Wikipedia - The Book : Rob Matthews

Wikipedia : Rob Matthews

If Wikipedia were a book. And it says this is just the featured articles.

Bored with your weather app? Try Tom Scott's Star Wars Weather

Bored with your weather app? Try Tom Scott's Star Wars Weather:

"If you're a Star Wars fan, this page is well worth a bookmark. Head on over to Star Wars Weather, and share your current conditions in the comments.

Just be sure to watch out for falling Death Star debris..."

One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick : by Matt Kish

One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick : by Matt Kish (pages 051 to 100)

A really cool and interesting art project. Matt Kish is creating one drawing for every page of Moby Dick.

Get Your Conway Twitty Tribute Pistol

The Conway Twitty Tribute Pistol (MP3s) - WFMU's Beware of the Blog:

"Hey, did you know you can buy a Colt .45 Conway Twitty Tribute Pistol if you happen to have an extra two grand lying around?

Hell, if you collect firearms you should probably go ahead and make the purchase and put it right next to your George Jones Tribute Rifle. Both these firearms come from a Second Amendment-loving outfit known as America Remembers, headquartered in Ashland, Virginia."

Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, And Eleven Other Brands Named In SFLC Lawsuit

Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, And Eleven Other Brands Named In SFLC Lawsuit - Software Freedom Law Center:

"New York, NY, December 14, 2009//Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, and JVC are among the 14 consumer electronics companies named in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed today in New York by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).

The SFLC is a non-profit law firm established in 2005 to provide pro-bono legal services to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers. The suit was filed on behalf of the Software Freedom Conservancy (Conservancy), the non-profit corporate home of the popular software application BusyBox and many other FOSS projects, and Erik Andersen, one of the program's principal developers and copyright holders.

The suit charges each of the defendants with selling products containing BusyBox in violation of the terms of its license, the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)."

Glister: The Faerie Host by Andi Watson

Glister: The Faerie Host - a set on Flickr:

"The third book in a delightfully quirky and funny series for girls told in comic-strip and featuring Glister Butterworth – girl-magnet for the weird and unusual."

One of my favorite story artists. Go and check out the preview and get yourself a copy of your own

feedly: a magazine-like start page

feedly: a magazine-like start page:

"feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.
based on Google Reader and Twitter."

This is basically my new favorite extension for Google Chrome. It is what Google Reader should be and more!

Flight of the Conchords End Their Television Series

JP's Blog: Flight of the Conchords End Their Television Series:

"Flight of the Conchords have announced that they will be ending their television series. They will not have a third season for their television show modeled after fictional versions of themselves. The band posted a statement on their official website. It was written by Jermaine, Brett and co-creator/director James Bobin. This is what the statement said:

we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t be returning for a 3rd season. We’re very proud of the two seasons we made and we like the way the show ended. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the show and also everyone who watched it. While the characters Bret and Jermaine will no longer be around, the real Bret and Jermaine will continue to exist."

Ustream iPhone App Is Finally Here!

Over the last year, Ustream has sought to extend its reach into the mobile arena, and the company has introduced video-recording and viewing iPhone apps, but its latest offering allows true live broadcasting to multiple viewers. You can begin recording video on your phone, stream it to the Web, and allow any number of people to watch it as it happens. You can include your GPS location with the broadcast as well.

Ustream iPhone App Lets You Stream Live Video - PC World
This is something that I think will make ustream way more useful. I've had an account for years but rarely a chance to use it since you had to be connected to a computer.

Cinematic Titanic - East Meets Watts

A five minute sample of Cinematic Titanic's first LIVE DVD, "East Meets Watts". On sale December 16, 2009 at www.CinematicTitanic.com.

Store under attack for sexy nativity scene

Store under attack for sexy nativity | Say What?:

"A California clothing store is under attack for displaying a nativity scene with sexual undertones.

A group of workers across the street from Madison clothing store in Los Angeles plans to garner support from area churches to get the display that features Mary sprawled on the ground with a golden baby Jesus in her crotch taken down.

The three sexy wise men surrounding Mary are carrying gifts of items from the store."

Introducing Google Public DNS

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Public DNS:

"When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System, or DNS.

Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we're launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out."

Soon the internet will just be called the Twitter Google-book

Inspired by Twitter, Blip.fm Tunes Into Customized Stations

Now, its edge on other Twitter/music mashups is about to grow, as Blip.fm is set to introduce a set of features based on familiar Twitter attributes — hashtags and trending topics — that can be used as filters to create customizable radio stations.

Although Blip.fm can still be used socially through Twitter and Facebook, features like these increase its usefulness as a destination rather than something that piggybacks on other sites. The updates will appear at beta.blip.fm in the next day or so, with eventual rollout to the rest of the site.

Inspired by Twitter, Blip.fm Tunes Into Customized Stations – GigaOM

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Vimeo Releases Desktop Uploader

cross-platform desktop application allows you to upload videos to Vimeo without visiting the website.

• Upload multiple files
• Batch edit video info and privacy
• Pause & resume upload

Vimeo Desktop Uploader
I dislike that it's an air application but it's a nice thing to have. Although, why would you not want to go to the site? I love going there!

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A Working Electric Guitar T-Shirt, Finally, Something Geekier Than Keytars...

Think Geek has introduced the Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt - a "playable guitar" built into a t-shirt.

Sonic State - News Play A Working Electric Guitar T-Shirt, Finally, Something Geekier Than Keytars...

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Get Paid For Toilet Blogging

People who do some of their best thinking on the toilet now have the perfect context for their blogging. Procter & Gamble Co. is looking to hire five "Charmin Ambassadors" to staff its Times Square bathrooms this holiday season and blog about the experience.

Successful applicants "must really [emphasis not ours] enjoy going to the bathroom," according to the website EnjoytheGo.com.

Marketing: Toilet Blogging Will Pay More Than Huffpo Blogging - Adages - Advertising Age

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Neil Gaiman Crowdsourcing a Short Story Via Twitter

Coraline author Neil Gaiman wants to make a writer out of you.

His means for penning his upcoming project are as creative as the gems in his copious portfolio, only he can't claim all the credit for this one. Starting today at noon EDT, the writer began encouraging people to tweet in their 140-character contributions for his next short story, which BBC Audiobooks America will later garner into an audio book.

Gaiman (@neilhimself), who is already well established in the Twitter realm, will tweet the opening line and fans will be able to continue the story as they wish. BBC will log about 1,000 contributions into a script that will be edited and prepared to be read by a professional narrator.

Currently there is no talk of releasing the story in print form, but the audio edition will be available for free download at the BBC site, iTunes and other audiobook distributors before the end of the year.

Neil Gaiman Crowdsourcing a Short Story Via Twitter :: Books :: News :: Paste

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Google Docs, Slowly Morphing into Google Drive

Google Docs, Slowly Morphing into Google Drive:

"The new interface of Google Docs, which is slowly rolled out to all users, brings the service one step closer to an online storage service. The 'items by type' menu replaced 'PDFs' with 'Files', suggesting that Google Docs will allow users to upload any type of files.

It will be interesting to see how Google Drive integrates with other Google services that store files (Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube) and to find the free quota limits.

Tony Ruscoe found in January an internal Google document about Cosmo, described as an upgrade from GDrive, a service that was only available to Google's employees. 'We're in the process of migrating all Google Doc accounts to Cosmo,' mentioned the document.

Update: Kevin Mohr found an interesting image referenced in Google Docs' code: . It's a folder icon that includes Google Chrome's logo, so it could be related to Google Chrome OS, a browser-centric operating system that will probably use Google Drive to store files online. There's also an icon for videos which suggests that videos will be uploaded to YouTube."