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January 28, 2005

Images from the Robert Nettarp retrospective currently on in Stockholm. Swedish heroin chic. (Thanks, Tsemaye!)

Posted at 11:39 AM

January 27, 2005

Verizon's European mail blockade: A precursor to the coming isolationist backlash in the US?

Posted at 08:42 PM

GuruNet's Answers.com and contextual search apps often gets you what you need faster than Google. (Via Mossberg)

Posted at 01:30 PM

The Ishango bone may be the world's oldest mathematical object. Or are we reading too much into it?

Posted at 01:11 PM

January 22, 2005

Go here. Scroll down to the animations. Load the animated gif. Is that a stream of liquid methane flowing on the surface of Titan?

Posted at 01:45 PM

January 21, 2005

Female impersonation is a fine evolutionary strategy — If you're an Australian cuttlefish.

Posted at 12:54 PM

January 20, 2005

Europe's most liberal immigration policy just now? Spain. Europe's most intelligent foreign policy just now? Spain. They should give prizes for this stuff.

Posted at 12:28 PM

January 19, 2005

Anyone care to justify this? Let me guess — Thais are exploiting themselves so we need to have them buy our plane? (Via Drudge, once in a blue moon.)

Posted at 05:51 PM

January 18, 2005

Live on CNN just now: Barbara Boxer is giving Condi hell at her confirmation hearings. God I love the American political process. Pity about the leaders it produces.

Posted at 05:47 PM

The Wall Street Journal rubs it in.

Posted at 10:41 AM

January 15, 2005

"How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Saturn's mysterious moon." Amazing.

Posted at 08:04 PM

Paul @ Stambord is right — there is plenty to talk about in this piece on Sweden in Dissent Magazine. Just not right now, I'm busy.

Posted at 01:23 PM

January 14, 2005

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Posted at 09:33 PM

Hey Chateaugolf.com, get your own damn design! Or at least give Starsky credit for their original work on Sweden.se which you, well, plagiarized.

Posted at 01:39 PM

January 13, 2005

Bill Palmer, two words: PS2/USB adapter. (I think the Mac mini redefines the notion "insanely great". It's a developer platform, media hub, server, cluster component, portable, first computer...)

Posted at 02:21 PM

January 12, 2005

"The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest." Charles Darwin on his other passion.

Posted at 12:22 PM

January 11, 2005

Apple's Mac mini is really the Cube, finally done right (not expandable, but $500!). Then there is iWork, iLife 2, yet another iPod... I'm suffering from sensory overload here.

Posted at 07:42 PM

January 10, 2005

Colors for this redesign were brought to you by Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast. I fast-forwarded to the last set, to be as avant-garde as possible.

Posted at 03:45 PM

* HTML is a wonderful CSS trick. It exploits an IE bug so that you can serve IE browsers dumbed down style instructions. It's like talking down to children. Link

Posted at 01:10 PM

Just when you thought equal-height columns weren't possible in CSS, along comes Roger to show us otherwise. Only catch: Won't work in IE. Link.

Posted at 01:02 PM

Another day, another critical IE vulnerability discovered, even for those running Windows XP SP2. Solution is to turn off ActiveX switch to Firefox. Link

Posted at 12:47 PM

January 02, 2005

Jazz meets typography in Marc Moulin's latest video. He's Belgian, you know. Link

Posted at 02:37 PM

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