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Darren has picked up on the study about how wine drinkers identifying a “cheap” wine is an expensive vintage by manipulating the non-flavor characteristics (color: even to the extreme of dying a white wine red, bottle shape, presentation, etc.) Now, … Continued

Tim O’Reilly is pondering why the Italian people have such different energy use patterns than the US (they don’t have lighting everywhere to declare that streets are safe, etc.) I wonder what (if any effect) that the US media obsession … Continued

My wife and I went to the local independent theater for a midnight showing of the awesome The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters . It’s a very funny documentary about the back and forth between rival contenders for … Continued

Nelson Minar just had a drive fail on his home Linux server and is contemplating the state of backup solutions. He’s skipping RAID and instead going to a second time delayed rsync’d repository of information elsewhere on his home network. … Continued

Charles Stross (author of the excellent Jennifer Morgue and Accellerando) has just written a blog post with some very down to earth travel tips for surviving in our current state of surreal security efforts. He touches on the subject of … Continued

Something OpenSource apps are reguarly criticized for are their user interfaces. Now, representing both a leap forward in collaborative User Interface design, user feedback mechanisms and blog tools is the GIMP UI Brainstorm site. got ideas? This is a visual … Continued

Erik Sink was running a promotion where he’d send you a T-Shirt and then in turn you’d agree to blog about it, for several reasons (listed below) the above screenshot is probably a better payback. To promote Fabjectory, we recently … Continued

I saw this piece on Reddit: An examination of the I-35W Bridge Collapse. Michael Miller works in a building immediately adjacent to the now collapsed structure and with some help from Flickr, YouTube, Images from New York Times.com, Google Earth … Continued

Manhunt 2, the guts gore and dismemberment game, has had it’s distribution temporarily suspended as it was violent enough that the ESRB gave it an “AO” – Adults Only – rating. What I find far more disturbing is that they’ve … Continued

Richard over at RWW asked if Digg actually does have more unique monthly visitors than Facebook despite having 24 times fewer active or “registered” users (He correctly points out that given the use of the two sites, this metric is … Continued