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 18, 2006 10:18 AM

SCHMUCK RD
Originally uploaded by david.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 5:54PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on July 17, 2006 2:36 PM

Machu Picchu, the ‘Lost City of the Incas’, is an ancient ruined city found at the top of a mountain. It was probably built around 1440 and the most impressive thing is that it’s all still there, despite being constructed with stones neatly slotted together - there’s no mortar of any sort.

You can follow the switchback road all the way down the mountain to the Urubamba River and north east to the little village of Aguas Calientes. The road is named the Hiram Bingham Highway, after the Yale archaeologist who re-discovered this site in 1911 and promptly pinched hundreds of ancient artefacts (Wikipedia.)

Thanks: Sam Tihen, Tim Finnegan, Ignacio, RoyalPineapple, Fher, Maurício R. Maurer, martin e, Quinn Kuiken, Dan T, Tim, fish, Tom Gula & eRez

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Originally from Google Sightseeing by James reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 11:59AM

Originally posted by James from Google Sightseeing, on July 16, 2006 1:22 PM

Look, ma—now we do videos too! Hope you all like this one, there should be more coming soon. We hope to put two or so up every week.

Thanks so much to Mo SantRam for the great editing advice!

Originally from A Full Belly by Lia Bulaong reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 6:35PM

Originally posted by Lia Bulaong from A Full Belly, on July 16, 2006 1:16 PM

By Steven De La O, Google Base Operations

Discrepancies in dashboard totals have left quite a few of you wondering about the status of your items in Google Base. This confusion is caused by the different totals displayed on the Active items and Bulk upload files pages of your account dashboard. The item details on the Bulk upload files page include the total number of items in your bulk upload file and how many of them were successfully processed. In some cases, this number will differ from the total displayed on the Active items page.

Example 1: Bulk upload file details
Example 2: Active items total for the same file

The Active items page lets you view and edit a snapshot of random items from your bulk upload file. We recently increased the item limit for this snapshot from 3,000 to 10,000 items to make it more useful to those of you submitting large amounts of items. An issue is that the Active items page may not show a complete list of items according to this limit. This happens when deleted or inactive items are included in our snapshot. Improvements to the functionality of the Active items page are in the works, so we’ll be addressing this issue in a future release.

So where can you get an accurate picture of how many of your items are in Google Base? We suggest using search results. To view all your items in the search results, in your account click on Item URL next to one of your items, then click on the link that reads All items by… at the top of the item page. On the next page you'll be able to see the total number of items displaying for your account in the top-right corner.

Originally from Official Google Base Blog by Steven reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 9:14PM

Originally posted by Steven from Official Google Base Blog, on July 16, 2006 1:16 PM

9,0000 cyclists of all types will ride 200 miles (almost as long as today's stage) this weekend from Seattle to Portland during the 27th annual Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic. Bike Hugger will feature posts and more about the ride from our bloggers. When I'm not watching le Tour and wondering why Landis is letting a break get so far ahead, I'll be going for a spin and then racing with the boys in the Skagit Flats.

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by texturadesign reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 10:42AM

Originally posted by texturadesign from Tour de France 2006, on July 16, 2006 1:11 PM

Goal 2006! a media research project focusing on the World Cup in the Era of Globalization in four elements:

http://www.goal2006.net

With Craig Dietrich, Technology Development. The central element of the site is a virtual football card in 64 versions, featuring updates and RSS media feeds for the participating FIFA countries, original video, audio and photography, and field reports worldwide. Contributors welcome!

Originally from post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine. reBlogged on Jun 12, 2006, 9:20PM

Originally from post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine., on July 16, 2006 1:10 PM

Oakland's Mandela Parkway, seen in Google Maps. This is the former site of the Nimitz freeway, a raised double-decker road that collapsed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. At 24th street, the boundary between two satellite image sources simultaneously shows the park during construction and after construction (run-up title for this post: Schrodinger's Park). Hopefully, a hint of things to come if Google opens up layers of historical satellite images in Maps.

Originally from tecznotes reBlogged

Originally from tecznotes , on July 16, 2006 1:10 PM

Daring Fireball: “Mac OS X is a very hackable platform; it just isn’t hackable by means of the raw source code to the software. This is one area where Mac OS X inherits good aspects from both sides of its family. From the classic Mac OS, it inherits AppleScript and a tradition of rich plug-in APIs for major applications. From Next, it inherits both the entire (highly scriptable) Unix layer and the eminently hackable and modular Objective-C runtime system.”

Originally from ranchero.com by Brent Simmons reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 1:43PM

Originally posted by Brent Simmons from ranchero.com, on July 16, 2006 1:10 PM

Chuqui 3.0: “Here’s one very common scenario for why something like ‘remove your personal data from the Nike site’ isn’t in release 1.0: the deadline for shipping the product is July 10, say. The code to implement this feature still has serious bugs in it, and is running late. Management’s freaking.”

Originally from ranchero.com by Brent Simmons reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 1:32PM

Originally posted by Brent Simmons from ranchero.com, on July 16, 2006 1:10 PM

david posted a photo:

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on July 16, 2006 1:07 PM

I had no idea one could write a bash completion script - that makes the Tab key fill in possible custom commands or arguments when you’re at a prompt - but one of my todo.txt developers did, and wrote one that completes todo.sh arguments or your existing projects, contexts or priorities. Which totally blew my doors off.

Originally from Spun by Gina Trapani reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 2:19AM

Originally posted by Gina Trapani from Spun, on July 16, 2006 1:07 PM

by Jeff Clark of CelticsBlog.com

Here is an insightful article by Kelly Dwyer on the 3 year deals LeBron, Wade, and Bosh signed.  Especially this part:

Years down the line, few will remember that Kevin Garnett was probably the best player of his era because he had to spend his prime paired with some pitiful teammates, even having to bring the ball up court at times and defend the opposition's best scorer while filling up the stat sheet every night. Seriously, go look at some of his teammates. No player could have won with that backing.

So what would have happened had Garnett taken the three-year route? Would he have stayed in Minnesota past '01? Wouldn't he, three years into a contract extension, be the prize of the free agent market in '07?

Originally from True Hoop by Truehoop Guest Blogger reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 1:26AM

Originally posted by Truehoop Guest Blogger from True Hoop, on July 16, 2006 1:07 PM

From a June 1 editorial in the Wall Street Journal Asia on events leading up to the recent violence in East Timor:

“[Former Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari] Alkatiri entered into a kind of siege mindset, centralizing power and implementing a series of decisions that alienated wide swathes of his political base. Most unpopular was the decision to make Portuguese — a language of the exiles, but not of the nation — the official language. Fretilin also adopted the national flag as its party symbol, a not-so-subtle claim to absolute power.”

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 10:50PM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on July 16, 2006 1:07 PM

[i am actually a giant robot.] Yahoo has a killer geocoding API that translates your address, city, state to latitude and longitude. Well, since I’m working on mapping software, I definitely need something like that.

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Originally from Geotags.org by admin reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 10:42PM

Originally posted by admin from Geotags.org, on July 16, 2006 1:07 PM

"Ten years ago this week, Palm Computing debuted the Pilot 1000. 1996 seems like eons ago, but the major PDA market has been around for a very short amount of time, really. The primitiveness of that first machine is striking today; but what is even more striking is how the limitations of its hardware made it easier to use. It is a supreme example of constraints leading to superior creativity and execution."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 9:06PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 16, 2006 12:59 PM

Israeli weapon system that allows user to shoot around corners.

(via Digg)

Originally from Cynical-C Blog by Chris reBlogged on Jul 15, 2006, 11:50PM

Originally posted by Chris from Cynical-C Blog, on July 16, 2006 12:57 PM

If you want your tree to last longer than you do, there's a few steps you need to take to make sure it's planted properly.

It's not a matter of digging a hole and plopping that puppy in; instead, you've got to match the right tree to the right climate, dig the right size hole, and mulch it. If you are careful to follow proper planting procedures (say that three times fast), you'll be able to enjoy your tree for many years to come. — Wendy Boswell

How to Plant a Tree [Virgina Department of Forestry]

Originally from Lifehacker reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 12:30PM

Originally from Lifehacker, on July 16, 2006 12:50 PM

In this week's Newsbytes, I mentioned Microsoft's Private Folder 1.0, which is one of the perks for submitting to XP verification via Windows Genuine Advantage. According to CNet: Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature...

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 12:38PM

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog, on July 16, 2006 12:48 PM

I am addicted to watching trailers on the internet. Some good stuff is out this week! My fave director, Pedro Almodovar's new film, Volver starring the lovely Penelope Cruz. I have heard good things about this film. I can not wait!

Running with Scissors, a great, great book that looks like a great movie (though Annette Bening sort of gets on my nerves).

Hollywoodland, a new flick about George Reeves' murder starring Adrian Brody. This movie might help me get some respect back for Ben Affleck. Maybe. He has not made a decent film in a long, long time.

The Science of Sleep which looks exactly like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Gael Garcia Benal. This is probably not a bad thing.

Oh and then there's the Rocky Balboa trailer. When is enough enough. Is this finally the end? Please say it is! And why oh why did you not put Milo Ventimiglia in the trailer. Young girls know him from Gilmore Girls. The film exec in me is a bit baffled by this. I am sure they will recut it. (I know that is a random thing to be focused on but I needed something to distract me from the horror that I was seeing.)

Originally from tuckergurl by Angela Tucker reBlogged on Jul 16, 2006, 11:44AM

Originally posted by Angela Tucker from tuckergurl, on July 16, 2006 12:48 PM