sending video over xlr, sending audio over ethernet

xml haar cascades for opencv / kineme

unreliable bookkeeping history; unprecedented bookkeeping future

(I asked WillW where that cheat code came from, and he said Porntips and Guzzardo were funny names he found in the phone book.)

polymaps-based visualisation of wind patterns at various american weather spots via:straup

a real thing where people sneeze when exposed to the sun. interesting example of "bullshit-sounding-thing is real" via kathryn

nuts, a real virtual currency, people buying drugs with it "internet is real"

here is the oft-anecdotalized track where Arthur Russell met Vin Diesel. Reminds me of a story people always tell about The Rock and Criterion

"But today he will become known as the guy who, while live-tweeting a series of helicopter flypasts and explosion, unwittingly covered the US forces helicopter raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. And he knows it. Here’s a selection of his Tweets" via slavin

"It is thus in traders' direct financial interest, they suggest, to install themselves at specific points on the Earth's surface—a kind of light-speed financial acupuncture—to take advantage both of the planet's geometry and of the networks along which trades are ordered and filled. They conclude that "the construction of relativistic statistical arbitrage trading nodes across the Earth’s surface" is thus economically justified, if not required." wild premise, wonder what the reality factor here is

another disgraced politic pizza connection

"Hiram Monserrate is serving the public again -- one slice at a time.  The shamed former state senator is getting rid of his aggression these days by pounding the dough at a pizza shop in Queens." via will

"I have a joke about brands creating content that starts by explaining that Red Bull is actually one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of action sports content in the world. That fact is quickly followed by the punchline: Turns out it's a lot easier to be a publisher that sells highly-caffeinated soda instead of ads."

documentation of 100ft bread garland we made living in france last year, big boy editing style

ny senator proposes law against call girl business cards because kids are using them as trading cards in school

" Crop marks are a means through which sub-surface archaeological, natural and recent features may be visible from the air or a vantage point on higher ground or a temporary platform" via migurski

re: MTA minute to win it posters feat. Guy Fieri: "For several years the material used for subway platform posters has increasingly been a self adhesive vinyl. These posters are much easier to install than the traditional paper posers which needed to be pasted on to the poster frame with thick liquid paste. Their nonporous plastic-like surface can also be cleaned with solvents, something that the paper posters could not stand up to. This easy clean poster material makes possible ever evolving layers of verbal and graphic dialog, and our friend representing the New York Lottery really gets the conversation started." via kathryn

so cool, arbitrary and well-known insane routes (e.g. Cairo to Norway) used as benchmarks for open (OSM) vs. proprietary (google) map routing services

new thing: "Replaces your Macintosh system default Volume Pops sound with a party default Volume Pops sound."

dumb lede but good bits in here "For the embassy in Bangkok, winning achieved two goals: helping Lockheed and keeping the Russians from selling planes. There was, however, a small complication with the terms -- the Thai government didn't want to pay cash. Instead, it proposed trading 80,000 stockpiled tons of frozen chicken."

This is a list of famous walls.

First NYU Abu Dhabi, now this.  Could think of many other more deserving producers, but then again, maybe Swizz Beatz is the rap equivalent of NYU:<br />
 “What made me different, I was doing designs in people’s haircuts,” he says. “Then I started giving an incentive—you buy a design, you get a mix tape. I was charging $30, more than anybody.”

"Its mission is its motto, HOSPITIUM AD INFINITUM – the principle of Infinite Hospitality."

"tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks)" 

"The idea of a pizza ball lingered in his mind—he kept thinking of how he could produce such a unique product, only a much expanded version." re: infinite variation of pizza and weed frameworks

"Welcome to the Paul's Boutique Samples and References List. This is the ultimate resource for the album Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. This resource has been compiled through internet collaboration since about 1993, it stands to document the samples and references included on the album."

what if the english language was derived without latin roots:  "today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life" via someone

subtly designing personas for devices

industrial revolution pros & cons

lecture: algorithms in use, real world consequences, ways around algorithms

this is the placeholder for demo mode in consumer electronics (shelf speaker sets) pending further personal research

I remember hearing about this from a friend, dumb shelf stereo system that plays a game.  LONG LIVE DEMO MODE

tasteful data-driven information about a new york thing

giant causeway for fun-seeking saudi arabians plays a role in bahraini crisis<br />
“Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends,” said Toby Jones, an expert on Saudi Arabia at Rutgers University. “It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20saudi.html

What happened to this website?  The execution of this idea was flawless and still stands strong in party anecdotes. "documents the outsourced production of a painting based on a collection of found jpgs"  Anyone know this guy?

"Minutes after the end of the Super Bowl, every player on the winning team will get a cap. The loser’s logo could end up on heads in Uganda."

goes on for so long, so good

default data choices by the services industry; useful metaphor "to say that twitter isn't for anything is also to say that it offers us far more technical communicative capacity than we could possibly need. We are only able to say that water 'isn't for anything', because we have more than we need; if we didn't, it would be for drinking, cleaning and farming."

using api's and checkin services to figure out when the least amount of people using api's and checkin services are at a real world place

the last blocks of IPV4 addresses are being leased and what that means

cautious assessment of the environment which has led to arab league revolutions

networked space politics

"An unexpected and unwanted text message from a wireless company prematurely exploded a would-be suicide bomber’s vest bomb in Russia New Year’s Eve" via straup

"Chinese bloggers are accusing state broadcaster CCTV of using repurposed footage from the 1986 film Top Gun for a story on a recent air force drill. " via slavin

no central heating in mexican homes, widely used alternative option of "just dealing with it" for cold weather

this shit is so funny, jivko and josh hot tubbing in autrans ski tourism video

city blocks size ordered, via straup

"Gerald Ratner was someone who underestimated the power of the big Other - Ratner thought he could just say that his shops sold crappy jewellery and it would have no effect, because ’everyone knew’ that this was the case. But the big Other didn’t know, and the catastrophic results for Ratner's business are well known. The capitalist big Other is the virtual entity that believes corporate advertising and PR when no empirical individual can" practical assessments of radical movements

"achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated the company's products, which caused the company's near collapse"

will miss delicious, found many links from top dawg net heads across the golden years, hope to see whomever here on pinboard

some of these are notable via someone

"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original" via someone, good list here

insane project reconstructs collages of architectures using common vanishing points (via migurski)

Why rounded corners? "It's easier to eat them, without the sharp corners," Mr. Vogel said. "And a lot of the scrap in the bottom of the bag was from the corners breaking off. It was just a waste."

"Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled against one Charles R. Grady, who claims that Doritos are of such a shape and rigidity that they damaged his throat. Grady had been trying to introduce as evidence a study done by a former Pitt chemistry professor that purportedly calculated the exact chewing force-to-saliva ratio necessary for safely swallowing the chips."

comprehensive list w/ Dorito's Tower

via bldgblog

famous for deliberately consuming indigestible objects, "The Cessna 150 took roughly two years to be "eaten," from 1978 to 1980" VIA FRAN

"The money bin was built in 1902, shortly after Scrooge entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. His favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it."