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OPPO Blu-ray player
Oppo makes video players that can also play AVI and MKV files off a hard drive.
2009-04-30 bluray • video • movies
Wesabe's big week
Financial startup just launched a new site, signed a customer, and released an iPhone app
2009-04-30 wesabe • finance • money
Mappy tile editor
Utility for making game maps out of tiles
2009-04-30 maps • games • tiles
Adventure 2600 Reboot
Atari classic remade for Windows, with a 16 bit aesthetic
2009-04-30 via:waxy • games • atari • adventure
Distributed antivirus
Panda has a product that watches millions of PCs to detect new malware
2009-04-29 antivirus • panda • software • distributed
This Ain't Star Trek XXX
Hustler does a Star Trek spoof (SFW link)
2009-04-29 via:metafilter • startrek • porn • sex
Sir Allen Stanford
Great profile of the latest financial fraud wizard
2009-04-29 fraud • via:metafilter • antigua • finance
Sugar subtleties
Examination of the idea that HFCS is really worse than other sugars
2009-04-29 diet • obesity • hfcs • sugar • via:metafilter
Twitter failure
This tweet is a great example of how Twitter makes a terrible medium for some things. Picture, a bunch of retweet and other non-English markup
2009-04-28 twitter • messaging • medium
PLATO dnd5
Exploration of a very early computer role playing game
2009-04-28 plato • dnd5 • rpg • games • history
GiantURL.com
Like TinyURL, but bigger and therefore better
2009-04-28 tinyurl • funny • via:metafilter
Archiving Geocities
Notes from the team spidering Geocities before it's shut down
2009-04-28 archive • preservation • geocities • textfiles • jasonscott
Hacking the Time poll
The 4chan nerds actually typed 30 captchas / minute.
2009-04-28 poll • captcha • recaptcha • time • 4chan • anonymous
Twitter on swine flu
Full of lolz
2009-04-27 twitter • swineflu • funny • comic
RIP Bea Arthur
That gal was funny
2009-04-25 beaarthur • obituary • tv
Texas in five states
Breaking up the Lone Star state
2009-04-25 texas • politics • elections • maps
MySQLdb for Python 2.6 on win32
C'est existe
2009-04-24 python • database • mysql • windows • mysqldb
cash gifting @Twitter
Spam infests all media
2009-04-23 spam • twitter • scam
PopCap games inside WoW
Bejeweled wasn't just a one-off, now there's Peggle. 10 million potential new players, why not?
2009-04-23 games • popcap • warcraft • wow • blizzard • bejeweled • peggle
Why Twitter is good
Simple explanation of the value of casual social media
2009-04-23 twitter • conversation • society • social
Open relay in space
Military satellites rebroadcast whatever they receive. Brazilian truck drivers take advantage.
2009-04-23 via:metafilter • radio • ham • rf • security
Nokia 1100 hacks
The underground is willing to pay a lot of money for a specific model of cell phone, apparently because it can be hacked. In related news: the cell phone network is insecure.
2009-04-22 security • nokia • phones • mobile • sms
Ebert on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The film is more complicated than you'd think
2009-04-22 russmeyer • rogerebert • movies • bvd
PC Decrapifier
Software to delete software you don't want from mass market PCs
2009-04-22 software • pc • windows
What is a Diku?
History of early 1990s MMOs in the form of DikuMUD
2009-04-21 dikumud • games • diku • mmos
JG Ballard's legacy
nice obituary
2009-04-21 ballard • rip • obituary • crash
Dynamic web fonts and DRM
Mark Pilgrim, as always, eloquent
2009-04-21 fonts • typography • html • drm
Bicycle trials / parkour
Unpossible
2009-04-21 bike • bicycle • parkour
Buddy Cole
Great collection of old Kids in the Hall sketches
2009-04-21 gay • comedy • buddycole • scottthomspon • kidsinthehall
Tex-Cajun Poutine
Lord that sounds good
2009-04-20 food • poutine • tex-mex • cajun • cooking
My first dictionary
Heartbreaking
2009-04-18 illustration • via:metafilter • words • dictionary • funny
Ev + Oprah
Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends do Twitter
2009-04-17 oprah • twitter • talkshow • ev
1 billion webpages
CMU is making a web crawl available via hard drive mailing
2009-04-17 research • web • cmu • spider • data
MacOS botnet
Apples are now a large enough minority to be worth the trouble to attack
2009-04-17 malware • apple • macos
FBI's spyware
The cops infect computers with keyloggers, too
2009-04-17 malware • fbi • police • cipav • crime
Warcraft in China
Blizzard takes the license away from previous company, gives it to a new partner
2009-04-17 warcraft • china • games • mmo • blizzard
Golden Shower VCS
Anil's right, this holds up well
2009-04-17 goldenshower • music • vcs • video • retro • atari
Disturbing Strokes
Music direction matters
2009-04-16 via:kottke • differentstrokes • garycoleman • molester
Atari Combat code
Detailed disassembly of the classic Atari VCS game
2009-04-16 atari • games • combat • code
Falling in love on a train
Great David Sedaris bit
2009-04-15 sedaris • via:kottke • love • gay
Daft Hands
Somehow I missed this first go around. As the comments say: bien joué
2009-04-14 daftpunk • music • dance
Peanuts nuclear war
Remarkably chilling Peanuts comic
2009-04-14 peanuts • comics • fallout • nuclear • holocaust
Twitter in Moldova data
Ethan digs into data about Twitter usage in the recent Moldovan political upheaval
2009-04-14 twitter • moldova • politics • socialmedia • research • data
AmazonFail detail
Believable explanation of what wrong, with some detail
2009-04-14 amazon • gay • politics • amazonfail
Standard meter
During the French Revolution they put up examples of the new measure of length, the meter
2009-04-14 meter • measurements • france • standards
The war in Delve
Good blog post about the ongoing war in Eve Online
2009-04-14 eveonline • eve • games • mmogs • goonswarm • bob
Useful Mac Mini
Finally a great use for an Apple product
2009-04-13 apple • mac • macmini • toilet
PETA vs Warcraft
Animal rights activism in online game goes terribly funny
2009-04-13 peta • warcraft • games • mmo
Dork Yearbook
Sweet photos with surprisingly sympathetic commentary
2009-04-13 nerd • geek • dork • via:metafilter • pictures • 80s • nostalgia
amazonfail confession?
Livejournal user claims responsibility for flagging all gay books on Amazon as adult via an XSS vulnerability. Unverified, but the attack sounds plausible.
2009-04-13 security • amazon • gay • amazonfail
Stop motion with wolf and pig
Very clever animation
2009-04-13 via:metafilter • animation • movie
Holy weekend in SF
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence agenda
2009-04-10 via:metafilter • gay • sisters • nuns
MySQL finding orphan rows
How to find rows in table A that are somehow not present in table B
2009-04-10 sql • mysql • join • relations • programming
Your business card is crap
Hysterical pitch video
2009-04-09 via:swissmiss • arrogance • marketing • douchebag • design • businesscard
Twitter street art
Twitter tag on a wall in Germany
2009-04-09 streetart • graffiti • twitter
Lalibela churches
Crazy architecture: 11 churches carved out of granite bedrock
2009-04-09 via:metafilter • church • ethiopia • travel • architecture
Depressing Twitter
People tweet "lost my job" an awful lot
2009-04-08 jobs • unemployment • via:metafilter • twitter
ATM skimmers
Fascinating fraud: thin electronics shims steal ATM card stripes and your PIN code
2009-04-08 fraud • theft • atm • hack
Google Chartmaker
simple Javascript tool for interactively building a Google chart
2009-04-08 charts • google • api
Google maps clusterer
Clever library for displaying thousands of markers on a Google map efficiently
2009-04-08 maps • library • google • googlemaps • javascript
Paris star forts
Interesting Google map of some military history in paris
2009-04-08 paris • france • military • fort • map
Java on App Engine
Good for Google!
2009-04-08 java • appengine • cloud • google
Debugging an MMO live
Eve Online guys talk about how they have performance bugs that only show up on live server with 300+ people affected at once
2009-04-08 debugging • code • eve • eveonline • games • mmo
Close Range Game
Brilliant spoof FPS from The Onion. Playable!
2009-04-08 via:waxy • games • fps • onion • funny
Star Trek preview stunt
Some brilliant publicist found the best way ever to preview the new Star Trek movie
2009-04-07 startrek • via:metafilter • tv • movies
CSS is awesome
Lolerific coffee mug
2009-04-06 css • funny • mug • design • via:zawodny
Cling clang clang
Mathowie's reflections on hitting your children. Man knows how to write.
2009-04-06 children • mathowie • discipline
Cape York meteorite
Giant stone falls in Greenland, endless source of iron for harpoon points
2009-04-06 meteorite • inuit • iron • tools
Dreier swindle
Crazy story of a major financial fraud. Like Madoff, but way more brazen.
2009-04-06 fraud • finance • via:metafilter • dreier
Last Night's Party
I'm way, way behind the times here, but interesting profile of a party photographer
2009-04-06 party • photo • photography • bracques
Scala at Twitter
some notes from Al3x's talk
2009-04-05 twitter • scala • languages • java • jvm
Bioshock criticism
Nice collection of commentary on Bioshock
2009-04-04 games • bioshock • criticism • commentary
The Spice must flow
Am I going to hell for linking a lolcat?
2009-04-04 Dune • lolcat • spice
James Earl Jones alphabet
Spooky
2009-04-04 sesamestreet • alphabet • jamesearljones • replicant
URL shorteners bad
Thoughtful essay on how tinyurl, etc are bad for the Web
2009-04-03 url • internet • web • seo
der Klicky-Bibel
Bible illustrated via photos of Playmobil figures
2009-04-03 bible • religion • playmobil
Git vs. Bazaar vs. Mercurial
Python project evaluates distributed source code control systems. In a shocker, picks the one implemented in Python
2009-04-02 vcs • svcs • svn • git • bazaar • mercurial • hg • via:kottke
Star Trek + A-Team
= awesome
2009-04-02 via:metafilter • tv • startrek • ateam
Darwinia+ dev process
Detailed documents from an Xbox Live Arcade game. Development notes, Microsoft approval, etc.
2009-04-02 xbla • xbox • games • darwinia
Google's 12V servers
Some detail on Google hardware
2009-04-02 google • server • hardware • efficiency • power
Xbox community games sales
Not much money being made
2009-04-01 xbox • games • xbla
Palestine archipeligo 2
Larger version of the map I linked awhile back
2009-04-01 palestine • maps • israel • cartography