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Settlers of Catan
Great description of why this game is so compelling
2009-03-30
games • boardgames • catan • settlersofcatan
70s pool
I'm really captivated by this photo
2009-03-27
via:mariuswatz • photo • 70s • design
American baking ingredients in Paris
fascinating list of things you can't buy in Paris
2009-03-27
paris • france • cooking • food • baking • cornmeal
$8000 house, unseen
First person account from someone who bought a house sight-unseen for $8000. Now what?
2009-03-27
house • indiana • renovation
Malwarebytes
Recommended anti-malware software, newer than Spybot, etc.
2009-03-27
malware • virus • adware • badtech • via:metafilter • software • antivirus • spybot • adaware
Git concepts
Simple, cogent explanation of how Git models source code control
2009-03-26
git • scm • versioncontrol • software • tools
OnLive skepticism
Been wondering about this; cloud-computing gaming seems really difficult to me, too
2009-03-26
via:metafilter • online • gaming • games • compression • latency
Swensen interview
Famous investor / theorist does a casual interview
2009-03-26
finance • swensen • assetallocation • portfolio
Electronic vote fraud
Actual documented fraud, exploiting a confusing UI in a voting machine
2009-03-24
via:metafilter • elections • democracy • voting
Lonely in Vegas
Waiter can still write when he wants to
2009-03-24
lasvegas • vegas • loneliness
Creamery bust
Heartbreaking story of a financial disaster in a Humbolt county dairy cooperative
2009-03-24
farming • dairy • business • finance
Atari Blaster
Nice appreciation of a classic video game
2009-03-23
spacegiraffe • atari • blaster • robotron • games
Chartres windows
Detailed browsable photographs of these fantastic windows
2009-03-23
architecture • church • chartres • gothic • cathedral • stainedglass • windows
Conficker analysis
Amazingly detailed description of what the worm is doing
2009-03-23
conficker • worm • malware • security • tldr
scsh acknowledgements
Lulerific
2009-03-23
funny • academics • scheme • acknowledgements • olinshivers • scsh
The Evolution of Lua
Great paper about how the Lua language evolved
2009-03-21
brazil • languages • lua • scripting • games
BSG interview
Great spoilerific interview with series creator, actors, etc
2009-03-21
via:metafilter • bsg • television • tv
Doug Bowman / Google
Nice note about his choice to leave. I think Google's data-driven approach to design is a unique strength, but I could see how it'd be terribly limiting for someone like Doug.
2009-03-20
design • data • analytics • google • via:marc
internetz
poignant comic
2009-03-20
internet • love • culture • dating • comic
Boxxy
Didn't know about this? You are old.
2009-03-20
boxxy • 4chan • internet • video
Undo Gmail send
Very simple idea, 5 second delay when sending mail allows you to cancel
2009-03-19
email • retract • regret
Conficker update
Popular press account of the most recent major worm botnet
2009-03-19
botnet • badtech • virus • security
Bathtub IV
Great timelapse tilt-shift movie. Normally I find this stuff gimmicky, but this is a nice little short story.
2009-03-19
photography • sydney • ocean • tiltshift • timelapse • rescue
Tokyo Cabinet
Overview of a simple database-like storage engine, a competitor to BDB
2009-03-19
database • tokyoengine • ruby • bdb • berkeleydb
Wikirank
Nice overview of Veen's new project
2009-03-19
smallbatch • wikipedia • wikirank • visualization • veen
10,000 naughty sites
Australian government's blacklist of websites, all hyperlinked for your convenience
2009-03-19
porn • pr0n • australia • censorship • via:metafilter
Protovis
A Javascript graphics libraries for doing data visualization. Somewhere between a Processing and a full charting library
2009-03-19
data • visualization • javascript • processing
rage, FFFUUU-
Explanation of the childish but amusing and versatile 4chan meme
2009-03-18
rage • fffuuu • comic • 4chan
ACme
Wireless electricity use monitor
2009-03-18
via:marc • power • energy
Flying car!
Great photo series
2009-03-18
via:philg • aviation • airplane • car • thefuture
Chrono Trigger playthrough
Vintage game club is going to play the JRPG classic together. Looking forward to it!
2009-03-18
games • snes • ds • nds • nintendo • chronotrigger
Wesabe SpringBoard
Finance website announces new platform for banks and credit unions
2009-03-18
wesabe • finance • money • budget
Best Unix commands
Peer-voted list of favourite bash commands
2009-03-17
via:pbausch • unix • bash • software
jwz mixtape 073: SXSW
Jamie picks out some tracks from this year's SXSW music festival
2009-03-17
sxsw • music • mixtape
blosxom to mtimport
Considering moving my blog off of Blosxom to Typepad. Here's a python script that might help.
2009-03-16
python • btimport • blosxom • blogs • weblogs • software
MMO financials
Summary of the top online games and how they make money
2009-03-16
mmo • financials • mmog • games • blizzard • warcraft
Palestine archipeligo
Map shows the fractured Palestinian territory as a series of islands
2009-03-14
maps • palestine • israel
Oracle vs. MySQL
Simple list of the ways the free database is less capable than the expensive bloated database
2009-03-14
mysql • oracle • database
Journalism revolution
Well reasoned, calm essay about the coming end of newspaper journalism and how to approach replacing it
2009-03-14
newspapers • print • journalism • economics • internet
FSA photos
Fantastic photos from a forgotten America
2009-03-13
photos • photography • america • rural • depression
fsync in Firefox
how one application developer deals with the tradeoffs between speed and correctness in Linux filesystems
2009-03-13
firefox • fsync • filesystem • sqllite
Ext4 sync times
Interesting Linux filesystem discussion; the new ext4fs only flushes data every 60 seconds or so, causing all sorts of problems with apps that don't fsync(). Ted T'so's comments are the most interesting.
2009-03-13
linux • ext3fs • ext4fs • filesystems • fsync • ext4
Google ad auction
Great little explanation of how quality and bid interact for Google ads. This formula is the key to Google's success, and Hal explains it well.
2009-03-12
halvarian • google • cpc • auction • ads • advertising
New AOL CEO from Google
Wow, Google's head ad sales guy is now CEO at AOL.
2009-03-12
google • aol • advertising • timarmstrong
kindlefeeder
Site to make it easier to bring RSS/Atom data into your Kindle for reading
2009-03-12
kindle • feeds • atom • rss
Space Invasion
Invader putting up a piece on a freeway
2009-03-12
via:boingboing • streetart • paris • france • spaceinvader • mosaic
Wolfram Alpha review
Some actual information on the new information product
2009-03-12
wolfram • alpha • search • semantics
Diamond heist
Fun article about diamond thieves
2009-03-12
diamonds • theft • heist • belgium
Palin baby daddy
Poster child for abstinence education to be a single mom
2009-03-12
palin • politics
maps from scratch
detailed presentation and code for making maps from software on Linux
2009-03-11
opensource • maps • cartography • etech • code
Immigration explorer
Fantastic interactive map of immigration data in the US
2009-03-11
immigration • infovis • visualization • data • maps
Google's new ad product
Very interesting; they're now aggregating user data across sites. With a lot of transparency and user opt-out. This will work well for them.
2009-03-11
google • ads • privacy
Lincoln's watch
Crazy story; a watchermaker tagged the inside of Lincoln's watch
2009-03-11
graffiti • lincoln • civilwar • via:metafilter
Warcraft vs. China
Warcraft expansion faces Chinese regulation problems because of depictions of death
2009-03-10
warcraft • games • china • culture • mmog • mmorpg
Carpet weaves
Handy reference to how carpets are made
2009-03-10
carpet • rug • weaving
Serdar Argic
nice history of an early usenet spammer: the cancelbot wars were interesting.
2009-03-10
usenet • spam • turkey • armenia • genocide
Phish drug bust
Concerts like this are usually temporary autonomous zones; why turn this one into a sting?
2009-03-10
phish • hippies • drugwar • drugs • police
Lusitania's cargo
I never knew the passenger liner was likely carrying munitions
2009-03-08
war • britain • germany • lusitania
World Builder
Sweet short film, a computer nerd love poem
2009-03-06
ui • hci • movie • animation • blender
Saturday morning Watchmen
If only The Watchmen were a Saturday kid's cartoon from 1987
2009-03-06
watchmen • cartoon • comics • via:metafilter
Birds stealing ice cream
Photos, just like it says on the label
2009-03-05
birds • icecream • photos • photography
Rendering rocks
Major improvement coming to Eve Online: better asteroids
2009-03-04
rendering • graphics • eveonline • mmo • ccp • games
Google search API rant
Paul calls out Google for its smarmy language about shutting off the search api
2009-03-04
google • rant • searchapi • search
Sushicam
Conveyor belt sushi carries a video camera around
2009-03-02
camera • sushi • japan • via:metafilter
Waxy makes good!
From blog post to NYT article
2009-03-02
nyt • nytimes • waxy • journalism • economist
Obama chillin
Great set of photos
2009-03-02
obama • president
The Linear RPG
Beautiful little deconstruction of RPG gameplay
2009-03-02
games • rpg
Exactitudes
Small multiple portrait photography
2009-03-01
photography • photos • smallmultiples • portraits • via:metafilter
Siegfried and Roy have balls
On stage with the Roy-munching tiger Montecore
2009-03-01
magic • siegfriendandroy • vegas • tiger