A Day With Firefighters (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Welcome Books: Hard Work (Prebound))
kottke (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
In 1905 , Einstein came up with the concept of special relativity, published his paper on the photoelectric effect, finished his doctoral dissertation, devised the E=mc^2 concept, published a paper on Brownian motion, was approved for his doctorate, and turned 26. So......what have you guys been up to? Tags: Albert Einstein physics science
kottke (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A young-ish Christopher Walken appears in Annie Hall but his name is misspelled in the credits as "Christopher Wlaken". Were this 1990, I might have invented a eastern European backstory for Wlaken, who, perhaps, Americanized his name sometime after appearing in the film. But as we live in the future, a cool hunk of glass and metal from my pocket told me -- before the credits even finished...
kottke (Free subscription) | 58 minutes ago
From an old advertisement posted by James Lileks, here are some of Heinz's 57 varieties: 1. Heinz Oven-baked Beans with Pork and Tomato Sauce 7. Heinz Cream of Green Pea Soup 14. Heinz Mock Turtle Soup 22. Heinz Peanut Butter 34. Heinz Fresh Cucumber Relish And of course: 42. Heinz Tomato Ketchup Tags: food Heinz
kottke (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
David Heinemeier Hansson has some thoughts on "quality control without the quality part" nature of Apple's App Store. In fact, lots of software has lower quality because of the App Store process. Developers can't easily get bug fixes out and they certainly don't release new versions as often as they otherwise would. This harks back to the era where software was really cumbersome to release...
kottke (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Data from Facebook reveals how the United States is split up into different regions like Stayathomia, Greater Texas, Dixie, and Mormonia. Stretching from New York to Minnesota, [Stayathomia's] defining feature is how near most people are to their friends, implying they don't move far. In most cases outside the largest cities, the most common connections are with immediately neighboring cities, and...
kottke (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Stewart Butterfield and his ex-Flickr co-founders have revealed what their company, Tiny Speck , has been working on for the past few months: a game called Glitch . A CNET reporter has been embedded at Tiny Speck for the past few months and has more than you probably want to know about the new company and game. Tags: Glitch Stewart Butterfield Tiny Speck video games
Switched (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. whirled interactive flexed its video slicing skills with this insane video mashing up every violent act, and there were tons, from all of the 2010 Super Bowl ads. [From: BoingBoing...
Comics Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Webcomics , Video There's a long, long history of "xkcd" fans reenacting the webcomic, but rarely by such high profile nerdlebrities as Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, and Cory Doctorow, not to mention "Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google Zurich, Hank ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
It didn't feature an athletic woman with a flimsy bra throwing a hammer through a screen, but I thought Google's Super Bowl ad was pretty well done: Tags: advertising Google search Super Bowl TV
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've posted about hikaru dorodango a couple times before but they're always worth another look. Dorodango start out as sloppy mud balls but through careful shaping and polishing with dirt and sand, they end up perfectly round and shiny. Here is a particularly beautiful and unusual example, made some yellow soil in New Mexico: That totally looks like leather! Here is a more traditional (and shiny!)...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
The way that books used to be printed, the reader would have to cut open each page with a paper knife before it could be read, every page a tiny gift from the writer. The printing happened on large sheets of paper which were then folded into rectangles the size of the finished pages and bound. The reader then sliced open the folds. Paper knives, variants of letter openers, were used for this purpose....
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
All nine of the planets in our solar system are represented in these wonderful posters by Ross Berens . Pluto. Never forget. Tags: design Pluto Ross Berens space
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | yesterday
Featuring an a cast of internet luminaries, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have created “We Love xkcd”, a real life version of “I Love xkcd”, which itself was an animated version of the comic xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel. FEATURING THE AWESOMENESS OF: Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google [...] This is a blog post from...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
Celebrity photographer Terry Richardson has a blog to which he posts quick snaps. Sorta like everyone else on the planet except that oh, there's Kate Moss and there's Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen and there's Justin Theroux and there's Doutzen Kroes and there's Tracy Morgan. Somewhat NSFW in places. Tags: photography Terry Richardson
The Daily What (Free subscription) | yesterday
Morning Links: Google airs Super Bowl ad, despite longstanding anti-TV ad philosophy . CEO Eric Schmidt excuses cop out on Google blog. YouTube Ad Blitz : Every SB44 ad in one place. “If this was the future of the Internet, then the future of the Internet obviously didn’t include me”: NYMag’s Sam Anderson on Chatroulette . Also: Kottke’s two cents . Keyboard Cat nominated...
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