Windows .ani flaw

Stupid moues cursor trick causes major security hole

2007-03-31 windows • security • flaw

Yahoo! Mail API

Interesting openness from Yahoo

2007-03-29 yahoo • mail • api • json • soap • pop • imap • gmail

SomaFM cliqhop

My new favourite radio station

2007-03-27 elecontric • music • idm • autechre • glitch

pySonic

Python wrapper for the fmod sound library

2007-03-27 python • code • fmod • programming • sound • music • games

Pyrex

A bridge between Python and C. "Pyrex is Python with C data types."

2007-03-27 programming • code • python • swig • api • c

Dwarf fortress

Sounds intriguing; a RPG where the focus is on the game behaviour, not design

2007-03-27 games • dwarffortress • hack • nethack • rpg

SunDog main loop

A 1984 classic Apple ][ game's source code, or at least a bit

2007-03-27 games • sundog • apple • code • elite

Work for twitter

They're hiring a senior engineer. Good people!

2007-03-26 twitter • job • programmer • engineer

Calculator spelling

Aside from novelty and amusement, calculator spelling has limited practicality

2007-03-26 wikipedia • silly • calculator • l33t

ColorJack: Sphere

Color scheme designer

2007-03-26 via:digg • design • color

Inevitable gunk creep

Frustration that the Yahoo search page now has a bunch of crud on it.

2007-03-26 via:zawodny • yahoo • search • design

Bioshock teaser

Not much here, but some pretty visuals for the new game

2007-03-26 bioshock • games • video

wireshark (ethereal)

ethereal has renamed itself

2007-03-25 ethereal • wireshark • tcpip • programming • network • tools

#1 SupCom player

Supreme Commander is a new RTS game that's all about destruction. The #1 player has made his bio a statement against war.

2007-03-25 politics • games • supcom

Purity balls

Crazy fetishization of daughter's sexuality

2007-03-25 sex • chastity • religion • batshitinsane

Regexp summary

comparing the magic regex of grep, egrep, emacs, perl, python, tcl

2007-03-24 regex • syntax • quickref • code • python • perl • emacs • grep • tcl

Gonzales lied

Lied right through his teeth.

2007-03-24 politics • gonzales • doj • justice

RetroLife

The 1950s were an amazing time

2007-03-23 retro • blog • via:metafilter

Firefox / Windows fix

Some Windows disaster causes spurious errors to be popped up when launching Firefox. Here's a horrible awful manual fix that works.

2007-03-23 mozilla • windows • firefox • bug

Linus on GPLv3

A reasonable take on licensing and FSF politics

2007-03-22 gnu • fsf • license • gpl • linux • linus • torvalds • gplv3 • opensource

Boomshine game

A restful and pleasant casual game

2007-03-22 games • chainreaction • music

Heaven's Gate

One guy survived the cult suicide and explains it all to us

2007-03-22 religion • cult • suicide • heavensgate • batshitinsane • via:metafilter

Google Books regret

Librarian regrets the deal with Google for his university's library

2007-03-22 Google • books • digitization

Why I was fired

One of the eight fired US attorneys explains his story.

2007-03-22 politics • corruption • bush • newmexico

Mark Pilgrim to Google

they're lucky to have him.

2007-03-22 google • markpilgrim

Hillary 1984 creator

Yep, it was a Democrat. Eating their own

2007-03-22 politics • democrat • propaganda • clinton • 1984 • obama

Perlbal

Yet more amazing brad fitzpatrick software; a simple HTTP reverse proxy load balancer

2007-03-19 http • server • loadbalancing • perl • code • bradfitzpatrick • danga

Twittervision

A map visualization of twitter traffic

2007-03-19 map • twitter • via:waxy

delutube

Apparently deleted youtube videos remain online if you can find them?!

2007-03-18 youtube • copyright • memoryhole • video • via:waxy

autoincrement considered harmful

interesting set of reasons not to use automatic sequential IDs

2007-03-18 database • autoincrement • code • mysql

Semantic Web vs AI

A more thoughtful response to the Tech Review article than I wrote.

2007-03-18 semanticweb • rdf • ai

Hillary 1984

Anonymous ad trashing Hillary Clinton. It's brilliantly done.

2007-03-18 via:sfchron • politics • obama • clinton • 1984

Nagios

open source network service monitoring.

2007-03-17 monitoring • linux • code • opensource • sysadmin • tools

Twittermap

hot little hack shows twitters on a map. You can update your location, too

2007-03-16 twitter • map • googlemaps • mashup

Twitter fan wiki

They already have wiki fans ?!

2007-03-15 twitter • wiki • api • im

NDS text adventures?

Looks like a nice new port of the zcode engine

2007-03-15 zcode • games • infocom • nds • nintendo • gameboy • homebres • ds

Insane erotic pulp books

Bizarre and hysterical collection

2007-03-14 sex • books • batshitinsane

Men look at crotches

OK, that result is pretty clear right there.

2007-03-14 psychology • sex

Google loses Thinkpad?

Lenovo in a deal to bundle Microsoft Live search. Didn't they used to bundle Google?

2007-03-14 search • toolbar

Belgian Beatbox

What's fun is that he's playing for his peers

2007-03-13 via:metafilter • beatbox • music • rap • video

pyparsing

Simple Python recursive descent parser

2007-03-13 python • parsing • recursivedescent • code

Bigot heads the military

Some stupid general shoots his mouth off offensively

2007-03-13 gay • politics • military

Weird toilets

odd photos

2007-03-12 via:digg • photos • urinal • toilet • design

Einstein Cross

A specific gravitational lens. Beautiful example.

2007-03-12 astronomy • apod • relativity • science

GDC trip report

Ryan does a great job writing up the conference

2007-03-12 gdc • games • conference • report

Mad Englishman drink

A lovely cocktail, like a Pimm's Cup as a cocktail instead of long drink

2007-03-12 cocktail • recipe • food • drink

Loudness war

Music is increasingly recorded and broadcast at higher volumes, leading to clipping and distortion

2007-03-12 wikipedia • music • audio • audiophile

The Codpiece

"This entire comic is all about building up Coagula's character so she can dissolve a man's super-robot-cock"

2007-03-11 comics

New Netvibes API

Universal Widget API means you can write widget code that works on many different sites

2007-03-10 netvibes • api • code • widgets • web2.0

Padilla tape missing

Record of interrogation is "misplaced"

2007-03-09 padilla • civilrights • politics

google guice

Google releases their Java dependency injection framework. Congratulations, Bob!

2007-03-09 google • java • software • code • dependency-injection

EZTV interview

Fascinating discussion with one of the biggest television piracy groups

2007-03-09 eztv • bittorrent • tv • filesharing • via:digg

Jeff Gannon redux

Yet another conservative journalist with a secret career as gay porn star and escort

2007-03-09 gay • porn • hypocrisy • politics

Stealth gay politics

Quark founder quietly organizes donations to gay-friendly candidates in local elections

2007-03-09 politics • gay • via:metafilter

John Edwards twitters

The Edwards campaign seems to be the new Internet campaign

2007-03-09 johnedwards • twitter • politics • web2.0 • mobile • social

Blog de Sylfurd

Blog from the guy who created the 3x8 font for gameboy

2007-03-08 gameboy • font • sylfurd

3x8 fixed font

Amazing tiny font for Gameboy, uses subpixel positioning to make a readable font

2007-03-08 font • gameboy • games

Homebrew dev-scene

Best site I've found so far for Gameboy homebrew

2007-03-08 nintendo • homebrew • games • software • nds

NetHack DS

Homebrew FTW!

2007-03-08 nethack • ds • games • software • homebrew

Radiohead / Creep 1994

How come it took me to 1999 to learn about how awesome these guys are?

2007-03-08 radiohead • video • music

RIP Mr. Humphries

John Inman, the actor from Are You Being Served, has passed away

2007-03-08 camp • tv • obituary

Moonshell

GBA/NDS multimedia homebrew app. Just the thing for your hacked Gameboy.

2007-03-07 nds • Nintendo • moonshell • gameboy • software

FAIR on Mormonism

Detailed site presenting a defense of Moronism from a critical point of view.

2007-03-07 religion • mormon • via:metafilter

Burrito map

burritoeater.com's map of all their reviews

2007-03-07 food • restaurant • burrito • mexican • map

Wiki scandal update

Fallout from Essjay's lying about his credentials

2007-03-07 wikipedia • nyt • via:metafilter

SVN for legislation!

This idea is so obvious; record the edit history of legislation

2007-03-07 politics • via:metafilter

Canon SD800 IS

Canon's tiny line comes with a 28mm lens and IS now!

2007-03-07 canon • camera • photo • review

"faggot" line kills

Laughing it up with the American Conservative union

2007-03-06 politics • video • coulter • bigotry • gay

Libby is guilty

Mind you, the real criminals are still unindicted

2007-03-06 libby • politics • iraq

Trivial Ruby NAT-PMP

Evan wrote some simple code

2007-03-06 upnp • nat • natpmp • software

NAT PMP

The alternative to UPnP for NAT traversal; Airport Extreme only implements this

2007-03-06 nat • natpmp • upnp

That phone guy

I had no idea this collection existed; Merlin being hysterical 30 seconds at a time

2007-03-06 humor • video • merlinmann • merlin

Hardcore badminton

Serious rally

2007-03-06 via:kottke • badminton • video • sports

Email is doomed

Jeremy's right; spam is so bad that email is not useful anymore

2007-03-06 email • spam

SuperCard Info

coherent description of a NDS/GBA homebrew solution

2007-03-06 homebrew • games • supercard

4.2 earthquake

Last night's fun

2007-03-02 bayarea • earthquake • usgs

Lexicon Triumverate

the insane ramblings of the "Why I Hate Blacks" guy.

2007-03-02 batshitinsane • eng • novel

Wesabe funding

Techcrunch has a story saying Wesabe's raised $700,000 from O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

2007-03-01 wesabe • finance • web2.0

SF Bay Area traffic

Google Maps finally adds a traffic layer

2007-03-01 traffic • bayarea • google • maps

Click fraud numbers

Google says only 0.02% of ad clicks are uncaught fraud

2007-03-01 google • clickfraud • cpc • via:battelle • fraud

Wikipedia scandal

Senior editor for Wikipedia lied about his credentials. Wales has hired him as a community manager, says he doesn't care about the deception.

2007-03-01 wikipedia • fraud • newyorker

Buying Diggs: $1

Turns out it's easy to game the site

2007-03-01 via:zawodny • digg • marketing • astroturf