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900,000 Halo players in one day
Big launch
2009-09-23 games • halo • odst • xbox
Sydney dust storm
Crazy photos
2009-09-22 sydney • duststorm • australia • weather • photos
Lego house demolished
Pictures from dismantling a house built out of Lego
2009-09-22 toys • lego • construction • via:metafilter
AES explained by stick figure
Cute little cartoon
2009-09-22 cryptography • encryption • aes • rijndael • comic
Animated treemap
Neat visualization of how the financial sector shrunk and grew in the past few years
2009-09-22 visualization • infographics • via:flowingdata • finance • economy
American Megaregions
Map highlighting population centers
2009-09-22 via:joegregorio • demographics • maps • america
Oktoberfest
Fun pictures
2009-09-21 beer • germany • munich • munchen • oktoberfest • photography
How long is this game?
Graphs of one gamer's enjoyment of specific games
2009-09-20 games • ratings • data
Peter Pan got married
The Internet's favourite lovable fairy got married
2009-09-20 wedding • marriage • meme • via:metafilter • peterpan
VC company exits
Basic description of the politics of when you sell your venture-backed startup
2009-09-19 vc • investment • startups • entrepreneurs • venturecapital • acquisition
Orbeted comet server
HTTP server optimized for keeping persistent connections open to thousands of clients
2009-09-19 comet • ajax • programming • server • python • code
Elite 25 year anniversary
Big milestone for one of the best computer games ever
2009-09-19 elite • games • space • retro
Millenia Ranger
Champions Online machinima
2009-09-18 championsonline • champions • games • mmos • machinima • anime
Burger styles
Great listing of types of hamburgers
2009-09-18 food • burgers • hamburgers • cooking • american
REST-*
Promising to bring the complexity of Enterprise Software Integration to the simplicity of RESTful web services
2009-09-17 soap • rest • badtech • programming • internet
Warcraft operations
Notes from a talk about Blizzard does their thing. 13,000 servers with 1 gig of RAM, 4-8 cores each. 4600 people for a game of 12 million.
2009-09-17 games • blizzard • warcraft • mmos • staffing
Time Fcuk
Flash game, with amazing aesthetics as if Mother/Earthbound were made to be a giant bummer
2009-09-17 games • puzzle • via:waxy
Bloody Nipples
Photos of runners in a world of hurt
2009-09-17 pain • nipples • blood • running
Daft Punk / DJ Hero
Great trailer video
2009-09-16 music • games • daftpunk • dj
Online dating language
Interesting analysis of what to say in your first message
2009-09-15 dating • data • analysis • relationships • via:metafilter
NYTimes malware details
NYTimes was tricked into selling malware ads
2009-09-15 ads • nytimes • malware • virus
Fixing Eve desync
Great article about details of game implementation
2009-09-11 eveonline • eve • games • ccp • mmos
Braid for $5
One of the best indie games ever just went on sale
2009-09-10 games • braid • steam • bargains
Malignant patent cancer
Nathan Myrvhold's evil patent trolling company starts to get more aggressive
2009-09-10 patents • intellectualproperty • myrvhold • law
CA Republican sex scandal
Orange County assemblyman Michael Duvall caught on tape talking about having sex with two different lobbyists
2009-09-09 sex • scandal • orangecounty • california • politics
Plura Processing
Idle compute cycles, just like my failed startup. Friend says it's useful!
2009-09-08 computing • crawler • popularpower
Boxed Wine is good
website promoting boxed wine
2009-09-04 wine • food • convenience
Assembly demo highlights
Demoscene gathering selections
2009-09-04 demos • assembly • graphics • via:metafilter
ATT Fail
guess what, the network does suck! Sure wish the reporter would talk about why the European experience is better
2009-09-03 attfail • att • apple • iphone • mobile • cellphone
Banned from Tristan de Cunha
Interesting story about a tiny island nation
2009-09-02 tristan • tristandc • journalism • britain • via:metafilter
Backblaze disk pods
Great article about how to build large, cheap systems
2009-09-02 hardware • linux • nas • raid • sysadmin • computer
Buying the news
The Kaycee story is so hot apparently news agencies are paying for exclusives with neighbours
2009-09-02 journalism • news • ethics • kaycee • dugard