December 2008
52 posts
Internet Explorer Backup Zips Up All Your IE... →
Windows only: If you never want to have to tweak Internet Explorer’s settings again—and there are many, many settings—Backrex Internet Explorer Backup has you covered. The small,…
Wooster Collective's 10 Blogs You Should Know →
NOTCOT.ORG
Tina Roth Eisenberg’s Swissmiss Blog
The Dieline
C-Monster.net
The Art Collectors Blog
SUPERTOUCH
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Internet Explorer Backup Zips Up All Your IE... →
Windows only: If you never want to have to tweak Internet Explorer’s settings again—and there are many, many settings—Backrex Internet Explorer Backup has you covered. The small,…
The Streak is Ending: Toyota Expects First... →
Toyota Motor Corp, the world’s biggest automaker, on Monday forecast its first ever group operating loss due to a relentless global slide in car sales and a crippling rise in the yen.
NASA's Ducks Dive Under Greenland Ice →
The US space agency (Nasa) would like its rubber ducks back, please. Ninety bathtub toys were hurled into a drainage hole on the Greenland ice in September - an experiment to see how melt waters find…
PhotoRec - CGSecurity →
Top 10 Ways to Lock Down Your Data [Lifehacker Top... →
This past week proved that you can’t rely on something as simple as a web browser to keep your personal data and identity safe from harm. Critical flaws were found in the Internet Explorer…
DriveImage XML Backup Software →
Internet Museum of Scientifically Accurate Brain... →
Above, a piece by “brain artist” Marjorie Taylor. Curator Bill Harbaugh explains,
This is the world’s largest extant collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art. Inspired by research…
How to Rebuild your Computer and Reinstall Windows... →
Doctor finds foot growing in brain of infant →
A pediatric brain surgeon Colorado Springs, Colorado was operating on a 3-day-old baby and found a foot growing in his brain.
“The foot literally popped out of the brain,” Grabb told…
11th Grade →
Video: teenagers tear up some bluegrass →
I’ve posted a few times over the years about Greg Fleischut, an insanely-talented teenage musician I know. For the last two years, Greg has been gigging around San Francisco with his indie…
WhoCrashed Helps You Analyze Windows Dump Files... →
Windows only: WhoCrashed is a handy tool for performing crash dump analysis to isolate hardware, software, and driver problems. When Windows crashes it generates a fairly complex log file of…
WatchTumbleweed vortex video - Boing Boing
The Periodic Table of Awesoments →
Here’s the complete image, at eatliver.com. (Thanks, Coop!)
Cleveland clinic: First almost total face... →
The Cleveland Clinic says it has done the nation’s first almost total face transplant.
Killer Add-ons Make Songbird So Much Better... →
Like Firefox, the open source media player Songbird is a pretty neat alternative to a big-name competitor on its own, but the ability to extend it through add-ons is what really makes it…
Classical music performed by the Muppets: Ode to... →
The Muppets/YouTube partnership is bearing sweet, musical fruit. Here are two fantastic musical clips to help familiarize your kids with the cultural significance of the great works of…
Killer Add-ons Make Songbird So Much Better... →
Like Firefox, the open source media player Songbird is a pretty neat alternative to a big-name competitor on its own, but the ability to extend it through add-ons is what really makes it…
WubiGuide - Ubuntu Wiki →
Uni-ball Kuru Toga Auto Lead Rotation Mechanical... →
Create Paper Cases for Photo CDs from Picasa... →
Paper Case, the previously mentioned bookmarklet that creates fold-able, track-listed cases for CDs and DVDs, can now create stylish contact-sheet-style cases for photo CDs from Picasa…
The Top Five Cheapest--But Least Healthy--Fast... →
As budgets tighten it’s even more tempting to grab the dollar meal at your local fast food joint, but those cheap eats are packed with fat, sodium, cholesterol, and processed meat—so read…
Comfort with meaningless the key to good... →
Ed. Note: Boing Boing’s current guestblogger Clay Shirky is the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He teaches at the Interactive…
The Most Awesome Viral Videos of 2008, curated by... →
Videogum senior editor Gabe Delahaye writes,
If you were able to make it to the Gummy Awards on Monday night, then you saw our tribute to the best viral videos of the year. Now, this is…
The Top 10 Beards in the NBA (w/Pictures) →
We only wish we could include more Mavs on this list, but we’ve yet to see Dirk, Damp, Terry or Barea rocking anything close to these ten entries in NBA beard-dom. Here’s hoping one of them will put…
TwitterGadget Adds Twitter to Gmail [Gmail] →
The Gmail Twitter Gadget lets you tweet your heart out from directly inside Gmail, complete with saucy emoticons. Thanks Wyn!
Neuroscience of justice →
In a new study, researchers scanned the brains of people as they were deciding whether someone should be punished for a crime, and what that punishment should be. It turns out that regions of the…
Sexy Graph Demonstrates S&P's Historic... →
Here is a sexy graph breaking down the S&P’s performance from 1825 to present, fitting each year into a column based on that year’s annual returns, from -50% to +60%. This chart’s utility lies…
Pizza Hack: Broil Your Pies | Serious Eats →
Fonolo Cuts Through Corporate Voicemail Trees... →
Fonolo, an online phone tool for getting past all the “Press X for …” prompts on customer service numbers, is now open for public beta. Our sister site Consumerist took a screenshot tour…
Stephen King | Stephen King: 10 Best Books of 2008... →
CHDK - CHDK Wiki →
Michigan SHOCKS #4 Duke →
Suddenly, Michigan isn’t a rebuilding team.DeShawn Sims scored a career-high 28 points, leading the Wolverines to an 81-73 victory over No. 4 Duke on Saturday.
Master List of Holiday Shipping Deadlines... →
The Dealhack site has compiled a seriously comprehensive list of shipping deadlines that will get your purchases to anywhere in the U.S. guaranteed by Dec. 24. The chart covers standard,…
GPU-Z Retrieves Your Video Card's Stats [Featured... →
Windows only: GPU-Z is a lightweight (410k!) portable application that gives you a large amount of information about your video card. After loading up GPU-Z you’ll have access to…
An Infinite Loop in the Brain →
SPIEGEL ONLINE : Wouldn’t it be great to be able to remember everything? To see all our most important moments, all the priceless encounters, adventures and triumphs… READ MORE
Beautiful 1800s toolchest: the Studley →
Salim sez, “Studley was an 1800s organ and piano maker, as well as a carpenter and mason, who worked for the Smith Organ Co. He built this amazing tool-chest which packs in just about every…
I made this, you play this, we are enemies -- the... →
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any computer art quite as — I’m sorry, there’s no other way of putting this — as fucked up as “I made this, you play this, we are enemies,” a Flash game that…
PLoS ONE: If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of... →
"Impeach Bush" Ornament Ends Up On White House... →
The nine-inch ball is covered with swirly red and white stripes — and, in tiny glued-on text, salutes Jim McDermott ‘s support for a resolution to impeach President Bush.
Hive Five Winner for Best CD and DVD Burning Tool:... →
Free CD and DVD burner ImgBurn emerged victorious in this weekend’s Hive Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools, followed closely in tow by commercial burner Nero 9. Freeware app CDBurnerXP…
Toucan Syncs and Backs Up Your Files [Featured... →
Windows only: Portable application Toucan backs up and syncs your data between two locations (like your hard drive and your USB drive). Weighing in at just over 4.10MB installed, Toucan offers…
Toucan Syncs and Backs Up Your Files [Featured... →
Windows only: Portable application Toucan backs up and syncs your data between two locations (like your hard drive and your USB drive). Weighing in at just over 4.10MB installed, Toucan offers…
Nestle Quik Flipbook Ad On DC Metro Walls Is Kinda... →
As the DC red line train I rode last week shot through a tunnel, a happy brown bunny jumped up and down on the walls, lofting up a bottle of Nestle Quik. It wasn’t a video, it was a series of…
Hive Five Winner for Best CD and DVD Burning Tool:... →
Free CD and DVD burner ImgBurn emerged victorious in this weekend’s Hive Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools, followed closely in tow by commercial burner Nero 9. Freeware app CDBurnerXP…
Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous... →
As I’ve started shooting photos more often, I’ve picked up on some interesting patterns: habits, if you like. And, as I struggle to absorb the insane physics of capturing light with some glass…