July 2008
47 posts
Dr. Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon CS professor,... →
Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie…
Brides demand breast-surgery for their bridesmaids →
Some marriage-crazed brides are demanding that their bridesmaids get laser-surgery, botox, breast-enhancements and salon tans before Der Tag.
Two weeks ago, Health Travel Guides, a medical tourism…
“Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is...”
– Official Google Blog: We knew the web was big…
Medical Marijuana and minors →
Reason TV has a story about Owen Beck, a 17-year-old high school kid from California who got bone cancer and had to get his leg amputated. The medicine Owen was taking was making him very…
“Education has not kept pace. In the early 20th century, we created almost...”
– Lawrence F. Katz in The Chronicle Review
The Ten Richest Universities
Sell Leads To Local Contractors →
There are many contractors in your area that don’t care about websites, they don’t care if you can help them rank, they don’t care about how pretty you can make their website, they just…
The Cloud Thingy →
What’s that things with the cloud? See Slashdot.
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[Screens Around Town] Thsrs, Posterous, Lohse, and... →
Thsrs Thsrs helps you get briefer. If only there were a service that helps with the struggle of rewriting a 146-letter message to fit in a 140 character limit. Well now there is:…
Man electrocutes pickle to demonstrate power of... →
Gentleman proves Christianity is the one true religion by electrocuting a pickle. (via Filled with Chocolate Pudding!)
What he said →
As usual, Seth Godin puts something better than I could: A lot of people don’t seem to understand a key implication of the long tail: Given the choice, it’s better to make a hit.
If you have…
The Jerry Yang Picture Worth 1000 Words →
That’s Larry on the left and Sergey on the right. Courtesy Andrew Ross Sorkin and the New York Times (text), and Reuters (photo):
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From homeless drug user to millionaire business... →
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Vending machine sells ideas for things to do →
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Sarah says: “Spotted this en route to work this morning at the bodega out front of my house in the East Village NYC. Any ideas? I was in too…
Ig winner announces discovery →
Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper.
Chile Poster - Chile Pepper and Hot Sauce Posters Unframed, Great Prices …
Eerste Nederlandse iPhone verkocht →
Onder grote belangstelling is vrijdag om middernacht de eerste iPhone in Nederland verkocht. Meer dan achthonderd geïnteresseerden en een grote schare journalisten hadden zich rond die tijd…
GoogleUnique Names →
Originally posted in ct2
There are many contemporary strategies for naming children. You can echo family traditions or heritage. You can try to balance given names with too-unusual or too-common…
Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties to Unsigned Bands →
Online music service Last.fm today announced that it will start paying out royalties to unsigned and independent bands that upload their music to last.fm. Artists will earn royalties whenever…
In Pictures: Anti-Terrorism Exercises in China →
Rube Goldberg cocktail-mixing machine →
This Rube Goldberg machine makes sheer delight out of the process of mixing a Falling Water ( 30mls (1Oz) 42BELOW Feijoa Vodka, lemonade, long slice of seedless cucumber, ice) — it comes from…
10 Techniques That are Essential For Successful... →
Photo manipulation techniques can be difficult master, but not hard to experiment with. Once you get the hang of it, anyone can transport their dreams onto the computer screen using Photoshop. For…
Moon has water →
Today, researchers announced that they’ve found water molecules in moon matter retrieved by NASA Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The water was coaxed out of volcanic glass pebbles…
Iran's New Secret Weapon: Photoshop →
Just ask the Russians - running in an arms race can be awfully expensive. So you’ve got to hand it to the Iranians for figuring out an effective force multiplier: Digital photo editing.
See if you…
But, it’s wrong. I have to fix it. →
In 1904, Congress ordered the publication of Thomas Jefferson’s personal Bible: a version Jefferson had created by cutting, pasting and rearranging the gospels of the New Testament: In a letter…
Some Things Never Change →
New posts on TechCrunch and ZDNet about the never ending story. Download ms-yahoo-2050.comicdoc
Teen discovers bat hiding in her bra →
Abbie Hawkins, 19, spent a half-day at work before noticing that a baby bat was hiding inside her bra. From The Telegraph:
Miss Hawkins said she got dressed at 7.30am and arrived for work at the…
Flickr + Getty →
Flickr and Getty are teaming up: The great folks at Flickr and Getty Images are joining forces to build a platform that will enable the creation of a first class collection of royalty free,…
Allianz's innovative idea of extracting energy... →
The State of the Web: Summer 2008. →
In Popular Culture →
Steve Ballmer Speaks! →
My favorite part of the latest Carl Icahn love letter to Yahoo shareholders comes early in the note. Here are the first two sentences: Dear Yahoo! Shareholders: During the past week I have…
Freelance Freedom #60 →
Travelling around the world with a $9,000 income... →
There's more than one way to skin the revenue cat →
Are you exhausting all your potential revenue streams? We stalled launching our Job Board for a while because we felt we had bigger fish to fry. Once we got around to it, we couldn’t believe we…
Banking Losses to Hit $1.6-Trillion →
According to a Bridgewater study leaked by a Swiss paper today, total financial losses from the the current credit crisis will hit $1.6-trillion, well above most current estimates. Here is the…
WatchPresto, a brief Pixar animaton
WatchBelieve me, it is torture. Christopher Hitchens voluntarily undergoes waterboarding.
Make Toy Cars, Not Cars →
It’s currently better to be a toy car maker than a real car maker: Mattel’s market cap just surpassed that of GM. The maker of Hot Wheels and Matchbox now has a market cap of $6.22B versus the…
Where The Government Tax Rebate Checks Really... →
From ClusterStock:
So far, it seems as though the tax rebate checks aren’t so much stimulating the economy as they are Wal-Mart, Exxon, and your food bill. (And soon, Apple, whose …
A Longer (and cheaper!) Tail →
Just in time for another controversy over powerlaw statistics (wheee!), I’m delighted to announce that the paperback version of The Long Tail will be published next week and is now…
Mozilla Gets Its Guinness Record, Firefox Gains... →
It’s official: Mozilla (SAI 25 #5) says it now holds the Guinness World Record for “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours,” recorded after the release of Firefox 3. Mozilla…
