Daily Jive

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:14:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:06:00 +0000

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."

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:41:00 +0000

Tall Tale Postcards from the Wisconsin Historical Society

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:47:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:45:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:03:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:01:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:58:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:54:00 +0000

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)

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:52:00 +0000

When Rock Stars Attack: The Best Onstage Outbursts

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:59:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:43:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:30:00 +0000

An incredibly obsessive mini model of Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:03:00 +0000

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!)

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:00 +0000

Phonographantasmascope via metafilter

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Perfect for the start of summer, 10 unboring Ferris wheels

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:46:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Coloring books with adults in mind
(pingmag)

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:41:00 +0000

1000 beasts (flickr) (via drawn)

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:30:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:26:00 +0000

Amazingly descriptive URLs XXIV: pdf-mags

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:23:00 +0000

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."

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:37:00 +0000

The Saul Bass Archive of movie credit sequences

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:34:00 +0000

The Pattern Foundry