social network for movie snobs. looks interesting.

selected links. pretty well selected at that.

longish piece on Iceland’s big fat bank collapse

The usual talk radio victims show up for a tea party protest. "Some wore buttons. One man brought a bloody effigy head of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and waved it from the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts in a chant of "Repeal, recall, revolt.""

Quick Footnotes (generally working notes not interesting enough to make it to my next book) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know…." The author of The Black Swan.

Wash your hands with hands.

Mr. Toast and company as the Watchmen

A zine by, for, and about sardines.

Yeah, a gallery of birds who are stealing ice cream.

Yeah, it’s a whole blog about canned sardines. No, I don’t know either.

how to disinfect water for drinking

scanned in sandwiches. mmm.

finding click track/automated drumming by variation analysis

tool/toy to make web pages more readable in some ways.

crazy old ads

The HyShot Flight Program is an experiment designed to develop a correlation between pressure measurements made of supersonic combustion in The University of Queensland’s T4 shock tunnel, and that which is observed in flight.

A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variation of a ramjet distinguished by supersonic combustion.

sweet panorama shot

People expected the warbles of a teen opera singer but instead got The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, world champion drunk pissed-off post-punk mumblecore king.

Good summary of the Stanford Investments fraud and regulatory failures.

The most ambitious project is the "immobilization device" built by Peak Beam Systems for the U.S. Army. Fitted to a small unmanned helicopter, "the Xenon based searchlight [can] be pulsed with a unique modulation (strobe) effect that results in immobilization to those within the beam," according to a contract announcement.

According to Rueters [sic], the rapper said that he has joined the group because he was "doing what’s right and representing what’s right," adding that as a "leader of the hip-hop community" he would share what he learned with other artists.

great photos of antarctic stuff.

Raniere historically has the dubious distinction of being featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2003 as the "world’s strangest executive coach"

Among about 160 files that Johnson claims contained sensitive data (.pdf) were two spreadsheets containing information on 20,000 patients, which identified four patients being treated for HIV-AIDS, 326 patients being treated for cancer, 201 being treated for mental illnesses and thousands afflicted with various other diseases.

Unexpectedly great interview with Margot Kidder. She knows everybody and did everything and is smart as hell.

building mozilla code