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Bad dinner guests
PhilG blogs someone's family's list of allergies
2008-08-29
allergy • food • dinner • dining
Banksy New Orleans
Famous street artist does his thing in N.O.
2008-08-29
neworleans • banksy • streetart
Google + Mozilla
Advertising deal that funds Firefox extended to 2011
2008-08-28
google • mozilla • firefox • cpc • ads
Software bundling sleaze
You can pay Best Buy $30 to remove the crap that's preinstalled on your PC
2008-08-28
badtech • software • hp • dell • bestbuy • via:jeffmcmanus
Shadow botnet bust
Or so it's rumoured; somewhat skeptical
2008-08-27
botnet • shadow • security • badtech
Stephany gets an enema
Freaky fetish video: safe for work, essentially
2008-08-27
fetish • enema
Keylogger in space
International Space Station is infected by a keylogger that steals Warcraft passwords
2008-08-27
security • badtech • keylogger • space • iss
Obama gamerpic
Interesting crossover of politics to gaming. McCain, too
2008-08-27
xbox • obama • mccain • politics • election • games
Faster prime sieving
Some clever modular math to more efficiently generate large primes
2008-08-27
numbers • math • prime • cryptography
Oil Rocks
crazy off-shore drilling platforms in Azerbaijan
2008-08-27
azerbaijan • maps • oil • drilling • platform
Google UI experiments
Google discusses one of their most effective tools for improving user experience
2008-08-26
google • ui • experiment • hci
RedHat Perl broken
Well, more broken than Perl elsewhere
2008-08-26
performance • redhat • linux • perl • via:zawodny
Airline Fees
Handy chart of the stupidity of airline pricing
2008-08-26
via:jeffmcmanus • airfare • planes • travel • airline
Warcraft silliness
Great article about the perverse reward system in Warcraft
2008-08-26
warcraft • games • zhevra • wow
Pidgin crash fix
Windows / AIM crashes reliably; install this DLL and the problem stops
2008-08-25
pidgin • bug • fix • aim • im
Onigiri on parade
Guide to basic Japanese comfort food
2008-08-25
food • onigiri • japan • sushi
Big Picture: Olympics
Another photo collection, this one a bit more mainstream
2008-08-25
olympics • sports • photos • photography
Antivirus 2009
Malware protection racket
2008-08-25
malware • spyware • scumware • virus • software
Olympic photos
Odd selection, a bit heavy on the lulz but good images
2008-08-25
olympics • photos • photography
Sex and the Olympic city
Athlete hotties get it on at the Olympics
2008-08-23
olympics • sex • culture
Epke Zonderland
Some artistic photographs
2008-08-23
gay • olympics
Diebold counts most of your votes
Voting machine glitch, coverup, etc
2008-08-22
diebold • election • fraud • ohio
Phelps is back home
Onion lulz
2008-08-22
swimming • olympics • phelps
Understanding Joshua
Disturbing art. (Some slightly NSFW)
2008-08-22
photography • art • bizarre
Wireless power
60 watts transmitted via magnetic fields
2008-08-22
power • battery • intel • technology
Getting shot at
Turkish journalists wander into machine gun fire in Georgia
2008-08-21
via:metafilter • war • georgia • ossetia • journalism • gunfire
Warrior's Machete blog
Wrestling dude also writes. A lot.
2008-08-21
wwe • wwf • wrestling • warrior • ultimatewarrior
Four Barrel Coffee
opened today; finally, a serious coffee place without fucking wifi
2008-08-21
coffee • mission • sanfrancisco
Olympic ages caches
Someone goes delving in Baidu's cache of Chinese government websites, confirms the gymnasts are 14
2008-08-20
china • olympics • gymnastics • scandal • age
Olympics photography
Great notes from a guy working the Olympics
2008-08-20
photography • via:kottke • olympics
Deeppresso
lulz
2008-08-19
coffee • engrish
Bicycle clips
Winged messenger
2008-08-19
bicycle • clips • art • moma
Slow motion skate
Beautiful 120fps HD video of skateboarding
2008-08-19
skateboard • skateboarding • via:kottke
Weight loss as RPG
Weight Watchers system uses RPG elements
2008-08-19
games • weight • weightwatchers • eating • food • calories
Flagship Studio failure
Big name game company failed; interview with the founder
2008-08-18
games • flagship • diablo • hellgate • blizzard
C-3PO says don't smoke!
Insane PSA; faggy robot catches trashcan smoking a cigarette, ends on a bleak existential note about droids having no souls
2008-08-18
starwars • smoking • psa • c3po
Pac-Man cereal ad
I miss leg warmers
2008-08-18
pacman • 80s • advertising
Genetic map of Europe
Beautiful visualization of variances in DNA of Europeans
2008-08-18
genetics • maps • europe
SF Fleet Week
Looking forward to it this week!
2008-08-16
via:stevej • fleetweek • starwars • military • sanfrancisco • parody
Cavic's blog
Great, honest writeup of what it felt like to come in 2nd by 0.01 seconds.
2008-08-16
cavic • phelps • olympics • swimming • via:kottke
Phelps v. Cavic
Outstanding underwater photos of the incredibly close race last night
2008-08-16
sports • olympics • phelps • cavic • photofinish
Molniya orbit
Eccentric orbit allows a satellite to dwell over one part of the earth
2008-08-16
space • satellites • orbit
Happy Olympics boys
Are there any out gay teams in the Olympics?
2008-08-15
olympics • sports • gay
iPhone is a bad phone
more data on the 3g fiasco
2008-08-15
apple • iphone • 3g
Finding yourself on Youtube
Old flutist friend of mine's comments on discovering his performance was recorded and put online
2008-08-15
youtube • flute • music • classical • fenwicksmith • fenwick
Making Swiss cheese
Great photoessay of traditional alps cheesemaking
2008-08-15
switzerland • swiss • cheese • alps • via:metafilter
Fake Olympic kids
56 ethnic groups? Not so much
2008-08-15
olympics • china • via:metafilter
SmokePing
nice looking network / web server response time tool. Does multiple samples
2008-08-14
monitoring • network • latency • sysadmin
New King of Tonga
Yet another stunning Big Picture collection. It cracks me up this hereditary Polynesian king uses European trappings
2008-08-13
tonga • photography • king • coronation
Braid sales
He's doing well, but it's still a small thing
2008-08-13
braid • games • xbla • xbox
Baby's first high heels
Start 'em early
2008-08-13
via:dstroy • wtf • babies • shoes
Maps of web users
Interesting breakdown of who uses websites by US state
2008-08-12
geography • maps • web • seo • google
Prince (squee!)
Awesome little animated photograph
2008-08-12
sex • prince
Car detailing
55 hours cleaning up a sports car, obsessively documented
2008-08-12
cars • detailing • obsession
Pirating the Olympics
Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads
2008-08-12
olympics • pirating • television • tv • usenet • bittorrent
Official Georgia warblog
Government of Georgia is communicating via blogger
2008-08-12
georgia • russia • war • blogging • politics
Empty Olympics seats
It does seem odd how few people are actually watching the sport
2008-08-12
sports • olympics • china • potemkin
Olympic song fake
7 year old girl chosen to be pretty, lip syncs other 7 year old girl's singing
2008-08-12
china • olympics • lipsync
BSOD at Olympics
One of the projection computers crashed at the opening ceremony
2008-08-11
windows • bsod • crash • olympics
Olympic fireworks fake
The video of the fireworks over the stadium was a digital fake. Very Orwellian, creepy.
2008-08-11
orwell • 1984 • totalitarian • olympics • fake • photoshop • nbc
Pixeljunk Eden
Beautiful looking game; wish I had a PS3
2008-08-11
pixeljunk • games • ps3 • playstation
Keeping score
An appreciation of the nuances of baseball scorekeeping and how it influences game design
2008-08-11
baseball • games • scorekeeping • micromanagement
Braid Review
Does a good job capturing why this game is so important. A bit spoilerish.
2008-08-11
games • braid • review • xbox
levelhead
crazy tangible UI game demo
2008-08-10
via:metafilter • games • ui • tangible • hci • chi
Google "graph paper"
Awesome image search
2008-08-10
google • search • graphpaper
Hotel Union Square
nice looking boutique hotel in downtown SF; recommended by some friends
2008-08-10
hotel • sanfrancisco • tourism
Olympics / Silverlight bundling
Markoff calls out Microsoft's strategic move in making Olympics video use their new technology
2008-08-10
silverlight • antitrust • microsoft • olympics
War of the Worlds tripod
Sculpture tribute to Wells' novel
2008-08-10
wells • art • sculpture • via:metafilter • tripod • waroftheworlds
Pathologic
Commentary on an obscure 2005 Russian videogame that's problematic but uniquely interesting
2008-08-10
games • via:metafilter • pathologic
President Bubba
Just replace the water with a beer
2008-08-09
olympics • bush • volleyball
Hulu search: "Olympics"
Awesome! NBC's video site has all sorts of video for the Olympics; mostly history lessons about the 1980 boycott of Moscow
2008-08-09
olympics • nbc • drm • copyright
Fix Youtube Olympics
Some broad US blocking of Olympics video on Youtube; here's how to circumvent it
2008-08-09
olympics • tv • drm
Tombs of Asciiroth
Cute rogue-like, implemented in flash
2008-08-08
via:anarchaia • roguelike • games
Wikipedia saturation
English edits have levelled off
2008-08-08
via:anarchaia • wikipedia • statistics
Eclipse HDR
Nice use of very wide exposure range to show an eclipse in a new way
2008-08-08
sun • corona • astronomy • photography • hdr
Olympics opening pics
Looks beautiful, particularly the drummers. Also SPOILER ALERT: the US is 18 hours in the past.
2008-08-08
olympics • photography
Switch (game)
Nice little Flash game, surprisingly deep
2008-08-08
games • flash
Olympics TV schedule
Google calendar format
2008-08-08
olympics • tv • nbc
Russia and Georgia at war
and the whole world thinking about the olympics
2008-08-08
politics • russia • georgia • ossetia
Typepad migration
6A is simplifying a bit by lowering the number of different blog platforms they have
2008-08-06
sixapart • blogs • typepad • vox
Wesabe + Twitter
Nice combination; easy way to track your cash expenses
2008-08-05
wesabe • twitter • cash
Google on Street View
Employees have some fun when the camera passes by
2008-08-05
google • maps • streetview
Switching to the Mac
Even-minded comments on switching from Windows to Mac
2008-08-05
windows • macos • computers
WWDD?
What would Don Draper do?
2008-08-04
via:kottke • madmen • tv • dondraper
George Hart sculpture
More by the artist; apparently he dyes the nylon laser printed objects
2008-08-04
art • sculpture • generative • georgehart
3d printer output
Beautiful little art; love the colour
2008-08-04
fractal • art • generative
Nitrous Oxide in Paris
Sculpture commemerating the discovery of anesthesia
2008-08-04
paris • france • sculpture • surgery • anesthesia • wells
WSJ's fake Obama story
Reporter planted leading questions on the web, then quoted the only fake answer
2008-08-02
journalism • obama • wallstreetjournal • ethics • via:mathowie
Youtube MLM scams
Merlin's fascinating investigation into human desperation
2008-08-02
mlm • scam • youtube
Large Hadron Collider
Great pictures
2008-08-01
photography • collider • lhc • switzerland • machines
Wesabe + processing
Interesting use of processing.js to bring beautiful graphs into your financial accounts
2008-08-01
money • wesabe • processing • design