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Magnolia outage
Such a shame
2009-01-31
magnolia • delicious • bookmarks • badtech • backups
Hotel room portraits
Great series of intimate autoportraits. Some NSFW
2009-01-29
gay • photography • via:metafilter • motel
Cello scrotum
Dangerous affliction or funny hoax? Yeah, hoax.
2009-01-29
via:metafilter • cello • scrotum • music
iPhone app store
Not sure if this is official, but a way to browse iPhone apps that's not iTunes
2009-01-26
via:al3x • iphone • apple
Decisions in games
Thoughtful essay pointing out that old kids games were much stupider than new ones
2009-01-26
games • kids • children • play
Merrill's $4B bonuses
It's pretty astonishing that federal money is used to pay failing bank executive bonuses
2009-01-26
scandal • finance • merill • merrilllynch • tarp • economics
Python 3.0 overview
What's new in the release. Lots of fixes to warts, mostly.
2009-01-23
python • python3000 • python3k • code • programming
World of World of Warcraft
Breakthrough simulation
2009-01-22
games • warcraft • parody • theonion • onion
Gridrunner+++
Minter's newest crazy game
2009-01-22
games • minter • shooter • gridrunner • spacegiraffe • llamasoft
OpenStreetMap edits
Timelapse video of where additions were made to the map
2009-01-22
maps • animation • visualization • openstreetmap • ito
New presidential ethics
Obama's first action is to make it clear how he's going to run the government
2009-01-22
obama • president • ethics • politics
Inauguration photos
Amazingly curated collection; I linked to my favourite, #10
2009-01-21
inauguration • obama • president • kenya
Home power monitor
Hacker's cobbled together sensor system
2009-01-21
power • green • electricity • via:joshua
Twitter stats
5x traffic, suffered some short delays. Good job folks!
2009-01-20
twitter • inauguration • stats
Melting bunnies
Sad, fascinating little video
2009-01-20
via:frauenfelder • video • rabbit • bunny • chocolate • art
Marble Madness speedrun
I'd forgotten how great the sound is in this game
2009-01-19
via:waxy • games • atari • marblemadness • speedrun • trackball
Not a journalist
Mike Arrington makes it clear, "I don’t claim to be a journalist, and I’m never neutral."
2009-01-19
techcrunch • arrington • journalism
Tweet-a-watt
Power monitor hooked to Twitter
2009-01-19
twitter • power • energy • green • hack
Eefing
Beat-boxing by early 60s hillbillies
2009-01-19
eefing • music • beatbox • heehaw
Our new president
Are there any bad photographs of Obama?
2009-01-17
obama • president • bumpercars
Von Heimat zu Heimat
Amazing child's map of his journey out of Nazi Germany to a new home in South America
2009-01-17
maps • jewish • holocaust • germany • diaspora
Radio spectrum
FCC allocation chart of where it all goes
2009-01-17
via:mariuswatz • radio • technology • frequency • bandwidth • communications
AppStore PEE
Tweetie adds a flashlight and fart noises to improve its iPhone app store rankings
2009-01-16
parody • apple • twitter • iphone • fart
80 Million tiny images
Interesting visualization: words arranged by semantic meaning, then represented by average images
2009-01-16
visualization • infovis • words • dictionary • wordnet • via:metafilter
Roxanne by Songsmith
Vocals from The Police fed through the auto-harmony Microsoft doodad
2009-01-15
music • microsoft • songsmith • roxanne • sting • thepolice
Funny condom ad
Sex is funny. Balloon animal sex is hilarious.
2009-01-15
sex • condoms • durex • ad • advertisement • funny
More Google trimming
Cutting some unsuccessful or redundant products. Including, sadly, Jaiku and Dodgeball
2009-01-15
jaiku • google • downsizing • dodgeball
Robots per capita
Great visualization of who has the most robots / worker
2009-01-14
robots • maps • visualization • japan
Dining with Dubya
Great little reminiscence from one of the Bush daughter's friends on his casual dinners with the family
2009-01-14
bush • politics • whitehouse • gay • via:metafilter
Adware Anatomy
fascinating article about how evil malware works
2009-01-14
adware • malware • software • badtech • via:metafilter • virus
White Balance explained
Great, simple explanation of what white balance is and how to adjust it
2009-01-11
photography • photos • camera • colour • color • whitebalance • kelvin • temperature
Luzern travel map
Beautiful visualization of places you can go from Luzern
2009-01-09
visualization • data • luzern • switzerland • lucerne • vintage • map
Microsoft Songsmith
Jaw-droppingly awful ad. OTOH, the researchers who made the software are the actors, so that's kinda cute
2009-01-09
microsoft • advertising • music • songsmith
Mirror eyes
Amazing fish uses a focussing mirror instead of a lens to see
2009-01-08
fish • eyes • science • mirror • evolution • via:metafilter
Don't Buy From Bigots
List of businesses that donated to the anti-gay measure proposition 8.
2009-01-08
civilright • gay • proposition8
S3://
Firefox extension to let you get to Amazon S3 files in your browser
2009-01-08
firefox • s3 • amazon • cloud
Book Burro
Firefox addon that looks up info on books in stores and libraries. Using this to help me check out a book at the library rather than buy it.
2009-01-08
books • libraries • amazon • firefox
Israel shooting at UN relief trucks
Did I really read this right?
2009-01-08
israel • palestine • gaza • war • redcross • un • unitednations
#sqlputdowns
Funny nerd humour
2009-01-08
via:zawodny • sql • database • twitter
Captions vs Subtitles
Interesting differences
2009-01-07
via:diveintomark • accessibility • deaf • captions • subtitles • video
[obama unicorn]
Awesome Google Images search
2009-01-06
obama • unicorn • search • images
Travel time map
Heat map of how long it takes to get to a major city from everywhere in the world
2009-01-06
transportation • travel • world • map • cartography
Avoiding fake torrents
Practical advice for thieves who want to avoid being scammed
2009-01-06
torrent • malware • bittorrent
HIV Denial in the Internet Era
Review of how the Internet creates a community of nutjobs who argue HIV doesn't cause AIDS
2009-01-06
via:metafilter • aids • hiv • community • internet • culture
LiveJournal on the skids
LJ is a great example of a hugely valuable service that has never quite been a hugely valuable business
2009-01-06
livejournal • blogging • business
MacBook Wheel
Very well executed parody
2009-01-06
funny • video • apple • hci
Ice photos
Yet another awesome Big Picture
2009-01-05
ice • photography
NYT OpEd on the financial crisis
Scathing, detailed argument that the government's response to the financial crisis has been exactly wrong. Read the followup, too.
2009-01-05
via:kottke • politics • economics • finance • wallstreet • sec
Zim photos
Images of people using Zimbabwe's hyperinflated currency
2009-01-04
via:robotwisdom • zimbabwe • inflation • collapse • hyperinflation • zim
wingsuits
amazing BASE jump flying
2009-01-04
wingsuit • base • skydiving • flying • via:metafilter
aXXo profile
Great article about the movie pirating scene
2009-01-02
via:metafilter • axxo • torrent • bittorrent • copyright • movies • theft • property
True Blues
Absolutely mind-boggling painting of presidents playing poker
2009-01-01
presidents • democrats • poker • politics • art • tacky • trash