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5.6 near San Jose
hopefully not big enough to really hurt much
2007-10-31 earthquake • usgs • sanfrancisco • california
Plush cube origins
Fan made, with patterns
2007-10-30 via:waxy • via:mike • portal • halflife • games • valve
Plush companion cube
But no details on its origin
2007-10-30 portal • doll • plush • games • valve • halflife
3 steps to Objectivism
Simple as A B C
2007-10-29 funny • parody • comic • aynrand • objectivism • bioshock
MacOS preferences evolution
That old Susan Kare design still rocks
2007-10-29 via:swissmiss • apple • design • preferences • macos • history • evolution
Hiding pr0n
funny little screenshot
2007-10-29 porn • pr0n • hiding • desktop
Waterboarding is torture
Insane we even have to debate this, but here's an expert
2007-10-29 via:metafilter • torture • iraqwar • humanrights • warcrimes
2006 Internet map
xkcd's webcomic did the map thing first, as a sketch
2007-10-29 xkcd • map • internet • comic
IP address map
Lovely simple visualization of who owns what addresses on the net
2007-10-29 map • internet • via:metafilter • cidr • tcpip
Russian Business Network
The ISP of choice for online criminals
2007-10-29 russian • gangster • rbn • isp • badtech • security • spam
Another PDF hole
Adobe has gotten Reader installed on every computer in the world; don't they bear some responsibility?
2007-10-29 spam • hacker • botnet • pdf • reader • adobe • badtech
Koran recitation
Beautiful young voice
2007-10-29 religion • islam • koran • via:metafilter
Smug Ugly
Anil calls out Apple for annoying smugness. And the guy can write.
2007-10-29 apple • samba • arrogance
Arcade attack
6 minutes of pure awesome video; 80s arcade games and pinball backscreens brought to life
2007-10-28 via:waxy • games • 80s • arcade • pinball • movie
About quants
Good introductory article about quantitative finance and the recent mortgage market fiasco
2007-10-28 quants • wallstreet • investment • finance • economics • mortgage
Wikipedia donors
Interesting list. Nice to see Google matching figure highly
2007-10-27 wikipedia • charity • donation • google
Pooning noobs
Hysterical World of Warcraft "tips" video frmo some guy who gets way too excited about healing
2007-10-27 warcraft • games • silly • funny • via:digg
Comcast's talking points
User support script about BitTorrent; note the lack of any actual statement
2007-10-27 bittorrent • comcast • badtech • internet • netneutrality • sandvine • usersupport • via:digg
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
An amazing maritime exploration story of survival and heroism
2007-10-27 shackleton • antarctica • exploration
Gaza kidnap ordeal
First person account from BBC journalist
2007-10-27 via:metafilter • bcc • gaza • kidnap • palestine • israel • politics
SEO cargo cult
Hysterically accurate analogy
2007-10-26 seo • google • cargocult
Global warming is healthy!
She failed to address damage to the sweater industry
2007-10-26 climate • globalwarming • politics • whitehouse • stupid • via:goldman
FEMA fakes news
Poses its own employees as reporters on a press call
2007-10-26 fraud • fema • government • journalism
Abstraction comic NSFW
Crazy comic style, pretty neat
2007-10-26 via:metafilter • comics • japan • manga • sex • ShintaroKago
High performance ssh
OpenSSH has some weird buffering that causes problems on long 100Mbps links
2007-10-25 via:metafilter • ssh • openssh • opensource • tcpip • performance • networking • software
Mister Rogers and Donkey Kong
Awesome Neighbourhood segment looking at an arcade game
2007-10-25 via:metafilter • misterrogers • arcade • games
Tech Review on Twitter
Great long article, mostly profiling Evan. Fantastic photos.
2007-10-25 evanwilliams • evhead • twitter • obvious • technology • mit
$500M more for Facebook?
Rumours of hedge fund investment, but seems pretty thinly sourced so far; Fake Steve Jobs is the other source
2007-10-25 facebook • hedgefund • investment • rumour
Paris tents
This year's homeless protest is right in the middle of the city
2007-10-25 paris • france • homeless • politics
Valve intl sales problem
If you bought the game in Thailand and play it in the US, Valve deactivates it.
2007-10-25 via:digg • games • international • market • price • steam • portal
OiNK blog
Not positive, but it looks like a blog from the folks who ran OiNK
2007-10-25 torrent • bittorrent • scene • pirate • oink • p2p • arrest
Aquatic funicular
Not exactly, but this is a crazy way to lift a boat
2007-10-24 canal • boat • lock • navigation • elevator • funicular
Pizza orientation test
Totally silly, but made me laugh
2007-10-24 pizza • via:zawodny • silly • funny • dominos
Songbird for Developers
Congratulations to Jeff on a launch!
2007-10-24 songbird • mozilla • developers • code • opensource
Firefox 2006 revenue
Search box was worth $57 million
2007-10-24 google • firefox • mozilla • cpc • advertising • defaults
Wolfram's huge ego
20 year old student proves a 2,3 Turing machine is universal; Wolfram's blog post uses the word "I" 2,3 times in each sentence
2007-10-24 mathematics • wolfram • turing • universal • complexity • computerscience
Fry's Pantographia
1799 catalog of world's writing systems
2007-10-24 pantographia • writing • book • linguistics • calligraphy
Online kidney market
Screw the article; check the comments
2007-10-23 via:waxy • kidney • organ • comments • blogs
20% of iPhones unlocked?
Apple's numbers indicate only 80% sellthrough to AT&T subscription
2007-10-23 apple • iphone • hack • unlock • at&t
Vista still a disaster
I'm beginning to think Vista is not too big to fail
2007-10-23 vista • microsoft • badtech • software
Eve DB breach
Majority security problem at the MMO
2007-10-22 mmog • eveonline • ccp • database • security • hack
Dumbledore pride
Cashing in quickly
2007-10-22 gay • harrypotter • via:kottke • commerce • tshirt
Kill General British
New MMOG from Richard Garriott reprises an infamous event from Ultima Online
2007-10-22 lordbritish • generalbritish • tabularasa • games • mmog • ultimaonline
MSWord redaction
Amazing; an add-in to Microsoft Word to remove text
2007-10-22 software • word • office • microsoft • security • privacy • redaction
Last.fm charts
This week Radiohead is way ahead of the pack
2007-10-22 radiohead • music
What you need to know about git
Amazingly smart investigation in what makes git different
2007-10-21 git • vcs • sourcecontrol • linux • perforce • opensource • code
MapleStory
An alternative MMO I never heard of before. 2d platformer gameplay, free but you pay for extras
2007-10-20 mmog • mmo • games
Sex offender trailer park
A "little piece of paradise"
2007-10-20 housing • home • criminal • sexoffender • sex • via:dailyrotten
Dumbledore is gay!
Best news all night
2007-10-20 harrypotter • jkrowling • novels • books • fiction • via:metafilter • gay
George W. Bush is Jesus
About once a month PhilG posts something really awesome to his blog. Like this.
2007-10-19 politics • bush • satire • us • turkey
Van Halen disaster
Hysterical video of washed up rock band trying to match samples played 8.8% too fast
2007-10-19 vanhalen • cockrock • funny • guitar • samplingrate
Firefox license problem
I had no idea Firefox had this stupid issue with licensing of its artwork
2007-10-19 firefox • opensource • ubuntu • freesoftware • license
SVN time lapse view
Cool new client view!
2007-10-19 subversion • versioncontrol • srm • tools • software • svn
Charts and graphs
nice rundown of software options
2007-10-19 via:digg • charts • graphs • graphing • flash • javascript • code
Know Thine Enemy
incredible video op/ed about the Iraqi insurgency
2007-10-19 usiraqwar • iraq • politics • occupation • via:metafilter • insurgency
Old Man Murray wrote Portal
The folks behind the Crate Review System helped write Portal!
2007-10-19 via:joshua • games • portal • halflife • valve
Bhutto's near assassination
Creepy situation in Pakistan
2007-10-19 bhutto • pakistan • politics • terrorism
Comcast medelling
They have a long history of interfering with their users' traffic
2007-10-19 isp • netneutrality • internet • throttling • bittorrent
Sarkozy on divorce
Ah, old Europe
2007-10-19 politics • france • divorce • privacy • sarkozy • nocomment
75% of bombs can board the plane
Meanwhile, we're not allowed a bottle of water
2007-10-18 securitytheater • lies • tsa • government • incompetence • terrorism • screening
China subverts DNS
Rumours that all search engine DNS requests now end at Baidu
2007-10-18 dns • baidu • google • yahoo • search • badtech • china
Online poker cheating
The house is crooked
2007-10-18 via:goldtoe • poker • cheating • online • games • gambling • fraud
Half Life gnome achievement
Funny story of a special game challenge
2007-10-17 games • halflife • valve • gnome • achievment • challenge
Portal credits song
Sadly the text isn't quite readable
2007-10-17 portal • song • music • credits • games • halflife • valve
Coulton on Portal
the closing song is a surprise hit; here's a note from the songwriter
2007-10-17 games • portal • song • music
CircleLending bought
I have friends who love this personal loan management app
2007-10-17 circlelending • loans • finance • virgin
Tug o' war amputation
Choose your rope carefully?
2007-10-17 via:dailyrotten
Call and Response
Beautiful collage of classic TV ads
2007-10-17 via:waxy • advertising • video
Playing it straight
Larry Craig calls it entrapment
2007-10-17 gay • politics • larrycraig
Portal storytelling
Nice, overly long explication on Portal as good storytelling
2007-10-17 via:slashdot • portal • games • valve • halfife
portal rave
I agree with Jason this game is great
2007-10-17 games • portal • halflife • valve • clever • review
Brooklin Syrian Jews
interesting subcommunity
2007-10-16 via:metafilter • jewish • jews • culture • sephardic • brooklyn • newyork
QSL Mania
awesome gallery of ham radio calling cards
2007-10-16 via:metafilter • folkart • art • card • businesscard • callingcard • hamradio • callsign • ham
Goodreads
what your friends are reading
2007-10-15 via:marc • books • reading • web2.0 • reviews
Everyday shooter video
I'm sad I don't have a PS3 today
2007-10-15 games • everydayshooter • casual • PSN • ps3 • playstation
Portal porn (sorts SFW)
Rule 43 persists
2007-10-15 games • portal • halflife • valve • porn • rule43
Portal walkthroughs
Complete spoiler videos
2007-10-15 via:digg • portal • games • halflife • valve • spoilers • walkthrough
Larry Craig fights back
Republicans pissed he's not being a good little quiet faggot
2007-10-15 gay • politics • larrycraig • republicans • sex • scandal
Neon Bible
lovely little interactive music video
2007-10-15 via:metafilter • arcadefire • neonbible • music • video • flash • interaction
Halo 3 bad review
It's not entirely fair, but there's a lot of truth in it
2007-10-14 bungie • halo • halo3 • games • review
NSA spied before 9/11
Their illegal spying on US citizens is opportunism, not response to terrorism
2007-10-13 nsa • spying • government • qwest • privacy • telcos • wiretap
Unicorn kingdom club
I was wrong; YouTube is creating fantastic amateur video
2007-10-13 unicorns • reallyreallygay • youtube • video
skate. video
Good looking video from the game, nice editing
2007-10-12 skate • games • ea • skateboarding • machinima
Conkers
Simple old games
2007-10-12 games • conkers • chestnuts • kids
Assassin's Creed video
Games are getting astonishingly realistic human figures
2007-10-12 games • xbox360 • assassinscreed • video
Acrobat security hole
Adobe has a responsibility to fix the software they've compelled millions to install
2007-10-12 via:digg • badtech • adobe • reader • acrobat • security • hack
Scan Cafe
cheap bulk scanning
2007-10-11 via:kottke • photos • photography • scanning • digital • transfer
EA buys Bioware
bad news all around
2007-10-11 ea • bioware • monopoly • games • gaming • acquisition
Water lightshow
Clever artist installation
2007-10-11 art • light • led • water
GI Jonny vs Capt. Bareback
Mind bloggling BBC public service announcement
2007-10-10 funny • gay • aids • hiv • bbc • television • tv • sex • via:dailyrotten
operation: pedopriest
A satirical computer game "like Diner Dash with child rape"
2007-10-10 vatican • catholicism • church • rape • pedophelia • sex • games • satire • culture
Google + Jaiku
congratulations to the little startup
2007-10-09 jaiku • google • acquisition • mobile
The US doesn't torture
How do we know? Because Supreme Court refuses to hear the cases
2007-10-09 news • torture • humanrights • cia • politics
BioShock translation?
Looks like a transcription of the BioShock script and translation into Japanese
2007-10-07 bioshock • games • transcription • script • japanese • translation
The DIMES project
A distributed effort to map the Internet via traceroutes. Lots of data about network speed and connectivity!
2007-10-07 network • internet • map • data
Internet maps
Simple graphs of router interconnectivity
2007-10-07 via:digg • internet • map • visualization • cartography
TiVo + PayPerPost
Ah, conversational marketing
2007-10-06 tivo • advertising • deceptive • fraud • via:mathowie • conversationalmarketing • payperpost
Storm superworm
The other way to build a supercomputer
2007-10-05 via:digg • malware • worm • trojan • virus • computer • internet • badtech
Paternoster
A wacky cyclical elevator
2007-10-04 paternoster • elevator • building • industrial
New US torture policy
When do the war crimes investigations start?
2007-10-04 shame • torture • war • republicans • humanrights
Lunar mapping
Marius Watz discovers some amazing map visualizations
2007-10-03 colors • visualization • mapping • moon • space • astronomy • geology • astrogeology • design
Evolution of BioShock
A talk by lead programmer Chris Kline
2007-10-03 video • games • bioshock • chriskline
VCs play golf
Golfing during a board meeting. These are the yahoos you want running your company?
2007-10-03 vc • startup • golf • arrogance
Clean is Happy (NSFW)
Freaky Toto washlet advertising site
2007-10-03 toilet • toto • bidet • advertising • flash • animation
Proce55ing book
Congratulations, Ben!
2007-10-02 processing • proce55ing • design • art • digital • code • book • benfry
LambdaMoo map
One of the older and more significant virtual worlds
2007-10-02 mud • moo • lambdamoo • map • games • mmog
Halo 3 and BioShock
Eric Tilton weighs in with his comparison
2007-10-01 games • xbox • halo • halo3 • bioshock • review
Library of Congress data
Freeing public records
2007-10-01 creativecommons • library • libraryofcommons • database • informationwantstobefree