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 "Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass if half empty. Because 32% means it's two-thirds empty... There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point... but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash." If a comedian rips apart the Bush administration and the media craftily, handily, and unashamedly, in front of all the nation's important political reporters, does it get coverage? Apparently not. A quick Google News search for Stephen Colbert's night-ending performance yielded three results from blogs, and a story at Editor and Publisher.  So we bring you the full blistering and jaw-dropping 26-minute speech from the dinner last night here [BitTorrent link]. Crooks and Liars has a tiny Quicktime of 15 minutes of it if you're wanting to stay in-browser. Some highlights include the following: He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”WA reader Preston says "every single person in that room needed to visit the burn ward after that [performance]." I must also tip my hat to him for pointing me to this thing in the first place. Now start copying and pasting that link for your friends.  Moss in NYC has some truly beautiful lighting and, well, everything else for your home. [via my mom] George Bush has coined yet another phrase for Americans. Who is "The Decider" in your life? If you're looking for a more poetic or flamboyant way to insult someone, look no further. David Copperfield foiled some teenage muggers with a magic trick. He's either really cool or really stupid. They had a gun. Pointed at his head. Anyway, we know that he pays his assistants really well and they seem to enjoy steak. Fine by me. And way to go for having the assistant call 911. [via Penn Jillette] Google has started to promote Firefox to IE users. At 91 million home page hits a day, that could do wonderful things. [via reddit] G. Ralph Davenport, Jr. (R, SC) not only wants to outlaw sex toys in South Carolina, but would also like to ship drug offenders to other countries so they can do nasty things to them. This seems like a good time to remind you that Congressional incumbents are re-elected 98% of the time. I'll be in the corner, sobbing.  Iran is strange. "Before the bombs start dropping, we should make sure we’re acquainted with their surrealistic Seussian architecture." See Mishna Wolff do her one woman show in NYC at The People's Improv Theater 5/4-5/6 for only 8 bucks. "Mishna Wolff grows up in black America as the whitest person ever, with her dad who thinks he's the blackest."   Please vote for my shirt design on Threadless, Design By Numbers! Gocco is a really cool personal printing process whose life should not be over. Check out the cool Make-bot printed on canvas bags with the thing. Download the Pictoplasma bunny mandala. Are you The Decider?  Beautiful photos of NYC from the last 20 years. [via kottke] If you're taking pro photos or product shots on a tight budget, it makes good sense to make a light tent yourself. [via core77] Fast food companies love kids. In the bad way. The Guardian has an excerpt from Eric Schlosser's new book. President Bush's approval rating dropped to 32%, his lowest yet. Apple's next five steps toward gaining handily in the personal computer market.  Psyop has outdone themselves yet again with their new 90-second MTV HD promo called "Crow". [via Protein] Wider Angle's redesign! I hope it's easier to navigate and more fun to browse. Along with the new link posts I'm trying to pack more content into more style. Booyakasha. TankChair is the most badass wheelchair ever. More industrial designers should work on stylish and creative and rugged wheelchairs. Please? Gas prices around the U.S., color coded by county on a big map. [via digg]  The Perry Bible Fellowship archive!! 1984 Apple advertising insert in Newsweek.  Sweden finally recognizes W as a letter! [via Fark] File under massive(ly) cool displays: The HIPerWall at University of California, Irvine, [via Kottke] uses 50 30-inch Apple Cinema displays to create a 200 megapixel video wall. Also, the world's largest 3d display [via digg] was created by students at Delft University of Technology. It uses 8000 LEDs and ping pong balls to display images at 2 x 4 x 8 meters. I'm considering buying a Matthew Lesko book to get a grant of my own for one of these things. AOL is developing a MySpace killer [via waxy]. "The service will launch at AIM.com, and individual user pages will be aim.com/[username]. Functionality will be similar to MySpace - with blogging, photo and music widgets available for integration. Also, third party companies are being approached to build widgets...." And, given AOL's clear development superiority (not sarcasm), it probably won't really be that buggy. Plus it will integrate seamlessly into AIM. Goodbye, MySpace?  This nutty New Orleans mayoral candidate took a campaign picture of herself at Disneyland. Fine, right? Except she's pretending it's New Orleans. At the moment I'm finally catching another DJ Kepi set on Thump Funk on XM80 The Move. If you like dirty, nasty, funky breaks, try to catch this guy wherever you can. I tried to find a DJ set to link to online but came up short, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Pandora is supporting the Pandora/Last.fm mashup and giving Gabe, the programmer, access to their API so he can develop it to make it more stable and even more fun. "The mashup is basically the Pandora player, and listeners have the ability to add music played by Pandora directly to their Last.fm playlists. Last.fm favorite artists for the user are also displayed, and can be used to generate on the fly Pandora stations." At first I winced at the idea of the Great News Network, a website devoted only to good news, but once I visited I became a believer. It's certainly not a primary news source, but it's a great unicorn chaser to the New York Times. An ingredient in Rocko's mom's milk turns out to be a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin. G'day, indeed. [via digg] Someone created a Google cheat sheet. At first glance it seems like overkill, but look closer and you'll find a use for it. James Dyson creates the illusion of water flowing upward in the context of a gorgeous sculpture. For people who are into physics, art, and design, this project is literally a wet dream. Wal-Mart is learning that people will still find ways to organize and be heard even if they can't join unions. The result is millions of people forming political campaigns in an attempt to change the way the megasupergigantocorp does business. Public Knowledge present a Net Neutrality video on YouTube explains the concept to non-geeks. GREAT IDEA! Neither Republicans or Democrats are doing anything to protect net neutrality. NOT GREAT IDEA! The Founding Fathers were not religious. Much more importantly, they were firm that religion should have nothing to do with government. No faith-based initiatives. No Jesus. No God. "Madison believed that 'religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize.'"  Netflix mailers through the years. "The result of more than five years of experimentation, this mailer transports approximately 1.4 million DVDs a day to Netflix's 4.2 million subscribers." The recording industry has apparently given in to Apple's demands: 99 cents per song for every song.  My new remix of one of Imogen Heap's tunes, Hide and Seek. Should be good for the warm Summer months. Support NORML. Tom Coates links to maps of religious adherents in America Rolling Stone: The Worst President In History?  Banksy photo from prokillrat's Flickr stream. Sabifoo is an instant messenger bot that converts your messages into a private or public RSS feed and web page to keep track of notes. [via Fifty ways to take notes] The Museum of Online Museums [via Eyebeam] Equidistant Eats finds restaurants that are between the two of you geographically. Gay people living in Jamaica may want to consider moving to The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands to avoid lynching and stoning. An Ohio law would make abortion a felony. Isn't South Dakota already doing this to test Roe vs. Wade? Why waste more legislative and judicial time? Philips has suggested adding flags to commercial segments to disallow viewers to change the channel or skip ahead. Digg commenters point out that this would be a dream for hackers to reverse to automatically skip commercials, so I'm of mixed views.  If jumping on Oprah's couch isn't nuts (no one's saying it isn't), planning to eat placenta is. I'm applying for my preemptive restraining order this afternoon, just in case I go to LA. [photo via Defamer] Oil has tipped past $70 per barrel. ExxonMobil execs are wetting themselves with glee. Foof is making fun fluffy spikey laptop sleeves, and they're pretty inexpensive. [via BB] The new Stanton Warriors album, after a very long wait, is finally out, but it's only in UK shops. Stanton Sessions: Volume 2 and Lost Files is on sale at HMV for £8.99 plus shipping. It comes to about $22, which isn't bad for 2 cds of booty shaking madness. The Scumfrog is playing a free 6-hour show at Home in NYC this Sunday, April 23. Also catch Lostep (Luke Chable and Phil K) at Sullivan Room next Thursday, April 28, for only $10! Check out East Side Productions to get on the guestlist. TurboTax Online is essentially a massive, productive text adventure. [via kottke] Shack Watchers is a social webcam (first one I've seen) for Shake Shack devotees who want to check the line to ensure a minimal wait. [thanks Allyson!]  Fans of the brilliant film The Pumaman (pronounced the-pew-MAY-men) should be able to find a use for this design. It's blatantly copyright ripoff so I won't sell it, but here's an [AI] and a [JPEG].  adicolor's Pink video. Stunning. [via waxy] Where should we attack next? [video] Five modifiers you might have intended when you just said "literally".  adicolor's Green. More to come. Fox signed a digital deal with their affiliates before they even offer online content. Impressive forward thinking. South Park's De-Muhammeded episode with Jesus crapping on Bush.  The Monome is a really cool multi-purpose hand-made USB controller. Perfect for drum programming. [via] This is why Yahoo! can't deliver email reliably. It also makes an email fee that much fishier. Beautiful online evolution timeline. Mmm... Coca cola from Colombia. How to not kill people with your building by paying attention. This beer promo site is actually really cool.  The flashbag inflates as you fill it with more data. I really really want one. Denying college students financial aid because of drug convictions is far more destructive than constructive. Aren't people with problems supposed to be rehabilitated rather than shat on? 300+ problems solved with freeware. The Dell De-crapifier uninstalls all that free trial bullcorn that comes installed on new Dell systems. Community upgrades could make this software work for every Dell machine, then possibly on to other manufacturers. If AT&T and other telcos want to extort online business due to their above-average bandwidth use, those online business might just make their own network. Why? Because they can. And they've already started. Simply Google puts all the Google searches onto one page. Awesome! In other Google news, Google Calendar launched yesterday and it's wonderful. Simple, clean, and integrated with Gmail.  The Colbert Report on the president's approval ratings. If you're looking to add pictures to your soundwaves and create music from images, you'll want MetaSynth 4. You'll also need a Mac with OS X. Down Deep will be at The Vault at Element this Thursday. Expect funky house. The space is brand new and the vibe should be excellent. Cover is $5 and doors open at 9. Diminishing Returns rated the Bud Light subway ads.  Apple's new Fifth Avenue store in New York has begun to show itself. theone3: "Henceforth, all glowing Mac logos must be turned towards Fifth Avenue to provide optimal performance. Every mac user must make their pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime to the fifth avenue building. A full wallet is a requirement of entry. Those who do not have a full wallet must walk around the store seven times in a counter-clockwise direction, waving their iPods towards the store. All pilgrims must wear blue jeans and a turtleneck sweater." I don't think the new Serious Organised Crime Agency's (Britain's new FBI) logo is all that iconic or attractive, but I also have a hard time seriously comparing it to the Thundercats logo. Many English cry Snarf! Audi is giving away 32MB USB sticks. The Supreme Court is deciding whether no-knock police raids without such a warrant may actually be legal. Until reading this article, I had never heard of the "Castle Doctrine" but I quite like it. It seems, um, Constitutional, even if it was developed centuries before our country's founders touched our shores. The worm of 1988 that shut down the Internet. Is MySpace "like so totally over," already? Faceparty is trouncing MySpace in the UK and even offers an affordable tiered pricing structure for extra benefits, including friend-to-friend adult content, in addition to a free service. OMG, a business plan! Plus, I think it's statistically impossible for Faceparty to be more buggy than MySpace. "'Cat', 19, says: 'I definitely prefer Faceparty to MySpace. MySpace is all corporate now.'" Oh my. This is your brain on creationism. Not just snakes on a plane, but mosquitos and turtles too. Giant rabbit watches Wallace & Gromit movie, goes on vegetable rampage. Hillary Clinton has scheduled a press conference for this afternoon to discuss the effects of claymation on pets. Sen. Arlen Specter has asked Bush and Cheney to speak publicly about the leaks. The delightful Charlize Theron was honored with the Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday.  "Manel Torres has developed Fabrican, a cotton-fabric that comes in a can. Once sprayed onto your body, the pressurised liquid turns instantly into a fabric." Nobody who views TV shows with a DVR watches the commercials. Television execs still insist otherwise. Most things look better when you put them in a circle. TomKat gets weirder and batshit insanier. Smiling brightly through a child abuse story? You may be a scientologist. BoingBoing's word of the day: Froschmäusekrieg. Cabspotting is a very cool cab tracking visualization for the San Francisco bay area. How to write a thank-you note. Casio developed a fuel cell to use as a 20-hour laptop battery. Details are scarce, but it should show up in products in about a year, supposedly. If the Tunguska event had been a little bigger, we wouldn't be around to discuss it. Scary. South Park won a Peabody Award.  Apple is releasing Boot Camp today, software that provides an easy way to install Windows XP on your Intel Mac. It will be a download from the Apple site and will be part of OS 10.5. Boot Camp makes it easier to install Windows software on an Intel-based Mac, with a step-by-step guide. It also lets users choose to use either Mac OS X software, or the Windows software when they restart their computer.  This grass armchair is beautiful, and a great concept. I plan to make my own! But why stop at chairs? Egg pirates in China have been making eggs from toxic ingredients and selling them cheap. Thanks to Xeni for the unicorn chaser. 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years. One guy. RGB or hexadecimal color "harmony" generator. If you're researching something, aside from Google, try some of the resources listed at the New York Times Newsroom Navigator (nee Cybertimes Navigator). A section of route 1 in San Francisco seems to be sliding off North America. "The Smithsonian has sold exclusive first-refusal rights to its enormous film archive (including tons of public-domain material) to Showtime, a commercial network. This means that anyone who wants to use Smithsonian footage in a documentary will have to take a back seat to Showtime's execs." Google Music Store. Coming soon. The New York Times redesign is better than the paper. It's beautiful and elegant.  Here's a free MP3 from Olaris Records. Royal Sapien "Triple Nine (Body Shot Remix)" is now exclusively available at olarisrecords.com.  A brand new Royal Sapien mix for April that should rock your workday if not your weekend. EuclidVision codec could bring feature films down to 50MB, making them easily swappable. Some New Rules from this Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher. There's also an official HBO audio podcast of the show for free (who needs the video anyway?). Thanks, HBO! The first UK number one song based on downloads alone. The music revolution will be downloaded.  Nigel Evan Dennis's illustrations and designs are stunning. The Daily Show on the memo scheduling war with Iraq and Lou Dobbs on the phone. Delicious Design League has a beautiful collection of posters. RIAA + MPAA = MAFIAA  Image from University of Barcelona via juanjaen's flickr stream. What is everyone referencing? 25 really nice free fonts. Dubai is growing at a seemingly unmanagable rate. "There's to be an underwater hotel ($500m). One indoor ski resort, with real snow and its own black run, exists already, a weird, looming presence on the city's southern skyline. There is to be a second, with a revolving mountain. Plans are mooted for a Chess City, with 32 tower blocks of 64 floors, each in the form of a chess piece." |
   
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