“WikiCity in its current state strikes me as a textbook example of a site built by robots. Such sites tend, in my experience, to appeal mostly to other robots.”
[...]“WikiCity in its current state strikes me as a textbook example of a site built by robots. Such sites tend, in my experience, to appeal mostly to other robots.”
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Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters: This looks like the type of thing Jason Santa Maria would lust after and collect.
[...]How can you possibly not buy this audiobook by Scott Adams after a description like that? Purchased! For use on plane ride during upcoming vacation.
[...]Driving a car with an iPhone. This is simultaneously harder and easier than ghost riding the whip (via the the jimray™)
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Spin It – Reinventing The Bathtub: A shower that is not gross when you want to bathe in it. I likes. (via Freckles)
[...]Even though I am long sick of the Geico cavemen, there is something about the bowling commercial that just tugs at the heart strings!
[...]I was reading this great article about traveling to the Galapagos Islands and noticed it had 154 comments. Unfortunately, none of them are real. Comment #120 is priceless though.
[...]Beats the hell out of the USPTO search site.
[...]It seems like there are 99 pro-realtime-web articles for every anti-realtime-web article. This article is a good reminder that documenting life does not equal living life.
[...]Further proof that Adobe is trying to eradicate the world of buffaloes.
[...]Possibly the most descriptive, unambiguous, well designed button in the history of the internet.
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The Anonymous Hugging Wall: One thing that is not clear to me is the role of the dog dish that the girl appears to be standing in.
[...]Remote wireless power from TV transmitter across town: Very cool demo of energy harvesting using ambient RF waves. With all of the wireless signals dominating public airspaces these days, I could see this being a useful way to recharge wireless devices.
[...]Junior Seau Run Over by Bull: It’s a good thing there isn’t an intelligence requirement for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Perhaps this is already obvious to everyone else who has inbox overload, but I just figured out what I hate about e-mail and task management: they work against each other. Even if you’re the sort of person who diligently creates to-do lists in applications such as [...]
This is really, really awesome, and really, really significant. Replace IE’s rendering engine with WebKit via one simple plug-in.
[...]A great chat with Dick Costolo about entrepreneurship, his new role at Twitter, and his experience at Google. Funny analogy halfway in about M&A resembling 16 year olds trying to date each other.
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40 Free Fonts That Everyone Should Own (including, possibly the best font name ever: Cold Night for Alligators)
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Washed Up Celebrities: Found this site while researching Saved by the Bell’s Principal Belding (Dennis Haskins), who I could have sworn was dead.
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The Library of Congress has a spectacular collection of photos by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii that you must see. What makes them so amazing? Well, they are color photos taken about 100 years ago.
The process used to create and develop the photos is revolutionary [...]
Instant French Restaurant-To-Go Prefabbed From Shipping Container – great concept, would love to see these all over college campuses and other random areas around the city. [...] If you're an entrepreneur thinking about getting funding, this is a must-read. It outlines very fair guidelines for a first-round term sheet. Often, first-time entrepreneurs only concentrate on the big terms of a term sheet (e.g. round size, valuation) and neglect the "smaller" but often equally important things like stock [...]
Ingeniously designed kitchen timer by Emma Caselton — I’m a sucker for purely analog technology advancements. (via designcrave) [...] 
“When it comes to big game hunting, Mike Davidson is a legend” — says the MIT Personas Project (via TechCrunch). It’s more fun to watch the animations than the end result, but it’s pretty awesome all-around. Try it. [...] News that has been brewing secretly for the last several months finally broke this morning: Msnbc.com has acquired EveryBlock, the most interesting (in my opinion) startup in the hyperlocal news space. It is with great joy that I welcome my colleagues Adrian Holovaty, Wilson Miner, and [...]
Stand Up and Eat: Plates for Parties — Ingenious plate design enabling one to eat, drink, and still shake hands at parties. [...] If this works, it will replace Midomi/Shazam as the most amazing and useful iPhone applications, in my mind.
[...]A great source for tutorials, showcases, and other web design inspiration. And here I was thinking they only sold latex.
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Ping Pong Door Brings Pong to Small Spaces: Brilliant. I may need to install one of these in the new casa. [...] 
An Explanation of Photoshop Blend Modes: Priceless tutorial for those whose knowledge of blend modes is limited to “a bunch of options to try, one-by-one, until stuff looks good”. [...] 
Ginou Choueiri’s Potato Portraits: ”I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes [...] 
344 days ago, I bought my first house. Today, I began demolishing it. You can view the live cam of the progress on the newly installed House by the Park Live Cam here.
Before: A charm-free 1953 house that’s never been updated, on a [...]
I’ll have a more complete post on this later, but the live construction cam of my house demolition is now online. Click here for the latest image (the image will update every minute).
It’s going quick. Watch now while there’s still something left, if you’re interested…
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The tap from the Waitsburg cemetery. Even the dead people get to benefit. (photo by J.C. Westbrook)
I don’t drink a lot of water, mainly because I’ve never really loved the taste. That, and I’ve always thought the whole “8 glasses a day” thing is bullshit. On [...]
There’s no better place to be during an economic downturn than a solid, profitable company with a long track record of success. Come to think of it, there’s no better place to be during an economic boom than that sort of place either. Msnbc.com, proud parent of Newsvine, is just [...]
Long exposure shot of a Roomba cleaning a room — I owned one of these things and found it to be substantially more trouble than it was worth. While this shot makes the coverage area look good, a lot of “stuff” collects near the edges, cords [...] A nice roundup of what's going on in the world of logo design. Looks like we're finally moving away from the whooshes and ovals of the last several years. Good stuff.
[...]If reading this doesn't make you feel like an inadequate manager, you must be really really awesome. And people wonder why Apple makes such awesome stuff…
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TiltShift Generator - Need to get myself a legit tilt-shift lens. Until then, I am more than happy to roll faux with this slick online tool. [...] Great tutorial by Russell Brown. I really need to get up to speed with editing photos in RAW mode. Then again, I'm sure cameras will automatically take bracketless HDR photos within a few years as well.
[...]… and here I am not even knowing you can run scripts in Illustrator.
[...]Apparently, Google Analytics has a public API now. Pretty cool. Not sure this is enough to get me off of Mint, but maybe I'll start running both for a little while.
[...]Will have to try out Consolas and Inconsolata. I've always been a staunch Monaco 9 guy, but hey, might as well get ahead of my eventually failing eyesight.
[...]J-Rizzle explains why the Times Reader is really just a creepy, lifelike robot that should be both applauded and dismissed. Great analysis.
[...]Great for when a friend of yours wants their own site but you don't want to help them design it.
[...]Another great ad from Hulu. I will indeed post it to my bliggity blog.
It’s amazing how well Hulu is turning out, especially considering how little confidence the world had in big TV networks to build a big internet distribution platform.
[...]We got into a heated discussion in the office about WYSIWYG web editors today. While heated discussions are nothing new to us, neither side even being happy with their own argument was. When people are arguing over things they don’t even believe in, there can be no positive outcome.
My side [...]
15 Creative Ads in Unusual Places — Ok, most of these are pretty awesome, but the Axe one is just sad. [...] 
The wonderful Web Trend Map 4 from Information Architects is about to go to press. Reserve yours today. I love these things (and not just ‘cuz Newsvine’s on there!). See also: Web Trend Map 3, Web Trend Map 2, and the original Web Trend [...] Draw your own conclusions.
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If you’re into getting beat up, here is an excellent soccer jersey for you. Only $89.99 while supplies last. Go Man U! [...] 
The Pop Art of Tadaomi Shibuya - Shibuya’s brush apparently only rotates in 45 degree increments. I like. [...] "The original source, and the source with real access, should somehow be recognized as the most important in the delivery of results", some big media advocates say. Hey, guess what? If you want to show up higher, then get linked to more. Google is not an editorial organization… it's an [...]
I don't remember the last time I did anything crazy with type in Photoshop, but if I ever do again, this may be a good resource.
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The Sexy People Blog (via The Jim Ray™) I do not agree with Jim that this is the best thing on the internet. It is the best thing in the world. [...] 
Ever wonder why animal crackers are classified as crackers instead of cookies? Or what the difference between cookies and crackers are? Professor of Biology Mark Eberle unlocks the secrets of the Animalum Cookium. [...] I hate technicals and trend analysis more than broccoli, but the 50/20 rule seems worth paying attention to.
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Last week was a sad week to be in the Newsvine offices. While we were toiling away, our friends upstairs at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer received their unemployment orientation in advance of being laid off two weeks from now. The conference room in which these talks occurred is [...]
"People used the Gaussian copula model to convince themselves they didn't have any risk at all, when in fact they just didn't have any risk 99 percent of the time. The other 1 percent of the time they blew up. Those explosions may have been rare, but they could destroy [...]
"Under the close supervision of rabbis, who are there to ensure that no squid, shellfish, or other nonkosher species remain in the nets, billions of fish are sucked through a pipe to onshore processing plants. There, the anchoveta are heated to 85 degrees Celsius, ground with an auger, and pulverized [...]
Snapped this photo at the Seattle Home Show yesterday. Ummm, that’s “basements”, ladies. Basements. [...] 
