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squirrels with lightsabers
Ah, Internet, you never end
2007-05-31 starwars • squirrels • lightsabers • photo • photoshop
Blogging Ultima
A completist plays all the Ultima games and blogs about them. The writing isn't great, but he's really thinking about the games. This post I'm linking is typical.
2007-05-30 games • emulation • ultima • garriott • lordbritish
Google developer day
Schedule for the Mountain View session
2007-05-30 google • code • developer
Chalk indie game
Clever gameplay idea, level design could be a bit better
2007-05-29 game • games • nds • interaction
System scaling
Collection of videos on how they make systems scale
2007-05-29 scaling • architecture • ruby • php • web • server • caching • database
Flag colours chart
Clever visualization
2007-05-28 via:metafilter • visualization • graphs • charts • color
RIP Charles Nelson Reilly
a great raconteur
2007-05-28 obituary • rip • gay • fabulous
blinkx IPO $355M
really? what do they do?
2007-05-28 blinkx • search • ipo • finance
Warcraft dances
Amazing video superimposing in-game animations with their pop culture sources
2007-05-27 machinima • wow • warcraft • /dance • animation
Ernie Kovacs credits
Bizarrely creative
2007-05-27 via:boingboing • video • tv • television
No parking amnesty
Sarkozy breaks with tradition and does not dismiss all minor traffic tickets
2007-05-27 france • traffic • sarkozy • politics • driving • tickets
Halo 2 nudity
Turns out it's an obscure error message in a map editor. Someone's gonna get fired.
2007-05-26 via:digg • esrb • ratings • games • halo • nudity
Eve Online scandal
More community problems: it's really hard to have devs play their game
2007-05-26 scandal • games • eve • eveonline
Buffalo vs. Lions
witih crocodiles in the mix
2007-05-24 wildlife • africa • safari • lion • crocodile • buffalo • fight
Simpsons spoof WoW
Nicely detailed, although as with all simpsons the joke wears thin after about 90 seconds
2007-05-24 warcraft • simpsons • games • parody • spoof
Betty and Rita
Cliche tourist photos are better with dogs in them
2007-05-24 photos • dogs • paris • tourist • photography
Domain name scams
Profile of a guy who makes money buying and selling names, including *.cm
2007-05-23 via:metafilter • scam • dns • badtech • cameroon • .cm • verisign • wildcard
The Vela incident
1979 explosion in the South Atlantic; presumed to be a nuclear bomb test, but no one is sure
2007-05-23 bomb • nuclear • history • southafrica • israel • antarctica • satellite
Sarkozy portrait
The official portrait, full of crazy vignetting and major lens distortion
2007-05-23 portrait • france • photography • sarkozy
Hot Trends: WoW
At this very moment the Google Hot Trends display is dominated by Warcraft search terms. Today's WoW 2.1 patch day and people are searching for new content and addons.
2007-05-23 warcraft • google • zeitgeist • wow • trends • via:amit
PowerTOP
Linux software to tell you what parts of your OS are using the most electricity
2007-05-22 power • acpi • apm • linux • kernel • green
Hoshi Saga
Lovely little puzzle game with interesting ui
2007-05-22 via:digg • game • games • flash • interaction • art • puzzle
Scratch monkey #2
An alternate version of the story. I know Laura Creighton, I should ask her.
2007-05-22 creighton • sysyadmin • folklore • unix • pdp • vax
Always mount a scratch monkey
The story behind the sysadmin wisdom
2007-05-22 folklore • sysadmin • unix • pdp • vax
Gays steal babies
Homosexual flamingos, that is
2007-05-22 flamingo • gay • silly
Yazidi
A syncretic religion in northern Iraq, sadly in the news now for an "honor killing'.
2007-05-22 yezidi • islam • iraq • kurd • kurdistan • syncretic • syncretism • peacock • malaktaus • religion
Firefox growing pains
Good NYT article on how $100 million makes Mozilla something big
2007-05-21 mozilla • firefox • google • cpc • opensource
reactable
nice demo of a tangible music interface
2007-05-21 music • synthesizer • video • tangible • hci • ui • userinterface • Interface
brackup 1.0 released
genius hacker Brad Fitzpatrick releases a 1.0 of his encrypted offsite backup tool
2007-05-21 backup • bradfitz • perl • opensource • s3
US civil war in 4:24
Nice animated map of the changing front; really highlights the role of New Orleans and the Mississippi river
2007-05-21 via:metafilter • history • map • animation • civilwar • usa • confederacy • union • lincoln • sherman
Christian domestic discipline
"Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage"
2007-05-20 via:metafilter • bdsm • kinky • christian • batshitinsane • bible
Unicorn Chaser
boingboing doesn't just report the news, they make the news
2007-05-19 virgin • airplane • unicorn • ponyunicorn • omg
Colourmanagement Doggy
Photo with a really whacked out colour profile; if you have colour managed software you'll see a very unnatural image. Good test case.
2007-05-19 color • colour • colormanagement • photo • adobe • photoshop • srgb • adobergb
anon.penet.fi
A bit of early Internet history
2007-05-18 anonymous • internet • culture • finland
Microsoft / Aquantive
They paid a huge amount of money
2007-05-18 ads • cpc • google • microsoft • acquisition • business
Tseric leaves Blizzard
One of Warcraft's best community managers has left. Go hire him!
2007-05-18 tseric • warcraft • blizzard • "customer • support" • forums
Page load times matter
nicely written little essay, I wish more sites got this
2007-05-17 alexa • smugmug • performance • web • metrics
AAPL stock scam
Maybe an honest mistake, or maybe someone manipulating the market
2007-05-17 stock • via:metafilter • fraud • apple • engadget
HD-DVD cracked again
Key revocation does not work
2007-05-17 via:boingboing • drm • hacking • dvd • hddvd • content
Warcraft small pets
This guide is amazingly detailed and well written
2007-05-16 warcraft • wow • games • pets
Io volcano eruption
Amazing animated image
2007-05-16 via:metafilter • astronomy • volcano • space • io • jupiter
Falwell in hell
Some quotes to remember the man's legacy by
2007-05-16 religious • bigotry • gay • aids • falwell
Patent shame
Mark shares his feelings about being caught up in the stupid US patent system
2007-05-16 patent • legal • eff
The real story of JPG magazine
Founder troubles mean the ouster of the original JPG magazine editors
2007-05-16 business • startup • ceo • founders • photography • photos
Botnet wars
Apparently the criminal syndicates who run the botnets are fighting for territory
2007-05-14 via • security • hacking • worm • virus • botnet
L'Entrecote
Wikipedia unravels the mystery of the various steak-frites places in Paris
2007-05-14 paris • france • steak • restaurant • dining • family • feud
CircleLending
formalizing loans to family and friends. I know some folks who use this service and like it.
2007-05-14 loan • family • lending • money • finance • interest • taxes
Gadget bill of lights
Amusing rant against the stupid decorative LEDs on electronics.
2007-05-14 rant • annoyance • lights • design • via:digg
Free Windows file recovery
A no nonsense free tool for recovering deleted files
2007-05-14 software • Recovery • windows • undelete • recover • fat32 • ntfs • compactflash
French AIDS PSAs
Lovely and funny animations (NSFW)
2007-05-14 nsfw • animation • aids • psa • france • via:metafilter • for:skwirl
Telephoto is for cowards
Interesting article on how to best shoot candids
2007-05-14 photography • photos • candids • lens
gmail / trillian spam
Seems to be difficult to stop getting irritating popups saying "you've got mail!"
2007-05-13 trillian • gmail • jabber • notification • disable
chemistry.com
Amazing ad for a dating service skewering eharmony.com
2007-05-13 via:mcmanus • gay • dating • eharmony • bigotry
Estampes Martinez Fleurot
shop in Paris selling old prints
2007-05-13 print • engraving • gravures • antique
Event driven Mongrel
Ruby gets a working non-blocking IO server?
2007-05-13 mongrel • ruby • rubyonrails • rails • nonblocking • performance
Google log reasons
Straightforward explanation of why Google logs data
2007-05-13 google • privacy • policy
Flickr: Technique
Each photo has a link to a description of how it was made
2007-05-12 photo • photography • technique • instructions • howto
Taillevent blog
Blog by an English speaking employee of Talilevent
2007-05-11 paris • france • blog • taillevent • food • wine
Turning off an API?
How to cleanly shut down a service
2007-05-11 api • web • endoflife • webservices • rest • soap
Redhat liberation fonts
New free fonts commissioned. The sans looks ok.
2007-05-11 redhat • font • free • opensource • typography • via:digg
Fallout MMOG: $75M
prospectus from interplay
2007-05-10 games • budget • financials • interplay • fallout
Amiet / Paysage de neige
A beautiful, nearly abstract painting at Orsay
2007-05-09 art • painting • neige • snow • amiet • abstract
Delville / School of Plato
this painting is really, really gay
2007-05-09 gay • art • painting • delville • erotic • homoerotic • nude
Lost / Land of the Lost
I'm not the only one making this connection
2007-05-09 lost • television • tv • landofthelost • schlock • scifi
Paris Pochoirs
gallery of Paris street art
2007-05-09 france • paris • streetart • graffiti
Veen launches!
The Measure Map guys gave Google Analytics a much needed redesign
2007-05-09 veen • google • design • analytics • graphs
Super Mario glitch
This randomness is beautiful
2007-05-09 game • glitch • mario • smb
French chickens
Ms. Glaze explains why chicken tastes better in france
2007-05-09 france • cooking • chicken • poulet • food
jQuery JS library
Library for doing AJAXy stuff
2007-05-09 javascript • code • ajax • opensource
Twitter, Blogger growth
more delving into IDs to give a clue to message traffic
2007-05-08 twitter • blogger • evhead • ev • evan • statistics • traffic
French election map
Round 2 of the vote
2007-05-08 map • election • france • politics
New Flickr slideshows
Yay! I've been hoping they'd do this for a long time. Images finally resize to fill the window.
2007-05-08 flickr • photos • photography • slideshow
David Hasselhoff drunk
What is the extreme opposite of funny? I am very freaked out to be able to see this.
2007-05-08 hasselhoff • drunk • alcoholic • humiliation • via:battelle
MogileFS
distributed filesystem from the brilliant Brad Fitzpatrick
2007-05-07 bradfitz • filesystem • linux • distributed • opensource • code
Sarkozy: 53.5%
LeMonde calls it
2007-05-06 france • politics • election • sarkozy
Atari email 1983-1992
A cache of internal corporate email from Atari games
2007-05-05 atari • games • email • archive
Beware the Internets
I think this ad is actually pretty good
2007-05-05 internet • culture • privacy
WoW Armory tools
PHP code to scrape Blizzard's Armory and get data about players. Neat apps, too.
2007-05-05 games • warcraft • code • php • wow
secrettechnology
Gallery from the game, game, game, and again game guy
2007-05-04 art • flash • game • heliopod • gallery
between
more insane Flash games from the game, game, game, and again game guy
2007-05-04 flash • game • art
French election nastiness
Heating up, the vote is in two days
2007-05-04 france • politics • election • sarkozy • sigolene • royal
MacLockPick
Steal passwords out of MacOS keyring, even when the machine is asleep
2007-05-04 security • hacking • macos • password • jwz
Disney international hell
I clicked a link to go.com and ended up in some "You're not in the US" page. Ugh.
2007-05-04 international • web • restriction • copyright
French presidential powers
Details of how French government works
2007-05-03 france • politics • government • president
WoW class specs
Interesting analysis of how people configure their classes
2007-05-03 warcraft • wow • armory • games • spec
xerox\nwwia
"Why it shows up, empty, and why it remains protected by the operating system is, as best we can tell, a mystery."
2007-05-03 windows • xerox • nwwia • software • broken
ext3cow
versioning file system for Linux; cool!
2007-05-03 filesystem • linux • kernel • ext3fs • versioning • scm • ext3
game, game, game and again game
A brilliant bizarre Flash game. Se7en meets Wax (or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees)
2007-05-03 flash • game • batshitinsane • art • dada
World is walking 10% faster
Amazing little study
2007-05-03 via:boingboing • walking • culture • faster
Silly season
Mark is cynical so I don't have to be
2007-05-03 adobe • microsoft • silverlight • flash • apollo • web • development • software • ajax
Noise cancelling windows
This sounds brilliant
2007-05-02 via:digg • window • silent • quiet
fortuito.us blog
Matt's empire grows with a blog about how he does business
2007-05-02 mathowie • blog • business
Synergy mouse hack
simple client to let you share a mouse and keyboard among different computers. supports linux, windows, mac.
2007-05-02 via:oreilly • mouse • keyboard • virtual • console • software • opensource
Silverlight overview
Techcrunch's love note to Microsoft's latest attempt at owning webapps contains useful data
2007-05-02 .net • clr • ajax • javascript • webdevelopment • web • platform • silverlight • microsoft
fax gateways
jwz's fans give him advice on which service to buy
2007-05-02 fax • gateway • jwz • review
Paris bike map
Download the PDF!
2007-05-02 paris • pdf • download • france • bicycle • velo • piste
Old Fallout 3 demo
Sad this never saw the light of day
2007-05-02 via:metafilter • games • fallout • "black • isle"
First of May: WoW, NSFW
Hysterical little machinima: "outdoor fucking starts today"
2007-05-02 video • wow • games • warcraft • machinima • nsfw • sex • "cartoon • nudity"