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Famous LEGO photos
Nice recreations
2008-03-31 lego • photos • photography • rephotography
1993 web log
I miss the old "What's new with NCSA Mosaic"
2008-03-31 via:jwz • mosaic • mcom • netscape • history • web • blog • weblog
Review Board
Marc writes up notes on a code review tool
2008-03-31 software • coding • process • review • codereview • django
Laptopless meetings
LA Times article on distractions in meetings, including a quote from me!
2008-03-31 me • nelson • laptops • distractions • attention • meetings • zaowdny
Whale spill
Bad things happen trucking dead whales around
2008-03-29 via:metafilter • truck • taiwan • spill • whale • disgusting
Beijing olympics poster
The promotion starts
2008-03-27 china • humanrights • olympics • beijing
Google language models
An example of how they use user session data to make better search results
2008-03-27 search • google • ai • linguistics • computationallinguistics
GTA IV maps
Someone's got an early print run
2008-03-27 games • gta • grandtheftauto • map • leak
I am Sinistar
funny little edited image
2008-03-25 sinistar • games • dickandjane • books • parody
Moonwalk map
We never walked very far
2008-03-24 space • moon • astronauts • maps
More XBLA criticism
N+ developers explain what they meant
2008-03-24 xbla • xbox • xbox360 • games • n+
Handle with care
Quirky little guide to living in Paris
2008-03-24 paris • france • culture • nytimes
Andy Warhol on The Love Boat
Odd little clip
2008-03-23 warhol • art • tv • loveboat
Thanks, Easter Bunny!
Classic TV ad
2008-03-23 advertising • m&ms • mnms • easter • tv
Simpsons paintings
Side by side comparison of Simpsons scenes and famous paintings
2008-03-23 art • simpsons • tv • via:blort
Paris by Blizzard
City of Light rendered in a Warcraftish way
2008-03-23 warcraft • wow • maps • paris • france
Vidal on Buckley
Righteous, nasty rant against the dead conservative. "o society so marinated in falsity can long survive in a real world"
2008-03-22 gorevidal • vidal • buckley • wfb • conservative • liberal • obituary • rant
N+ devs on XBLA quality
Trashing all the crappy Xbox Live games
2008-03-21 xbla • games • n+ • xbox • xbox360
Drug deal on Google Street View
Sure looks like one, at least
2008-03-21 maps • google • drugs • crime
Gawker's payroll
Details of what Gawker pays their bloggers; $80k / year for the top ones
2008-03-21 gawker • blogs • payroll • economics • editorial
Legend of Zelda in N+
Crazy mashup, translating classic RPG into a vertical platformer
2008-03-21 zelda • n+ • games
END WAP
War protest, slightly incomplete
2008-03-20 protest • war • wap • spelling
Striped icebergs
Nice pictures
2008-03-20 via:metafilter • icebergs • ocean • nature
Portishead / Machine Gun
From the new album; great song, crappy video
2008-03-20 portishead • music • third • machinegun • video
Abort, retry, or EPIC FAIL
Andy writes a post so I don't have to
2008-03-20 lolcats • fail • criticism • culture
"Stained blue dress day"
The press stoops to a new low, pinpointing Hillary Clinton's whereabouts the day her husband ejaculated on someone else's clothing
2008-03-19 sex • scandal • politics • clintons • media • press
Good Paris / Bad Paris
Amusing expat diary
2008-03-19 via:kottke • paris • france • expat
Meatscapes
Art and meat ...together again
2008-03-19 art • meat • via:aboutblank • for:merlin
Spam botnet sources
6 botnets account for most of the Internet's spam
2008-03-18 badtech • spam • botnet • worm • srizbi • email • internet
Bear Stearns deal
Day by day account of the negotiation
2008-03-18 money • finance • economics • bearstearns • collapse • crisis • via:peter
sparse sets
Clever data structure for very efficiently working with spare sets
2008-03-16 datastructures • algorithms • computerscience • code • via:metafilter
XNA / Xbox 360 connect
How to download homebrew code to your console
2008-03-15 xbox • games • xna • xbox360 • homebrew
Spitzer vs. Craig
A little perspective
2008-03-15 funny • politics • larrycraig • eliotspitzer
Webkinz explained
Yet another virtual world I know nothing about
2008-03-14 webkinz • games • kids
Getting started with XNA
I thought I'd see what it'd take to write an Xbox 360 game
2008-03-14 xna • xbox • .net • games • ide
Major browser exploit
I know two people whose WoW accounts were stolen recently; this javascript attack may be how
2008-03-14 security • badtech • keylogger • wow • malware
Meritous
Clever little indie game, very simple
2008-03-14 meritous • games • roguelike
Waxweb, 1995 demo
Digital video, MOO, VRML, user authoring, all put together and delivered. in 1995. It was pretty cool.
2008-03-14 via:waxy • waxweb • multimedia • moo • vrml
WE FIGHT ON
Project Xanadu has a web site, complete with cornea-searing design.
2008-03-14 xanadu • tednelson • windmills • lol • hypertext
Google Zurich playground
Google's Swiss office. A bit infantilized, but it's kinda neat.
2008-03-13 google • office • design • switzerland • zurich
Broker corruption
Great story about how broken the financial services industry is
2008-03-13 dfa • dimensionalfunds • broker • money • investment • wallstreet • blainelourd
Twitter visualizations
Various views into what's going on at Twitter
2008-03-13 twitter • visualization • via:waxy
Lost features of Google
Nice roundup of some dead products
2008-03-13 google • via:waxy • software
Lost Boys 2: The Tribe
A remake that seems wholly unnecessary
2008-03-13 lostboys • vampires • movies • corey • feldman • coreyfeldman
Air Force uber alles
Does no one in the USAF speak German? Or have a clue?
2008-03-12 via:metafilter • airforce • facism • slogans
Burnout: Paradise review
Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation does a great bit of criticism
2008-03-12 games • review • burnout • burnoutparadise
N riddle game
clever little puzzle game
2008-03-12 games • riddle • puzzle
Geosign; ended by Google
Company made money via arbitrage of Google's advertising system. Google eventually took that niche away.
2008-03-11 advertising • cpc • google • geosign • via:anonymousgooglefriend
Echochrome game
This looks amazing
2008-03-11 via:metafilter • games • echochrome • sony • playstation
Corsets (vaguely NSFW)
Catalog of crazy slimming garments
2008-03-11 corsets • fashion • women • culture • via:metafilter
The Wire's final montage
Shot by shot breakdown
2008-03-11 thewire • tv • baltimore • via:metafilter
The new $3 coin
America's currency is being modernized, whether we like it or not
2008-03-10 via:zawodny • humor • currency • dollar
Emperor's Club
Where Gov. Spitzer shopped
2008-03-10 scandal • politics • spitzer • prostitution
Eliot Spitzer's hos
New York governor, former Attorney General is busted
2008-03-10 scandal • politics • newyork • spitzer • wallstreet
Apple, Google, and you
Elegant presentation of product design
2008-03-10 apple • google • software • design • ui • simplicity
McCain for torture, too
Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue
2008-03-09 torture • humanrights • politics • bush • mccain
Baarle
Silly exclave between Netherlands and Belgium
2008-03-09 maps • europe • netherlands • belgium • taxes • exclave
Bush endorses torture
Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture
2008-03-08 torture • bush • politics • humanrights • veto
G-Archiver theft
Some jerk sells a program that steals your gmail password
2008-03-08 via:waxy • garchiver • seo • gmail • google • theft
Salty terrine
This kind of work environment sounds horrible
2008-03-08 chef • cooking • food • restaurant • terrine • salt • brigade
Sea gliders
Crazy autonomous submarine design
2008-03-07 submarine • ocean • power • seaglider
Watchmen costumes
Good looking art direction, but all the actors are too young
2008-03-07 via:sutter • watchmen • movies • comics
Full-Text RSS
Convert any truncated RSS feed into a full text feed
2008-03-07 rss • advertising • blogs
CUBOCC
Creepy animated art thing
2008-03-06 uncannyvalley • via:metafilter • animation
You're not my father
Many Worlds Hypothesis meets Full House
2008-03-06 tv • video • via:waxy • adoption
Photoshop disasters
awesome collection of image editing mishaps
2008-03-06 via:metafilter • women • photoshop • photography • art
The end of Moose's
SF institution is going entirely away
2008-03-05 moose's • restaurant • sanfrancisco
Auction rate securities
Nice explanation of a wrinkle in the current markets
2008-03-05 bonds • auctionratesecurities • finance • investment • interestrates
Delegate counts
Last night's election looks to have been a tie for delegates, which is bad news for Clinton
2008-03-05 clinton • obama • democrats • election • politics
Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook
Google executive leaves for Facebook
2008-03-04 google • facebook • sherylsandberg
RIP Gary Gygax
.
2008-03-04 garygygax • d&d • ad&d • games • rpgs
BSG teaser
Annoying UI, but amusing teasers for the new season
2008-03-04 battlestargalactica • bsg • tv • lastsupper
BSG Last Supper
The question is, what painting is this in imitation of? It's not any of the well known Last Suppers.
2008-03-04 battlestargalactica • bsg • via:boingboing • advertising • lastsupper
Dear Mozilla Corporation,
totally charming fan mail
2008-03-04 firefox • mozilla
Justice / DVNO
Another awesome Justice video, fun graphics
2008-03-03 justice • dvno • video • 80s • graphics • animation
Golden shield project
How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially
2008-03-03 firewall • censorship • china • humanrights • cisco
Star Wars vs. Saul Bass
Awesome "what if" title sequence
2008-03-03 via:kottke • design • titles • credits • saulbass • starwars
Is your child a tagger?
Telltale signs
2008-03-03 via:mathowie • graffiti • tagger • oldpeopleareclueless
Layer Four traceroute
Traceroute that uses TCP and some other fancy network testing stuff
2008-03-03 internet • protocol • tcp • ip • traceroute • lft • tcpip
Andreessen for Obama
nice endorsement, well written
2008-03-03 via:anildash • obama • politics • marca • marcandreessen
Haxed by Megahurtz
incomprehensible Flash game, quite beautiful
2008-03-01 via:waxy • games • flash
BBC on Prince Harry
A blog is a perfect way to explain their thinking behind the embargo
2008-03-01 princeharry • media • journalism • military • afghanistan • news • bbc
Prince Harry agreement
How the British press agreed to am embargo
2008-03-01 prineharry • war • afghanistan • military • press • media • news • embargo
McCain's Daisy ad
One catch; this predates Clinton's ad by a month
2008-03-01 politics • plagiarism • mccain • republicans • ads • advertisements