June 29, 2009
- How the NYT kept news of David Rohde’s kidnapping off of Wikipedia
for 7 months (!)
June 28, 2009
- The Toaster Project
attempting to build a 3.99 toaster from scratch, including mining all the raw materials
- Nabokov papers now open at the Library of Congress
including manuscripts and notes for pale fire and lolita
June 23, 2009
- Infographic: The story (so far) of Twitter
love the roots
June 21, 2009
- John Hodgman on Barack Obama’s nerdiness
you may be the kwisatz haderach
June 17, 2009
- Interview with James Wood
easy to attack precisely because he offers so much to consider
June 16, 2009
- NYT on the role of Twitter in Iran
‘the qualities that make twitter seem inane and half-baked are what make it so powerful’
June 12, 2009
June 6, 2009
- Graphic: How to be happy in business
in venn diagram format
June 3, 2009
May 27, 2009
- Highlights from the first draft of the Star Wars script
may the force of others be with you all
May 20, 2009
May 11, 2009
- Dirty computing: a UI made of mud
mud tetris
- MonaTweeta II
reminds me of the scene.org contests
May 6, 2009
- Philippe Halsman on jumping
i don’t think i have expressed myself completely
May 4, 2009
- Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
short answer: telcos are cheap
May 2, 2009
- Swine flu linked to U.S. factory farms
‘even if we never find that smoking pig’
May 1, 2009
- Facebook, YouTube, and other sites considering throttling bandwidth to developing countries
advertising is even less profitable outside of the U.S. and Western Europe
- Can people distinguish pâté from dog food?
the forward march of science continues
April 28, 2009
- Nabokov - An Evening of Russian Poetry
those shells that hold a thimble and the sea (via erasing)
April 19, 2009
- Bohemian Rhapsody played on vintage computer equipment
floppy disk a little out of tune
April 17, 2009
- Making the case for the Idaho Stop
i do this anyway, but i’d love it to be legal
April 9, 2009
- Live map of Zappos.com sales
strangely cool
- Star Trek fans given surprise screening of new film
they thought they were going to wrath of khan; leonard nimoy came out
- Amanda Palmer on Twittering with her fans
zero middleman
April 4, 2009
- James Tanner - How to write a sentence like David Foster Wallace
stop here if you are a minimalist, writing coach, or james wood
- Collection of typographic posters
love these
- Google reveals details of its server farms
units of shipping containers with 1,160 servers each
- Against URL shorteners
i’m sad that these have started to catch on lately
March 29, 2009
March 12, 2009
- Video: Famous comedy sketches retold
in the style of wes anderson, michael moore, quentin tarantino
- The comic archetypes times tablei
astronaut platypus
- Michael Lewis on the collapse of Iceland
a machine for turning cod into Ph.D.’s
- Frank Miller’s Charlie Brown
sexy sally
March 10, 2009
- Cameron Marlow on the percentage of Facebook friendships that are actually maintained
at most half, depending on how you count
- Two unpublished novels found among Bolaño’s papers
very exciting
- Guardian launches an API with nearly a million pieces of content
inviting the developer community in
March 5, 2009
- Mapping mutual incomprehension
‘greek to me’ and equivalents
February 19, 2009
- RIP Home of the Underdogs
games of my childhood
- The security risk of the president carrying a BlackBerry
nice writeup of the issues
February 16, 2009
- Goodbye Dubai
short of opening a radio shack in an amish town, dubai is the world’s worst business idea
- Zadie Smith - Speaking in Tongues
it’s only when you play the record backward that you hear the secret message