Archive for January, 2004

Yan Pei Ming’s Buddhaas Warrior (np 3) on the left.

Here’s a list of 9 famous hacks.

We Fail made a great site for singer named Bob Schneider. The music’s okay, but the site is dyn-o-mite. It draws you right in.

Hi, I’d like to introduce you to the dorkiest car in town.

Well, during the day, it’s actually colder than it is on Mars .

I like to have Instant Audience around on my desktop. It’s very useful when trying to explain a great new idea to a boss.

When she tees off this weekend at the Sony Open, 14 year-old Michelle Wie will be the youngest player to play a PGA event. She’s 6 feet tall and hits 300-yard drives.

Finally, a rich resource for mining the depths of the 4,000 year history of the folding chair.

Here’s a full 360° panorama of Mars. No green men yet.

Bruce Davidson’s photos of the NYC Subway in the 1980s show what a violent, graffitied and very un-airconditioned place the trains were 24 years ago.

Aerosite.net is a huge site about everything involving commercial airplanes. There’s an exhaustive collection of airline logos, old and new that I can’t stop browsing.

Maps and Territories is an occasional blog by an amateur map lover, Chris Corrigan.

An Olympia, Washington man goes on vacation and returns to find everything in his apartment covered in aluminum foil.

Chilling story about some nuts in East Texas who had the makings of a sophisticated sodium cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands of people.

There’s a revolution going on in rec. rooms, offices, and classrooms around the world– it’s a new communication tool known as Internet.

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, it seems. Judging by the sloppiest signatures this side of Jenna Bush’s bar tab, they were pickled.

As cellphones become more ubiquitous, payphones are getting harder to find. For instance, BellSouth plans to remove 3,400 pay phones in Kentucky. In the U.S., more than 800,000 payphones have disappeared in the past 3 years.

Take a look at the raw image feed from the Mars Exploration Rover. It’ll be sending back pics for the next 90 days.

The exhaustingly thorough 2003 Year in Review. It’s the best and worst of everydamnthing.

Take a look at some color photos of New York in the 1940s to the 1960s from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection at Indiana University. Also, don’t miss some great color photos of San Francisco in the 40s.