Daily Jive

2008-07-03T15:14:00.001-04:00

2008-07-03T15:06:00.002-04:00

Is it really justified that Fox is allowed to use the word 'News' any longer?
More on the same.

"It wasn't a hit piece," Sifton told E&P. "It was straight news. This was a hit piece by Fox News. It is beneath comment." Asked if the paper planned to respond to Fox's actions, he said no: "It is fighting with a pig, everyone gets dirty and the pig likes it."

2008-06-30T18:41:00.001-04:00

Tall Tale Postcards from the Wisconsin Historical Society

2008-06-30T09:00:00.003-04:00

McCain gave a speech in front of a green screen, and Colbert invited the nation to use chroma key masking to help make his boring delivery more exciting. Here are some results.

2008-06-30T08:47:00.002-04:00

If your investment portfolio is sagging in the face of a stagnant U.S. economy, you may want to go long on stocks representing the military-industrial complex. In a final, farewell F.U. gesture to American taxpayers, the Bush administration is apparently prepping for activity in Iran. When Lockheed goes to $200 in late '09, don't say I wasn't thinking of you in the summer of 08.

2008-06-27T20:45:00.002-04:00

I wanted one of these awesome hand-crank cards for my birthday!

2008-06-27T11:03:00.001-04:00

Years ago I posted on an woodcut print made with a car. Here's one made with a steamroller.

2008-06-27T11:01:00.000-04:00

4000 Medical sample vials make for a nice painting (dezeen)

2008-06-27T10:58:00.001-04:00

Changethemargins and save the environment (or at least stop wasting so much paper)

2008-06-27T10:54:00.002-04:00

Some cool facts and video on the Taipei Mass Damper - a 728 ton stabilizing steel ball, used to minimize the building's sway during earthquakes. It worked on May 12. (via metafilter)

2008-06-25T15:52:00.000-04:00

When Rock Stars Attack: The Best Onstage Outbursts

2008-06-23T14:59:00.002-04:00

A big day for renewable energy! Delaware signs contract for the first U.S. offshore wind farm. I can't wait to see these things go up!
At the national level, Republicans have been stonewalling and blocking renewable energy legislation with a religious fervor, so it's nice to see the states (esp. an east coast state) step up and do the right thing in the face of the outgoing administration's adversity.

2008-06-23T14:43:00.001-04:00

Matt dances all over the world, and when Matt dances, people join in. (yt, wherethehellismatt)

2008-06-23T14:30:00.000-04:00

An incredibly obsessive mini model of Paris

2008-06-23T11:03:00.003-04:00

Alert the pentagon: Denon sells a $500 ethernet cable.
Apparently for increasing the quality of those bits. Those 1s somehow have more 1-ness, and the zeros are way more zeroey. Boing-Boing discusses.
Add one to the voodoo list (or, pair it up with a $700 "cable cooker" for optimal break-in!)

2008-06-23T10:36:00.002-04:00

Phonographantasmascope via metafilter

2008-06-20T10:48:00.001-04:00

Perfect for the start of summer, 10 unboring Ferris wheels

2008-06-20T10:46:00.001-04:00

Reuse of British Sea Forts (WebUrbanist)
Ocean and sea forts are few and far between and with good reason: only in fairly extreme circumstances is their expense deemed justifiable. Since being decommissioned, many of these have gained strange second lives as everything from luxury resorts and private retreats to micronations and pirate radio stations. It sounds extreme, but be honest: wouldn�t you want a sea fort of your very own?

2008-06-20T10:43:00.001-04:00

Coloring books with adults in mind
(pingmag)

2008-06-20T10:41:00.001-04:00

1000 beasts (flickr) (via drawn)

2008-06-20T09:30:00.002-04:00

Chickenshit, ineffectual, patsy Democrats give the Bush administration everything they want on domestic spying, wiretapping, telecom amnesty

2008-06-20T09:26:00.001-04:00

Amazingly descriptive URLs XXIV: pdf-mags

2008-06-20T09:23:00.001-04:00

Martian soil, on the rocks.
Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.

"It must be ice," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. "These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it's ice. There had been some question whether the bright material was salt. Salt can't do that."

2008-06-18T14:37:00.002-04:00

The Saul Bass Archive of movie credit sequences

2008-06-18T14:34:00.000-04:00

The Pattern Foundry