2008

May

Trust drug may cure social phobia

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day...

Hancock Trailer

Jon Stewart interviews former under secretary of defence Douglas Feith on The Daily Show. Stewart...

the pepsi challenge

Tropic Thunder Red Band Movie Trailer

Water balloon at 1000FPS

Four Architects’ Renderings of the Empty Plot at...

via upload.wikimedia.org Woah. Just woah.

Weird but compelling food art.

Average looking themepack for Ubuntu...

via farm3.static.flickr.com I remember when I had this much...

“I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it,...”
— Robert Rauschenberg (via...

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - Wikipedia Everything about this film seemed to go wrong....

Tim Burton's Concept Art for Superman.

Amazing Fractal Furniture. fractal Takeshi Miyakawa Design...

The Anime Laws of Physics

Breaking: CBS to Acquire CNET for $1.8...

Can I Trust You? How Anticipating Problems...

Times RSS Reader Review

Acrylic’s Times RSS Reader has garnered a lot of buzz lately. It’s ostensibly every...

kiyo: Researchers created a map linking different diseases,...

Seven Reasons Why I’m Becoming a Polygamist’s...

Darth Vader Feels Blue via Kottke. This is absolutely hilarious.

See Der Struwwelpeter.

Der Struwwelpeter

In Take Your Daughter to Work Day, the eighteenth episode of NBC’s The Office, Dwight reads...

Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham on 1960s...

Opening the Windows Vista box

Top Ten Wikipedia and Conservapedia Pages

Einstein: Religion "childish superstitions".

Bill O’Reilly Goes Nuts! (via ) “‘To play us out?’ What does that...

Sunday.

For sporting reasons, Sunday May 11th is the most important day of my calendar year (until, that is,...

Woman pregnant with 18th child

Good to finally see solid evidence that Digg is as relevant...

Eight things Kottke learned this week.

“We endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and we know that she has a major...”
— Sen. Clinton and the Campaign...

The World Atlas of Language Structures...

Vulture: Why Critics Want Grand Theft Auto IV...

“I think Grand Theft Auto, the whole series, is the most...”
— Tom Sachs: Grand Theft Auto...

Exaggeration with Maps

GTA IV

I’m now 33.15% through GTA IV and feel adequately immersed into the plot and ambience of the...

“By placing helium in a state which most closely resembles...”
— Physicists Create Universe...

“If you choose to install XP SP3, Internet Explorer 7 will...”
— Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in...

“eBay seems now to be essentially broken. What used to be a...”
— Nigerian Scammers: It’s...

slantback: kiyo: “‘The Form of Facts and Figures,’...

TIME: The Five Mistakes Clinton Made

Dan Gelber: I Choose Obama.

“On the money front, it is not uncommon for winning...”
— Big Rewards Await Clinton If...

Could you kill a coat?

Hillary is 404.

Sprint's $100 Million Mistake.

I Cannot Go There Anymore

Anna: Fancy a walk down to co-op?
Me: Naw, I'm in my pajamas.
Anna: Rubbish.
Me: Go to the 7/11 at the top of your road instead.
Anna: No, I cannot go there!
Me: Why?
Anna: Because.
Anna: The man feels sorry for me.
Anna: He thinks i just come in and buy chocolate and I'm really single and depressing.
Anna: And I don't like to look like that.
Me: ...
Me: You're brilliant Anna.
Anna: It's annoying.

Twistori: Cutesy Nearly-Killer-App for...

Heather Armstrong's Book Is Out.

Marathon Men.

In Tuedsay night’s European Champions League semi-final, Park Ji-Sung ran 7.4 miles during the...

Tweets from the World Record GTA IV Attempt.

BBC: Top 10 most controversial ads in 2007

Verbarius reminds me of the amazing About TIme Clock...

via clusterflock Clusterflock remains one of the best...

The Icons of Music Auction has too much good...

“Why this reluctantly amazed reaction among iPhone buyers?...”
— Going Private: The Five...

Apr

In Discussion Of An Email From A...

Merritt: I like the mention of in-jokes.
Me: Yeah. I'm sure she'd like to be a part of one some day.
Me: Oh wow, a recursive in-joke.

GTA IV

GTA IV arrived today. It’s very good. I ordered the special edition since the normal one sold...

Mars buy Wrigleys.

Todd Dominey Bows Out.

Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants (1-4) :...

Netvibes Downtime.

Netvibes has been gone for almost 2 days now. At what point does downtime turn from an annoying...

Popular camera phones on Flickr.

High-calorie diet linked to boys.

“Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District...”
— BBC NEWS | Wales | North West...

Present Infinitive.

Anyone who wants to give me some helpful feedback about the forthcoming redesign / reshuffle of VB...

Richard Dawkins has written a truly...

The Ever Evil Fox News on Rick Rolling.

Evolution & The Female Orgasm

Evolutionary biologists seem unable to agree on the point of the female orgasm. Some claim it is...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, the first comprehensive tome documenting the English language, is...

Public Acceptance of Evolution in 34...

shootingelephants: Social Action (via...

APOD: 2008 April 16 - A Protected Night Sky Over Flagstaff ...

“It is IMPERATIVE that I say, at this point, that the...”
— Star Wars - Fact NOT...

Uncertain Times: Somewhere on Earth

The abandoned supply shacks of Antarctic...

11-year-old Korean guitarist Sungha Jung playing With or Without You by U2. This is absolutely...

This is damned fucking cool.

Large Hadron Collider - Risk of a Black...

Madness: Trapped in Elevator Car 30 « Et...

Sporadic

I’m working on a new design for VB at the moment and therefore posts are few and far between....

Beijing bans construction projects to improve...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13)

10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10...

buchino: dihard: A 2007 article from Entrepreneur.com discusses the odds of survival of ten...

I remember when this was impressive.

“In discussing the need for simplicity of design, the chief...”
— Golf Architecture by Alister...

World’s Most Amazing Trick Shot

The Daily Show's Eviscerating "Documentary"...

A fossil animal locked in Lebanese limestone...

The economics of high-end prostitutes.

Dark Roasted Blend: The Glamour of Flight, Part 1

merlin: Twitter Profile Page Ideas My thumbnail ideas for...

“I don’t see things as good or evil, I just see them as witty...”
— Sebastian Horsley, via...

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway (via...

Beautiful Handwriting, Lettering and Calligraphy | Monday...

University Logo Carved Onto Human Hair with Focused Ion Beam...

Face gives away sexual intentions, new study...

A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data...

A Brief History of the Sitcom

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Steampunk Darth...

Villa Manin Centro d'arte Contemporanesa of...

slantback: Visualisations and infographics // Designing The...

Edward Tufte: Flame Theater

16 Secrets The Restaurant Industry Doesn't...

Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-6)

"I’ve found God, says man who cracked the...

“During these two months of inactivity, the Internet has...”
— Steve Ballmer, Letter to...

Preview of a forthcoming attraction.

Twitter predictions - Fluid Design

CSS vs Tables - 13 Reasons Why CSS Is...

I feel dirty, but… Monkey vs Dog.

It’s Dangerous for Children To Know Atheism...

How to Assemble a Space Shuttle

Change We Can Believe In.

Playing "Guess Who" with Heather.

Heather: He's a bit of a dandy, he --
Me: The Scarlet Pimpernell.
Heather: Yes! Er... okay this one is quite musical...
Me: Andrew-Lloyd Webber?
Heather: Yes! What the hell?!

Fortune Cookie: Starting Over.

Britons reading this may well be bemoaning the Americanism I’ve casually placed in the title,...

Fractal Broccoflower - (37signals)

Review of the outside world as if it were a...

Declassified memo authorized US to torture...

slantback: With Last.fm, if I want to look at the main...

Captioning Sucks!

John Gruber: One big difference between Apple...

Twitter: Dopeboyfresh

Cracked.com: The 10 Craziest Scientific...

Linux Declared 'Hacker Proof'

Mar

Wikipedia: List of songs deemed inappropriate...

“Producing a penny costs about 1.7 cents, and the Treasury’s...”
— And While Youre at It, Toss...

Cue the Creator: Emotion of Investing

ABC3D (via Projectionist.)

kiyo: Guardianes De La Luz (via Maximiliano !)

United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds...

Roo Reynolds: Laptop Stickers

NPR: Photos from 'It's Complicated: The...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30)

Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole.

Summer Memories

What are your favourite summer memories? My absolute favourite is the summer my family went away...