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Carolina Bays
interesting geographical formation, as seen via Google Maps
2008-05-30
google • maps • carolinabays • geography
ColorFlip
cute little toy with animated color pages
2008-05-29
via:swissmiss • color • design
Flash exploit
Adobe strikes again; WoW accounts stolen via bug in Flash. So can anything else on your computer, no doubt.
2008-05-29
flash • badtech • games • warcraft • adobe • security
Eclipse + AppEngine
guide to getting everything working
2008-05-29
python • eclipse • appengine • gae • ide • pydev
Robokill
Great little casual game. Smash TV + upgrades
2008-05-29
via:waxy • games • smashtv • robotron • flash
Guitar Hero DS
Corporate committee makes a video "hip" to the "kids"
2008-05-29
music • guitarhero • games • nds • nintendo • gameboy
Motorcycling across Angola
Amazing trip photos
2008-05-27
via:metafilter • travel • angola • motorcycle • roadtrip
Dragnet about LSD
All you need to know about getting hopped up on sugarcubes
2008-05-26
lsd • drugs • dragnet • tv • 60s
A* demo
My old friend Amit is doing some demos of game programming in Flash
2008-05-25
flash • games • a* • astar • algorithms • pathfinding
Jack Chick's "Lisa"
A particularly insane Chick tract
2008-05-25
jackchick • chicktract • religion • christianity • batshitinsane • pedophilia • paedophilia
Mars Phoenix is dying
Sad set of tweets as the Mars Phoenix robot is shutting down for winter
2008-05-25
twitter • space • astronomy • mars • nasa • science
WOW vs real life locales
Some of the archetypes that Warcraft draws from
2008-05-24
games • warcraft • design • wow
GTA IV: actor residuals?
Interesting article about the lack of royalty payments to video game talent
2008-05-23
acting • sag • union • contract • games • gtaiv • gta4 • rockstar • via:mathowie
Direct manipulation video player
Watch the teaser video; interesting UI for seeking in video
2008-05-23
video • hci • userinterface • via:techcrunch
Age of Conan fix
crippling "game does not launch" bug; official forums require login to read
2008-05-23
ageofconan • conan • games • funcom • badtech • bug
White House knew of torture in 2002
No big surprise here, but the whole "few bad eggs" thing is shown to be a lie
2008-05-23
civilrights • torture • government • politics • iraq
Wii = bad trainer
Interesting mom's eye view of how Wii Fit made her kids feel bad. Maybe a Japan/US culture clash?
2008-05-22
wii • games • exercise • wiifit
Friendly Floatees
Rubber ducks spilled in the ocean, cross through Bering Strait ten years later
2008-05-22
maps • friendlyfloatees • ducks
Debian/OpenSSL analysis
A very detailed examination of how the bug happened
2008-05-22
openssl • debian • badtech • security • opensource • coding
Viral meme data
Waxy gives us server stats for his role in the Star Wars Kid video
2008-05-22
starwarskid • movie • viral • meme • internet
Fire rainbows
Odd atmospheric effect
2008-05-21
weather • meteorology • firerainbow • clouds
Wedding earthquake
Photographer at a Sichuan wedding gets amazing photos during earthquake
2008-05-21
earthquake • wedding • via:metafilter • china • photography • photos
Underground runways
North Korea builds runways in tunnels
2008-05-19
northkorea • military • aircraft • runway • googlemaps
The Obama sea
Enormous turnout in Oregon for the Obama rally
2008-05-19
politics • obama • barackobama • oregon • democrats • election
David Lynch panties in his mouth
Must be great to be so completely bizarre
2008-05-19
davidlynch • movies • via:kottke • panties
Xbox towel trick
One recommended fix: deliberately overheat your console. No frickin way, thanks.
2008-05-18
xbox • xbox360 • games • hardware • badtech • badidea
Xbox 360: 30% failure rate
My console died. Apparently that's not uncommon.
2008-05-18
xbox • xbox360 • badtech • games • failure • hardware
GTA4 fanfic
Funny, creepy story
2008-05-17
fanfic • grandtheftauto • gta • gta4
Iron Man appreciation
Old anthropologist friend of mine has a nice bit about the movie
2008-05-17
movies • criticism • ironman • guns
ssh brute force attacks on the upswing
A few days before the Debian disclosure there was a significant increase in attacks on ssh servers. That is bad news.
2008-05-17
ssh • vulnerability • hacking • botnets • openssl • via:metafilter
Beer over IP
Costik has a ground floor investment opportunity
2008-05-15
beer • internet • tcpip • vc • venturecapital • parody
Yahtzee on GTA4
Everyone's favourite curmudgeon game critic
2008-05-15
gtaiv • gta4 • rockstar • grandtheftauto • yahtzee • review • games • criticism
Street View face blurring
Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology
2008-05-15
maps • google • privacy • facialrecognition
Debian ssh exploit
Someone published a list of all possible Debian ssh keys. In case you weren't sure the bug was serious.
2008-05-15
debian • openssl • openssh • ssh • hacking
Dealing with Debian's ssh vulnerability
For two years the ssh keys generated by Debian have been broken.
2008-05-15
debian • ssh • bug • openssh • openssl • security • hacking
The Whitburn Project
Andy documents another awesome underground resource; a database of all the top songs since the 1890s
2008-05-15
whitburn • music • usenet • billboard • charts
Happy Bea-Day!
Bea Arthur's birthday; ten video clips to remind you what an amazing performer she is. Don't miss her singing about getting high with Rock Hudson.
2008-05-14
tv • television • beaarthur • rockhudson • gay • via:metafilter
Jon the Collector
Incredibly detailed blog about Java garbage collection
2008-05-14
java • sun • memory • gc • garbagecollection • jvm
100 essential Jazz albums
Great list with links to purchase. Note the lack of Amazon associate IDs in the links; d'oh!
2008-05-13
music • jazz • via:kottke
Liberty City landmarks
Side by side photos from GTA and New York
2008-05-13
gta • grandtheftauto • gtaiv • gta4 • games • photography • virtualcities
Free geocoding
Yahoo makes their geodatabase available for free, 50,000 queries / day
2008-05-13
api • yahoo • geocoding • maps
Yakuza experience
Fascinating story of a gaijin crime reporter in Tokyo
2008-05-13
yakuza • japan • organizedcrime • crime • mafia
Treadmill Kittens
aw, cute kitties!
2008-05-12
cats • kitties • treadmill • via:zawodny
ph34t the g00gl3
Italians having none of being filmed on the street
2008-05-12
italy • google • maps • surveillance • privacy
sitemaps robots.txt
I had no idea there was a simple way to tell search engines about your sitemaps
2008-05-12
sitemaps • robots.txt • seo • yahoo • google
Speed Racer: 35/100
Reviews are pretty bad
2008-05-09
movies • speedracer • film
Processing.js
A heroic project, the design Java framework ported to run in Javascript
2008-05-09
processing • graphics • design • javascript • canvas • hack • via:waxy
Scala message queue experiment
Robey ports Starling to Scala, talks about what he learned
2008-05-08
scala • java • ruby • starling • distributedsystems • code
EFF/archive.org victory
The forces of good fought a Patriot Act gag order and won
2008-05-08
freedom • civilliberties • patriotact • eff • aclu • internetarchive
Gravel + Obama Girl
Very creepy, but kinda funny. Also, a Twitter shoutout
2008-05-08
mikegravel • batshitinsane • politics • obama
Speed Racer review
Bad, but good. Review from an old friend of mine
2008-05-07
speedracer • movies • review • wachowski
GTA IV: $500M
incredibly enormous first week sales, half a billion dollars
2008-05-07
rockstar • games • gtaiv • gta4 • grandtheftauto
Piet language
Programming language whose programs are 2d images
2008-05-06
mondrian • via:waxy • programming • languages • batshitinsane • code
Google/Yahoo analysis
Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising
2008-05-05
ads • adwords • google • yahoo • microsoft • analysis
GOP / Fairlight
Founder of one of the most famous pirate groups is now a Republican Party official in california
2008-05-05
fairlight • republicans • via:waxy • strider • scandal • copyright • warez • games
Justice - Stress comments
Nice critical commentary
2008-05-04
justice • music • stress • video • critique
Justice - Stress
New video from the French group. Very disturbing, what are they playing at?
2008-05-04
france • paris • justice • music • video • via:metafilter • banlieu • violence
GTA 4 map
Google Maps-style UI with fan-added comments on things in the game
2008-05-03
spoilers • gtaiv • gta4 • grandtheftauto • games • rockstar • map
"ghey"
According to Urban Dictionary, intended to remove sexual orientation from the insult
2008-05-03
language • gay • slang • homophobia • ghey
Google code review tool
Google's released something much like its internal code review tool
2008-05-03
mondrian • google • subversion • code • review • appengine • python • django
All Streets
Beautiful visualization of all the roads in the US
2008-05-02
benfry • map • roads • streets • processing • data • visualization
Wilford Brimley cats
It's Friday, look at some funny cats
2008-05-02
lolcats • cats • wilford • brimley • wilfordbrimley • via:boingboing
Muxtape
Quick and easy hosting of an MP3 mixtape
2008-05-02
mp3 • music • muxtape • copyright
Ridiculous headline
"Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies any more"
2008-05-02
news • cocaine • drugs • racism
GTA IV maps/cheats
Lots o' spoilers
2008-05-01
gta • grandtheftauto • games • rockstar • maps • cheats
Maker Faire this weekend
Terrible website, but the Faire is in San Mateo this weekend
2008-05-01
hackers • maker • oreilly • fair • sanmateo • hacking
Arabic typesetting
Good overview of the challenges and history
2008-05-01
via:metafilter • fonts • design • typesetting • arabic • calligraphy • tasmeen