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GAEUnit
Unit testing framework for Google AppEngine. Lets you run tests inside the GAE environment
2009-08-30 appengine • testing • unittesting • python • code
Times Square on New Year's Eve
Are all these comments for real? Sounds hideous.
2009-08-29 crowds • newyork • timessquare • newyearseve
ReBit
Another Time Machine for Windows program, looks promising
2009-08-29 backup • timemachine • shadowcopy • windows • software • disk
"Screw Google" meetings
Microsoft's lobbying efforts in DC
2009-08-28 microsoft • google • politics • antitrust • legal
Poodle sculptures
Dogs freakily trimmed and dyed
2009-08-28 dogs • poodles • stupid • via:metafilter
Champions Online comments
Nice roundup of thoughts
2009-08-28 games • championsonline • mmos • superheroes • cryptic
Yelp easter egg
Augmented reality view hidden in the iPhone app
2009-08-28 yelp • augmentedreality • iphone • easteregg
App Engine data modelling
Argument for massive denormalization so things work fast in Google AppEngine
2009-08-27 google • appengine • gae • database • scalability • bigtable
GAE: query restrictions
Details of what kinds of limitations Google App Engine places on queries
2009-08-27 google • appengine • gae • queries • databases • gql • sql • software
netboot.me
Very small boot disk that lets you load many operating systems over a network
2009-08-27 network • boot • internet • linux • software
More EBANK problems
Eve Online's big player run bank is insolvent. 2x the liabilities as assets.
2009-08-26 ebank • games • mmos • eveonline • eve • banking
Tile Drawer
OpenStreetMap renderer packaged as a plug-and-play Amazon EC2 instance
2009-08-26 maps • cartography • osm • openstreetmap • ec2 • amazon
MinGW + MSYS
Alternative to cygwin for Unix on Windows. MinGW gives Posix emulation with a minimum of changes to Windows, MSYS gives a shell environment
2009-08-25 mingw • msys • cygwin • unix • posix • windows • software
Scotch ostrich egg
Disgusting!
2009-08-24 food • eggs • scotchegg • fried • egg
CombineZM
Photo software: combine images at different focus depths to make one super-focus image
2009-08-23 photography • focus • software • opensource • stacking • dof • depthoffield
Genie Timeline
Time Machine for Windows
2009-08-23 backup • windows • timemachine • archive • versioning
DiskCheckup
Reasonable SMART monitoring for Windows. No idea why this isn't built in by default.
2009-08-22 windows • smart • harddrive
SF street food festival
Looks interesting
2009-08-21 via:andy • food • sanfrancisco • streetfood
Codepad
Share code via a website; unlike pastebin, this one runs the code too
2009-08-20 via:waxy • software • pastebin
Mumble
Altternative to Teamspeak or Ventrilo for group voice chat
2009-08-20 voice • chat • teamspeak • ventrilo • games • software • speex
Czech travel tips
Nice set of blog posts
2009-08-19 czech • travel • tourism • europe
Xbox 360: 54% fail
Over half of the Xboxes sold broke. What a design flaw!
2009-08-17 xbox360 • xbox • rrod • failure • consumer
Kind of Bloop commentary
Nice background on how the project happened
2009-08-17 music • milesdavis • chiptunes • scene • via:waxy • kickstarter
Eve vs. RMT
Eve Online developers banned a bunch of accounts doing real money trade. Great analysis of the aftermath.
2009-08-17 eve • rmt • games • eveonline • mmos • economics
US religious geography
Great series of maps showing religious distribution in the US
2009-08-17 religion • demographics • unitedstates • america
Photographer catches Usain Bolt
How do you photograph the fastest man?
2009-08-17 photography • via:metafilter • usainbolt • bolt • running
CaringBridge
Blog + social media service for people who are in serious medical care. What a humane service.
2009-08-17 blog • web2.0 • illness • medicine • weblogs • hospital
Kind of Bloop
Andy's chiptune project covering Miles Davis is released! Samples online now, available to the public soon
2009-08-17 via:waxy • music • milesdavis • chiptunes • scene • kickstarter
Eve Tweeters
You put your video games in my Twitter!
2009-08-17 twitter • eveonline • games • eve • mmorpg
Facebook land rush
Detailed engineering description of how they handled the name registration product
2009-08-16 facebook • scalability • engineering • software • memcache
Stormtroopin' in the Rain
Nice image
2009-08-15 starwars • singinintherain • genekelly • photoshop • photo • stormtrooper
Chromium in Eve Online
Interesting; popular MMO game will be embedding Google Chrome via the Awesomium library
2009-08-15 games • eveonline • eve • mmo • browser • chrome • webkit
flot Javascript charting
Basic library for doing charts in Javascript; works in all browsers
2009-08-15 charting • graphs • plotting • data • javascript • programming • jquery
Fallout 3 mod scene
Nice overview of how strong the Fallout 3 mods are
2009-08-14 games • fallout • mods • modscene
Your world of text
Weird browser collaboration/game thing; infinitely scrollable text fiel
2009-08-14 via:metafilter • games • text • web2.0
Shoplifter shakedown
This is nuts; if someone's busted for shoplifting the store can demand a "fine" in lieu of involving the authorities.
2009-08-14 law • shoplifting • civilrights
Skia graphics
Google Chrome has its own vector graphics library
2009-08-13 graphics • cairo • svg • vector • webkit • android • mobile
No flight privacy
US government is getting a list of names of everyone who flies
2009-08-13 privacy • government
CSS Cursors
List with pictures of all the cursors available in CSS
2009-08-13 cursors • css • javascript • webprogramming
PureText
Simple solution to enable paste-as-text in Windows
2009-08-11 windows • systrack • utility • paste • text
Album covers
Seen this idea before, but these are really well done
2009-08-11 photography • funny • albums • music
Eve RMT economics
Details of the trade in PLEXes in Eve Online, essentially a proxy for buying in-game currency
2009-08-11 eve • eveonline • mmos • economics
Choose your own Adventure analysis
Great flowchart of one of the old kid's books. Worth viewing the PDF. The structure is quite complex and rewards multiple visits.
2009-08-11 via:waxy • games • infovis • books • visualization • cyoa • chooseyourownadventure
Hitler learns of FriendFeed buyout
A lot of FriendFeed users seem to be pissed; good parody
2009-08-11 friendfeed • facebook • hitler • funny • parody
Virtual keyboards
Detailed analysis of iPhone vs. Android's virtual keyboards
2009-08-11 keyboard • typing • iphone • android • hci • interface • usability
Doug Cutting to Cloudera
Doug's one of the smartest systems engineers out there
2009-08-10 hadoop • lucene • nutch • yahoo • cloudera • cloud
Sorting big data in Python
Nicely annotated example of how to do something simple, well
2009-08-10 python • algorithm • generators
non-English programming languages
Most programming languages use English keywords ("for", "if", "return", etc.)
2009-08-10 programming • software • languages
Facebook buys Friendfeed
huh
2009-08-10 facebook • friendfeed • twitter • business
Atlantica Online microtransactions
Nice description of how this new game finance model works in AO
2009-08-10 games • micropayments • microtransactions • mmos • economics
Men at their most masculine
Interesting photo project (Note: some photos are nudes)
2009-08-10 men • masculinity • nsfw • nude • gay • craigslist • photography • portraits
Plane collision photo
Amazing photo of the mid air collision
2009-08-10 airplane • aviation • accident • helicopter • newyork
tr.im shutting down
First big URL shortener to go away; what happens to the links?
2009-08-09 url • shortener • tinyurl • nambu • shutdown
Visible Minifig
What's inside a Lego man?
2009-08-09 legos • anatomy • funny
Steam indie games sale
These are two great collections of indie games.
2009-08-09 games • braid • darwinia • steam
George Sodini online
more Internet traces from the killer
2009-08-07 sodini • killer • murder • google
Finding my goddess
Painfully earnest personal ad
2009-08-07 dating • personalads • batshitinsane • via:mike
Demolition City
Great little Flash game
2009-08-07 games • physics • via:metafilter • boom
BackType
Web app that tries to find all the blog posts you've commented on everywhere on the Internet
2009-08-07 weblog • blog • comments • discussion
Making Mad Men
Great detailed interview with the show's creator
2009-08-06 tv • television • madmen • matthewweiner
Taser + iRobot
Apparently not a spoof: robots equipped with weapons to take down humans. Love the font choice.
2009-08-06 robots • taser • weapons
Emperor Norton
Blogged because *some* people I know who live in the Bay Area don't know who he is. Ahem.
2009-08-06 sanfrancisco • california • crazy • history
MacOS security fixes
Must remember to trot this list out next time someone tries to claim Macs are inherently more secure. All software has bugs.
2009-08-06 security • macos • macintosh • osx
Gym murderer diary
George Sodini had an online diary, discusses his "Exit Plan" months before murder. Offline now, here's a copy.
2009-08-05 murder • georgesodini • blog • blogging • diary
Paris street art walk
Good looking guide to a nice Paris walking tour
2009-08-04 streetart • paris • graffiti • spaceinvader • l'atlas • menager
Crushing despair of unemployment
Heartbreaking story of a family down on their luck
2009-08-04 unemployment • economy
SF sunrise chart
very simple to read chart of sunrise/sunset times, along with position of sun in the sky
2009-08-04 astronomy • sanfrancisco • sun • solar • calculator • almanac
Contortionist folding bike
The video is worth watching
2009-08-04 bike • folding • commuter • bicycle • engineering • for:kra
Flip Flop Fly Ball
Great collection of sports infographics
2009-08-04 via:waxy • infographics • infovis • sports • baseball
SEO gone bad
Texas political campaign's website was keyword stuffed
2009-08-04 seo • badtech • google • texas • politics
Same-sex couples stats
2006 survey of census data, etc estimating the number of gays and lesbians in various places in the US
2009-08-04 census • gay • civilrights
Auto-Tune the News #7
Bring the funny!
2009-08-03 parody • autotune • autotunethenews
VinCellar
This looks to be the best iPhone-friendly system for tracking a wine cellar
2009-08-03 winecellar • wine • drink • iphone • database
OO in Javascript
Simple explanation of how prototypes work
2009-08-03 javascript • programming • oo • coding • prototypes
Warhammer's problems
Thoughtful article on a few fundamental game design flaws in Warhammer that sabotage an otherwise great game
2009-08-03 games • gamedesign • mmos • warcraft • mythic • daoc • warhammer • war
More on Curse hack
Straight from the Curse site
2009-08-03 curse • hack • badtech • security • flash
Curse Gaming hacked
That Adobe Flash vulnerability is real, and someone targeted Warcraft accounts with it. Nice.
2009-08-03 badtech • adobe • flash • warcraft • hack
Python Unladen Swallow
Google-financed open source project to make a faster CPython VM. The document is well written, also a rare public example of Google design doc format
2009-08-03 google • design • python • optimization • JIT • software • opensource
How people spend the day
Nice visualization
2009-08-02 infovis • graphics • statistics • people • activity
Picard food
appreciation of Paris' odd TV dinner stores
2009-08-01 france • paris • food • frozenmeals • tvdinners • picard