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Obama's Plane Makes Emergency Landing [Sabotage] Yesterday, the plane carrying presidential candidate Barack Obama was forced to make an unscheduled landing in St. Louis. The plane, an MD-80, experience pitch problems after an emergency slide in... Gawker.com Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Online Marketers Want To Spy On Your Private Moments [Advertising] Let's imagine that you are the friendly consumer, and the internet, where you do your shopping, is a series of stores. Then imagine that all the people who want to sell you ads are spies, following you from store to store and noting what you like to look at, so they can advertise that thing to you. Then think about what kind of internet "store" you've been going to. That's right, the porn store! This is the real reason people are mad about online ad targeting. Stop looking at us look at porn just so you can learn to sell us more porn! A company called NebuAd (free advice to them: think of a less sinister name) is under fire right now because its software tracks you everywhere you go on the internet, then records that info and puts it all together and to sell to advertisers. And-surprise-the people who run NebuAd used to be in the honorable business of crafting adware, that launches deceptive pop-up ads on your screen. Useful members of humanity! Lots of marketers would really love to u Gawker Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Inbox Victory: photos of people who've emptied their inboxes The Inbox Victory page collects photos of people pointing at their empty email inboxes, grinning madly before the next flood of emails pours in. I try very hard to be an inbox zero guy, but in practice I always end up with a couple hangovers in there -- usually related to scheduling meetings or calls with people, which is probably the most logistically difficult thing to do in my life. Have you ever been in the situation where you spend days trying answer all of your email only to accomplish your goal and have no one to share in your victory? All you want is a high five, a pat on the back, and a "job well done soldier!", and yet most likely all you are left with is an empty room and a cold cup of coffee. Inbox Victory is an initiative that says, "you deserve that high five!" And here is how you get it: 1) Get your email inbox down to zero. People have various methods for dealing with their email so 'inbox 0' is going to mean different things to different people. A basic rule of thumb, BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Terrifying medical training models Oobject's collection of incredibly scary medical manikins (sic) from around the Web suggests that medical training is probably lot more like an HR Giger painting than I'd previously suspected. These things deserve their own touring gallery show. With a gift-shop (just check out the dental manikin and nasal endoscope head shown here). Link (via Geisha Asobi)... BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John's dug up this magnificent zombie lawn-sculpture by Alan Dickenson, available for a mere $90 -- think of the savings you'll realize by no longer having to pay someone to keep the kids off your lawn! Link, Discuss on Boing Boing Gadgets... BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Cory at Seattle's University bookstore tonight Reminder: I'm speaking tonight at the University Bookstore in Seattle as part of the Clarion West reading series -- hope to see you there! Where: University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE in Seattle. When: Jul 8 2008, 7PM Link, Link to Clarion West events calendar... BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Chinglish as full-fledged English dialect Michael Erard's Wired story on the ways that Chinglish is mutating into a full-fludged (and widespread) dialect poses some interesting possibilities for the language's future, in which tonal suffices, borrowed vocabulary words, and streamlined grammar open up rich new expressive possibilities. I've always loved English's baking-soda-like capacity to absorb other languages' best features -- the Yiddish terminal "already" at sentences' end, the fantastic Gaelic-salted Irvine Welsh Scots dialect, the many glorious island formations from the Caribbean and South Seas. All my attempts to learn even a few words of comprehensible Chinese have been a disaster, so it's heartening to hear that Chinese may be coming to me, bridging the distance. It's not merely that English will be salted with Chinese vocabulary for local cuisine, bon mots, and curses or that speakers will peel off words from local dialects. The Chinese and other Asians already pronounce English differently - in both subtle and no BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Countries need to start figuring out how to wean us off fossil fuels before it's too late.
In one of the first articles I posted at Blogcritics.org - three years ago - I wrote the following: "All good things must come to an end... this looks like its the beginning of the end for oil as a source of energy". At the time fuel prices were just beginning to really start to take off and my conclusion then was that our only hope was... Blogcritics.org Tuesday, July 08, 2008 This brass and leather Soviet gas-mask is the genuine article, not a steampunk fetish-fashion prop (though, of course, it could be both). Link (via Wired Gadget Lab)... BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Shardcore sez, "I think I've just painted the geekiest picture ever. It's a portrait of my friend Richard, he's a sysadmin. I've painted him in a server room, with Marvin the Paranoid Android. Holding a ZX Spectrum. I think you'll agree it ticks all the boxes of English geeks of a certain age..." Link (Thanks, Shardcore!)... BoingBoing Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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