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Burj Dubai
great set of aerial photos of the 2000 foot skyscraper
2008-09-30 dubai • burjdubai • via:metafilter • buildings • construction • photography
Bill Owens
Amazing American photographer
2008-09-30 billowens • photography • america • photos • suburbia
Barney Frank pwns
Probably not good to add fuel to the fire right now, but damn he's funny
2008-09-29 barneyfrank • republics • politics • bailout
Google for gay marriage
Quite a strong statement, good for them
2008-09-27 gay • california • politics • google
Viral virtual lighter
Nice analysis of a silly toy app
2008-09-26 lighter • apple • iphone • viral
Miss Alaska 1984
Sarah Palin lists her qualification as "recognized by Who's Who"
2008-09-26 sarahpalin • politics • via:waxy • alaska • whoswho
North Korean arcade
Old videogames
2008-09-26 via:Waxy • games • arcade • northkorea
Paris confrontation
Hysterical little story of someone standing up for themselves in a Paris restaurant
2008-09-25 paris • france • french • restaurant
Net Moguls
1996ish satire of Web leaders
2008-09-25 internet • culture • web • suck • netmoguls
Spore commentary
Nice summary of the disappointment
2008-09-24 games • spore • wilwright • sims
Viva Pinata review
I'm loving this game
2008-09-24 games • vivapinata • xbox360 • rare
YouTube / Wii
Clever video ad
2008-09-23 youtube • via:waxy • wii • nintendo • wario
Photographer's mug
Can't decide if it's beautiful or horrifying
2008-09-23 photographer • photography • coffee • mug
Hedge fund job ad
lulz
2008-09-23 hedgefund • money • financials
Be my wife!
Awesome crazy man personal ad
2008-09-20 via:metafilter • personals • batshitinsane • marriage • wife
Observing Ramadan
Yet another amazing Big Picture
2008-09-19 ramadan • islam • muslim • photography
Time of my Life
17 years of a guy photographing himself daily
2008-09-19 via:waxy • photography • aging • life • timelapse
Cisco buys jabber.com
Good lord, did they actually look at the protocol?
2008-09-19 jabber • im • cisco
Myhrvold’s IP racket
A company that produces nothing but patent lawsuits and the ability to buy your way out of them
2008-09-17 ip • patents • myrvhold • legal • law
Yahtzee on Spore
As always, Yahtzee gets quickly to the point of his reviews and nails it
2008-09-17 spore • review • yahtzee • games
Bank closures and you
Nice simple piece about how bank closures affect average americans
2008-09-15 money • banks • fdic
Convert MKV to AVI
Repackaging video from one container format to another
2008-09-14 mkv • avi • video • convert • xvid • divx • xbox
Open source forks
Thoughtful roundup of forks in open source projects
2008-09-11 opensource • software
Freestyle rap
Translated for the Princeton debate set
2008-09-11 rap • freestyle • via:waxy
Ensemble Studios shutdown
Troubling news; Microsoft shutting down one of their great game studios
2008-09-10 games • gaming • ensemble • ageofempires • ageofmythology • microsoft • halowars
UAL: not bankrupt
Trading debacle from a combination of an undated newspaper article and an overzealous stock tip feed
2008-09-10 stocks • news • united • trading • badtech
Rails gets threads
Congratulations; it's like 1997 for the Ruby web development community
2008-09-04 rails • ruby • ror • threads • performance • webapps
Google's browser
Google pushing browser UI in interesting directions. Based on Webkit?!
2008-09-01 webkit • via:waxy • browser • firefox • msie