August 18, 2008
- An insider’s description of the Daily Show’s Tivo and video archiving setup
truth is, it’s less about technology and more about the staff being really good at their jobs
August 17, 2008
- Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness
search the face space
August 16, 2008
- Michael Phelps’ 12,000 calorie diet
about $75 a day in eggs, mayo, cheese, pizza, and assorted carbs
- Screenshots of earlier versions of the Gmail interface
it’s come a long way
August 15, 2008
- Photos: American cities of the 1950s
the full cushman collection, 14,500 images, is at the indiana u site
August 4, 2008
- List of books where the author spends a year doing something unusual
may it grow no longer
August 3, 2008
- Photos: Large Hadron Collider
fairly nuts
July 30, 2008
- More than one way to skin a bar chart
12 versions of the same infographic; amazing how the same data can tell so many different stories
- Google reaches 1 trillion URLs indexed
and the entire graph is reprocessed several times a day
July 28, 2008
July 22, 2008
- NameTrends, data analysis of baby names
sliced by time, geography, category, etc; addison and jayden are hot this year
- Four innovative designs for wind power
one turbine floats 1000 feet up on a helium balloon to capture high-velocity winds
July 12, 2008
July 8, 2008
- Wil Shipley on the greatest bug of all
99% of the time operating system bugs are actually bugs in your program, and the other 1% of the time they are still bugs in your program, so look harder, dammit
July 4, 2008
July 1, 2008
- Using nuclear radiation to detect art forgery
any work painted since 1945 will be tainted by isotopes from nuclear explosions
- Russell Shorto on population decline in the developed world
shrink constructively
June 22, 2008
- Andy Baio interviews the creator of The Big Picture
computer programmer at boston.com doing the whole thing on the side
June 18, 2008
- The web that time forgot
‘a steampunk version of hypertext’
June 17, 2008
- Where-are-they-now stories of 10 failed dot-coms
rights to the pets.com mascot bought by a subprime lending company
June 13, 2008
June 7, 2008
- Do food miles matter?
eating local helps, but eating vegetarian helps more
- Boston.com’s The Big Picture
hi-res news photos, great stuff
- Photos: RFK’s funeral train
waves his straw hat in farewell
May 29, 2008
- NYT to roll out a public API within a matter of weeks
adding even more value to their already amazing online presence
- Google now hosting major AJAX libraries
excellent example of not being evil
- Photos: My Dad’s Vietnam
‘overpowering and almost haunting’
May 25, 2008
- Video: High-speed footage of people getting punched in the face
what happens when you’re bored and have a 1000fps camera lying around?
- Photo: Aerial view of a tulip farm
also see the google maps link in the comments
May 17, 2008
- Gallery of cool typographic design
the emergency prospectus with the ripple is amazing
- Andy does some data analysis of the Billboard charts
good exposure for a usenet community labor of love
May 15, 2008
- Xobni: Search, threading, and data visualization for Outlook
currently in free beta, i’m getting a lot of use out of this
May 12, 2008
- Thomas Friedman - Call Your Mother
grew up in the depression, served her country in WWII, and lived long enough to play bridge on the internet with someone in siberia
May 11, 2008
- Video: Great documentary on Francis Bacon
‘i think what is called inspiration only comes really from regular work’
May 10, 2008
- When Obama Wins
we’ll all get new bicycles, and charlie brown will finally kick that football
May 9, 2008
- Video: Clustarack
great rube goldberg
May 6, 2008
- Jonathan Hoefler on the history of the ampersand
the mercury one is very sneaky
April 30, 2008
- Clay Shirky - Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
even lolcats hold out an invitation to participate
April 29, 2008
- Fascinating analysis of Microsoft’s hostile takeover attempt of Yahoo
yes, there is really something called a ‘poison pill’
April 24, 2008
- Ship’s log account of movies watched by astronauts on the ISS
shep did his best to explain to Yuri and Sergei what the phrase ‘chick flick’ means
April 20, 2008
- Michael Pollan on going green
sometimes you have to act as if acting will make a difference
April 19, 2008
- Virginia Heffernan on the Onion News Network
hotcake sales brisk
- Bill Nye’s green home
nothing gives me greater joy than riding my bike
- LOLGRUES
U HAS A FLAVR
- Photos: Tilt-shift photos of transportation by Vincent Laforet
davis gets a shoutout for its bicycle culture