Can’t we all just get along? (Video.)

Can’t we all just get along? (Video.) If we were all Korean b-boys, the answer, apparently, is yes. — GK

In an age when it seems impossible

In an age when it seems impossible to be too cynical, the Devil’s Dictionary X updates a classic to help you towards the “power of accurate observation.” — GK

How to Kill Yourself Deliciously, Part III:

How to Kill Yourself Deliciously, Part III: Hot Dogs in L.A. — GK

Cabspotting is a real time visualization of

Cabspotting is a real time visualization of taxi traffic in San Francisco. -dj

How to Write a Thank-You Note: “The

How to Write a Thank-You Note: “The thank-you is exclusively about thanking somebody for their kindness. While you may want more than anything to show them once and for all you amounted to something, this is not the forum.” (via) -dj

Gorilla Book Cover Gallery: “Welcome to the

Gorilla Book Cover Gallery: “Welcome to the ultimate in gorilla cover obsession!” (via snarkout) -dj

Banksy: “most things look better when you

Banksy: “most things look better when you put them in a circle. ” Also tramp, films and press clippings. -dj

Gothamist has compiled a list of upcoming

Gothamist has compiled a list of upcoming food and wine Events in the city. I’m sad I’ll have to miss the Broadway Panhandler’s knife sharpening benefit on April 8. -dj

Milk Bath is an impossibly cute photoset

Milk Bath is an impossibly cute photoset of a cat getting a Milk Bath. (via) -dj

The Reversible Destiny Lofts in Japan are

The Reversible Destiny Lofts in Japan are built to keep you on your toes. “People, particularly old people, shouldn’t relax and sit back to help them decline,” architect Arakawa insists. “They should be in an environment that stimulates their senses and invigorates their lives… [The apartment] makes you alert and awakens instincts, so you’ll live better, longer and even forever.” Visitors often fall, but so far nobody has sued. jwz comments “See? Being perpetually irritated will make you … immortal. ” -dj

John McCain on the Daily Show. Jon

John McCain on the Daily Show. Jon Stewart: “I hope you’re not going into crazy base world. Are you going into crazy base world?” McCain: “I’m afraid so.” -dj

Mad Ape Den Web hit by URL-use

Mad Ape Den Web hit by URL-use and gab ads for sex and bet, bad ads no pen Mad Ape Den. Sad. — GK

Tom Benjamin has written about clutch performance

Tom Benjamin has written about clutch performance on his NHL Weblog. “Calling someone a clutch player is really damning him with faint praise. If he can elevate his game at critical moments, why doesn’t he keep it elevated all the time? Isn’t every save in some sense a key one? Is goofing up when the game is not on the line really any better than blowing it when the chips are down?” (thanks, succa) -dj

B-SCAN interview with Rebecca Blood. “Humans are

B-SCAN interview with Rebecca Blood. “Humans are hardwired to share information, for storytelling. This is how we survived on the savannah. This is how we still survive in our communities, at work — and on the highway: by identifying patterns. By sharing information. First we did it around the night fire, then at the market, and then around the water cooler at work. Now we can do it online.” (via) -dj

Big Up! Burning Spear has a blog. -dj

Big Up! Burning Spear has a blog. -dj

Superpatron is a blog for library lovers. (via) -dj

Superpatron is a blog for library lovers. (via) -dj

ESPN and Baseball Prospectus redefine clutch hitting (

ESPN and Baseball Prospectus redefine clutch hitting (again). “Baseball is a game that is won by exploiting small advantages over the long haul. Certainly clutch hitting may exist in the classic sense of the term, but a lot of what we think of as clutch hitting may really be situational hitting. In some sense, the answer to the question of who the best clutch hitters are is that they’re usually just the best hitters, period.” -dj

This Pop-Up Hot Dog Toaster looks Awesome! (via) -dj

This Pop-Up Hot Dog Toaster looks Awesome! (via) -dj

“User-generated content” has been reduced from a

“User-generated content” has been reduced from a cultural choice a site can make to a Web 2.0 business-plan bullet point. Derek’s too dismissive of other sources of media — the implication that it’s inauthentic is too strong — but Lord, deliver us from the monetization of our own goddamned words. — GK (Copyright © 2006 Kottke Web Enterprises, Inc. Reproduction is prohibited by law.)

Hacking Mass is a a fantasy baseball

Hacking Mass is a a fantasy baseball game where the goal is to assemble the worst team of players possible. Playing time counts, so you can’t just pick benchwarmers. -dj

Daniel Jalkut’s Red Sweater Links is a

Daniel Jalkut’s Red Sweater Links is a worthy addition to your reading cycle. I noticed the same thing about Boot Camp that he did: “… it makes it easy to repartition your hard drive with files in place.” The user friendly partition manager has been a holy grail open source project for quite some time, and it looks like Apple licked it. Is there an Ubuntu distribution for Intel Macs yet? -dj

The LA Times has an extraordinary series

The LA Times has an extraordinary series of articles (Parts 1, 2 and 3) on how the wounded are treated in Iraq. — GK

Aaron Boodman just posted a Greasemonkey script

Aaron Boodman just posted a Greasemonkey script that forwards an entire thread in gmail, something I’ve wanted forever. Aaron writes: “One thing that is interesting about this implementation is that you’ll note it does not use the gmail content script at all. It dances on the DOM only.” Aren’t we all just dancing on the DOM at this point? -dj

“September 11 is an uncontested and quantifiable tragedy.

“September 11 is an uncontested and quantifiable tragedy. Iraq is approaching similar dimensions.” How long before U.S. troop deaths in Iraq pass September 11 deaths? A little less than a year. — GK

Love City takes the computer game “out

Love City takes the computer game “out of the bedroom and into urban spaces.” Players get points for forming a “menage a-trois” by being in the same place relative to game pieces in three different cities: Nottingham, Leicester and Derby. (via) -dj

Thirty Second teaser for the Simpsons movie. -dj

Thirty Second teaser for the Simpsons movie. -dj

The Cherry Trees were blooming in Brooklyn

The Cherry Trees were blooming in Brooklyn Botanical Garden this week. I hope they’re OK after today’s snow. -dj

Google Real Estate is the first good

Google Real Estate is the first good use of Google Base that I’ve seen. They could do a littler better on my search for an affordable two bedroom on the west side, but then again that apartment may simply not exist. (via) -dj

Starbucks is “co-presenting” the new movie Akeelah

Starbucks is “co-presenting” the new movie Akeelah and the Bee, and will share in its profits. Starbucks shoppers will be offered free vocabulary and spelling lessons, Baristas were invited to advanced screenings and are encouraged to offer their own opinion about the movie, Akeelah branded Scrabble sets will be sold in-store, users of Starbucks’ hotspot network will get access to clips from the film, and Starbucks wll also be selling the DVD when it becomes available. (via) -dj

Citysnake is a city-sized version of the

Citysnake is a city-sized version of the Commodore-64/Nokia classic game. The playing area is the city grid, and inviduals take ownership of blocks or city streets. Citysnake was one of Rhizome’s 2005 commissions. (via) -dj

Adam Greenfield has posted a partial bibliography

Adam Greenfield has posted a partial bibliography for his book, Everyware -dj.

There’s a New trailer for Art School

There’s a New trailer for Art School Confidential, directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Sophia Myles and John Malkovich. I wonder when Bloggers will replace Art Students as the iconic losers of cinema. -dj

Apple’s Boot Camp lets you run Windows

Apple’s Boot Camp lets you run Windows XP on your Intel Mac. 7 out of 11 words in that sentence were trademarks. -dj

“Phoenix”, the first in a new generation

“Phoenix”, the first in a new generation of “Scout” landers, will be going to Mars fall 2007. -dj

Only 53 of the city’s 468 subway stations are

Only 53 of the city’s 468 subway stations are wheelchair accessible. The MTA is spending $192,000,000 to make 15 more stations wheelchair accessible over the next 3 years. At that rate, the whole system could be modernized by 2090 at the bargain basement cost of $5,120,000,000. (via) -dj

Poetry reviews, if awesome, make you want

Poetry reviews, if awesome, make you want to read more poetry. Poetry has always seemed less accessible to me than fiction, because I’ve have less “formal” training in it. For some reason people post more fiction reviews than poetry reviews, but I’d welcome more poetry in my life. -dj

This message should be posted soon after 01:02:03 4

This message should be posted soon after 01:02:03 4-5-6, a date we won’t see for another thousand years. -dj

“Devil’s Slide,” a section of Route 1 in

“Devil’s Slide,” a section of Route 1 in California, is splitting in half. As the rainiest spring ever continues, there’s a growing fear that the entire cliff may disappear into the ocean. -dj

This grass armchair gets its shape from

This grass armchair gets its shape from a cardboard frame. “It’s a flatpack do it yourself kit consisting of a 14 piece corrugated cardboard frame and a package of grass seeds. It starts to grow after just 10 days.” … “First find the right spot, because once the armchair has grown you won’t be able to move it!!” (via treehugger) -dj

It’s not that the funnies aren’t funny,

It’s not that the funnies aren’t funny, it’s that you don’t have the the right person reading them to you. — GK

Set-up. [Pause.] Punchline! — GK

Set-up. [Pause.] Punchline! — GK

One Laptop Per Child project abandons hand

One Laptop Per Child project abandons hand crank in favor of a foot pedal attached to the AC adaptor. Negroponte also says Linux is too “fat” for the 500 MHz AMD processors they plan to use. -dj

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Screw the Shake Shack, if you want

Screw the Shake Shack, if you want burgers, you come to L.A. — GK

Other political fluids: hot legislation, warm spit,

Other political fluids: hot legislation, warm spit, and dried— Never mind. — GK

According to the Internet, Lyndon Johnon didn’t

According to the Internet, Lyndon Johnon didn’t think the following could pour piss out of a boot: a Kennedy staffer, the Organization of American States, the United Nations, the Central Intelligence Agency, Dean Rusk, Republicans, generals and some people. — GK

Get a load of the two great

Get a load of the two great tits! Yes, it’s only day three and already I’m in the gutter. — GK

Google Updated their Map API Today. Leaner

Google Updated their Map API Today. Leaner javascript downloads, no page view limits, and a 90 days heads-up on the presence of advertising on the map. -dj

One of Spirit’s Wheels is Broken Beyond

One of Spirit’s Wheels is Broken Beyond Repair, so NASA will have to guide the Rover away from terrain with loose soil. -dj

Caterina’s Products of the First World is

Caterina’s Products of the First World is a wonderful collection of the best of Skymall’s products. I like Gaston the Gothic Climber. If Skymall had the CNN graphic artists illustrate their catalog, the world would be a better place. -dj

The Victoria & Albert Museums’s collection search is

The Victoria & Albert Museums’s collection search is a fun way to waste an afternoon. Try searching for hinges, chairs or India. -dj