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iPhone 1.1.1 changes
A detailed full list. Safari debug mode!
2007-09-30
iphone • apple • upgrade • notes • releasenotes
NTP abuse
Roundup of some NTP server problems over time
2007-09-30
ntp • abuse • badtech • firmware • computers • internet • time
Map of my Paris restaurants
Alex plays around and makes a cool map!
2007-09-30
map • food • paris • restaurant • amac • creativecommons
BioShock critique
Thoughtful essay on the storytelling in bioshock
2007-09-30
games • narrative • bioshock • critique • criticism
jwz - PSA: backups
<3 JWZ
2007-09-29
backups • sysadmin • jwz • harddrive • rsync
Tornado potatoes
Awesome looking junk food
2007-09-28
korea • food • southkorea • junkfood • potatoes
Blank Halo 3 maps
The new Forge feature lets you place objects; here's some blank maps to start. Bungie has a cool download queuing feature, too.
2007-09-28
halo • halo3 • games • forge • online • map • tool
n64 controller bong
Proving you can smoke pot out of anything
2007-09-28
bong • marijuana • games • nintendo • n64
Being on the Daily Show
Painfully funny and insecurely honest bit by Lauren Weedman
2007-09-27
comedy • women • insecurity • dailyshow • tv • sausagemaking
Freistaat Flaschenhals
A bit of weirdness from World War I
2007-09-26
germany • war • politics • maps
Beijing Olympics logo
I can't decide if this is funny, or offensive, or both
2007-09-26
china • politics • satire • olympics • logo
Harvard Master Chief
nice Halo / MIT hack
2007-09-25
mit • hack • halo • games • harvard
Xbox Media Center
Nice tour of what this app can do. Too bad it's all unauthorized.
2007-09-24
xbox • xbmc • hack • mediacenter • hometheater
proof of purchase
Poetic little online diary
2007-09-24
via:metafilter • diary • blog • culture • receipt
Mozy: $76m
Acquisition rumour, good for them!
2007-09-24
backup • startups • storage • acquisition • valuation • emc • mozy
AudioGames
Directory of sound oriented games
2007-09-22
accessibility • audio • games • sound • blind
Warcraft class popularity
Interesting graph; this is for Alliance, Horde is different
2007-09-22
warcraft • statistics • data • class • graph • games
Halo 3 leaked
Requires a modded XBox; I see a couple thousand downloaders on mininova
2007-09-21
pirate • games • xbox • theft • halo • bittorrent
Mandom
Charles Bronson is more man than you, at least in this Japanese cologne commercial
2007-09-21
japan • advertisement • charlesbronson • via:metafilter
Monkey drummer
Aphex Twin's sliced up beats are playable, by a robot monkey at least
2007-09-20
via:jwz • aphextwin • chriscunningham • drummer • music • drums • sequencer
Warcraft game balancing
Nice visualization of tweaks Blizzard has made over time
2007-09-19
via:wowinsider • warcraft • wow • mmog • blizzard • balance • gamedesign
LOLthulhu
Anil, what have you wrought?
2007-09-19
via:boingboing • cthulhu • lovecraft • lolcats • memes • humor
LT security break
They blog their "confidential" disclosure
2007-09-19
layeredtech • security • breach • server • hosting
Hadoop interview
Doug Cutting is one of the smartest programmers I know
2007-09-19
cutting • hadoop • lucene • mapreduce • distributed • cluster • via:zawodny • opensource • code • yahoo • scalability • grid
Go see Cal
And his dog Spot
2007-09-19
via:metafilter • advertising • cars • ads • calhenderson • tiger • tv
double backflip coffin
New skating game has an awesome video upload feature
2007-09-18
games • skating • ea • skate • trick • skateboard • video • editing
Menu cliches
Funny bit from Tony Bourdain
2007-09-18
menu • cooking • via:kottke • food • bourdain • restaurant • satire
Zork map
Lovely hand drawn map
2007-09-18
via:digg • games • zork • history • infocom • adventure • map
Bay Bridge replacement
Awesome time lapse video of 72 hours of work
2007-09-18
movie • timelapse • bridge • engineering • construction • via:boingboing • sanfrancisco • baybridge
MySQL replication practice
Great blog entry about reliable snapshots, repliation delay, etc
2007-09-18
mysql • database • replication • backup • snapshot • sql • binlog
Bullying Post-Its
amusing image
2007-09-17
funny • postit • bully • art • comic
Design portfolio
Crazy UI for some modern digital design
2007-09-17
via:mariuswatz • design • animation • flash
Queen wins school lottery
two bars of soap and bath oil
2007-09-17
queen • england • lottery • funny • soap
Comcast: 100G/month
Someone from Comcast finally explains "excessive use"
2007-09-17
comcast • download • bittorrent • bandwidth • limit • internet
Blackwater ousted from Iraq
Major private mercenary company banned?
2007-09-17
iraq • war • blackwater • mercenary • politics
fine iTunes rant
Great example of some of the disaster that is iTunes
2007-09-16
itunes • rant • badtech • via:digg • apple • drm • ipod • iphone
SCO bankrupt
Just rewards for a company taken over by stupid lawyers
2007-09-15
legal • linux • sco • revenge • opensource
Warcraft nude mod
What's particularly freaky is what's missing: pubic hair and men.
2007-09-14
nude • warcraft • wow • silly • games • nsfw
Metroid Prime rant
Mike doesn't like his new game
2007-09-14
wii • metroid • samus • rant • games • game • nintendo
Ringtones are a scam
Cogently written essay on why Apple's profit-mongering is wrong
2007-09-14
apple • iphone • itunes • ringtones • copyright
Ten broken fingers
Wince-inducing photo
2007-09-12
cricket • sports • health • fingers • photo • ouch
Hacker Canon firmware
Hack your mid-range Canon camera to do RAW output, other things
2007-09-12
hack • camera • canon • raw • photography
Rez on Xbox 360
Very creative video game, now on new hardware
2007-09-12
game • rez • xbox360 • xbox • games • music
ZeroShell
A Linux distribution custom designed for routers
2007-09-11
linux • livecd • firewall • network • embedded • router
Kismet
Wireless layer 2 sniffer
2007-09-11
wifi • wpa • wep • 802.11 • ethereal • sniffer
Chris Crocker
freaky Youtube celebrity
2007-09-11
chriscrocker • youtube • gay • culture
Wanted: gullible lawyers
Amazing story of a scam; nice punchline at the end, too
2007-09-10
via:metafilter • scam • job • lawyer • craigslist
John Maeda design process
Great little slide show on how John makes the cover for Key magazine
2007-09-10
via:kottke • johnmaeda • maeda • design • process
Seven holes
Amusing little blog post about holes
2007-09-10
holes • via:digg
iPhone / Etymotics
High end in-ear headphones for your iPhone, third party mod
2007-09-08
etymotic • headphones • iphone • apple • sound • hardware
Street Fighter: the Later Years
Remarkably funny little action spoof
2007-09-08
games • streetfighter • video • spoof
Oblivion: 10,000 melons
Fun with in game physics
2007-09-08
havoc • oblivion • physics • machinima • hack • funny • games
Twitter journalism
"the right kind of stupid."
2007-09-07
twitter • journalism • news • web • technology
Lurid Digs (NSFW!)
Gay porn recontextualized as interior design critique
2007-09-07
gay • porn • pornography • nsfw • funny • design • critique • camp
Republican sex scandals
A handy little list
2007-09-06
politics • hypocrites • rape • rapist • sex • scandal • republican
Ghostzilla
A way to hide a web browser so your boss doesn't easily see it on your screen
2007-09-06
firefox • software • browser • web • goofingoff
Crack my knuckles
Freaky little web toy
2007-09-06
via:aboutblank • hand • knuckle • crack • body • video • creepy
Google Reader search!
Huzzah! Glad they got this built; personal search engines are tricky
2007-09-06
search • google • via:digg • rss • reader • newsfeed
Losing $114M
misfortune of a lottery winner
2007-09-05
via:zawodny • sad • fortune • lottery • misfortune • money
Myanmar's new capital
Insanity of an authoritarian regime
2007-09-04
via:boingboing • urbanplanning • design • city • naypyidaw • authoritarian • batshitinsane • tickytacky • burma • myanmar
Microsoft OOXML fails
Bullet narrowly dodged
2007-09-04
microsoft • standards • ods • openoffice • via:digg • politics
Eve mineral economics
I used to make virtual money trading off some of these economic complications
2007-09-03
mmog • mmorpg • eveonline • ccp • eve • games • trade • economy
Google Phone rumours
Columnist claims to have talked to people who've seen it
2007-09-03
google • phone • cell • technology • rumour
TwonkyMedia xbox360
Portable server that can stream media to whatever bizarre protocol the Xbox 360 needs
2007-09-03
sharing • media • xbox360 • games • music • movies
Blade Runner hospital scene
Something that's never turned up in an edit, no doubt for the comic overacting
2007-09-03
hospital • bladerunner • scene • editor • movie • film • pkdick • ridleyscott
Space Giraffe response
This game definitely provokes
2007-09-02
spacegiraffe • game • games • xbox • xbox360 • minter • crazy
Free SF Wifi mesh net
Small local ISP is stepping into the gap left by the city government vs. Earthlink
2007-09-01
free • wifi • network • internet • sonicnet • google