No Sleep 'til Brooklyn!

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People Tend to Sleep More on holidays to
Offset Workday Sleep Deficit - Yahoo!
Japan and INTAGE Joint Research

People Tend to Sleep More on holidays to
Offset Workday Sleep Deficit - Yahoo!
Japan and INTAGE Joint Research 04/08/2005 10:51 PM
Medical News Today Apr 9 2005 3:37AM GMT

Don't shop 'til they drop

Don't shop 'til they drop 05/28/2004 01:56 AM
USA Today May 28 2004 5:51AM GMT

MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to
Bollywood

MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to
Bollywood 04/13/2004 11:17 AM
A few days ago, Jonno pointed me to a Bollywood-flavored remake of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough," which he found on a supercool sekrit MP3 blog that shall remain nameless. This track is phat. This track is funky. This track makes me want to do a little dance in my ergonomic chair. A little google-digging reveals the song is by a group called the Bollywood Freaks, and came out on a limited edition red vinyl 7" in the UK. I want to send them money for the funk they provide. I want more of their music. If anyone has info, cough it up.

But for now -- look! Someone dumped a copy of said funky track on a server somewhere. Download the MP3 while it lasts. Link

Internet shop 'til you drop -- but stay
cautious

Internet shop 'til you drop -- but stay
cautious 05/04/2004 10:37 PM
Los Angeles Times May 5 2004 2:42AM GMT

We chased lady luck, 'til we finally
struck Bonanza.

We chased lady luck, 'til we finally
struck Bonanza. 08/05/2004 03:44 PM
In 1967 the television program Bonanza enjoyed a three-year run as the most-watched television show in the United States. Bonanza had not started well; its first two seasons returning disapointing ratings but kept alive by the bequest of (then) NBC-parent RCA. RCA had a vested interest in keeping the color series alive in order to push sales of their color technology.

That same year Bill and Joyce Anderson created The Ponderosa Ranch tourist attraction near Incline Village, Nevada on the site allegedly shown by the burn ing map in the opening credits. The property annually attracts nearly 350,000 tourists to Lake Tahoe's north shore to enjoy the surroun dings of a period recreation including mock gunfights, cowboy rope tricks and an honest 1860's-style saloon. (more inside)

When Brooklyn goes to college

When Brooklyn goes to college 01/23/2004 09:49 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at how universities might be run in 2020.

THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS

THE BROOKLYN RAIL - STREETS 08/02/2004 01:58 PM
An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: In Conversation With Peter Lamborn Wilson

brooklynrail.org/spotlight/july04/wilson.html
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Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules

Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules 04/21/2004 01:04 PM
Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. Named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene, and one of Brooklyn's most diverse ‘hoods. I love it....

target opens in brooklyn

target opens in brooklyn 07/21/2004 04:36 PM
what a beautiful fucking mess

neurotic brooklyn ice cream

neurotic brooklyn ice cream 05/12/2004 02:28 PM
there's nothing more charming than a little store covered in bitter, resentful signs

Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham
(AP)

Brooklyn Cheese Artist Makes Bed of Ham
(AP) 06/03/2004 06:35 PM
AP - An artist best known for decorative cheese has broadened his palette, or palate, to ham. Cosimo Cavallaro, who once repainted a New York hotel room in melted mozzarella, has covered a bed in processed ham. "I feel like I am back in my mother's deli," the artist said Thursday.

Protesters March Across Brooklyn Bridge
(AP)

Protesters March Across Brooklyn Bridge
(AP) 08/28/2004 01:39 PM
AP - Thousands of abortion-rights activists marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the latest in a growing procession of protests leading up to the Republican National Convention.

Brooklyn residents: just say no to space
elevators!

Brooklyn residents: just say no to space
elevators! 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Max Clarke says,

Recently on my blog, I put up an image of a mysterious flyer being posted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where, in recent years, community activists have fought real estate developers' plans to build luxury high-rises, and the city's plans to site trash facilities and power plants on the waterfront). The flyer is a masterful parody of all this. It reads:

"WILLIAMSBURG DOESN'T NEED A SPACE ELEVATOR! The Space Elevator Will Mean: Less Parking, Weird Ribbon Thing, Constant Loud Whirring Noise, Increased Space Elevator Truck Traffic. Developers have submitted plans to build a massive space elevator in Williamsburg! This monstrosity, completely out of context with existing development in the neighborhood, will be accessible only to the wealthy, forcing thousands of average Williamsburgers from their homes and live-work spaces! Jobs the elevator will generate (operators, repairmen, astronauts) are certain to go to non-residents! Don't sit idly by and let this elevator cast its impossibly long, cold, and very narrow shadow over our homes! CALL 311 AND TELL THEM 'I JUST DON'T NEED THIS SPACE ELEVATOR!'"

The flyer is credited to F.E.T.S.E.o.t.N (Fight Extremely Tall Space Elevators on the Northside), and includes the URL of an anti-space-elevator-in-Williamsburg Yahoo group.

Link. See also this proposed NYC rezoning plan, which includes a number of proposed 8-35 story luxury complexes in a currently working-class neighborhood with an average building height of 3 stories. Link. While this flyer is most certainly a joke, space elevators are not -- at least for some. Link (thanks for the reminder, Dr. Setebos)

Brooklyn Crosses Bridge Back Into the
Big Time

Brooklyn Crosses Bridge Back Into the
Big Time 01/22/2004 10:20 AM
The borough has a sports identity for the first time since the Dodgers departed for Los Angeles after the 1957 baseball season.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne 09/20/2004 06:25 AM
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA443919
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Archive/skins/BE/about.htm

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, had the distinction of being the most widely read afternoon newspaper in the U.S. during the Civil War. After it ceased publication in 1955, the paper's morgue and related files were donated to the Brooklyn Public Library, but access to this vibrant collection of stories, photos and illustrations was limited to a few microfilm editions and fewer still print holdings. In 2001 the Brooklyn Library launched an extensive digitization project encompassing the years 1841-1902, funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and beta testing of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online [www.brooklynpublicli brary.org/eagle] began in March 2003. The site was an immediate hit, accommodating an average of 60,000 visits a month. As expected, many visitors have used the site to track down genealogical information, but the library has also used the collection to provide access to primary documents on Civil War-era Brooklyn and African-American women's history to K-12 students. The library is now considering a second project to digitize the 1902-1955 issues, but must first grapple with the copyright implications for newspapers printed after 1923, as well as the significant increase in per-issue page volume in later years. More information on the project can be found at

RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics
Collective

RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics
Collective 08/29/2004 02:07 PM
Xeni Jardin: Color me jaded, but this call for a citywide "quivering saturnalia" to protest the RNC sounds more like an excuse to perv out in public, and less like actual political protest. But, hey, what do I know about Reichian energetics? Fleshbot says,

If the skies are dark over New York City next week during the Republican National Convention, it may be due to the cloudbusting efforts of the Brooklyn Orgastic Politics Collective, who plan to combat the "Deadly Orgone Energy (DOR)" of Dubya and company with ... uh, something based on the theories of Wilhelm Reich ("Metaphorically speaking, our September 2nd project will be an attempt to give the sky a blowjob...")

Link . Don't forget to wear your tinfoil beanie thong.

Brooklyn DA: Santeria Fails Drug Gang
(AP)

Brooklyn DA: Santeria Fails Drug Gang
(AP) 06/15/2004 09:31 PM
AP - As the spiritual adviser to Brooklyn drug dealers, Mercedes Osario allegedly was paid to warn if police were in their future. Prosecutors claim her mystical powers failed. Miserably.

Barnaby Whitfield gallery show in
Brooklyn

Barnaby Whitfield gallery show in
Brooklyn 04/19/2005 11:05 AM
David Pescovitz: My old friend Barnaby Whitfield is a pastel artist in New York City and member of the prestigious White Columns Curated Artist Registry. Barnaby's solo exhibition "Whore With Red Cheeks" opens this Friday, April 22, at the 31GRAND gallery in Brooklyn's Williamsburg:

An unabashed and unapologetic pastel artist with an obsessive nature toned in kitsch and pith; Whitfield creates a personal mythology within an art historical context.

Growing up the child of a politician and an educator in south Florida, Whitfield found himself at the age of 6 living in the master suite of a haunted Antebellum Mansion on an abandoned horse farm. The former owner, and now ghost, Norma, had succumbed to madness for the last ten years of her life. It was said she often walked to the end of the circular drive waving with undergarments fastened to the outside of her clothes. But it was inside the house that her madness truly reined, where she had stuffed her rooms with worthless discards. Whitfield’s family found the former master suite’s, pink and maroon tiled, bathroom, stuffed with lipsticks even filling the toilet bowl; permanently streaking it in the waxy reds his Mother and Father kept in memoriam...

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Nets Are Sold for $300 Million, and
Dream Grows in Brooklyn

Nets Are Sold for $300 Million, and
Dream Grows in Brooklyn 01/22/2004 04:57 AM
A developer who wants to move the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn agreed to buy the team for $300 million.

"Index for Album BrooklynStores:
Brooklyn Store Fronts"

"Index for Album BrooklynStores:
Brooklyn Store Fronts" 05/29/2004 08:52 PM

Lenticular art gallery show opens in
Brooklyn April 21

Lenticular art gallery show opens in
Brooklyn April 21 04/19/2005 03:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Brian Loube, an artist who makes political and aesthetic lenticular and 3D images, is having a show in Brooklyn that opens on April 21, including "a set of candid street photographs shot in NYC subways (thanks to Homeland Security, now an illegal activity) and a newer, larger series of extreme close-ups of faces locked in an endless loops of sexual pleasure." Link

Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience

Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience 04/12/2004 11:19 AM
The museum, led by its director, is changing course, concentrating almost exclusively on its own backyard the 2.5 million residents of Brooklyn.

A Brooklyn Accent for 2 Queens as Cruise
Ships Quit Manhattan

A Brooklyn Accent for 2 Queens as Cruise
Ships Quit Manhattan 04/16/2005 10:15 AM
Passenger and cruise ships will abandon Manhattan and make Brooklyn their home port next year when the city finishes rebuilding a pier in Red Hook.

A Grand Plan in Brooklyn for the
Nets%u2019 Arena Complex

A Grand Plan in Brooklyn for the
Nets%u2019 Arena Complex 12/12/2003 06:52 AM
new sports arena

nytimes.com/2003/12/11/nyregion/11AREN.html
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Learning Without Boundaries:
Brooklyn-Based Tutoring Service Offers
It All

Learning Without Boundaries:
Brooklyn-Based Tutoring Service Offers
It All 06/07/2004 02:37 AM
Greater Paths, Inc. founded in March 2004 by Crystal Solange Elie, provides online, email, phone and in-person tutoring. Company launches its online summer course catalog. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

Rabbis' Rules and Indian Wigs Stir
Crisis in Orthodox Brooklyn

Rabbis' Rules and Indian Wigs Stir
Crisis in Orthodox Brooklyn 05/14/2004 07:30 PM
A ban on wigs made in India from human hair the hair may have been used in religious ceremonies has thrown thousands of Orthodox Jewish women into confusion.

Who Do You Want To Sleep With?

Who Do You Want To Sleep With? 02/05/2005 09:39 PM

Insomnia? Try getting an iPod and Bill Bryson's audio book.

Ass On Sleep

Ass On Sleep 12/06/2002 07:00 AM
It's so hot in my house that it woke me up with a super dry/itchy/sore mouth and throat. Mountain Dew to the rescue! Had two

I can't get no sleep...

I can't get no sleep... 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
God is my dj, and all that shit. Anybody got a ticket to spare, for a plane to Trondheim tomorrow?...

Can't sleep

Can't sleep 02/24/2003 05:01 AM
This sucks. My body hates me. I had planned to get up early (6am) so I could get to work early (8am) before all the distractions arrive. The prospects are looking dimmer by the minute. Grr....

Need Sleep

Need Sleep 12/07/2002 01:25 AM
I've been up for about 20 hours now. I have work at 11am, I am so tired, sleep good.

Who Needs Sleep Anyway?

Who Needs Sleep Anyway? 06/17/2005 06:41 PM
Cell phones could be in use on your flight as early as next year. That may be good news, believe it or not.

Get Your Own Sleep Room

Get Your Own Sleep Room 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
Some people take sleep very seriously. Not getting enough sleep is much more dangerous than most people realize, but it's become more common in our society for people to be chronically sleep deprived. The problem is apparently quite an issue in Japan, where Matsushita has developed a $30,000 sleep room system designed to help ease you into and out of sleep. The system includes an automatically adjusting bed, a TV showing soothing images, a sound system playing relaxing sounds and (my personal favorite) a bed designed to massage you gently into sleep. The system can be used for a cat nap or a full night's sleep. Either way, it appears that folks in Japan are quite excited about this sort of research - as an associated picture with the article shows Japanese office workers taking their naps in the company's showroom that demonstrates a number of recliners.

Sleep with the Fishes

Sleep with the Fishes 07/02/2004 08:00 AM
Considering how hard Koko takes the death of his pet goldfish, now's probably a bad time to tell him that they didn't make it to Heaven.

The Claim: Too Much Sleep Is Bad for You

The Claim: Too Much Sleep Is Bad for You 06/22/2004 05:17 PM
Averaging more than seven hours of sleep a night is associated with a shorter life span.

Polyphasic Sleep

Polyphasic Sleep 11/11/2003 09:19 AM
Thirty minutes of sleep, every four hours. Master this and you've conquered the art of polyphasic, or "Uberman," sleep. [more inside]

"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"

"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" 06/18/2004 07:48 AM
The director of "Croupier" takes a darkly compelling look at the London underworld.

Big Sleep for Bonzo

Big Sleep for Bonzo 06/08/2004 05:02 PM
BoingBoing pal Gareth Branwyn points us to some spectacular spleen-venting over the case of Alzheimer's that America appears to be having over Ronald Reagan's presidency. Tom Carson in the Village Voice. Sorry for the spoiler, but here's the final line: "The best that can be said for Ronald Reagan is that, if George W. Bush gets re-elected, we may yet end up missing him."

Ronald Reagan is the man who destroyed America's sense of reality -- a paltry target, all in all, given our predilections. It only took an actor: the real successor to John Wilkes Booth. In our bones, we had always been this sort of bullshit-craving country anyhow, founded on abstractions: not land (somebody else's), not people (Red Rover, Red Rover, send Emma Lazarus right over), not even shared history (nostalgia isn't the same thing, and try pulling that Civil War Shinola anywhere west of the Rio Grande). Just monumental words and wordy monuments, with two convenient oceans between them and circumstance; from Nat Turner's status as three-fifths of a man -- even though we ended up hanging all of him -- to Reagan's child Lynndie England (b. 1983, the year we invaded Grenada and lost 241 Marines in Lebanon), any shortfall could be blamed on something lost in translation. But it was Reagan, whose most profound Freudian slip was the immortal "Facts are stupid things," who beguiled us into living in the theme park full-time, and so much for the Declaration of Independence's prattle about "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" -- actually the only time we ever expressed much concern for those. Since his 1980 opponent, Jimmy Carter, was about the sorriest embodiment of the reality principle imaginable -- Three's Company's Mr. Roper on the world-historical stage -- facts didn't have a prayer.

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LazyWeb, while you sleep

LazyWeb, while you sleep 04/10/2005 02:16 PM

I often have dreams that feature technology ideas, but I don't always remember them and more often than not they're just goofy ideas. This morning's dream is somewhat in the goofy category but might be useful to some, and since I remember all of it in detail I'll relate it here.

So I'm stopping by Andy's office in Santa Monica to go have lunch (I think I was on a roadtrip in my dream), and while he steps away to grab his jacket I notice there's an IM window scrolling past with loads of text. When he gets back a few seconds later I ask him what that is, and he says he's watching the Simpsons over IM.

I say "you're doing what? how?" and he explains it, and this is way more detail than I normally remember in dreams, but I thought it was such a cool idea I think I kind of "saved" it so I would remember later. So he goes on, explaining how he built a chatbot that is wired to a stream of TV closed captioning, so you add captionbot to your buddy list, then talk to it. You ask it what's on TV right now, and it returns a list of shows, you pick a show and it starts streaming out dialogue from characters, directly via closed caption data. "It's like watching a show in text" I say and then we go off to lunch.

And that's all I remember. Andy built a really cool text adventure bot last year, and TVeyes is basically Technorati for TV (though they predate Technorati by several years), searching caption histories for words or phrases. I doubt you can get real time caption data and I'm not even sure if reading a tv show would be interesting, but I figured I'd share the dream with everyone, in case someone feels like building it.

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10.3: Workarounds for faulty sleep with
multiple users

10.3: Workarounds for faulty sleep with
multiple users 11/10/2003 11:18 PM
When the Security prefs pane is set up to require passwords upon wake, and multiple users are logged in, a user performing the "Switch User" function in the wake from sleep password dialog box experiences a faulty sleep event...

How To Sleep in an Airport

How To Sleep in an Airport 02/01/2005 10:14 PM
You've made your reservations, you've turned up on time, you've taken your shoes off when the nice security people asked you to, you've provided your id, your ticket, and a...

Sleep Dreams Can Come True

Sleep Dreams Can Come True 06/12/2004 09:34 AM
CBS News Jun 12 2004 1:52PM GMT

Trouble with creativity? Sleep on it

Trouble with creativity? Sleep on it 01/23/2004 01:25 AM
New study shows that sleep benefits creatifity. Could power naps help also?

Losing sleep over terrorism?

Losing sleep over terrorism? 08/19/2004 11:08 PM
Quantum Sleeper ... If I blow $100,000+ on a bed, Sandra Bullock better be in it.

Sleep makes you smarter!

Sleep makes you smarter! 01/22/2004 02:45 AM
An AP article says that the first "hard evidence supporting the common sense notion that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep" will be published in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Finally, proof that my nap habit is actually beneficial to my productivity! Link

Most 'get as much sleep as ever'

Most 'get as much sleep as ever' 12/25/2004 04:48 PM
Britain's adult population is getting just as much sleep as it was nearly 40 years ago, according to research.

CLI Magic: Wait or Sleep?

CLI Magic: Wait or Sleep? 03/28/2005 03:15 AM
Usually, you want a shell script to just run to completion, one command after another. There are times, however, when a sequence of events includes a step upon which subsequent steps depend for successful execution. For these times, two useful commands are wait and sleep, both of which cause a delay in the script execution.

Notes and Tips: 10.3.5 G5 Sleep Bug

Notes and Tips: 10.3.5 G5 Sleep Bug 08/13/2004 10:48 AM
Apple documents a Mac OS X 10.3.5 sleep/fan bug for 1.8GHz G5 single-processor models.

Pzizz sleep program now available

Pzizz sleep program now available 06/17/2005 03:08 PM
Brainwave Enterprises today announced its pzizz sleep program along with pzizz nap technology software version 1.5 for Mac OS X...

Mom: Jackson Pleaded to Sleep With Son
(AP)

Mom: Jackson Pleaded to Sleep With Son
(AP) 04/12/2005 06:19 AM
AP - The mother of a boy who received a multimillion-dollar settlement from Michael Jackson years ago told jurors that she allowed her son to sleep in Jackson's bed after a tearful plea from the singer.

The nTag sleep attack

The nTag sleep attack 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
The badges at Pop!Tech were wee interactive computers called nTags. When engaged in conversation with someone, you could choose to send your contact information to...

"A nice place to sleep"

"A nice place to sleep" 01/01/2005 12:35 PM

brainwave announces new sleep module

brainwave announces new sleep module 06/17/2005 05:03 PM

Brainwave Enterprises today announced its much requested pzizz sleep module along with pzizz nap technology software v1.5 for OS X (10.3+) (www.pzizz.com)

The software can create more than 100 billion combinations of uniquely personalized soundtracks that can be exported to an iPod or other MP3 player to be listened to anywhere at any time. The sleep module has been written to help you to switch off at the end of the day, clearing your mind and allowing you to quickly fall into deep, restorative sleep.

Opportunity put in Deep Sleep Mode

Opportunity put in Deep Sleep Mode 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

Opportunity is now start to use on a frequent basis the Deep Sleep mode where the rover is basically shut all the way down to conserve power. Spirit has not had to be put in that mode as all of it's on-board components continue to work as they are supposed to. With the malfunctioning switch keeping a heater on at night on Opportunity the rover was only getting 2-3 hours of work each day. [MarsToday]

No Sleep 'til Brooklyn!