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Amazon caves on text2speech
I wonder if the Author's Guild also intends to prevent people from standing in a public square and reading a book aloud?
2009-02-28
amazon • copyright • books
FriendFeed datastore
Using MySQL just to store python dicts
2009-02-27
mysql • python • friendfeed • scaling • database
The Economist in Chinese
Waxy tracks down an unofficial fan translation project
2009-02-27
china • economist • translation • scanlation
Bacon Maple donut
Delish
2009-02-26
donut • bacon • via:kottke • food
Underwater armageddon
New BBC HD nature documentary showing an underwater hunt
2009-02-26
bbc • nature • via:kottke • sharks • dolphins
Zen Bound
iPhone game, I remember the concept demo from a year or two ago
2009-02-26
via:waxy • iphone • game
Author's guild stupidity
They want audio rights for audio they have no part in creating
2009-02-25
copyright • publishing • kindle • amazon
Geek attic office
Amazingly designed single person office
2009-02-25
office • computers • monitors • via:kottke
L'invasion de Paris 1.1
Space Invader's out of print book is being reissued
2009-02-24
spaceinvader • book • streetart • paris
Atom in stimulus bill
New government spending bill includes an implementation requirement mandating an Atom or RSS field and structured data
2009-02-24
atom • syndication • rss • government • notification
Java exceptions
Plain English explanations, a bit crooked
2009-02-23
java • funny • programming • parody
Techcrunch are full of shit
A response with more dignity than Arrington's gossipmill deserves
2009-02-23
techcrunch • journalism • reporting • lastfm • riaa
About Ask Metafilter
Nice article explaining the great advice website
2009-02-23
metafilter • questions • askyahoo • askmetafilter • community
How to act
Sir Ian McKellan breaks it down
2009-02-21
lotr • mckellan • ianmckellan • acting • funny
Meeting Shaq via Twitter
sweet story of a celebrity interaction
2009-02-20
twitter • shaq • basketball
Another Adobe exploit
Buffer overflow, "a fix will be coming". Adobe products are the weakest link in broswer security.
2009-02-20
adobe • badtech • exploit • bufferoverflow
Pakistan photos
Particularly good Big Picture
2009-02-18
pakistan • photos • photography • muslim
Confessions of a WoW Botter
Guy buys software to play Warcraft for him
2009-02-18
glider • wow • warcraft • bot • games • mmo
moot of 4chan
Neat profile of the guy behind the unruly bulletin board community
2009-02-17
4chan • moot • community • via:metafilter
Hard drive shredder
A hardware solution
2009-02-16
via:twitter • hard • drive • data • shredder • privacy
The Space Game
Great flash game, a union of RTS and tower defense
2009-02-16
via:metafilter • towerdefense • games • rts
BoB vs Goonswarm
Fantastic summary of the giant war raging across Eve Online
2009-02-15
eve • games • eveonline • bob • goonswarm • via:metafilter
Octuplets inside
Not positive this is real, but photo of the full-term octoplet mom
2009-02-13
photo • octoplets • birth • batshitinsane
Twitter financing
Announcement of another round of venture capital
2009-02-13
twitter • financing • benchmark • ivp • vc • venturecapital
Baby daddy
I love The Sun
2009-02-13
pregnancy • parenting • family
Satellite collision
So the question is, was this really an accident?
2009-02-12
satellite • collision • space
Yahoo API pricing
$1 / 10,000 spell corrections, $1 / 3000 search results, off peak is cheaper
2009-02-11
yahoo • search • api • charging • price
Le grand-père of Vimy
sweet story of French hospitality
2009-02-11
france • canada • tourist • guide • obituary
Pepsi logo process
Hysterically pompous advertising design document, but the design process is sort of beautiful
2009-02-10
pepsi • advertising • design • branding • logo
Fake autism data
Rumoured link between measles vaccine and autism based on fake data?!
2009-02-10
vaccination • measles • health • via:metafilter • autism
Dreams of Barack
Someone's aggregating twitter updates where people talk about their dreams of Barack Obama
2009-02-08
barack • obama • twitter • dreams • president
Morphable faces
impressive CG demonstration
2009-02-08
via:mbostock • face • cgi • cg • graphics
Google van vs. deer
Crazy Streetview photos
2009-02-08
via:dailyrotten • google • deer • roadkill • maps
BoB spy recruitment
Great chat logs of Goonswarm recruiting the turncoat for BoB
2009-02-08
via:metafilter • eve • eveonline • ccp • games • mmo • bob
BoB destroyed in Eve
Former fearsome alliance that controlled Eve Online now completely screwed by social engineering
2009-02-06
bob • eveonline • eve • ccp • via:plasticbaguk • games • mmog
Netflix + Xbox = 1M users
Streaming TV is here. Average of 25 hours per user in half a year
2009-02-06
xbox • tv • netflix
French pig butchery
Everything but the squeal
2009-02-06
france • food • butcher • boudinnoir
Workrave break reminder
Decent little break reminder app
2009-02-03
rsi • ergonomics • software • window
Map projections
Nice visualization of some unusual projections
2009-02-03
mapping • cartography • mapprojections • via:jwz • maps
Super Bowl logos
Interesting colour treatment of the logos
2009-02-03
superbowl • visualization • color • colour
Super Bowl tweets
Amazing visualization of what people were saying during the game
2009-02-03
superbowl • twitter • visualization
Thelonius Monk’s advice
Fantastic little note
2009-02-02
music • monk • piano • sax • jazz
Phelps' bong photo
Looks like a pro. Also, he gives a shit if he smokes pot?
2009-02-02
marijuana • phelps • scandal • olympics • swimming • bong • pot