Nalgene to phase out hard-plastic bottles – More health news- msnbc.com Yay, I only own like 10 of these bottles. I’ll replace them with metal flasks instead. Color + Design Blog / All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts by COLOURlovers Jazzberry Jam? JAZZBERRY JAM?!? (via GMSV) Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments Trolls facing off.
Wing Men | Popular Science A $12,000 R/C A10 Warthog? How cool is that? IBM Debuts New Category of Server for Web 2.0 Computing – iDataPlex Hasn’t Rackable had this forever?
ISPs’ Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web, Researcher Discloses | Threat Level from Wired.com A) ISPs are evil, and this error page hijacking crap needs to stop. B) The guy in the photo is wearing a Threadless t-shirt, one of my favorites. 🙂
Doomsday fears spark lawsuit – Cosmic Log – msnbc.com The only supernova that’s gonna happen is a bunch of scientists heads exploding because of these morons. People are idiots, and apparently have forgotten where our technology comes from. Maybe we should go back to banging rocks together. The Rather Difficult Font Game They show you a font and you say which one it is… I got 19 of 34, which isn’t too bad.
On the Precipice: The Real Truth About Barack Obama! Interesting stuff, and I think a big list like this is a great way to combat all the misinformation out there. The Fishbowl: When life approximates xckd… Nice. Someone Rickrolled my voicemail yesterday morning… Thanks… Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 – All Things Distributed Now this is pretty darn cool. Utility computing indeed, and one-upping Google.
Schneier on Security: Overestimating Threats Against Children If you haven’t heard about the lady who let her 9 year old ride the subway alone, well, this is a good wrap-up. Personally, I say good for her and her kid. So many kids get locked up because of a parent’s completely irrational fears. Avi Kivity’s blog: Paravirtualization is dead “Well, not all paravirtualization. I/O device virtualization is certainly the best way to get good I/O performance out of virtual machines, and paravirtualized clocks are still necessary to avoid clock-drift issues.” Awesome to see this stuff. IBM smacks rivals with 5.0GHz Power6 beast | The Register 32 dual-core 5 GHz CPUs, 4 TB of RAM, I bet it’d rock at SETI@Home. Biggest …
Measuring the Color of Light – James Duncan Davidson Got this from Daring Fireball — good explanation of color temperature.
Google App Engine Launched! – snarfed.org Every Gmail account is now an OpenID account, too. Hot damn, this is cool. AMD lays out new multi-corpse roadmap : Good Morning Silicon Valley “The late discovery of a design flaw in the quad-core Barcelona chip derailed its planned launch almost a year ago…” This is the sort of BS that keeps me away from AMD. I have *never* had a good experience with them on the desktop, server, you name it. The Vulcan Project | Home Vulcan maps CO2 emissions. Interesting visualizations… if only anybody did anything about it. HuddleChat: Did Google Just Rip Off 37Signals? – ReadWriteWeb Well, I was pretty sure that the Don’t Be Evil thing was always total …
Adapx Product Store – Capturx for MS Office OneNote 2007 Kit A pen which records notes written with it. Might have to try this one. Fossilized human feces rewrite ancient history – SiliconValley.com My friend Katie was telling me about this yesterday — this is big. Humans were in North America 1200 years earlier than previously thought.
Writing without typos is totally outdated » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk Interesting rant. Personally, typos bother me a lot. Having them in your document distracts me from your point. Enough of them and I stop reading. Many other people are like me. Do you want to run the risk of me being the guy you submit your resume to?