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Prince Harry story was held
I was wondering how we got such great photos all of the sudden
2008-02-29
journalism • ethics • princeharry • england • politics
Clinton's Daisy ad
This is just horrible, what a fiasco
2008-02-29
clinton • advertising • obama • fearmongering • lbg • daisy • politics • democrats
comScore clarification
Detailed reading of the Google CPC report that showed a possible decline
2008-02-29
cpc • ads • google • comscore • metrics • advertising
More Abu Ghraib
Yet more images of American torture
2008-02-29
torture • politics • iraq • abughraib
Prince Harry in Afghanistan
Great slideshow
2008-02-29
royalty • england • afghanistan • military • soldier • harry • princeharry
Plutocracy in action
Dollars raised is a proxy for votes in the Democratic primary
2008-02-29
politics • corruption • obama • clinton • plutocracy • money
Audi iPod link
Only took them three years to develop it!
2008-02-29
ipod • music • audi • car
French wedding etiquette
you can be invited just for desert!
2008-02-28
france • wedding • etiquette
Why do we scream at each other?
A simple flowchart
2008-02-28
via:anildash • prince • music • flowchart
Oprah's Big Give review
Totally pans it; I love reading well written negative reviews
2008-02-28
tv • reality • oprah • saccharine
Vampire Weekend review
Despite myself I'm really liking this album
2008-02-28
music • vampireweekend
Game piracy numbers
Only 1 sale per 1000 illegal copies eliminated. 92% theft rate.
2008-02-28
piracy • games • business • drm
DivX / Stage6 drama
Techcrunch has some very juicy unsourced fumour
2008-02-28
divx • vc • investment • startup • stage6
Clinton vote manipulation
Clay Shirky calls out DelegateHub, a Clinton argument for counting the invalid Michigan and Florida elections
2008-02-27
politics • clinton • democrats
Google AuthSub
third party authentication for Google web apps
2008-02-27
google • api • authentication
mysqlsniffer
like tcpdump/wireshark, but for mysql. Not sure why this isn't just a Wireshark filter...
2008-02-27
database • mysql • network • sniffer • tcpdump • wireshark • ethereal
FriendFeed launch
Congrats to my Google alumni friends!
2008-02-26
google • friendfeed • social
Tape and Vinyl mp3s
Reclaim Media digitizes old media
2008-02-26
mp3 • music • service
Britney's illness
Crisp editorial about the evil of the media's focus on a mentally ill personl
2008-02-26
britneyspears • britney • mentalillness
"inbred swamp thing"
Rolling Stone profiles Britney Spears
2008-02-26
britneyspears • mentalillness • sad • via:metafilter
GDC Roundup
As usual, Ryan does a great job summarizing the trends at the big game developers conference
2008-02-25
gdc • games
Google / MySpace bad deal?
Missed this in Feb 1; Google's aggressive deal for Myspace advertising is apparently not working out
2008-02-25
advertising • cpc • ads • google • myspace
keming
Funny typography joke
2008-02-25
kerning • typography • funny
Hadoop + EC2 + S3 = NYT PDF
Nice breakdown of how to use cloud computing services to do a large scale rendering job
2008-02-25
nytimes • hadoop • ec2 • amazon • s3 • systems • news
garfield minus garfield
Lovely remix of the stupid strip
2008-02-25
garfield • comics
On game criticism
Costikyan talks about criticism vs. reviews
2008-02-24
games • journalism • art • criticism
Stephen Colbert, WoW
A rumoured unused trading card
2008-02-23
wow • games • colbert • funny
High alcohol wines
Brief article about the trend towards 15% wines
2008-02-23
alcohol • wine • drinks
White Rabbit / Star Trek
Awesome period mashup
2008-02-20
via:boingboing • whiterabbit • jeffersonairplane • startrek • mashup • fandom
TV movement map
Beautiful visualization of a family watching TV together
2008-02-20
via:kottke • visualization • house • tv • homebrew • map • maps
A Sonos rave
Didn't realize sonos had been around this long
2008-02-19
mp3 • music • sonos
Hadoop success
Yahoo talks about how they do web indexing. Google considers their equivalent system highly proprietary; neat that Hadoop is open source.
2008-02-19
yahoo • google • search • opensource • hadoop • dougcutting • code • systems
MP3 cataloging
16 MeFi users marked my question a favourite! How to organize a music library.
2008-02-19
mp3 • music • m3u • metadata • itunes • sonos
iPhone books
data: URL hack means you can store a book and read it on your phone. Not ideal, but something.
2008-02-18
iphone • books • ebook
Jane Fonda said "cunt"
And everyone's freaked out
2008-02-16
janefonda • language • cunt
$100M to SCO
Private capital bails out SCO; some new IP play?
2008-02-16
sco • unix • linux • lawsuit
trust.salesforce.com
Amazing system status dashboard
2008-02-15
salesforce • soa • cloud • dashboard • sysadmin
Prince Philip movement
Another Vanuatu cult, this time dedicated to a living person
2008-02-15
vanuatu • princephillip • cult • cargocult • religion
Happy John Frum day!
Today's the holy day of the Vanuatu cargo cult
2008-02-15
johnfrum • cargocult • religion • maps • holdiay
White stag
With photo
2008-02-14
stag • deer • wildlife • scotland • legend • myth
MMOGChart update
WoW doesn't stop
2008-02-14
mmog • mmorpg • via:waxy • games
Li'l J
Sad little girl pretending to be gangsta
2008-02-13
via:boingboing • girl • gangsta
Kickbreak (upsetting)
Nasty video of a kickboxer's leg snapping
2008-02-13
ouch • kickboxing • break
Flying sharks
Crazy nature documentary about sharks launching themselves after seals
2008-02-13
nature • bbc • sharks
Warcraft companion cube
Love is in the air!
2008-02-12
portal • warcraft • halflife • games • companioncube
A Twitter bug in detail
Nice explanation of why updates were going missing for a few days
2008-02-12
twitter • bug • software • coding • memcache
loom.cc
Some crazy abstract data store that's useful for anonymous transactions, egold, etc
2008-02-11
loom • egold • cryptography • finance
anonymous vs scientology
it's like the yippies, only fighting CoS instead of The Man
2008-02-11
protest • scientology • chanology • anonymous • v • rickroll
e-gold Examiner
Holdings of the freaky virtual currency
2008-02-11
money • currency • gold
White glove results
Various interpretations of Michael Jackson's left hand. The last one is best.
2008-02-11
via:aboutblank • michaeljackson • jackson • music • video • computervision
Consumption spreading
The bottom graph is amazing
2008-02-11
via:kottke • infographics • consumer • consumption • spending
Linux kernel root exploit
Ugly bug in the linux kernel
2008-02-11
via:reddit • kernel • security • linux • badtech
Microsoft buys Danger
Mobile is the new battleground
2008-02-11
mobile • danger • microsoft • acquisition
Democrats' Civil War
Sharply worded editorial about Clinton politicking
2008-02-10
election • politics • democrats • clinton • obama
Sexsual healing
Kate Bush's terrible, awful cover of Marvin Gaye.
2008-02-10
katebush • sexualhealing • marvingaye • music • cover
Tech employee campaign contributions
Goldman breaks down the numbers for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc employees. Amazon sure loves their Libertarian nutjob.
2008-02-09
politics • tech • google • yahoo • amazon • campaign
Saudi oil production
Someone analyzes Google overhead imagery in great detail to divine what's going on in Saudi oil fields
2008-02-09
saudi • saudiarabia • oil • peakoil • google • maps
How to grow a glacier
Crazy technique from India/Pakistan
2008-02-08
glacier • mountain • india • pakistan • ice
US Customs steals laptops
They're looking for child porn, mostly. But why, on the theory that the Internet doesn't exist?
2008-02-08
civilrights • customs • travel • government
Year of the cute mouse
Google's artist takes some liberties with "rat"
2008-02-07
google • doodle • rat • mouse
OpenID, the big day
All the big players join. Congratulations!
2008-02-07
via:waxy • openid • google • microsoft • verisign • yahoo • ibm
Super Tuesday infographics
Roundup and critique
2008-02-07
via:amitp • politics • visualization • data
Elevator Neon Bible
crazy Arcade Fire live performance
2008-02-07
music • arcadefire
Timeline of Web Browsers
Amazingly detailed
2008-02-07
via:aboutblank • software • internet • www • web • history • timeline
Camp 7, Gitmo
Our secretive prison camp has an even more secretive sub-prison camp
2008-02-07
gitmo • guantanamo • prison • humanrights • politics
Bully: gay kisses
"Over the rainbow' achievment rewards gay activity in the release of Bully on the Xbox 360
2008-02-07
gay • via:waxy • games • rockstar • bully
Superbowl tweets by minute
Twitter guys publish a graph showing Twitter traffic as a function of Superbowl events
2008-02-05
twitter • sports • superbowl • graphs
obama vs clinton
Google Trends has Obama winning
2008-02-05
clinton • obama • google • politics
Twittering today's vote
Amazing little mashup app; congrats again, Twitteroos!
2008-02-05
maps • politics • twitter • google
Google and Twitter
"We've joined forces with Twitter to give you instant updates on Super Tuesday.". Congratulations, Twitteroos!
2008-02-05
twitter • google • politics • election
Talkbox vs Auto-Tune
Amazingly detailed analysis of the Snoop video. And here I thought he just had some silly bong thing in his mouth!
2008-02-05
music • snoop • autotune
Pirating the Oscars
6 years' data of screener leaks; takes less than a week from when the studio releases a DVD screener to when it shows up online
2008-02-05
movies • piracy • bittorrent • oscars
Using the gaming press
Insightful article in how to market games
2008-02-05
games • journalism
Black Mirror remix
Clever Flash presentation, choose your own audio
2008-02-04
music • via:metafilter • arcadefire • blackmirror • flash
More Many-Worlds Mario
Explanation from the videomaker
2008-02-04
mario • nes • snes • nintendo • manyworlds • video • games
Many-Worlds Mario
Fascinating bit of editing, showing multiple playthroughs on an insanely hard mario level
2008-02-04
mario • games • via:metafilter • snes • nes • nintendo
Fred on Yicrosoft
"Web services don't get better under the ownership of big companies. They get worse."
2008-02-04
yahoo • google • microsoft • business • acquisition
Google fights back
David Drummond raises anti-trust issues with IM and email
2008-02-03
microsoft • yahoo • google • acquisition • business • antitrust
What I killed today
A veterinarian's record of euthanasias
2008-02-02
via:boingboing • veterinarian • pets • killing • sad • death
Fine Arrington rant
He'd be an awesome Andy Rooney
2008-02-02
environment • rant • arrington • green
skate outsold Tony Hawk
Somewhat of a surprise how quickly an old franchise can fall
2008-02-02
games • skateboards • skating • skate • ea • tonyhawk
Facebook financials
Reported to be from Zuckerberg himself. Nasty leak.
2008-02-01
facebook • finances • leak • via:techcrunch