kottke.orgJason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext productsRegarding last week's story about the Gloucester teen girl pregnancy...- June 24, 2008 Regarding last week's story about the Gloucester teen girl pregnancy pact...well, maybe there was a pact and maybe there wasn't. But at a press conference today, Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk emerged from a closed-door meeting with city, school and health officials to say that there had been no independent confirmation of any teen pregnancy pact. She also said that the principal, who was not present at the meeting, is now "foggy in his memory" of how he heard about the pact. As Marco Carbone..http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15928.html Remi Gaillard videos- June 24, 2008 In celebration of Euro 2008, public prankster and more-than-fair soccer striker Rémi Gaillard made the following video of himself using the urban landscape as a soccer pitch. Gaillard scores goals into police vans, trash cans, open windows, etc. to the annoyance of his oblivious goalies. Something about the video seemed familiar and after a bit of searching, I discovered that the same fellow was also responsible for one of my favorite links from a few years ago, Rocky Recreated. There.http://www.kottke.org/08/06/remi-gaillard-videos Short interview with Mike Migurski and Tom Carden of Stamen...- June 24, 2008 Short interview with Mike Migurski and Tom Carden of Stamen about their projects and process. We try to start from a position of great abundance and information, to show the vastness or the liveness. I think live, vast, and deep is some of the terminology that we've been using lately in a lot of our talks. (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15926.html Itching and perception- June 24, 2008 I try not to miss any of Atul Gawande's New Yorker articles, but his piece on itching from this week's issue is possibly the most interesting thing I've read in the magazine in a long time. He begins by focusing on a specific patient for whom compulsive itching has become a very serious problem. (Warning, this quote is pretty disturbing...but don't let it deter you from reading the article.) ...the itching was so torturous, and the area so numb, that her scratching began to go through the...http://www.kottke.org/08/06/itching-and-perception NY Times article about Gramercy Park, one of NYC's two...- June 23, 2008 NY Times article about Gramercy Park, one of NYC's two private parks, and Arlene Harrison, the self-styled "mayor" of the park. Since Ms. Harrison started the Gramercy Park Block Association in 1994, after her son was attacked and beaten up in front of their apartment building at 34 Gramercy Park, she has effectively remade the area in her own image.She has added to a list of regulations (no dogs, no feeding of birds, no groups larger than six people, no Frisbees or soccer balls or "hard...http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15924.html Headline of the week from the Associated Press: Everything seemingly...- June 23, 2008 Headline of the week from the Associated Press: Everything seemingly is spinning out of control. (You see how they took the edge off with the "seemingly" The sky is falling! Maybe!) "It is pretty scary," said Charles Truxal, 64, a retired corporate manager in Rochester, Minn. "People are thinking things are going to get better, and they haven't been. And then you go hide in your basement because tornadoes are coming through. If you think about things, you have very little power to make it...http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15923.html A list of movie cameos that end up stealing the...- June 23, 2008 A list of movie cameos that end up stealing the whole movie. The deserving 1 is Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross speech. (God, what a great scene.) (link)http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15922.html The iconic photo from 1978 of Microsoft's founders and early...- June 23, 2008 The iconic photo from 1978 of Microsoft's founders and early employees has been reshot. Present for the reunion was office manager Miriam Lubow (center of new picture), who missed the original sitting due to a snowstorm. (When Lubow, now retired, first met Gates, she couldn't believe that disheveled kid was the president.) Absent for the reshoot was Bob Wallace (top center), who died in 2002; after leaving Microsoft in 1983, he pioneered the idea of shareware. They should submit this to Ze...http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/06/15921.html Valuable old iPhones- June 23, 2008 Last week: maybe that old iPhone isn't completely worthless after all. But a cheaper and easier way to get an iPhone that works on T-Mobile, etc. is to buy an old iPhone from an upgrader for $100, maybe even $150 This week: you might actually break even or turn a small profit from selling your old iPhone on eBay or craigslist. A quick search reveals that used & unlocked 8Gb iPhones are going for $400 and 16Gb for upwards of $500, with never-opened phones going for even more. Here are some.http://www.kottke.org/08/06/valuable-old-iphones Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired- June 23, 2008 Now showing on HBO: On March 11, 1977, Roman Polanski was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with the following counts: furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, committing a lewd or lascivious act on a child, unlawful sexual intercourse, rape by use of drugs, perversion and sodomy. Less than a year later, on February 1, 1978, Polanski drove to LAX, bought a one-way ticket to Europe, and never came back. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired explores the implausible events that took place...http://www.kottke.org/08/06/roman-polanski-wanted-and-desired |