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Contemplating Miley Cyrus
Thoughtful discussion of the tempest in a teapot
2008-04-30 hannahmontana • disney • girls • adulthood • eroticism
GTA IV: 99/100
Highest review scores yet. Seems deserved from the little I've seen by the game, I'm overwhelmed by its complexity and beauty
2008-04-30 grandtheftauto • games • gta • review
Portishead Third review
The album's finally officially out, and it really is great
2008-04-30 portishead • music • review • third • album
FF3 color profiles
Off by default, but finally can have color corrected images in Firefox
2008-04-30 firefox • color • profile • adobe • photoshop
Is 15 old enough to be hot?
Hannah Montana reveals America's ambiguity with teenage girls
2008-04-30 celebrity • liebowitz • photography • eroticism • hannahmontana
Making chocolate
Home cook turns beans into chocolate bars
2008-04-28 chocolate • cooking • food • cocoa • cacao
Automated Blogger spam
Analysis of the network that's breaking Google's CAPTCHA and spamming the world
2008-04-28 blogger • google • security • captcha • botnet • via:waxy
Prince plays Coachella
Sounds awesome
2008-04-27 music • coachella • prince
About You Suck at Photoshop
Story about the creators
2008-04-26 humor • photoshop • via:valleywag
Top GTA IV pirates
Leaderboard of achievments. AKA: leaderboard of banned accounts.
2008-04-26 gtaiv • gta • grandtheftauto • xbox • xbox360 • piracy • games
GTA IV players
Online game trackers tell you who's stolen the game
2008-04-26 gtaiv • grandtheftauto • games • xbox • xbox360 • gamercard
101-gta4.nfo
NTSC release of Grand Theft Auto IV, 5 days before official
2008-04-24 via:waxy • games • nfo • scene • pirate • rockstar • gta • gtaiv • grandtheftauto • xbox360
It's not a compound
Awesome little techno mix from the ongoing saga of the FLDS in Eldorado
2008-04-24 flds • mormon • cult • remix • techno • via:jwz
Redneck Mansion
Awesome looking collection of linked trailers
2008-04-24 redneck • housing • architecture • amsterdam • holland • dutch • via:metafilter
icon-gta.nfo
The NFO file from the GTA IV leak
2008-04-23 gta • grandtheftauto • games • piracy • scene • gtaiv
GTA IV has leaked
6.36GB download, but I think it requires hacked hardware to play
2008-04-23 games • piracy • grandtheftauto • gta • rockstar
Charlie's new book
Google's former chef has a book out
2008-04-23 google • charlieayers • charlie • califia • food • cooking
Clotilde's Paris food book
Great French blogger now has her book out!
2008-04-22 clotilde • france • paris • restaurant • food
The Turkish-I Problem
In Turkish, capital i is not I
2008-04-22 internationalization • i18n • localization • l10n • turkey • trTR • turkish • programming
Third - Portishead
The album leaked a month ago, but now you can legitimately listen to it on last.fm
2008-04-22 music • portishead • third
Lost 2600 titles
Lovely collection of Atari box art
2008-04-21 atari • 2600 • games • vcs • via:metafilter • funny
YFZ ranch
Nice backgrounder on the FLDS compound
2008-04-20 FLDS • polygamy • cult • religion
How to not steal software
Simple essay about how to avoid being a pirate
2008-04-18 software • opensource • copyright • ethics
Antarctic explorers' huts
100 year old expedition bases
2008-04-18 via:kottke • antarctic • scott • edmundsen • shackleton • explorer • cold
Apple IIgs laptop
Beautiful bit of hackery, nicely finished
2008-04-16 via:waxy • apple • iigs • gs • laptop • hardware • hack
Simpsons couch gags
Many simpsons intros spliced together into a 5 minute reel
2008-04-16 simpsons • funny • cartoon • animation • via:aboutblank
Game development problems (PPT)
Talk from a game developer about the challenges of writing games
2008-04-15 via:ckline • games • programming • haskell • unreal
Turn off MSIE click
The obscure path for turning off the stupid sound
2008-04-15 msie • windows • badtech • sound • annoyance
Eve source leak
Client code for the MMO was stolen and put out on BitTorrent
2008-04-15 eveonline • eve • games • mmog • via:slashdot
Trapped in an elevator
Mesmerizing time lapse film from a security camera. 41 hours.
2008-04-15 elevator • trapped • nightmare • via:metafilter
Market rate securities problems
Wall Street investment banks mislead their customers, again
2008-04-14 fraud • finance • money • bonds • credit
google app engine thoughts
Google engineer boils down some of his experiences using it.
2008-04-14 programming • cloud • grid • google • appengine
Quake family tree
Liberally licensed game engine has an impact
2008-04-13 quake • games • freesoftware • opensource
Dash GPS
GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow
2008-04-13 gps • traffic • crowdsourcing • driving • cars
Google data centers
No idea if this info is accurate, but it's interesting
2008-04-12 google • datacenter • deployment • servers • network • distance • bandwidth
jayisgames winners
Great site for showcasing new casual games
2008-04-12 games • casualgames • flash
Tweetable scripts
bash hacks that fit in under 140 characters
2008-04-12 hacks • bash • script • shell • code • twitter • nerdy
Startups and acquisition
Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
2008-04-10 vc • venturecapital • business • markets • privatecapital • startups • entrepreneurs
San Angelo, TX
Nice colour commentary. I spent a night in San Angelo, great little town.
2008-04-10 texas • sanangelo • polygamy • jeffs • tornado
Curry and mole are persian
Interesting story of how Mexican and Indian cuisine was influenced by the spread of
2008-04-10 cooking • food • india • mexico • islam • culture • via:metafilter
Commodity cloud hosting
Doug Cutting, one of the smartest engineers I've ever met, argues for the importance of non-proprietary cloud computing technologies
2008-04-09 lucene • dougcutting • computing • grid
SIDosis on Youtube
save yourself the trouble of downloading this crazy experimental film
2008-04-09 music • video • ukelele • film
Multiple SIDosis
Oddly experimental and yet totally square video of multitrack recording and splitscreen film.
2008-04-09 via:merlin • music • video • experimental • art • film • ukelele • splitscreen
Ruby's not ready
Flamebait, no doubt, but some insightful criticisms
2008-04-08 ruby • python • languages • religiouswar
10,000 cents
Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
2008-04-07 art • money • currency • crowdsourcing • mechanicalturk • amazon
gvn: svn wrapper
Google's wrapper for Subversion. Supports reviews before commit.
2008-04-07 subversion • svn • google • code • software • scm • codereview
Trader hand signals
Nice illustrated guide to floor trader hand signals
2008-04-07 via:metafilter • hand • communication • finance
You v. Mondrian
Cute little game with nifty visuals
2008-04-05 mondrian • games • art • frogger
South Park v. Youtube
Decoder ring for the brilliant episode. I love that about 1/3 of these videos were greatly enhanced by Waxy's researches
2008-04-05 southpark • youtube • video • viral • meme • internet • waxy
Snoop Dogg v. The View
amazing live performance of Sensual Seduction, check out the interview linked in the comments, too
2008-04-05 snoopdogg • rap • music • theview • barbarawalters • tv
Shirky v. Colbert
Weird to see someone you know try to get through the jamming
2008-04-05 colbert • shirky • clayshirky • internet • tv • culture
Military graffiti art
Great collection of painted barricades in kuwait
2008-04-04 kuwait • iraq • military • war • art • graffiti
Some VC advice
Good basic cynicism for entrepreneurs
2008-04-03 venturecapital • business • startup
Decorative OCR font
Funny story of typographer love
2008-04-03 via:kottke • design • typography • fonts • ocr • swash • rollingstone
Cherry chocolate rain
I'm late to the memeparty, but totally fascinated by Tay Zonday
2008-04-02 tayzonday • music • chocolaterain • advertising • ad • drpepper • soda
Molten Core
the 8 bit console game
2008-04-01 wow • warcraft • funny • aprilfools • parody • games
WatchPeanuts
The Watchmen drawn as Peanuts characters
2008-04-01 via:boingboing • peanuts • comics • watchmen • alanmoore
Cancel the Examiner
how to prevent the daily litter from this fake newspaper being delivered for free
2008-04-01 examiner • newspaper • sanfrancisco • litter