bottlerocketscience: January 2007

Rum, Bloggery and the Lash

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Virginia's 'Republican establishment' can't understand why they've nominated lunatics - Ken Cuccinnelli praises E.W. Jackson, the extremist minister nominated last weekend by VA GOP for lt. gov. Your eyes should already be rolling: A mini...
13 minutes ago
The Constant Siege

"The Internet thrives on really, really smart stuff, or really, really dumb stuff. The middle not so..." - “The Internet thrives on really, really smart stuff, or really, really dumb stuff. The middle not so much.” - *Twitter / claytoncubitt*
14 minutes ago
kottke.org

You should be eating more Spam - For Slate, Anna Weaver argues that Spam aligns quite well with current food trends in America and should be eaten more. Consider that Spam contains not o...
19 minutes ago
Whedonesque | a weblog about Joss Whedon

"Which Buffy Character" is Emma Caulfield. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5S14dkoGCI In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Chosen, Emma Caulfield takes a Buffy personality quiz.
25 minutes ago
Apartment Therapy

America's Most Expensive Listing is $190 Million — Design News 05.22.13 - [image: America's Most Expensive Listing: $190 Million]A Greenwich, Conn. mansion currently holds the title for America's priciest listing. For $190 mill...
28 minutes ago
Thought Catalog

7 Things Women Will Always Have To Explain To Men - 6. If we don't orgasm, it's not to spite you.
42 minutes ago
Daily Speculations

Mapping BBQ, from Jeff Watson - There is a deeply flawed article in Texas Monthly about BBQ, but the article contains an interesting (but somewhat inaccurate) map of BBQ across the South....
1 hour ago
AMERICAblog

House votes today to take Keystone Pipeline decision out of Obama’s hands - The Keystone Pipeline game could be over before our side even takes the field. .
1 hour ago
Warren Ellis

SCATTERLANDS 028 - We like to think of SCATTERLANDS as embracing all the awkward parts of the newspaper strip. Do you remember newspaper strips? News-pa-pers. Printed thing...
1 hour ago
Danger Room - Wired Blogs

FBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bomb Suspect - [image: FBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bomb Suspect] An FBI interview with an Orlando man believed to have known Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Ts...
1 hour ago
Shorpy

At first glance, - In reply to Belle With a Ball: 1942: it looked like a giant computer keyboard.
1 hour ago
Weird Universe Weblog

Follies of the Madmen #205 -
1 hour ago
3quarksdaily

a pretty funny book - I would dearly love to be able to start this piece by saying that The Poor Mouth is the funniest book ever written. It’d be a real lapel-grabber, for one thi...
1 hour ago
Cryptomundo.com

Chris Murphy’s Sasquatch Mystery Museum Exhibit - * Long-time sasquatch researcher and friend, Chris Murphy has recently built a virtual museum exhibition on the Sasquatch Canada website. As always, Chris ...
2 hours ago
A Daily Dose of Architecture

Today's archidose #678 - Here are some photos of the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing (opening June 4, 2013) in Berlin, Germany, by SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov; p...
2 hours ago
PE Hub News

Swivl Raises $500K From Grishin Robotics - *Swivl* said it raised $500,000 from *Grishin Robotics*. Swivl ran a*Kickstarter * campaign earlier this year. The money will go toward developing a second...
2 hours ago
The New Inquiry

Do Lipstick Feminists Actually Exist? - Yes, yes, you're a feminist who wears lipstick. But would you call yourself a lipstick feminist, or is she made of straw?
3 hours ago
LinkMachineGo

Is David Cameron Still Prime Minister? - [politics] Is David Cameron Still Prime Minister?… a single-serving website that might be changing from Yes to No soon.
3 hours ago
O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 22 May 2013 - XBox One Kinect Controller (Guardian) — the new Kinect controller can detect gaze, heartbeat, and the buttons on your shirt. Surveillance and the Internet ...
3 hours ago
In the Pipeline

How Many Binding Pockets Are There? - Just how many different small-molecule binding sites are there? That's the subject of this new paper in *PNAS*, from Jeffrey Skolnick and Mu Gao at Georg...
3 hours ago
Schneier on Security

DDOS as Civil Disobedience - For a while now, I have been thinking about what civil disobedience looks like in the Internet Age. Certainly DDOS attacks, and politically motivated hac...
3 hours ago
Charlie's Diary

The language of alienation - I just stubbed my toe on a linguistic thread on reddit (as one does): what sentence can you come up with that would be completely incomprehensible (without a...
4 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Are we living in a time of asset bubbles? - Here is one typical complaint about bubbles, from Jesse Eisinger, excerpt: We are four years into the One Percent’s recovery. Now, we are in Round 3 of qua...
4 hours ago
Wired: Beyond the Beyond

“Petroglifs” by Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown: the video documentary - http://csi.asu.edu/csi/bruce-sterling-creates-21st-century-petroglifs-at-csi/ “During Emerge 2013: The Future of Truth this spring, CSI Visionary in Reside...
4 hours ago
A VC

The IPA - No, I am not blogging about India Pale Ale, although I must say that I am a big fan of it. I am writing about one of the best patent hacks I have seen in t...
4 hours ago
Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality with Both Hands

Brad DeLong (Summer 2010): It Is Far too Soon to End Expansion: Wednesday Hoisted from Three Years Ago - Brad DeLong: It is far too soon to end expansion: It was in 1829 that John Stuart Mill made the key intellectual leap in figuring out how to fight what he ca...
4 hours ago
Technology Review

The Phosphorous Atom Quantum Computing Machine - An Australian team unveils the fundamental building block of a scalable quantum computer that could be embedded in today’s silicon chips Back in the late...
6 hours ago
Economist's View

Links for 05-22-2013 - In Europe, a Fed President Urges Quantitative Easing - NYT BoJ holds off on fresh monetary easing - FT.com The Hidden, Unexpected Public Costs of a Stadium...
8 hours ago
Strange Maps

609 - Had the Cookie Crumbled Differently: East and West Dakota - *National Geographic, *some years ago: a melancholy piece about the emptying of the Dakotan prairie, illustrated with pictures of pension-age waitresses in...
8 hours ago
SFGate: Mark Morford

Is WiFi destroying your brain? - Is your face getting hot right now? Do you feel an itch or a burn around your eyes, your mouth, perhaps a tightening in your throat? Are you finding it dif...
9 hours ago
kung fu grippe

thehelzernotes: INDX CRDS - thehelzernotes: INDX CRDS
10 hours ago
Ben Casnocha: The Blog

“My Last Days” - This is a really touching 20 minute video about how Zach Sobiech, a 17 year old diagnosed with bone cancer, chose to spend his final months. Inspirational....
11 hours ago
Atlas Obscura

The Merry Cemetery - Cimitirul Vesel in Săpânţa, Romania - You will find no solemn angels and sober epitaphs here. A cemetery in a small village in northern Romania honors its dead with hand-carved, brightly pain...
12 hours ago
Poppy Z Brite: Dispatches from Tanganyika

Book Auctions - It's been a while since I sold any signed books on eBay. Just listed five new auctions: WRONG THINGS by me and Caitlín R. Kiernan, TRIADS by me and Christa...
13 hours ago
Felix Salmon

Counterparties: SAC Capital punishment - Welcome to the Counterparties email. The sign-up page is here, it’s just a matter of checking a box if you’re already registered on the Reuters website. Se...
16 hours ago
Paul Krugman

Perma-Stimulus, Again - Been there, covered that.
16 hours ago
Not a journal.

Updatery - Q. Is Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters at the printer? A. Yes! Review copies are going out and we are getting ready to receive complaints ...
18 hours ago
Dangerous Minds

#PrayForOklahoma: Ricky Gervais feels like an idiot! - “@mtvnews: Beyoncé, Rihanna & Katy Perry send prayers to #Oklahoma #PrayForOklahoma”I feel like an idiot now…I only sent money. — Ricky Gervais (@rickyger...
18 hours ago
Words Words Words

Writing Update - I’ve finished the first draft of Hawk and am presently polishing it for my critique group who will tell me it needs polishing. And probably that it’s hope...
21 hours ago
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales - How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. My search for the perfect pricing model resulted in an additional $50,00...
1 day ago
Altucher Confidential

How to Win Friends and Influence People - One time I tried to move into a homeless shelter in Pittsburgh. I had this image that it would be like some sort of sex [...]
1 day ago
Cory Doctorow’s Craphound

Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance - The Guardian
1 day ago
grinding.be

sustainability IS gardening - A short follow-up to my recent post, Conservation ain’t what it used to be (WE NEED TO BE BIGGER)… Sustainability: ‘coined … by a German forester [in 1712]...
1 day ago
BLDGBLOG

Geomedia - [Image: "Laser Cut Record" by Amanda Ghassaei]. An incredible example of what can be done with laser-cutting, Amanda Ghassaei's project "Laser Cut Record" ...
1 day ago
The Steampunk Workshop

Not Enemies! -
1 day ago
the impossible cool.

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things,... - “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful...
1 day ago
The Big Picture

Afghanistan civilians: April 2013 - One of the most desperately poor, war-torn nations on earth, Afghanistan attracts our attention mostly for the wrong reasons. Well over 30 percent of the p...
1 day ago
Mericale, Hughes, Scheheraz'Odd & Touchshriek, Inc.

"That would be the test I could not forgive." - *If you should doubt My heart, Remember this: That I would lie to you If I believed it was Right to do.* ~ Wye Oak I see my last entry was made on the 17th....
1 day ago
John Crowley Little and Big

The grim slide - In Michael Dirda's fine and heartfelt overview of the work of James Salter, in the new issue of what Rodger Cunningham dubbed the New York Review of Each O...
1 day ago
Both Sides of the Table

Why We Need to Elect @EricGarcetti on Tues as Next Mayor of Los Angeles - On Tuesday Los Angeles will elect a new mayor. And while Eric Garcetti is leading in the polls by 7%, according to recent articles a victory is not certain...
2 days ago
A Continuous Lean.

SIGNALS - Absolutely insane: The man who rode thunder. [Huckberry] For sale: 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta ‘Competizione’ [RM Auctions] [Pictured] Breaking down...
2 days ago
Noahpinion

Short blogging hiatus - In Europe for a week, won't be able to blog...
4 days ago
lesswrong

New LW Meetups: Bristol, Tel Aviv - Submitted by FrankAdamek • 1 votes • 0 comments New meetups (or meetups with a hiatus of more than a year) are happening in: - First Bristol meetup: 25...
4 days ago
Greer Gilman

Ragnarok around the clock! - Rejoice! As of two hours ago, Sassafrass has a Kickstarter for Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok, their glorious Norse song cycle. *rushthatspeaks* tells a...
4 days ago
amanda palmer

mermaids, guns & steel - hello dear friends. first some quick news, then the dumping of my soul. it came together fast as a slippery lady fish….i’m going to be appearing at a benef...
4 days ago
FT.com - Tyler Brûlé

Tyler Brûlé: Fast fashion’s home truths - There is so much that’s wrong with this unsustainable system, yet crooked governments don’t give a stuff about crumbling factories, says Tyler Brûlé
4 days ago
BibliOdyssey

The House of Savoy - Superb illuminated paintings distinguish this visual regional history as an album of outstanding quality, to my eye. Please do yourself a favour by clickin...
5 days ago
things magazine

The man with a suitcase - Never Underestimate the Power of a Paint Tube, ‘Without this simple invention, impressionists such as Claude Monet wouldn’t have been able to create their ...
5 days ago
ModBlog

SPC: ModCon One (1999) - How do you write an article about an event so private, so secretive, that it’s guests were made to sign nondisclosure agreements? Easy. Just be one of the ...
5 days ago
Planet Pocket Tool

Second Round Emails Sent! - All spoken for, thank you again everyone!
5 days ago
Steve McCurry's Blog

Grief, Grind, and Glory of Work - Last month the world heard the tragic news that more than a thousand people working at a clothing factory in Bangladesh, were killed when the factory they ...
5 days ago
cdixon.org - chris dixon's blog

Airware: An operating system for drones - I’m excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz, along with Google Ventures, is investing $10.7M in Airware, a startup that makes operating systems for fl...
1 week ago
Agnus Dei

Standard Google Interview Questions with Answers - If you ever have to interview with Google, here are the questions they will ask you, and here are the answers. They've been asking the same questions for 1...
1 week ago
Modern Mechanix

In Fatima the Difference is Quality (Sep, 1951) - That’s a pretty specific claim. Not the best cigarette, just the best long cigarette. In Fatima the Difference is Quality “I smoked FATIMAS when I was a Mi...
1 week ago
Neil Gaiman's Journal

A giant TOUR catch up. Also, we wear the same boots. - I need to get back to blogging. Too many things are stacking up, and I'm paying attention over on Twitter and Tumblr and such, but not here, and really, th...
1 week ago
Seeing Both Sides

Immigration Reform - Senate Testimony - I was invited to testify at a Senate hearing tomorrow in front of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Below is my planned testim...
2 weeks ago
Rantings of a Civil War Historian

The Power of Fun! - [image: photo]Shown in the photo with me is my friend David Raymond, who wrote the foreword to *You Stink! Major League Baseball’s Terrible Teams and Pat...
2 weeks ago
Global Guerrillas

The Flaw that May Bring Down Bitcoin or Change it Forever - Bitcoin is currently being used as a publishing system due to a design feature/flaw. That flaw threatens the viability of Bitcoin as a currency. How so? Some...
3 weeks ago
Venture Hacks

How much traction do I need to raise money? - How much traction do you need to raise $1M? AngelList’s Ash Fontana has the answer on TechCrunch: Read the post for details and also see these comments by ...
4 weeks ago
russell davies

a unit of delivery - We won an award last night. Which was nice. And I met an old advertising friend the other day and he said, so what is GDS? So I thought I should try and expl...
5 weeks ago
Ben Horowitz

Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People - Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building ...
5 weeks ago
Marc Andreesen

Google Glass and the Glass Collective - I am tickled pink to announce Andreessen Horowitz’s participation in a new project called the Glass Collective. Along with our friends at Google Ventures a...
5 weeks ago
Craig Mod - Considering the future of books, publishing and storytelling

Wind Up Kidd Chronicle - Satellite - Craig Mod - Wind Up Kidd Chronicle (This essay originally appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review's Spring 2013 issue.) I take them all off, the covers. As soon as I’v...
1 month ago
paperpools

That time of year - I need an accountant who is up to speed on writers'/artists' tax affairs, and in particular one who understands the intricacies of residence and/or obligat...
2 months ago
Pitchfork: Latest News

Tyler, the Creator Expands Spring Tour, Adding Dates With Earl Sweatshirt - [image: Tyler, the Creator Expands Spring Tour, Adding Dates With Earl Sweatshirt] *Photo by Erez Avissar* Odd Future kingpin Tyler, the Creator, who's...
2 months ago
David Galbraith's Blog

Apple iWatch Design Predictions -
2 months ago
CarrollBlog

CarrollBlog 2.13 - I once had a very formal editor in England. Very proper, very British. While chatting one day I told her I'd read in the paper about a laboratory in Swit...
3 months ago
Startup Marketing Blog - By Sean Ellis

My Future Marketing Blog Posts - Focus is the most precious asset for any startup CEO. As much as I love blogging about startup marketing, it just isn’t a very good use of my time these d...
3 months ago
rejectamentalist manifesto

Jane Gaskell, Some Summer Lands. Mind you’ve brought... - - Jane Gaskell, *Some Summer Lands*. Mind you’ve brought along enough hatred today.
3 months ago
Kevin Kelly

Personal Shadow Outsourcing - *Originally posted in The Technium* For years I've heard apocryphal stories of knowledge workers in Silicon Valley who outsourced their job themselves. Th...
4 months ago
NoFo

24 years ago today - I’d finished my classes for the semester and my dad had come to pick me up from college for the holiday break. 1988 had been an emotional roller coaster fo...
5 months ago
Curious Expeditions

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
5 months ago
Coilhouse

Dimming the Lights and Locking Up at Coilhouse - Illustration by Star St. Germain. (Larger version here.) Five years ago, we launched Coilhouse Magazine + Blog: A Love Letter to Alternative Culture. Six b...
6 months ago
Scott Horton

GEORGE S. (GEORGE STANLEY) MCGOVERN—A letter to Barack Obama - When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office in the depth of the Great Depression, he sought to stabilize and empower American society by introducing...
7 months ago
Lone Gunman

Congestion Tolling at the Supermarket - To help explain why toll lanes might not be the great solution to traffic congestion many believe them to be, Timothy Lee goes to an unexpected place to dr...
7 months ago
Woman on Fire

Untitled - Untitled, originally uploaded by (ToT) Auriea.
7 months ago
Emanuel Derman

More from Prost, a fictional work in progress - Late in life, when his roots should have held him steady, he became unmoored, and it seemed inappropriate. But who determined what was appropriate?
7 months ago
Dmitri Maksimov

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1 year ago
Jay Brannan

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED - my blog will henceforth be hosted on my new website! the entire archive (in it's most current state as of this posting) has been moved there & all future p...
1 year ago
Daniel Keys Moran

Spoilers circle on G+ - I'm going to post ongoing bits of things I'm working on on G+ -- no massive spoilers, but if you're interested in reading them, +1 or otherwise respond on ...
1 year ago
LeslieMILES

You're Worth All My Imagination - “For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman." -Virginia WOOLF Real Estate - Fake Blues ♫ 11.mp3 http://www.catbirdseat.org/catbirdseat/music/stream1009/1...
1 year ago
The Sartorialist

TheSartorialist.com RSS Feed - Hi guys, Thanks so much for the feedback. It’s been great seeing the response and really hearing about how people use the site. One thing we’ve been getti...
1 year ago
prolific.org

Morning, beautiful - Morning, beautiful, originally uploaded by Caroline. Although my hotel on Osborne Street in London gets bad reviews on travel sites, I didn't have a problem ...
4 years ago
Design Observer

Reflections on The Ephemeral World, Part One: Ink - An elegy to the makeready — those sheets of paper, re-fed into a press to get the ink balances up to speed, leaving a series of often random, palimpsest-li...
4 years ago
William Gibson

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the selby

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Three-Toed Sloth

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PBC

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this isn't happiness.™

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JONNO (dot com)*

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This Modern World

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Core77

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The Millions

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