October 2009
Sasha Obama Orders Secret Service Agent To Stop... →
WASHINGTON—According to White House sources, first daughter Sasha Obama, 8, issued a direct order to Special Agent James Warren of the…
Night Music: Delia Derbyshire →
Sasha Obama Orders Secret Service Agent To Stop... →
WASHINGTON—According to White House sources, first daughter Sasha Obama, 8, issued a direct order to Special Agent James Warren of the…
#566; Supernatural Collective Nouns. →
'Tis the Season →
Ahhhhhh. Halloween. ‘Tis the season to revisit my favorite piece of craft, Martha Stewart’s BABY COSTUME EPISODE! This clip is no “History of Dance” or “David After the Dentist”,…
How habitable is the Earth? →
(Pay attention at the back: this is a trick question.) We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet. After the slow-burning evolution of hominins in Africa, our ancestral…
The History of Birth Control | Newsweek Health |... →
.@akrabat Yes, @oscon's policy on giving... →
.@akrabat Yes, @oscon's policy on giving speakers *no* support still sucks. If I have to pay my own way, I'd rather do @osbridge
Recycled Trash Robots Of Doom →
I don’t like robots; not one bit. This is because they’re all secretly mechanical murder machines many of whom stand fully, blank-eyed and mouth agape, within the Uncanny Valley; a mere…
#3562 - Whiskey on ice, anyone? Two cases of... →
Whiskey on ice, anyone? Two cases of whiskey left behind by Sir Ernest Shackleton about 100 years ago were found in Antarctica…still intact! (Still thirsty? See Liqurious)
Brynn Marie Evans » The failure of MyFarm: good... →
How to Fail Without Pissing People Off
Although many startups are doomed to fail, it is possible to fail with grace. I would have written a completely different blog post if MyFarm had conducted…
More Cover Fun →
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I think this is the kitchen sink approach to design. See, it has a cat! and kissing! and oceans! Must be a romance novel, right?
While looking online for my favorite eBay…
Are We Seeing The Rise Of Alzheimer's Horror?... →
It’s the ultimate terror: The number of people with Alzheimer’s and other age-related dementia will double in the next 20 years. And we’re starting to see more horrific tales about…
OSCON headed back to Portland in 2010 →
Just a few short weeks after City Council approved a resolution calling for increased efforts to attract events and conferences to highlight Portland’s vibrant open source software community, we…
Marvel Comic Makeup →
Design by a MAC make-up artist , inspired by Marvel comic book . How creative 2 Vote(s)
Reclining Under the Influence →
This world is full of triumphs and tragedies. I’m all for reckless crafting, but I endorse personal responsibility with said craft. Duluth, Minnesota resident Dennis LeRoy Anderson is…
IMG_6764 →
FarewellFire has added a photo to the pool:
A soldier of the Korean People´s Army and myself, sporting the colors of the mightiest littlest football team in the world - Hammarby IF -…
410 Gone →
I’ve heard that Geocities is shutting down today. The very first HTML I ever wrote was for my Geocities homepage and now it is gone. It’s been almost a year now since my first web startup,
Legion of Tech falls victim to embezzlement →
To be blunt, this sucks. I can’t tell you how much I didn’t want to write this. But it’s news that affects the Portland tech community, and as such, I felt an obligation to cover it. Long story…
In The Spirit Of Openness at Legion of Tech →
I regret to inform you that the Legion of Tech Board of Directors (”Board”) recently discovered that a previous board member had taken money from the organization. That person spent thousands of…
Basics: A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels... →
A view has emerged to counter the image that a neurotransmitter is the little Bacchus of our brain.
Vital Signs: Childhood: New Research on Autism and... →
Contrary to worries about a link, a study found that children with autism actually had lower blood levels of mercury.
Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How? →
Data from screening lead doctors to reconsider that the disease is bound only to grow worse.
OSU researchers find cause of 2008 offshore... →
NEWPORT, Ore. – A team of Oregon State University scientists has solved the mystery behind an unusual swarm of earthquakes that occurred off the Oregon coast in the spring of 2008 – a series of…
Flickr Photo Download: SPACE SHARK - ep. 03 →
“All the time in the world” talk at Design By Fire... →
My talk at DxF2009 in Utrecht last week was an hour’s wander around the idea of Time, particularly historical and cultural ideas of time.
My focus was time as a material for interaction design…
Confirmation Of Underground Caves On The Moon... →
New satellite photos have revealed what scientists have long suspected: There are large tunnels made from lava running beneath the Moon’s surface. These caves could provide shelter from…
Frightening Scenes from China's Pollution... →
Lu Guang’s photographs look like concept art for some dystopian future. But they’re actually very modern images of China and Mongolia, where entire towns have been consumed by toxic chemicals,…
Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » Is... →
I’ve had this story about Yelp allegedly removing bad reviews for advertisers on my mind a lot lately and after Twittering about it today I got to talk to Yelp HQ on the phone. They promise they…
NEW: Survival Kit messenger bag! →
To accompany the Emergency Survival Kit t-shirt, based on this knitting comic, I’m pleased to present this sturdy canvas messenger bag! We looked through a ton of bags before…
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out... →
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Vimeo [NSFW] Here’s a video I made about a video I made. Consequently, it’s also about writing a book…
Will Women Rule Over Men In The Future? [Retro... →
In the next month, women will overtake men in the labor workforce, according to statistics from the US Labor Department. Way back in the 1950s, a science fiction author predicted what would…
newspaper economics - all you need to know →
Electronic books and knits →
All this talk of ebook screens and digital content makes me think of Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age and William Blakes’ graphic novels if he printed them today. Would Thoureau have a blog?…
Mind - When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate -... →
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I am really, really tempted to print this out and mail it to several family members. But instead I’ll just share it in GReader.
Children may do well to cut ties with abusive…
Well - Physical Toll of Dementia Often Overlooked... →
Dementia, often viewed as a disease of the mind, is also a progressive physical disease.
People looking at stuff →
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Very Wondermark-y.
Oregon State University Archives posted a photo:
Image Title: Herman Bohlman, William L. Finley, and Maud Bohlman with binoculars
Creator:…
Machinarium →
Yes, yes. You’ve already seen blurbs about Machinarium all over the friggin’ bloggitysphere. But when a game this scrappy and adorable and smart and just painfully lovely pops up, we…
Pumpkin Biter →
Voxphoto posted a photo:
This guy had slipped out of the goat pen, and was busily munching the merchandise.
So, you all know about Freestyle Photo, yes? It’s become my favorite…
Mustard comedy mag: Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic →
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Looks fun, and I’m amused that this is getting press as the “first underground paper of the 21st century” when of course there’s always been this sort of thing going on, even now.…
Do it myself!: TARDIS Cake →
Paper Nets →
(I started writing this this afternoon, and it’s turned into a huge random braindump. Oops.)
Once again listening to THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus, while I wait for Baron Mordant to post me the new…
Boom →
Trip Report: Lairs of Cthulhu: Archaeology, Myths... →
Last night, I was privileged to be in the audience for a lecture by James Holloway, a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, at Treadwell’s esoteric…
Bag Check →
teaching, nursing, and second wave feminism →
I am deeply grateful for all that was accomplished by second wave feminism. I love living in a world in which my job opportunities are not constrained because of what’s between my legs. That said, I…
Consumers Blast Pepsi iPhone App →
People are raising objections to a new iPhone application from Pepsi that offers to help men seduce women, then keep a “Brag List” they can share…
Data.gov.uk Newspaper →
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side project. A design exercise if you like.
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk repository, and wanted to explore putting some of the…
Consumers Blast Pepsi iPhone App →
People are raising objections to a new iPhone application from Pepsi that offers to help men seduce women, then keep a “Brag List” they can share…
A Softer World: 478 →
