Unsought Input

We learned that men are clueless about women, just as we girls alway suspected.

Arthur C. Clark, author of 2001 A Space Odyssey, is dead.

So is Anthony Minghella. 

And a fun video, Japanese human Tetris game.

Some quick links for your consideration.

Barack Obama’s Oil Sense Act Legislation Bill

New Kevlar material that is flexible and thin, you can wear like clothing

A rare form of the Russian Tractor Spider

I think someone wants a little bit of attention. This one is from a local paper to where I live as well.

Some quick links for you.

The Pinky Show. Cats talking politics. Cats making sense of politics. They are so cute it hurts.

Sugar cubes used to be the “in thing”. Now it’s honey cubes.

Geek Apparel. Check it out.

Monk caught being human, looking at porn.

Guy wins jackpot at casino, employee unplugs machine just in time to save company 5.5 mil

Peep research underway. 

Why our generation, or anyone who enjoys music, shouldn’t enjoy being a pirate and how to change the industry:a comic.

http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html

A response to the above comment about the folly of micropayment.

http://www.nothings.org/writing/upay.html

And, I heard that this is terrific:

http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/beta309.gif

Interesting links we found today:

• moblog: The Windows Shutdown crapfest » How to take a bunch of talented UI designers and developers and end up with the confusing mess that is the Windows “shut down” menu.
• Traffic Wave Experiments » How one driver can calm traffic and stop bottlenecks on the highways.
• Evolution of a web design » Time-lapse of how a web design is created. This is a great illustration of how standards-based, HTML and CSS designs are done – start with some content, mark it up semantically, then create the visual presentation.
• Flickr: Camera Finder » Graphs of the most popular cameras used on Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website. Really cool use of data collected incidentally.
• Improv Everywhere Mission: Ben Folds Fake » Ben Folds, caught lip-syncing! Also, what happens when you hit a crowd of 3000 with a 10Hz ‘brown note’?

• Japanese director plans “sushi western” – Yahoo! News » a spaghetti western by Miike Takahashi? Awesome

• Police blotter: Child porn in Web cache OK | CNET News.com » Note to PA residents: it’s OK to have child porn in your browser cache as long as you don’t know your browser has a cache.