July 7, 2010

Burger Flippin' Blues?

He's no Trent Reznor or Radiohead, but Volker Kahl is pushing from the bottom of the sales charts, making his post-Beefcake work (under the nom-de-sampler Kattoo) available online. [more inside]
posted by ChrisR at 9:23 PM PST - 53 comments

Oakland: Riot Worries, Out-of-Town Agitators, and Sonic Cannons

Oakland, California, is bracing for a possible repeat of the 2009 riot [previously] once a verdict in the trial of former BART cop Johannes Mehserle for the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant [previously] comes in. [more inside]
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:58 PM PST - 317 comments

Roswell still captures the imagination.

63 years ago little green men landed in the desert, or did they? I've lived in New Mexico for large parts of my life, and if there is anywhere aliens would land, it probably would be there. If they didn't land there afterall, maybe they will soon with the installation of the new spaceport.
posted by ziadbc at 8:42 PM PST - 41 comments

A nonconformist note taking application

Meet the Mac note taking app Notational Velocity: An attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. [more inside]
posted by The Devil Tesla at 6:37 PM PST - 53 comments

Life Moves Fast . . .

Conway's Game of Life in HTML5/Canvas. That is all. [more inside]
posted by chaff at 6:34 PM PST - 30 comments

Thanks for the music, Mr. Starkey

One of the most rhythmically solid, tastefully understated and (all too often) criminally underrated drummers in the history of rock music turned 70 today, and you'll forgive me if I couldn't let the day pass without a nod in his direction. You've probably heard of him. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:49 PM PST - 98 comments

CNN's Chief Middle East correspondent fired for a tweet

Octavia Nasr Canned at CNN. CNN's Chief Middle East correspondent for 20 years, Octavia Nasr tweeted “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” She was fired by CNN shortly afterward because they believed "her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward".
posted by falameufilho at 3:46 PM PST - 130 comments

Multiuser Sketchpad

Multiuser Sketchpad is a collaborative drawing tool, created in Javascript by Mr. Doob (Previously).
posted by gwint at 2:04 PM PST - 48 comments

What to Do About Suburbs?

As suburbs become home to more poor people, immigrants, minorities, senior citizens and households with no children and we face what may be the end of suburbia, planners are wondering what do we do with suburbs? [more inside]
posted by lunit at 1:15 PM PST - 127 comments

'I know I can't bring my family here'

The Toronto Star looks into the shambles that Canada's guest worker program finds itself in. [more inside]
posted by reenum at 12:26 PM PST - 36 comments

Bail bond niche marketing

In jail? Post bail. No matter your crime, interest, or affiliation, there's a bail bond agent for you. Suspect in Snow White's demise? Grumpy's (video auto-starts); Mob? No prob. Goodfellas, Godfather's? Godfather's! [more inside]
posted by zippy at 11:11 AM PST - 46 comments

No Laughing Matter

Hippie Crack -- The Village Voice profiles the "Nitrous Oxide Mafia" that follows the jam band circuit selling balloons in parking lots.
posted by empath at 11:04 AM PST - 159 comments

Death wears bunny slippers

As the internet works to decode the US Cyber Command logo, it is worth pondering the bizarre world of military patches and logos. The most awesomely bad has been selected by popular vote, but there is a serious reason behind that flippant patch. Then there are the strange and nerdy patches of classified projects [prev.] NASA has its own strange and awesome mission patches, but, as Space Review discovered, there are also secret patches for classified missions which give clues to their purpose. And then there was the military logo that was so outlandishly ominous it helped lead to the project's shutdown.
posted by blahblahblah at 10:55 AM PST - 54 comments

Aktiv Grotesk

Bruno Maag hates Helvetcia so much he created a new font.
posted by Artw at 10:54 AM PST - 84 comments

Holy Toledo ...Torches!

U.S. Patent 1732708 "...relates to street torches, such as are commonly used for illuminating road obstructions." Starting in 1929, The Toledo Pressed Steel Co. manufactured millions of small, round kerosene-burning torches (sometimes called smudge pots) that look like cartoon bombs. [more inside]
posted by usonian at 10:22 AM PST - 14 comments

I have no idea how Super Mario Bros. got projected amongst the graffiti on this wall, or why.

Super Mario Bros. walkthrough. [Seven-minute Vimeo link] [more inside]
posted by cgc373 at 10:19 AM PST - 38 comments

"There is Socialism in him. I can FEEL it."

Ayn Rand's Adventures in Wonderland. Parts two, three, four. By Benjamin Frisch.
posted by hermitosis at 9:29 AM PST - 47 comments

WOOF! Woof... woof... woo... woo boy

The dog days of summer are here. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla at 9:06 AM PST - 89 comments

If the Earth Stood Still

What would happen if the earth stopped spinning? ArcGIS was used to perform complex raster analysis and volumetric computations and generate maps that visualize these results.
posted by gman at 9:06 AM PST - 51 comments

There Goes the Neighborhood

Science Blogs is a confederation of, as it says on the tin, blogs about science. They host such sites as Pharyngula, Good Math, Bad Math, and The Primate Diaries, among many others. Now they host Food Frontiers, a blog about nutrition -- written by PepsiCo. Many folks there are not happy. Overreaction to a single site with, at the moment, only one actual post? Or legitimate concern over scientific ethics? Why not have a refreshing ice-cold beverage while you ponder it?
posted by Legomancer at 8:19 AM PST - 43 comments

Man, they said we better accentuate the positive... eliminate the negative... latch on to the affirmative....

Microsoft introduces "an amazingly obvious tweak to battery tech that should save us some headaches, as well as several trillion hours of head-scratching and peering into dark holes." The innovation, called "Instaload" is a simple, low-tech battery contact design that allows cylindrical batteries (disposable and rechargeable) to be inserted in either direction, so users don't have to worry about which end is positive or negative. How? It puts a set of positive and negative contacts at both ends of a battery compartment. (From Microsoft: Press Release / Overview / Technology Brochure (pdf)) [more inside]
posted by zarq at 7:56 AM PST - 113 comments

How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late

How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late. Andy Grove, from Intel, writes about America's lost manufacturing sector. [more inside]
posted by chunking express at 7:28 AM PST - 74 comments

Murders in Mexico

Statistical Analysis and Visualization of the Drug War in Mexico
posted by daksya at 4:07 AM PST - 22 comments

Earth evacuation plan.

Important Update! Evacuation plan. [more inside]
posted by Meatbomb at 3:10 AM PST - 44 comments

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