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IE8: now with less barf!
Their ad campaign is bad, but this is truly awful. Memorable, though
2009-06-30 via:technologyizer • microsoft • browser • ie • barf
Nelson Rubens
My Twitter doppelganger; I get a bunch of @nelson stuff intended for him
2009-06-30 brazil • portugal • portugese • nelson • twitter
Skeuomorph
"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original"
2009-06-29 design • history • word • language
MMO Data
New website with MMO subscriber data. MMOG Chart was the leader here, but sadly not updated in over a year
2009-06-28 mmo • games • data • subscribers
Pink triangle fire
Gay pride icon burned at 5am this morning.
2009-06-28 sanfrancisco • gay • politics • pride • pinktriangle
Hubble search
All the data the telescope collects is made available for download
2009-06-28 hubble • astronomy • space • hst • telescope
Beatles Rock Band cinematic
OK, this is pretty good
2009-06-26 beatles • harmonix • rockband • games
Twitter on Iran data
Some simple analysis of 18 days of tweets. Most telling to me: all the activity is during prime time in the US, but off hours in Iran
2009-06-26 iran • politics • election • twitter
North Korea on Twitter
Looks like the real think
2009-06-26 korea • northkorea • twitter • news • dprk • kcna
Bad paintings of Barack Obama
Just what it says
2009-06-26 obama • president • painting • art
NextBus data
Legal questions of who owns this data about local transit arrivals
2009-06-26 sanfrancisco • muni • transit • bus • data
Alex Cox on Repo Man
Interesting notes from the director about what it was like to make the movie
2009-06-25 movies • alexcox • repoman • punk
Researching your SF building
Great list of resources in San Francisco for researching the history of a building
2009-06-24 sanfrancisco • research • houses • building • history • maps
Sanborn Maps for SF
SF Public Library provides access to library card holders; look for the Sanborn link in this page
2009-06-24 sanbornmaps • maps • cartography • sanfrancisco
Sanborn Maps
Crazy-detailed maps of cities from 1867-1970
2009-06-24 maps • sanbornmaps • insurance • cities • urbanism
Kodu game creator
Xbox community games thing lets you build your own games. Looks aimed at kids.
2009-06-24 games • xbox • xbox360 • kodu • usergeneratedcontent
Leaner CSS
A compiler for a simple language whose result is CSS
2009-06-24 css • html • programming • webdevelopment
Scientology rundown
Amazingly detailed investigative reporting, sourced from some high up insiders
2009-06-24 scientology • cult • religion • via:metafilter
My SF to PDX roadtrip
Experiment with Google Maps
2009-06-23 maps • roadtrip • travel • portland • sanfrancisco • nelson • google • googlemaps
Manifesto Games shuts down
What a shame, Greg Costikyan's pioneering game distribution startup is closing
2009-06-23 games • indiegames • manifesto • costik • costikyan
Happy father's day
Photo of dear old dad
2009-06-22 father • dad • cigarette • beer • funny
Kowloon walled city
Quirk of the British control over Hong Kong left a lawless interzone in the middle of the city
2009-06-21 hongkong • kowloon • china • britain • interzone • taz
Abandoned towns
Photos and info on towns abandoned
2009-06-21 via:metafilter • decay • urban • towns • photography • photos
Parsing the Jobs news
Detailed analysis of who might have given the Wall Street Journal the story about Jobs' liver transplant. When your company is run by The Messiah, people are gonna ask questions.
2009-06-21 jobs • apple • journalism • wsj • wallstreetjournal • news
Hodgman on geeks v. nerds
Roasting Obama at the Radio & TV Correspondents dinner, totally great
2009-06-20 obama • hodgman • funny • tv • via:metafilter
Poker and Twitter
Back channel in poker tournaments changes the game
2009-06-20 twitter • poker • socialmedia
Invader rubikism
Street artist invader is having a new show in New York, here's time-lapse of him making art with Rubiks cubes
2009-06-20 rubik • invader • spaceinvader • streetart • newyork
Cocaine keyboard cat
Pretty complete
2009-06-19 keyboardcat • hallandoats • helenhunt • cocaine • funny • meme
Ajax Nethack
Browser based version of one of the best games ever
2009-06-19 nethack • ajax • hack • via:metafilter • games
Google App Engine adds a task queue
Now you can do work on Google's cluster without having to be an HTTP request handler
2009-06-18 google • cloud • computers • technology • appengine
Marine Traffic
interesting live overlay of cargo ships on a Google map
2009-06-18 via:metafilter • ships • shipping • maps • mapping • sea • ocean
Tony Stubblebine on Twitter
Interesting insider perspective
2009-06-18 twitter • odeo • obvious • crowdvine
Super gay tattoo (NSFW)
If you're gonna go with it, might as well go all the way
2009-06-18 gay • tattoo • merman • penis
Maps of Tehran
Review of online mapping sites; user contributed data seems to be best
2009-06-18 tehran • iran • maps • mapping
Ross Racine
Amazing drawings of imaginary cities
2009-06-17 via:Waxy • art • cities • urbanplanning • drawing
Good Houston dives
List of good sounding places to eat in Houston
2009-06-17 houston • food • restaurants
Smart meter botnet
Electricity grid infrastructure has security holes
2009-06-17 security • badtech • botnet • powermeter • power
Obama's plan for gay rights
Political single serving site
2009-06-16 gay • politics • obama • civilrights
Castro's son duped online
Crazy story of a Cuban activist pretending to be a hot chick, ensnaring the son of Fidel Castro.
2009-06-16 castro • cuba • politics • identity
Twitter and Iran
Good briefing on how Twitter and other social media are being used in Iran election protests
2009-06-16 iran • politics • twitter • socialmedia
Galaxies form
beautiful art installation
2009-06-16 sculpture • art • string • network
Ricdic's confession
The man behind the theft of Eve money from EBANK
2009-06-15 games • eve • eveonline • mmos
Eve bank scandal
Makes the NYT! This is a very interesting in-game story
2009-06-15 eveonline • eve • games • mmo • rmt
Sims 3 nude patch
Removes the blur effect, but nude models are not particularly detailed
2009-06-13 games • sims • nudity • censorship
Sims 3 addon pricing
Complaints from players about the cost of downloadable content
2009-06-13 sims3 • micropayments • games
Edward Cullen sims
Gallery of 140+ virtual Edward Cullen characters made in Sims 3
2009-06-13 sims • games • twilight • edwardcullen
The Simpsons minus the Simpsons
spooky video
2009-06-12 simpsons • tv • animation • via:waxy
Swoops the bird
A blackbird living in downtown SF is something of a celebrity
2009-06-12 birds • blackbirds • sf • sanfrancisco
microsia
pretty, restful sound toy
2009-06-12 games • music • sound • via:waxy
"facesquatting"
Quick Twitter search showing the birth of a new word
2009-06-12 facebook • twitter • facesquatting
Goth [stereo] Types
handy illustrated guide
2009-06-11 goth • funny • subculture
Holy Western Empire
Cached copy of the web page of the alleged Holocaust Museum shooter. Full of crazy.
2009-06-10 racism • holocaust • nazi • bigot
D3DWindower
Run any full screen Windows game in a window. Maybe?
2009-06-10 hacks • software • directx • window • fullscreen
Sylvia Beach hotel
Stayed here last night, very pleasant and more than a little odd
2009-06-04 hotel • oregon • coast • books • reading • dinner
Explosions and Boobs
A very simple website
2009-06-03 boobs • explosions • via:metafilter