This is a classic Damn Interesting article which originally appeared on 14 May 2007. On 16 September 1920, throngs of brokers, clerks, and office workers poured from the...

The Grand Old Fossil Gandhiji famously called for its mercy killing post freedom as the party had served its purpose. Of course, G’s call might have been one of...

I’m a big fan of TechMeme, a web aggregation service that provides, at a glance, a few of what’s being discussed in the technology-focused part of the...

We have known for some time that John Barrowman -- Captain Jack Sparrow of Doctor Who and Torchwood -- is gay. Tonight he discussed openly what reasons may have caused...

An ancient paper (July 1978: 30 years ago) from the long gone Lisp Bulletin by Harald Wertz. The system describes attempts to improve incompletely specified Lisp...

The FBI files, one of the original titles we launched with on Footnote back in January 2007, Â include tales of espionage during World War I, case files for German aliens...

I’ve been playing with CLOS again these days (after finding it specially apt for one of my pet projects (more on that later)) and just stumbled upon this fun video...

Dana Goldstein draws out attention to this somewhat absurd Ed in '08 ad warning that unless we heed their message of reform, Finland will bury us: Among other things,...

I love Friday mornings. It used to be that I looked forward to Fridays simply because they were the last work day of the week. Then I began working for an employer...

Unlike the rumor that FeedBurner is nearly code-complete on a multiplayer Wii edition, the blog posts, phone calls and conjecture about our future as part of the Google...

She was Walt Disney’s favorite conceptual artist, a woman whose sense of color and design influenced the look and feel of numerous Disney projects from 1942 to...

Michael Powell of the New York Times wrote a piece on Rudy Guliani today that, because I know the Times does not take money to write pieces I can only assume that Powell...

Not your friend, but a remarkably unable simulation   Micah Sifry on his new facefriend, Howard Dean: ...who really believes that a friend request from a...

Please note, that Tetrisconcept.com opened up a Tetris-wiki, that is totally devoted to everything related to Tetris. Their mission is quite cool they say: "Our goal is...

See this. history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 4605 cd 3576 svn 2141 ls 1701 ruby 1308 cap2 1066 ss 978 rake 867 sshb 688 rm 635...

bakert tagged me, so: brianm@binky:~$ history | awk {'print $2'} | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -rn | head 164 svn 52 cd 42 ssh 32 sudo 22 git 16 ls 16 for...

Just any scraggly covering of the upper lip won't gain you full entry into London's Handlebar Club. The moustache in question must be "a hirsute appendage of the upper...

As mentioned previously, the Netscape Archive has been created to preserve a final resting place for client side Netscape applications, given that official support is...

In September, 1848, the Rutland & Burlington Railroad was expanding its line across Vermont. In order to keep the tracks as straight as possible, construction workers...

Video-->LinkWith the recent release of the $350,000 Opus 8 ->(link) and the de Grisogono Meccanico dG ->(link) with their mechanically mimicked LED digits, I wanted to...