A bit crazy to personalize this so much, but glad Mark feels a victory

No solution works well

Direct quotes from the SocGen trader saying there's no way they couldn't have known what he was doing

Found this site in a blog comment directed at Tom Cruise, asking him for financing

Inspired by the RMS personal ad, Andy digs up a 1994 Well post

Awesome set of photographs

clever hack; works like "cat" on a unix command line, but shows progress of data on the way

They're turning the neighbourhood into a film set

Historical essay on where the creeks used to be around the Mission

Where all the old waterways of SF were

Detailed and understable explanation of Kerviel's mischief. Really quite simple: he just falsified half of a direction neutral position

sort of sweet, looks to be authentic personal from rms

Fascinating insight into records he kept of his sexual encounters

Clever game where you play the ghosts; have to juggle multiple of them to win

Where the churches are

The Academy Awards of Scientology. There's a torrent floating around, too

Amazing Koppel interview with David Miscavige from 1992. Was an interesting battle.

Lovely design exercise in Processing

A simple server for helping you work around NAT

Star Wars vehicles in a steampunk mode, made of legos

Great documentary film about corn production in the US

You Suck at Photoshop's eBay auction, from part 4

Sequel to the very popular dSLR. Not seeing anything to make me upgrade.

Exhaustive categorization

Not an allegory of spreading the Methodist word, but rather an escaping horse thief

In helpful infographic form

Semester long typography project, nicely documented

Dumps of posts, user comments, etc on the web community site

"dogs out" and "bling bling' shows he respects MLK's legacy

Scans from sex ed books in Germany, Russia, and Israel

Nice summary of reporters using Twitter in the US presidential campaign

Italians in the late 1950s recorded Soviet space launch communications

Book depository is deeply sad, also beautiful

Paul's right, this is hugely bizarre. And more than a bit upsetting.

These are pretty damn funny

Open source release of an interesting piece of technology that Twitter has build; message queuing, lightweight

Major Blogger.com outage with cryptic error code

Someone rigs up a Commodore sound chip and an 8080 to do the Still Alive song

White House destroyed over a year's worth of email

Bush Administration "loses" millions of emails. Again.

Time shift your netflix downloads

Amazing purchase price, but would you want to be bought by Sun?

It really is just KSW

stupid marketing tricks backfire

Outside sites can force your router to forward ports. Very ugly.

Somewhat funny, somewhat insightful

Who knew ASCII art could be animated?

Xbox 360 media center server for Windows

Great post explaining why there's no point making Rails work well in shared environments

Amazing bit of editing for the best TV show ever

Nice summary, link in comments to full paper. Google's apparently crunching the equivalent of 130,000 computers full time.

So glad to see this game revived

Interview with a nut who is playing WoW all wrong, but thinking a lot about it

Paul highlights some interesting points out of the article

Creepy old sexist add; I love how he's got his hand over her mouth

Fascinating and frightening story of a chaotic 8 million person city

Guess he hasn't had enough blogging!

Nice breakdown from an expert dissassembler

Funny pic, not obscene really

Instructional videos with context!

Crazy enormous mechanical

Nice map of where the mortgage mess is worst

Mix up two cult followings!

Flickr rolls over 2^31 and a bunch of software breaks

Almost everyone I know is gone now

A little New Years candid photography