schnitzelbank.

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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:59:25 GMT

iTunes 10 Allows You to Play Media From Any Connected iPod

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:22:38 GMT

Daring Fireball

Great tip from Seth Weintraub.

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1980 Ebert interview with Jodie Foster

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:55:04 GMT

kottke.org

From 1980, Roger Ebert interviews Jodie Foster, who is on the cusp of entering college. Here's an anecdote about Taxi Driver at Cannes:

The movie had been controversial. The president of the festival jury, Tennessee Williams, already had vowed that it would win a prize only over his dead body (it won the Grand Prix; Williams lived). The key people at the press conference were Martin Scorsese...

Matt Buchanan on Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate Lightning

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:32:50 GMT

Daring Fireball

Matt Buchanan:

Verizon, unfortunately, is also what ruins the phone. Or, rather, what it’s forced Samsung to do to the phone, which you could sum up in a word: Bing. Bing is the default—and only—search engine on the Fascinate. A Google Android phone. In the search widget, in the browser, when you press the search button. Bing. No, you can’t change it. There’s no setting for it, and the...

"So. 500 tweets. Faaaiiiinnn."

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:41:41 GMT

"So. 500 tweets. Faaaiiiinnn."

–Matteng

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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:45:43 GMT

Etc: The new fourth-gen iPod touch has gained a vibrating motor for FaceTime and (presumably) other alerts.

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:57:44 GMT

Infinite Loop

The new fourth-gen iPod touch has gained a vibrating motor for FaceTime and (presumably) other alerts.

Read More: Multi-touch Fans

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The speed of gravity

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:27:25 GMT

kottke.org

Newton said the speed of gravity is infinite but according to Einstein (and some nifty interstellar measurements), it most certainly is not.

But in general relativity, things are much more intricate, and incredibly interesting. First off, it isn't mass, per se, that causes gravity. Rather, all forms of energy (including mass) affect the curvature of space. So for the Sun and the Earth, the...

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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:08:48 GMT

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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:39:22 GMT

"Man muss auf seine Tänze aufpassen: Dämonen sind in der Stadt. Mütter zuppeln..."

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:36:38 GMT

"Man muss auf seine Tänze aufpassen: Dämonen sind in der Stadt. Mütter zuppeln an den Fellsärgen, in denen wir die Toten ins All schießen."

–zebramaedchen

"—You never say "thank you"... —That's what the money is for!"

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:33:01 GMT

"—You never say "thank you"... —That's what the money is for!"

–gruber

Und meinen erst ;)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:53:31 GMT

[Reposted from frell]

Und meinen erst ;)

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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:12:39 GMT

Top 5 artists this week

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:57:34 GMT

Star Trek TOS - William Shatner SNL - Get A Life Video - rockgigant - MyVideo...

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:19:30 GMT

Star Trek TOS - William Shatner SNL - Get A Life Video - rockgigant - MyVideo //have you ever kissed a girl?

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:20:42 GMT

YouTube - Steve Jobs Oldie but Goodie

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:11:03 GMT

YouTube - Steve Jobs Oldie but Goodie

The world's highest paid athlete

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:14:37 GMT

kottke.org

...was a fellow by the name of Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He was a 2nd-century Roman charioteer.

His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provincial governors over a similar period -- enough to provide grain for the entire city of Rome for one year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its imperial reach for a fifth of a year...

Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:38:00 GMT

Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes "'Always bet on Duke.' It seems he was right about himself, at least. The longest, most storied in-development game in history seems like it's finally going to be released by Gearbox Software sometime within the next year. 'According to Pitchford, Gearbox began finishing Duke Nukem Forever in late 2009. "Clearly the game hadn't been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of ...

"If you've reached this point by accident, I suggest panic."

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:27:57 GMT

"If you've reached this point by accident, I suggest panic."

–Badminton Rant

YouTube - Dan Savage on How His Religious Upbringing Helped His Career

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:37:27 GMT

YouTube - Dan Savage on How His Religious Upbringing Helped His Career

YouTube - Dan Savage on Straight Men

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:51:00 GMT

YouTube - Dan Savage on Straight Men

YouTube - Dan Savage on the Weirdest Letter He's Received

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:39:32 GMT

YouTube - Dan Savage on the Weirdest Letter He's Received

Pacifism and first-person shooters

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:17:20 GMT

kottke.org

Glen McCracken is attempting to complete the first-person shooter game Modern Warfare 2 without killing anyone. Did John Conner tell him not to?

This feat may sound impossible, but for Game Informer reader and hardcore Modern Warfare 2 player Glen McCracken, it's only a matter of time. In two hours of playing, Glen has reached rank 5 without taking a life. Using pacifist means to earn points...

Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:20:00 GMT

Slashdot

A few readers have noted that another gulf oil rig has exploded. This one is off the coast of Lousiana. So far all the workers are accounted for, but they are in immersion suits waiting for rescue.

Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:38:00 GMT

Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the ...

Charles Darwin's Best-kept Secret

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:42:00 GMT

Slashdot

beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fell on the island. They were quite successful. The island even has a cloud forest now. From the article: '[British ecologist] Wilkinson thinks that the ...

"Futurepop."

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:56:51 GMT

"Futurepop."

–straftanz

Back When Apple Previously Streamed Video From an Announcement

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:45:59 GMT

Daring Fireball

July 2002:

Approximately 50,000 people used QuickTime® to watch Apple’s July 17 live webcast of Steve Jobs’ Macworld New York 2002 keynote, which was simulcast in both QuickTime 5 and QuickTime 6.

Going to be a lot more than 50,000 today.

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Sketchy Ice Creams

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:40 GMT

Sketchy Ice Creams

[Reposted from piskor via hairinmy]

Element Song

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:13:53 GMT

Element Song

[Reposted from iggy via fpletz]

Die Tour de France 2010 könnte nun doch etwas spannender werden^^

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:08:39 GMT

Die Tour de France 2010 könnte nun doch etwas spannender werden^^

[Reposted from swoop via deinneuerfreund]

extreme recycling

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:07:32 GMT

extreme recycling

[Reposted from ts via deinneuerfreund]

YouTube - MOMO Tags The Width of Manhattan

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:55:48 GMT

YouTube - MOMO Tags The Width of Manhattan

Pre GPS drawing - do it with paint

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:48:51 GMT

Pre GPS drawing - do it with paint

Have you ever walked around in Lower Manhattan and noticed a trail of paint on the sidewalk?

About 3 years ago, one of my friends in school decided to follow the trail around and noticed that the trail produced the image that you see above; a strange-looking rendering of what appeared to be the word “momo.” MOMO, we found out, was the name of an artist that used to be based in NYC, and sure enough, the one responsible for tagging his name across the width of Manhattan.

After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. Momo made the tag in 2006. Some parts of the line have been covered up by roadwork and redone sidewalks but most of the line is still visible.

To me, the interesting thing about the line is how both similar and different it is to regular graffiti. Essentially, most graffiti writers enjoy seeing their name on things. The bigger they can paint it and the more visible their tag is, the more people will notice their conquering of the city. MOMO created the largest tag in New York, yet the scale of his work here, so massive that it can’t all be viewed at once, means that thousands of people will walk on it each day and never even notice it. It’s simultaneously the biggest and smallest artistic statement I have seen in my time here.

MOMO made a video about the line which you can see here.

If you ever walk over it, now you’ll know what you’re looking at.

[defaced: Large scale defacement]

prostheticknowledge & bestrooftalkever

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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:46:38 GMT

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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:45:11 GMT

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Tumblr

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:44:55 GMT

via http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/3/1032766076
faved by Melissa

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