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Wednesday, July 01, 2009


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5 Alternatives to The Pirate Bay

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Mininova : The ultimate BitTorrent source!

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Www.1337x.orG

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 03:42 PM PDT

Apollo 11 Liftoff, Breaking the Sound Barrier [LiveScience.com]

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 09:43 AM PDT

@font-face: The Potential of Web Typography

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 09:25 AM PDT




Tuesday, June 30, 2009


volcano photo taken from ISS

NASA's International Space Station was in the right place at the right time as it took this amazing photograph of a volcanic eruption in progress:
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009.
There is some controversy over whether a shockwave from the eruption punched a hole in the cloud deck; several other theories are offered in the link. Personally, I like that explanation best because it's the coolest sounding... ;-)




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    Super Hornet 5 [Flickr]

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:53 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Super Hornet 5

    As the Super Hornet makes its fast pass, it hits transonic speeds, evidenced by the shock waves forming on the leading edges of the wings, engine intakes, and other parts of the fuselage. Awesome!

    All about Firefox 3.5, available now [Mozilla Links]

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 06:22 PM PDT

    Spezify

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 12:48 PM PDT

    "Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways." Pretty slick...

    No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can [The Onion]

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 12:38 PM PDT

    Hilarious and right on the money... :-)

    State Supreme Court rules for Franken, 5-0

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 12:34 PM PDT

    Sweet!

    Scour - Search Socially

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 10:31 AM PDT

    Combines search results from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

    Blinkx

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:51 AM PDT

    Pretty nice video search engine

    Kosmix: The web organized for you

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:50 AM PDT

    Very slick search engine; presents loads of options, multimedia, and more.

    Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google [Wired.com]

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:47 AM PDT

    There, I Fixed It.

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:57 AM PDT

    Photoblog of some pretty crappy homemade kludges...

    Recent scenes from the ISS [The Big Picture]

    Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:55 AM PDT

    Some great photos from the International Space Station...


    Monday, June 29, 2009



    Eclectic Method's Michael Jackson video mix Long Live The King is very impressive.




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    Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made [Times Online]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:02 PM PDT

    There are some good points here, but I don't know...

    The Best Music Video Michael Jackson Ever Released [Anil Dash]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:01 PM PDT

    Anil Dash contends that it's "Who Is I," directed by David Fincher before he hit it big as a movie director

    Sax Solos

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:54 PM PDT

    a review of sax solos in 80s songs; pretty funny (and very thorough!)...

    Microsoft Typography - Font properties extension

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:36 PM PDT

    allows you to see many font properties when you right click and examine font file properties

    Super Hornet 3 [Flickr]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Super Hornet 3

    The Hornet maneuvers while at high alpha and its gear down.

    Super Hornet 8 [Flickr]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Super Hornet 8

    Vortices form off the wing strake and wing tips as the Super Hornet pulls some g's.

    Super Hornet 7 [Flickr]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Super Hornet 7

    The Super Hornet makes a slow, dirty pass with its landing gear and tail hook down.

    Super Hornet 6 [Flickr]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Super Hornet 6

    Super Hornet 1 [Flickr]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Super Hornet 1

    The F/A-18F Super Hornet immediately goes vertical after takeoff.

    Perfect French Fries [Serious Eats]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 02:30 PM PDT

    Eclectic Method - Long Live The King (Michael Jackson Mix) [Vimeo]

    Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:21 AM PDT




    Sunday, June 28, 2009



    YouTube user meliberty makes some great '80s compilation videos, so I was quite happy to see that he put together a video tribute to the King of Pop.


    Saturday, June 27, 2009


    Jabba's Palace

    "The Architects' Journal selects the most important buildings from a galaxy far, far away" in The architecture of Star Wars.



    Friday, June 26, 2009



    LiquidGenerationTube bets "you didn't think it was possible to fit the 100 greatest movie lines into 200 hundred seconds. We've got the video to prove you wrong."




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    NYNEX, Embedded Angel of New York City [BLDGBLOG]

    Posted: 26 Jun 2009 04:28 PM PDT

    Very cool idea for a Ghostbusters movie script...

    7 great places to work - New Belgium Brewing

    Posted: 26 Jun 2009 04:25 PM PDT

    Fat Tire is one of my all-time favorites, and now I have even more reason to like it. Rumor has it that we'll finally see Fat Tire on the East Coast soon... :-)

    The Ultimate Spy Plane [Smithsonian Magazine]

    Posted: 26 Jun 2009 04:06 PM PDT

    The Blackbird is awesome.



    Thursday, June 25, 2009



    This Michael Jackson Pepsi (?) commercial is all the more poignant now... :-(




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    Michael Jackson - (Pepsi?)commercial - I'll Be There [YouTube]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 07:48 PM PDT

    Bill Stein [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Bill Stein

    Bill Stein of the Collaborators taxis his Edge 540.

    Eric Tucker [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Eric Tucker

    Eric Tucker of the Collaborators taxis his Extra 300L.

    Ben Freelove [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Ben Freelove

    Ben Freelove of the Collaborators taxis his Extra 300L.

    Sean Tucker 2 [Flickr]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Sean Tucker 2

    Sean Tucker of the Collaborators taxis his Challenger biplane.

    Watch Trailers on YouTube

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:47 PM PDT

    The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time [IFC.com]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:40 PM PDT

    Michael Jackson [Wikipedia]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:40 PM PDT

    Michael Jackson dies at 50 [CNN.com]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:39 PM PDT

    Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things. [flickr]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 10:52 AM PDT

    Fairly sexist vintage VW ad

    RESURCH+ORG

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 10:10 AM PDT

    Summer Drinks Issue - A Guide to Bartending When the Frost is on the Glass [NYTimes.com]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 10:07 AM PDT

    Social Network Icon Pack [Komodo Media]

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 09:37 AM PDT

    Google City Tours

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 09:36 AM PDT

    beautiful fonts with @font-face at hacks.mozilla.org

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 08:58 AM PDT

    Version 3.5 (RC3 out today) now supports CSS @font-face, which means that web developers can specify which font(s) they want a web site to display.

    Palin hits back at "malicious" photo

    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 08:41 AM PDT

    She seriously needs to just STFU.




    Michael Jackson died today from cardiac arrest at the age of 50. Although I had heard that he was in bad health, I'm quite shocked to hear this.

    Although Michael Jackson was an iconic influence for me in the '70s and '80s, I don't know if I'll ever be able to get past how messed up he became. Nevertheless, I'm going to try and remember him during the peak of his career, from the time frame the above albums were around.

    Between this and Farrah Fawcett's passing (and I almost forgot to mention Ed McMahon), I'm pretty bummed... :-(


    Wednesday, June 24, 2009


    futuristic movie timeline

    Dan Meth's Futuristic Movie Timeline is pretty cool...



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    Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About [freewaregenius.com]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 05:27 PM PDT

    Collaborators 2 [Flickr]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Collaborators 2

    I was really impressed with the Collaborators, a relatively new team that is even more impressive considering that different types of aircraft are flown.

    Collaborators 6 [Flickr]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Collaborators 6

    Collaborators 5 [Flickr]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Collaborators 5

    Collaborators 3 [Flickr]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Collaborators 3

    Collaborators 1 [Flickr]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Collaborators 1

    Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension [Annoyances.org]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:12 PM PDT

    That I have to go through this reinforces my view of Micro$oft...

    Digsby Blog ยป Build 60 - Faster than a Speeding Bullet!

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:52 PM PDT

    Disgby is a really nice free IM aggregator: Facebook, Google Talk, Twitter, GMail, and more are supported...

    Oscar expands best pic noms to 10 [Variety]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:42 PM PDT

    "The Motion Picture Academy announced Wednesday that for the first time in more than 65 years, the field of best picture nominees will be expanded to 10 contenders for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards."

    7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics [Cracked.com]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:19 AM PDT

    NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave - geophysics [io9]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:16 AM PDT

    So, you want to be a Gmail ninja? [Official Gmail Blog]

    Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:16 AM PDT




    Tuesday, June 23, 2009


    Samurai Vodka

    TheDieline.com posts about Samurai Vodka. What a cool bottle design...



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    Thunderbirds 17 [Flickr]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Thunderbirds 17

    One of the Thunderbirds pilots signals to the crowd.

    Thunderbirds 16 [Flickr]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Thunderbirds 16

    The Thunderbirds taxi back after their flight.

    Thunderbirds 15 [Flickr]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Thunderbirds 15

    Note the vortices visible in the tire smoke.

    Thunderbirds 14 [Flickr]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Thunderbirds 14

    Thunderbirds 2 touches down.

    Thunderbirds 13 [Flickr]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:05 PM PDT

    driko posted a photo:

    Thunderbirds 13

    Break!

    Matt Kloskowski Training

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:02 PM PDT

    Photographer Evolution

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:57 PM PDT

    This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

    Madoff's lawyer requests 12-year sentence [CNN]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 08:56 AM PDT

    "effective life sentence" my ass...

    Ed McMahon dies at 86 [CNN.com]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 08:37 AM PDT

    Verizon, T-Mobile plan Android phones by year's end [ZDNet.com]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:20 AM PDT

    Sweet!

    Nine Killed in Red Line Crash [washingtonpost.com]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:11 AM PDT

    Scary...

    How to find out "What's here" [Google LatLong]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:09 AM PDT

    New feature in Google Maps sounds useful...

    Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features [Lifehacker]

    Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:07 AM PDT




    Monday, June 22, 2009


    desert tornado

    This recent wallpaper from National Geographic depicts an amazing scene...



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    Story That Takes 1,000 Years to Read Is Antidote to Media Whirlwind [Wired.com]

    Posted: 22 Jun 2009 03:39 PM PDT

    "San Francisco conceptual artist and journalist Jonathon Keats is trying to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell. "

    Flip Flop Fly Ball

    Posted: 22 Jun 2009 03:38 PM PDT

    "A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball."

    Chronicling America [The Library of Congress]

    Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:24 AM PDT

    "enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."

    WALL-E end title sequence + Jim Capobianco & Alex Woo interview [The Art of the Title Sequence]

    Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:22 AM PDT

    "Jim Capobianco's end credits to Andrew Stanton's WALL-E are essential; they are the actual ending of the film, a perfect and fantastically optimistic conclusion to a grand, if imperfect idea. Humanity's past and future evolution viewed through unspooling schools of art. Frame after frame sinks in as you smile self-consciously. It isn't supposed to be this good but there it is."

    Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard [PC World]

    Posted: 22 Jun 2009 05:37 AM PDT

    "From the satisfying click of its keys to its no-nonsense layout and solid steel underpinnings, IBM's 24-year-old Model M is the standard by which all other keyboards must be judged."




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