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 Jones Soda is switching from high-fructose corn syrup to cane sugar to sweeten the drinks more naturally. [via BB] Free international calls, answers, and directory assistance from your mobile phone. Is your son a computer hacker? "If your son spends more than thirty minutes each day on the computer, he may be using it to DOS other peoples sites. DOSing involves gaining access to the 'command prompt' on other people's machines, and using it to tie up vital internet services. This can take up to eight hours." [thanks Adam] Beautiful new calendar designed by Paula Scher and Co. [via kottke] Hybrid will be the featured Artist of the Week on Frisky Radio for the week of December 5. Their exclusive 2-hour set will air on Tuesday at 11am PST / 2pm EST. Listen to the free stream at FriskyRadio.com. [thanks Faisal] Marc Maron and Jim Earl will be guest hosting Sam Seder's show this Friday on Air America Radio from 9am-noon EST. Free stream from the site or find a station. Marc will also be performing live at the Comedy Central Stage at the Hudson Theater in LA on December 11 at 8pm (323-960-5519 for free reservations, extremely limited seating). Interview with Tom Waits from The Daily Show [YouTube]  Book was completed over 36 weeks by four artists: two in Brooklyn and two in Belfast. [thanks Nancy!] Some communities just don't see the universality of the peace sign. [via reddit] Is Apple coming out with a tablet notebook or just a touch-screen iPod? Popular opinion in England and Scotland seems to lean toward dissolving the union. Eternal Hope at Daily Kos posted a fully referenced list of articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney and George Bush. Leet Speak. [YouTube] Mitch Hedberg quote generator. "I bought myself a parrot. The parrot talked. But it did not say, 'I'm hungry'... so it died." [via digg] Daily Dilbert without extra crap or ads. The Carlyle Group plans to make a $5.5 billion bid for ASE, the world's biggest microchip manufacturer. A map of active hate groups across the U.S. from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Poor families in the U.K. will get vouchers for milk and vegetables, but is £2.80 a week enough? Lasse Gjertsen [YouTube [thanks Phil!]] An open letter to Nintendo encouraging them to develop options for the Wii to make games more accessible to disabled gamers. The EPA will begin to regulate cleaning products that use nanotech. The Copyright Office created 6 exceptions to the DMCA (it's a start), including the right to copy video games that are on obsolete media. Penguin has launched a new book series that encourages readers to create their own covers. [via BB] Richard Dawkins speaks in Lynchburg, VA. [YouTube] ESA apologized to Kotaku over the embarrassing t-shirt incident. Many employers are becoming more strict about cubicle decor in modern sterile workplaces. "In July 2004 [Calvin Klein] executives decreed there could be no desktop displays of photographs, mementos, toys, awards, plants or flowers, other than white ones." Humans see 60 frames a second, so are we really equipped to drive safely? [via kottke] Google's Master Plan was erased from the famous white board, but photos were taken and the information was saved. [via waxy] The Daily Show: 10 Fucking Years - Funny Inventions [YouTube] Labels: Sunday Reader  There was no Sunday Reader yesterday because Allyson and I were in line for 12 hours at Nintendo World to score one of the first Wiis sold. Check out pics from the Times Square party that we attended initially before we walked over to Nintendo World. It's the funnest console ever. It would be a better idea to get your child a Wii than a children's tattoo gun. Michael Richards (of Seinfeld fame) was performing at The Laugh Factory in L.A. on Friday when a black man interrupted his act. Richards yelled for the man to be removed because "He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger!" "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a fucking fork up your ass." He continued to unhinge himself as people from the crowd yelled "That's uncalled-for!" The more he yelled, the more people arose from their seats and left. Must be seen to be believed. I don't know if Richards thought this was funny, but it's so far from funny that you'd need a spaceship to get to funny from here. [via Digg] CNN published an awesome uber 1337 guide to new tech that's making the rounds. The Gizmodo headline says it all: CNN's Guide To Innovative Tech: DVRs, Cellphones, the Wheel and Movable Type. Four Thanksgiving-themed New Yorker covers this week by Chris Ware. [via kottke] Smoking pot impairs your memory for the short term, which tends to be why people smoke it to forget the world, but now we may know why. Synapses in the hippocampus (in the brain, not at Zoo College) fire in sync normally, but when covered in THC (the fun part in marijuana) they fire asynchronously, meaning that memory is retained with a lower level of success. While this could explain why high doodz forget what they're saying in mid-sentence, it could also help to explain why it's easier to develop new ideas and discover new connections. Rather than let K-Fed make millions from the infamous sex tape, Britney Spears may release it on her own for free to spite him. "Yep, nothing like sticking it to your ex-husband by giving away what diginity you have left for free." [via digg]  Check out the beautiful and brilliant Executive Coloring Book. LG has a spiffy new fridge that has an outside flip-out door for bottles of stuff like milk, OJ, or gin and vermouth and a jar of olives and a couple chilled glasses. Allyson made some delicious vegan crab cakes a few days ago that use tofu and wheat bread instead of crab. They taste fantastic and are super healthy. For their 50th anniversary, New Scientist asked dozens of great thinkers to predict the future. Grab a brandy, this will take a while. YTMND posted a hilarious video of Darth Vader on Wheel of Fortune. Explosions in the Sky will be performing in New York as part of the Wordless Music Series at the Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall on February 20, 2007. Opening for them will be Ayano Kataoka and tickets are a very reasonable $15. Will It Blend? Major props to Blendtec, a blender manufacturer, for putting together a series in which they totally abuse their products to blend stuff that was never meant to be put in a blender. Making online gambling illegal in the United States will not make the gambling industry more legitimate. (Duh?) It's only driving the industry further underground, and when gambling in a browser can be totally rigged with no regulation, that's a disaster. "The Act has its teeth in the wrong ass." As totally awesome and limitlessly promising as nanotechnology is, the particles are so small that if they're accidentally inhaled or even looked at too closely, you sorta die. "There is some evidence that nanoparticles can move into the brain along the olfactory nerve, so this is completely circumventing the blood-brain barrier." A new drug may make you younger, more fit, and more resistant to disease, and it doesn't seem to be a hoax.  The massive wire sculptures that make up telecommunications in Thailand slums are beautiful, sad, and scary. I won't be seeing any Weinstein films for the next four years because their rentals will be distributed exclusively through Blockbuster. No independents; no Netflix. Fuck 'em. [via kottke] The Dutch government would like to see burkas banned outside private spaces since it's, like, really hard to tell who's wearing them and that could be a, like, gigantic security risk. Would I be allowed to walk into government buildings and stores in a Spaghetti Monster costume that conceals everything but my eyes? Asteroid impacts could be responsible for gigantic tsunamis in our very recent past and may explain all those religious flood myths. "A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago." Eek! Larry King has never used the Internets. This could explain why I never listen to Larry King. Roseanne offered to give him a lesson, which he declined. Everyone knows that Gawker fired Valleywag editor Nick Douglas, but the NYT has the scoop on why. "We don’t report stories to 'finally get sued.' We report stories because we think they deserve to be out there. Whatever follows from them is whatever follows from them. Sarcasm or not, it’s quotes like these that could make us look really foolish — or worse — down the road." The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to decriminalize adult marijuana use with the blessing of the Police. "The marijuana legislation, which passed on an initial vote 8-3, would set nearly all crimes involving marijuana as the lowest law enforcement priority for city police and urges the district attorney to adopt the same policy when prosecuting criminal defendants." K-Fed tries to get George Bush to use MySpace in this great cartoon from Current. Arte Luise in Berlin has a different art theme for each room by different artists. I'll be staying here when I travel to Berlin. It's official: U.S. detainees have no rights. The United States is truly the global bastion of liberty. Labels: Sunday Reader  Santorpwned image from AP via Flickr. Goodbye Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum. Outpost Daria has listings of songs played in every episode of Daria. The music directors for Daria did a great job and the tunes still stand out. One Bank, a painful performance at a Bank of America company outing. [via waxy] Kiwi! A very cute thesis animation. Major League Soccer is lifting rules to allow star players onto teams. "The 'Beckham Rule' will give MLS teams the authority to acquire players outside the $2 million-per-team salary cap, which will be 'significantly' increased to accommodate the new policy." Brain scans may help explain what happens when people speak in tongues during religious ceremonies. “You’re not really out of control. But you have no control over what’s happening. You’re just flowing. You’re in a realm of peace and comfort, and it’s a fantastic feeling.” Sounds very similar to how one feels after eating crushed unshelled Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds, which contain LSA, a cousin of LSD. Kamibashi has beautiful hand-made string dolls from Thailand.  Medium makes creative stuff for creative people, and I covet many of their shoes. If you enjoy progressive talk radio, you'll love The White Rose Society, which archives lots of great programs for your free enjoyment. Their vast collection includes Mike Malloy, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, and Peter Werbe. A remarkably broad patent filed by the Yahoo! and del.icio.us people would limit the tagging of metadata to objects and ranking that data to patent licensees. Unlikely to be approved. [via kottke] The NYT has a lengthy piece about the Holy Caves of India. Rush Limbaugh was only following the ruling party's direction? "But there have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs." No, no he didn't have to, but he did anyway. [thanks Steven] The Found Footage Festival was recently in NYC at Caroline's. Volume One DVD is back in stock. Some performers pull out their best performances on Saturday Night Live. The Entertainment Software Association (the game ratings people) have threatened to sue Kotaku over a post they refuse to take down featuring a clearly satirical t-shirt that's quite funny. Beautiful gigantic panorama of Earth in Winter from NASA. Play Commander Keen for free online. Verizon launched a new company, Idearc Media, and asked Landor to work the same magic for its logo as they did for Verizon's. This is what happened. Grand Theft Mario. Labels: Sunday Reader  Nancy Pelosi from My Confined Space via BB. Comedy Central's blog broke the news of the Rumsfeld resignation at 12:15 AM today. According to a robot, humans taste like bacon. I, for one, welcome our new consumerbot overlords. Beautiful mod of a Mac Cube into a mini G5 tower. [via digg] Iceland has begun to hunt whales again, defying an international moratorium on commercial whaling. The US ambassador made a trip to Reykjavik to protest and several signed a declaration condemning the activity. Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception, a playbook to which the Republicans adhere quite closely. "[T]he elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses." The Rumsfeld resignation summarized perfectly as a function of Mac OS X. Domino's "Brooklyn Style" "pizza" gets put to the test at an actual Brooklyn pizza place. Worth it for the pie comparison photo alone. Corporations getting cuddly is weird and disconcerting, not warm and welcoming. "Don't know about you, but I feel like vomiting myself inside out whenever big businesses try to cute themselves up this way - all lower case brand names and twee little jokes and overuse of the words 'you' and 'my' and 'we' and 'us' as though we're a bunch of cuddly-wuddly pals and hey, we're all in this crazy world together, so let's have some fun with it, right guys?"  We have so many reasons to celebrate today. The Democrats took back the House of Representatives, Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum was defeated, Ohio has a Democratic governor, Katherine Harris lost, Lincoln Chaffee lost, the South Dakota abortion ban was defeated, and George "Macacawitz" Allen might just be out of politics. Tom Foley is gone, Mike DeWine is gone, Zack Space is in, as is Brad Ellsworth. Unfortunately, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Virginia all passed unconstitutional constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage, with others still undecided. It's frustrating that Republicans feel hate is a unifying force. Bigots don't make me angry anymore. They make me sad. [Santorum via AP. Slimmer Angle via Flickr.]  Find your polling place if you don't know where to vote. It is completely legal to bring a still or video camera with you to the polling place and record anything and everything. If you have any sort of camera, bring it with you and Video the Vote. If you plan to vote Republican, please do not vote today. Alternatives: PornoTube, Pogo, AOL TV, Borat. Slate's Election Scorecard powered by Pollster.com. If you have the juiciest election fraud tip, you can win $500,000 if you report it to 1-888-VOTE-TIP. Other election problems not related to fraud should be called into 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Remind like-minded liberal people who may not vote to run down to the polling place. Sign up at MoveOn.org's Call For Change to get a list of numbers and a timeslot to call from home. If you have 10 minutes, try calling a conservative talk radio show to get your views across. You may only change a couple minds, or you may change a hundred thousand. Find a list of shows and numbers near you from the DCCC. [via Do More Than Vote] Find your local Drinking Liberally chapter if you want to hang out with friends to watch results come in. Watch the entire HBO Documentary Hacking Democracy for free online. |
   
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