2008

“EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three...”
— Al Gore Places Infant Son In...

“And of course, we should not forget the wider social...”
— Bad Science » Blame...

Reykjavík Pollution Continued

Mikil saurgerlamengun í Tjörninni í Reykjavík - mbl.is Linked is an Icelandic news item on a...

Derek Powazek - 10 Ways Newspapers Can...

“This JAMA paper indicates several problems around medical...”
— Dr Petra Boynton I Blog I...

Húshólmar (via baldurbjarnason)

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Húshólmar (via baldurbjarnason)

“Should I say I am grateful for the chance to teach at...”
— Times Higher Education - All...

“But if you’re afraid to fail, you’re afraid to take risks,...”
— The American Scholar - The...

lulz!

“Despite the utter-bullshit so much of the Anderson’s long...”
— Big Contrarian → Tacky.

Missing the Point

Rob Fahrni: Open source has its place and if you want it to become the dominant force in the...

Why Dudes Love Hulu: Free Porn

A commenter on Silicon Alley Insider said this here thing: Actually Hulu is being used by these...

“I could explain algorithms to you, but you probably hated...”
— Lefsetz Letter » Blog...

“There’s a blatant switcheroo that Seth (and almost...”
— Kevin Kelly — The...

How Iceland Went From Blood Feuds to...

How Iceland Went From Blood Feuds to...

“I’m not usually speechless but I’m ecstatic to...”
— The Daily Dish | By Andrew...

How Iceland Went From Blood Feuds to...

How Iceland Went From Blood Feuds to...

“Quite. But as I say - if somebody makes an argument that...”
— potlatch: why Google...

“Like Tipping Point, The Long Tail may be turn out to be more...”
— Big Contrarian → Wag your...

“Arguably therefore America’s national debt is now...”
— BBC NEWS | The Reporters |...

A Thought on the Iphone App Store

Daring Fireball: The App Store, Day One It is clear from browsing the App Store that Alan...

“Words matter.”
— Why does everything suck?: The...

“The threat of changing the makeup of a decidedly white power...”
— ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum:...

Why does everything suck?: YouTube Heading...

“The article focuses primarily on three measures: the monthly...”
— Data Fudging 101. The History...

“Since posting the video Loren Feldman has lost a bunch of...”
— Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life...

“The video was indeed offensive, but perhaps what was more...”
— Why does everything suck?:...

“Back when NeXTstep 0.8 was first unveiled, one of its key...”
— Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My...

Inert Detritus – (Re-)Designing a...

“I learned a way of expressing this common human problem on a...”
— The Value Of Science

“There are two things that strike me about this list as...”
— Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life...

“Meanwhile “New York City Waterfalls,” Olafur Eliasson’s...”
— The Year in Pictures:...

The Drowning

In the fall of 2006, secluded, faraway Iceland found itself at a turning point. A remote highland...

“It’s pretty basic reasoning. If you take it as given...”
— Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more:...

“Next Tuesday, Microsoft plans to ship four security updates...”
— On deck from MS: Four...

“The attack, discovered at a compromised legitimate site, is...”
— Internet Explorer ‘feature’...

“Another day, another gaping hole affecting fully patched...”
— Exploit code released for...

“An unpatched cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft’s...”
— Zero-day flaw haunts Internet...

“Firefox does an excellent job of updating itself, Internet...”
— Still more reasons to avoid...

White by Design

Óvissuástand hjá Paul Ramses - mbl.is More racism in Iceland. The linked news report is in...

“Like many other antidepressants, Prozac increases the...”
— How Prozac sent the science of...

“Here’s a true story about how awesome Pixar is.”
— Wow-e: Malthusian Fear...

Against Method

It strikes me that Chris Anderson is the Paul Feyerabend of the web age. That may be giving Mr....

“The approach that I have been using (and many of you are...”
— disambiguity - »...

“When Microsoft rolled out IE7, it did so only in newer...”
— Phasing Out IE6 | Painting the...

“Wonder why you see pros doing workshops, endorsing products,...”
— Becoming a better Photographer...

Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social...

Garden Party (via baldurbjarnason)

Understanding the Web browser threat by...

Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface...

two kinds of training (3 July, 2008,...

“Again, I am so disappointed. For all the argument-Olympics...”
— Infothought: Boing Boing /...

“[The XSSFilter in IE8.0 is] not perfect, don’t get me wrong,...”
— ha.ckers.org web application...

IEBlog : IE8 Security Part IV: The XSS...

“And there I started smiling: you realize, guys, that those...”
— hackademix.net »...

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“The techniques used by the modern cyber-criminal are truly...”
— Industry View: Web Application...

“While web application security was clearly recognized as a...”
— Industry View: Web Application...

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Garden Party (via baldurbjarnason)

“I really dislike the all too frequence happenings of,...”
— Watch the Birdie not the Hand:...

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“Kevin Kelly, one of the people behind Wired magazine, has...”
— No, Mr Kelly, I’m afraid...

“Given such an enormous data sample, the answers provided...”
— The Hubris of ‘The End of...

“I like big data as much as the next guy, but this is deeply...”
— Earning My Turns: The End of...

“Face it. Chris Anderson now has people at Harvard Business...”
— Whimsley: Why oh why...

“First and most importantly, the Cocoa programmer’s...”
— Theocacao: Thinking Like a...

“But In the pages of this month’s Wired Magazine, Chris...”
— Why does everything suck?:...

Better CSS Font Stacks

Chris Anderson's Anti-Science and...

“Every so often, someone (generally not a practicing...”
— Why the cloud cannot obscure...

“The irony of creativity is this: people want to be creative...”
— scottberkun.com » The...

Looks Good Works Well: Anti-Patterns: Talk at...

“After performing a number of usability studies (both on...”
— John Resig - BBC Removing...

Landsbankinn - Gengisþróun

“I am a public speaker by trade; I speak on the evolution and...”
— The Bilerico Project | Why...

“How many women are we talking about? We reckon that maybe a...”
— Why women quit technology...

“One of the things that annoys me so much about the tech...”
— Bubble 2.0 : Matt’s...

“Yamagishi et al. demonstrate that the East Asian...”
— Deric Bownds’ MindBlog:...

“Tucked away in the list of CSS improvements in Firefox 3 is...”
— Ajaxian » Soft-hyphens...

“Hyphenator.js brings client-side hyphenation of...”
— hyphenator - Google Code

“Hyphenate.py implements Frank Liang’s hyphenation...”
— Ned Batchelder: hyphenate

“hyphenator is a pure Python module to hyphenate text using...”
— python-hyphenator - Google...

Soft hyphen (SHY) - a hard problem?

“What this means is that if the initiative passes, then...”
— Whatever » Destroying...

“By sticking to this single variety, the banana industry...”
— Op-Ed Contributor - Yes, We...

“According to several Swedish newspapers, parliament has now...”
— Swedish Parliament passes...

“Every project runs into people who are selfish,...”
— How Open Source Projects...

“So its tomorrow, and the overnight thought was this - The...”
— Saving Humanity Part 1 -...

“Advertising is matrimaniacal. And yet, consider these...”
— Bella DePaulo: Single Boomers:...

John Resig - Deep Profiling jQuery Apps

“Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate...”
— briksoftware’s products

Basic UK libel law for idiots by Adam Porter

“The first grader who leaps to his feet when he figures out...”
— The Multitasking Virus and the...

“But it’s not just about some personal vendetta against...”
— Slash7 with Amy Hoy -...

“I hate to burst this bubble, but there is now so much hype...”
— Communities Dominate Brands:...

Melancholy

There are days when your state of mind just seems to fall apart, held together only by the duct tape...

TidBITS Opinion: No, David Pogue, Ebook...

“Look at social democratic Europe, where these policy...”
— How to Promote Startups (Aaron...

“She explained, as if to an enthusiastic but slightly dim...”
— Marginal Revolution: The...

“But the real book is dead. Destroyed by modern economics,...”
— What exactly is an antibook?...

“What we seek, we want. All the rest is spam.”
— Faster Future: Publishing...

“Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography....”
— Schneier on Security: The War...

“Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation, waves of energy that...”
— Well - Debate Over Link...

A List Apart: Articles: Writing an Interface...

“With the Supreme Court becoming more conservative, many...”
— Essay - Doctor Recalls...

“A nation of immigrants is holding another nation of...”
— Unjust and Unethical Treatment...

“Again and again, the experts have proven wrong. Yet if the...”
— Samantha Power: Message to...

“Then, of course, with some regularity, I’ve heard people...”
— Climb to the Stars (Stephanie...

“The math gender gap thus joins a long list of differences in...”
— Why Judy can’t add:...

Via Occasional Superheroine: Nirvana Has Been Reached...

Mind Hacks: Do Bayesian statistics rule the...

Mundane (via baldurbjarnason)

Monica & Her Muse: Fixing ePublishing's...

Andy Budd::Blogography: Silverback Exposed

Mundane (via baldurbjarnason)

“While “feminised” technology might be new in the...”
— Feminised gadgets: An eye for...

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“They shouldn’t. If they were wise, they’d hope...”
— The dread planet - The Boston...

“There is a significant class of problems that might be...”
— discipline and punish

Iceland Meteorological office - Earthquakes,...

64.0259 -20.9857(M6.1 - ICELAND - 2008 May 29...

Iceland rocked by earthquake - CNN.com

BBC NEWS | Europe | Strong earthquake rocks...

Earthquake in Reykjavik, 29 May 2008

We just had a fairly strong earthquake here in Reykjavík, Iceland. No news yet but there...

Failing Web 2.0 stars pray for copyright...

“In fact, the numbers we’ve seen have shown the same...”
— Techdirt: If You’re...

“Like human commuters, this city’s stray dogs can often...”
— In Moscow’s Metro, a...

“Surely, I continued, it couldn’t possibly be true that...”
— Cram this: a firsthand account...

“There’s accumulating evidence that THC increases the...”
— Mind Hacks: Hash high in...

“The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and...”
— FT.com / Companies / Media...

“Chinamerica” - An East/West Mashup |...

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Nikkor Lens Assessment by Thom Hogan