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Avenue Jew
Hysterical Avenue Q / Fiddler happening
2007-08-31
jewish • gay • musical • funny • via:goldman
Burning man looks fun!
Suicide mistaken for an art project, a duststorm white out. Man, why am I not there?
2007-08-31
burningman • nevada • crazyhippies • desert • dust • misery • suicide • despair • taz
Disowning Senator Craig
NYT calls out the Republicans for how fast they dump Craig
2007-08-31
gay • politics • editorial • larrycraig • scandal
Larry Craig arrest audio
Such horrible public humiliation
2007-08-30
arrest • politics • gay • larrycraig • scandal
Stretchy-seat
Ah, the 60s, with its innocent homoerotic advertising
2007-08-30
gay • via:boingboing • advertisement • ads • funny
Bathroom cruising explained
What men cruising bathrooms are thinking
2007-08-30
sex • tearoom • politics • scandal • gay • cruising • bathroom
Idaho paper on Larry Craig
they're doing a decent job covering angles on the story
2007-08-30
politics • gay • larrycraig • senator • republican • scandal
Smear the queer
Republicans abandon their senator
2007-08-29
gay • politics • larrycraig • hypocrisy • senator
Tiger Woods launch bug
New Xbox 360 game crashes, and EA knew when they launched it. "EA bugs: it's in the game"
2007-08-29
games • golf • bug • badtech • ea • monopoly
WowJutsu
Interesting site for Warcraft raid progression tracking
2007-08-28
warcraft • wow • games • guilds • data • armory • mmog
Small Net Builder
Website for networking that looks a bit more technical. Maybe I'll finally find a good router?
2007-08-28
network • nas • internet • technology • review
More Senator Larry Craig
Another story on the latest Republican hypocrite scandal
2007-08-28
gay • senator • politics • entrapment • tearoom
Another closeted Republican senator
Poor man, so conflicted, I almost feel bad for him
2007-08-27
via:metafilter • politics • gay • closeted • tearoom
Space Giraffe video
Amazingly fucked up new XBox Live Arcade game, real work of art
2007-08-27
spacegiraffe • video • games • minter • llamasoft
twitterfeed
RSS to Twitter gateway
2007-08-27
rss • atom • twitter • update • web
iPhone accelerometer hack
Short little video of what would be possible if only Apple would open up the iPhone to third party developers
2007-08-27
iphone • hack • via:mathowie • games • ui • userinterface • accelerometer
The great Iraq swindle
Awesomely angry bit of investigative journalism
2007-08-27
iraq • war • profiteering • haliburton • kbr • scam • via:metafilter • politics
Lemmings history
Story of making a groundbreaking game
2007-08-26
via:metafilter • lemmings • game • history
Windows validation fix
armageddon averted
2007-08-26
windows • drm • wga • activation • license
Bioshock soundtrack
free download
2007-08-24
xbox • games • bioshock • music • free • download
XBox 360 timing attack
The hack relies on measuring how long a memcmp() takes before failing. First timing attack used in public on a real target?
2007-08-24
hack • timing • xbox • games • drm
XBox 360 hack
The XBox 360 has been pretty resistant to running unauthorized code
2007-08-24
drm • hacking • games • xbox
Radio Lab
Science radio program, came recommended
2007-08-24
science • radio • program • npr • publicradio
JAVA ticker comments
Swartz's blog has open comments, hilarity over Sun's marketing stupidity ensues
2007-08-24
marketing • java • via:valleywag • sun • stock • ticker
Free Pingdom for 1 year
Great uptime web service is free for a full year for firefox users
2007-08-24
Pingdom • uptime • monitoring • free • webservice
MySQL Proxy
About time, should be quite handy
2007-08-23
via:zawodny • mysql • database • loadbalancing • code • opensource • proxy
Shirtless Putin
The man is *buff*
2007-08-23
putin • russia • image • media • shirtless • torso • chest • hottie • hunk
Sun brand desparation
They're changing their ticker to JAVA. Good lord.
2007-08-23
sun • stock • java • finance • sunw • brand
MoanMyIP
"Sexy girls moaning your IP!"
2007-08-23
ipaddress • internet • ip • sex • bimbo • via:metafilter • funny
Image resizing
Amazing "content aware" technique, simple idea that works well. Watch the linked video.
2007-08-22
siggraph • graphics • photography • photos • editing • photoshop • merl
Left meets Right on 24
Janeane Garofalo to join right wing boy fantasy show. Will she do torture porn?
2007-08-22
garofalo • 24 • keifer • tv • television • torture
Illidan Stormrage
MySpace page for a big bad guy from World of Warcraft
2007-08-22
parody • wow • warcraft • games • blizzard • via:wowinsider
Is Accoona a scam?
Underwriter just walked on their IPO. No one's heard of their search engine. Founder is a fraudster.
2007-08-22
accoona • ipo • business • scam • fraud • search
Barry Bonds' legacy
The Onion writes the article I wish every newspaper had
2007-08-20
barrybonds • sports • baseball • humor • satire • scandal
HotSpotVPN
$10-$13/month for a VPN tunnel
2007-08-20
via:twitter • via:joi • security • encryption • vpn • pptp • wifi • hotspot • network • internet
Soundwave: The Touch
The heartwarming story of one Transformer's journey to the bottom, and back up again
2007-08-20
transformers • soundwave • via:anildash • spoof • parody
LJ: Am_I_Pregnant
Amazingly intimate web community
2007-08-20
pregnancy • blogs • via:metafilter • privacy • sex
W: "like, totally"
Bush's colloquialism is actually age appropriate
2007-08-20
language • bush • slang • valleygirl
Skype outage cause
Windows update causes reboots causes Skype overload
2007-08-20
systems • failure • sysadmin • skype • windowsupdate • crash
WolfQuest
Educational MMOG, two parts cheesy, one part interesting
2007-08-20
wolfquest • game • education • edugame • mmog • mmorpg
iPhone / Linux PPTP
Simplest set of instructions I've seen for doing basic VPN stuff
2007-08-19
vpn • security • iphone • linux • debian • poptop • pptp
Riyadh solar time
Python timezone database gave up trying to cope with a weird time zone definition tried in Saudi Arabia for three years
2007-08-18
saudiarabia • law • timezone • time • tzinfo • database • unix • python • pytz • via:raffi
ROFLMAO
Nice absurdist machinima video from Warcraft
2007-08-17
machinima • absurd • warcraft • wow • funny • acronym • 1337
BioShock via Steam?!
Big news that the best looking game of the year is also available via online delivery
2007-08-17
steam • games • distribution • bioshock • take2
Facebook app: $3M
good lord, that's a lot of money for a simple app.
2007-08-17
facebook • business • venture • acquisition • whereivebeen • travel • tripadvisor
Fuzzwich Mini-vids.
Clever little animation creation toy, one of the Y-Combinator crop
2007-08-17
animation • flash • via:techcrunch • viral • funny
Software awards scam
Guy makes a fake program, wins many 5 star awards
2007-08-17
via:metafilter • download • pagerank • seo • spam • scam • software • shareware
monit: barking at daemons
System to keep daemons running smoothly
2007-08-16
monit • system • sysadmin • ops • management • daemon • scripting
1907 Street View maps
Early road atlases included photographs
2007-08-16
via:waxy • maps • autos • cars • photographs • photography • photo
Kongregate funding
$5M series A for casual games
2007-08-16
kongregate • funding • vc • venturecapital • games
ARM reset schedule
View into what's going to happen to mortgages
2007-08-16
mortgage • housing • interest • loan • finance
Xbox Live Arcade data
Microsoft is quietly revolutionizing game distribution
2007-08-16
games • xbox • xbla • data • sales
SF real estate map
Good heat map visualization of prices
2007-08-15
via:marc • heatmap • visualization • mapping • realestate • property • houses • data • sanfrancisco
Mazes
Beautiful book from my childhood
2007-08-14
games • mazes • via:metafilter • koziakin
SCOX, a study in fraud
Crappy IP lawyers pumped this stock up for years with fradulent claims about ownership of Linux IP. Now the company is truly over.
2007-08-14
sco • linux • business • finance • patent
Alaska bush flying
Awesome photography, crazy landing spots
2007-08-14
aviation • airplane • alaska • pipercub • travel • via:metafilter • photo • photography • wilderness • flying
Bioshock art book
Free download; this game has beautiful design
2007-08-14
games • bioshock • irrational • levine
VMware IPO $51
Good for them!
2007-08-14
vmware • finance • ipo
BioShock demo
It's out on Xbox 360. Download now!
2007-08-13
bioshock • systemshock • xbox • xbox360 • games • irrational
Dwarf Fortress article
Mainstream gaming magazine covers this incredibly innovative indie game
2007-08-12
games • windows • simulation • dwarffortress • nethack • roguelike • via:metafilter
TheOpenCD programs
Great compilation of open source applications
2007-08-12
windows • software • free • opensource • application • tools • cdrom
Scene NFO DB dump?
Rumour has it there's a database of 2.6 million warez scene releases
2007-08-12
warez • scene • demoscene • via:digg • pirate • database
Mortgage lending problems
Good explanation of the current mess of mortgage problems; too much financial engineering
2007-08-11
mortgage • money • economy • housing • lending • credit • loan
Behavioral health court
Alternative courts for mentally ill folks in San Francisco
2007-08-10
sanfrancisco • california • homeless • politics • mentalillness • court
Fred Phelps still insane
He's picketing the I-35W funerals because god hates fags
2007-08-10
gay • politics • phelps • batshitinsane • funeral
Second Life lawsuit
A test of ownership of virtual property
2007-08-10
games • secondlife • virtual • property • law • legal • lawsuit • sex
Facebook Data Store API
Interesting where Facebook is going
2007-08-09
facebook • api • developer • web • properties
A stool for gentlemen
Vaguely vulgar, really funny
2007-08-09
stool • design • via:digg • furniture • funny
Barry Bonds, cyborg
It's not just the steroids, he has a mechanical assist too?!
2007-08-09
baseball • sports • homerun • scandal • bonds • barrybonds • steroids • cyborg
Gentium font
Professionally designed free font with coverage of extended Latin, Greek.
2007-08-09
font • free • software • typography • unicode
They come in peace
Giant lego men appear on Holland beach
2007-08-09
legos • holland • sculpture • ocean • beach
Nude jogging priest
A bit of weird news for you
2007-08-09
via:dailyrotten • catholic • priest • nude • jogging • running
iPhone NES
the hack parade continues
2007-08-07
via:digg • games • nes • emulator • iphone • hack
Yahoo vs Google
product matrix, pretty good
2007-08-06
via:zawodny • yahoo • google • web • analysis • research
Google search API for research
There is a supported way to do search requests to Google, for research purposes. It's a simple RESTish API
2007-08-06
via:marc • google • search • api • rest
Balancing Puzzle Fighter
Nicely detailed description of a game designer rebalancing a class game
2007-08-06
games • design • puzzlefighter • puzzle • xbox
How the US tortures
Detailed, carefully written New Yorker piece
2007-08-06
torture • guantanamo • iraq • usiraqwar • alqaeda • immoral • politics • via:metafilter
Anil calls out FSJ
Fake Steve Jobs author wrote a hit piece against blogs a few years ago; Anil calls him on hypocrisy
2007-08-06
sixapart • blogs • fakestevejobs • anonymity
Fast food maps
Amazing Google API app that plots locations of fast food chains
2007-08-05
innout • fastfood • map • googlemaps • api • google • obesity • fat
More Blizzcon costumes
really, some were pretty awesome
2007-08-04
blizzard • blizzcon • warcraft • wow • costume • cosplay
Blizzcon costumes
Starting with the Paladin at starbucks
2007-08-04
games • warcraft • costume • cosplay • wow
Slow your boat
insane stick figures in peril
2007-08-02
photo • boating • boat • sign • warning • stickfiguresinperil
Cocaine consumption
NYC has the most cocaine in the waste water
2007-08-02
via:metafilter • drugs • cocaine • statistics • sewage • water • analysis
propertyshark.com
The best online real estate database I've seen yet
2007-08-01
property • realestate • zillow • house • realtor • research • reference
elevator camera obscura
Neat effect in Joshua's elevator
2007-08-01
camera • elevator • video