Bert and Ernie Go A-Rappin

Ernie and Bert get the Gangsta treatment.

They Win

Kiiiiiii, the Tokyo rawkers, play “4 Little Joeys”… in their backyard.

The Devil’s in the Spam

Was checking my email earlier today and found the devil.

The Scientific American

“We as a nation have got to ask outselves, what the hell is going on.” — Indeed.

Arial, Meet Futura… and Leave the Artsy Farts Behind

Fonts gather in conference to decide whether Zapf Dingbats is worthy of membership.

All the Print that’s fit to Digitize

Google is expanding a program to digitize newspaper archives and has begun scanning microfilm from some 100 newspapers.

Twitter your Reporting

Interesting move by Laura McGann of The Washington Independent. She twittered her jaunt to Alaska where she was writing about Governor Palin.

Client or Browser?

Video provider Joost is moving away from its desktop client player ways and will deliver video within browsers. This is a departure for Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom as they attempt to create a P2P video network. The idea is that they’ll still require subscribers to download a P2P plugin to facilitate playback but the stand alone player is gone.

All My Toys Belong to Us

Video hosting provider Vimeo has a new set of toys in the offing. Called Vimeo Toys, the new release involves clever data visualization to explore new video delivered through the network. With the distribution of an XML file demonstrating how to capture approximately 50 user interactions, Vimeo is hoping the developer set will create [...]

Slacker Uprising

If musicians can do it, so too filmmakers: Michael Moore is releasing his next documentary Slacker Uprising as a free download.

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