As it turns out, the director of the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute seems to be an extraordinarily safe nightime rider.
Nice post by Kevin Driscoll on a remix that uses stuff from the "Numa Numa" song and follows it through on a couple interesting tangents.
Incredible story of an unknown women whose deathmask made her wildely famous in death and who was the basis for the CPR dummy CPR-Annie.
Beautiful, eloquent response to a Revealing Error post. "In the real world, police and prosecutors can’t help but exercise discretion with every decision they make. And while it’s true there is rampant abuse of the power to decide when to drop the legal hammer on some schlub’s life, that discretion is the humanity in our justice system. People are messy and inconsistent, but only human judgments yield human justice."
iPhone adds are called misleading because they claim that the phone supports the whole Internet but doesn't support "standard" like Java and Flash. I think the free software position should be in favor of Apple on this one.
References to a great series of articles on Slate on non-enforcement of laws in the United States by Tim Wu.
Bike-based delivery system based in Cambridge (off Oxford) that does delivery for a whole bunch of different projects.
Homemade mozzarella made in Somerville! At Harvard and Davis farmers market.
"Blabacus, the Blogging Abacus"
"Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the Brothers was tested by our slow internet," said Cistercian monk Father Daniel.
It's a robot voice that can warn you of imminent radiation death... IN A BOX!
Yikes. I really want to support this campaign. I think that public access to spetrum is perhaps one of the two most important issues for technology and communications freedom. But I also don't like feeling like I'm the tool of some big company. I appreciate that Google is being open about their involvement and the real benefits to them from their position and I really do think Google is on the right side here. That said, I'm sad that there's no real grassroots movement on this issue.
Pretty hot video techniques from the University of Washington.
Pretty incredible hurricane map. Flash. :(
Another interesting story about people exploiting a bug in the system that allowed them to buy tickets without getting charged. Most people did it accidently.
Weird. In a good way! The NY Times and John Markoff seems to have made an about-face in their representation of free software. Awesome
A shop where you buy things and then go break them.
Japanese official who held many thousands of jews escape Nazi persecution.
I'd (thankfully?) forgotten about this. Oh well!
Epilogue (perhaps) to the psuedo.com and Josh Harris stuff I mentioned yesterday.
This is a great followup to one of the initial Revealing Errors about Google News.
Another horror story about INS abuse of immigrants.
I read this article months ago and it's haunted me.
More evidence of bands releasing works onto P2P networks as a form of promotion.
Story of weliveontheinternet.com as told by Tanya Corrin, one of the participants.
Story of weliveontheinternet.com, psuedo.com, Josh Harris, and much more.
