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Background downloads
BITS: a Windows service for downloading stuff with unused bandwidth
2009-11-30 bits • microsoft • windows • download • schedule
Mario vs. Queen
4 simultaneous specially crafted Mario levels play along with "Don't Stop Me Now". It's unfathomable.
2009-11-30 queen • mario • snes • games • music • via:waxy
Beijing underground city
Mao's 1969 plan to build a whole city underground; photos from current urban explorers
2009-11-30 beijing • photos • photography • underground • tunnel • communism • via:metafilter
Grand Theft Auto 4 timelapse
Nice demo of their lighting system
2009-11-29 games • gta • grandtheftauto • lighting • graphics
Flightmap Switzerland
Google Maps based aviation; wonder if there's one for the US?
2009-11-29 flying • aviation • maps • switzerland • aeroweather
Google Chrome in Eve
Not mentioned in this description, but patch notes say the new Eve Online in game browser is based on Chromium
2009-11-29 eve • games • ccp • eveonline • chrome • googlechrome • google • browser
TF2 at 1000FPS
Game rendered in slow motion, interesting to see the animation
2009-11-28 games • teamfortress • valve • slowmotion • animation
Hexxeh's Chromium OS
USB bootable Chromium OS. No idea if this is the best one, Engadget mentioned it
2009-11-28 google • os • chrome • chromeos • chromium
Coit Tower murals
Great set of WPA works
2009-11-27 wpa • art • murals • coittower • sanfrancisco
Grindr
Geolocative app for cruising. Tap on your phone and get photos and chat links for other gay men near you. Looks hugely efficient.
2009-11-27 gay • sex • geolocation • iphone • gps
"No Homo"
Now I know what kids these days are talking about
2009-11-26 gay • politics • hiphop • rap • culture • music • funny
WoW datacenter size
Works out to 6 CPUs and 10 gigabytes of RAM per 1000 subscribers
2009-11-25 wow • warcraft • games • datacenter • servers • scaling • via:peter
Visualizing proportions
Alternatives to the pie chart
2009-11-25 infovis • visualization • graphics • data • piechart
NOTAM TFRs
List of all the places pilots aren't allowed to fly. Includes a permanent "temporary" restriction around Disneyland, and a small bit of Dallas
2009-11-25 aviation • flying • notam • tfr • civilliberties
9/11 Pager data
Stolen pager messages from 9/11. Wonder where it came from?
2009-11-25 history • pager • 9/11 • 911
Google Earth Library
Big collection of Google Earth datasets
2009-11-25 google • maps • googleearth • aviation • flying
California City
Crazy planned community that never was, a modern Nazca lines
2009-11-25 city • urbanism • losangeles • housing • development • via:plasticbag
How to install Chrome extensions
Need a magic flag to startup
2009-11-24 windows • google • chrome • extensions • browser
Twilight of the American paper
Heartfelt paean. Note irony: stolen article
2009-11-24 journalism • sanfrancisco • harpers • culture • writing • newspapers
Stonesense
Dwarf Fortress graphics!
2009-11-23 games • dwarffortress
My Parents Were Awesome
Sweetly nostalgic set of photos
2009-11-23 family • parents • photos • photography • nostalgia
Wesabe Springboard
Online personal finance tool; just launched a simple private branding program for banks
2009-11-23 wesabe • finance • quicken • mint • banks • money • software
Taman Shud case
Exhaustively documented John Doe case
2009-11-23 australia • history • johndoe • murder • crime • investigation • mystery
Goozex
Trading community for games and movies.
2009-11-23 games • trading • markets • economics
Apple ][ dev diary
Jordan Mechner's diaries from the 1980s, when making games like Karateka and Prince of Persia
2009-11-22 via:metafilter • games • apple • apple2 • karateka • princeofpersia
sc140
electronic music generation programs short enough to tweet
2009-11-22 twitter • music • via:metafilter • glitch • electronica • supercollider
National Flight Database
FAA's publication of all flight data. Not free, but only a nominal fee
2009-11-21 faa • flight • aviation • flying • maps • charts • navigation • data
Airport KML files
Lets you view all little airports in Google Earth; Google's airport database prefers only showing commercial airports
2009-11-21 google • googleearth • maps • flying • aviation • airports
Google Earth sectionals
Load aviation charts into Google Earth. The demo is for San Francisco
2009-11-21 aviation • flying • maps • googleearth • sectional • navigation
KML Circle Generator
Handy little tool for drawing circles on top of Google Earth
2009-11-21 maps • google • googleearth • aviation • flying
Buffy vs. Edward
Fantastic parody of Twilight
2009-11-21 twilight • movies • vampires • buffy • parody • funny
KSQL AWOS
Weather for the San Carlos airport
2009-11-20 aviation • ksql • sancarlos • flying • weather
Mass: We Pray
Worship simulator videogame (note: actually, advertisement for another game)
2009-11-20 church • religion • games • parody • funny • via:metafilter • advertisement
Excel Sparklines
Sparklines seem to be the visualization tool in search of a problem, but maybe in a spreadsheet would work
2009-11-19 excel • microsoft • sparklines • tufte • graphics • visualization
Super Michael Jackson Bros
Funny spoof / game mashup
2009-11-19 via:mathowie • michaeljackson • games • mario • nes
METAR data access
Raw source for weather reports
2009-11-19 metar • weather • aviation
Ethnic groups of China
Great set of photos
2009-11-18 via:metafilter • china • culture • ethnicity
Expert Labs
Anil Dash's new project; getting tech folks to help government
2009-11-18 government • politics • software • internet • technology • anildash
NextStop
Online travel guides with lots of rich data from photographs, Google Maps, etc. Founded by some former Google colleagues
2009-11-18 nextstop • travel • maps • tourism • culture
$1B online scams
Senate hearings into "loyalty programs", companies that charge people monthly fees without their consent
2009-11-18 scam • creditcard • fraud • vertrue • webloyalty • affinion
ATT claims better 3G in SF
San Francisco's iPhone experience is horrible; AT&T now claims it is getting better
2009-11-17 att • apple • iphone • cellphone • coverage • 3g • verizon
Photoshop CS4's DRM
Stupid copy protection prevents the product from being installed, requires Windows owners reinstall the OS
2009-11-17 software • drm • badtech • adobe • photoshop
Indie games
Nice roundup of the growing indie game scene
2009-11-17 via:mbostock • games • igf • art • culture
OpenID adoption
Some data about logins via various OpenID providers
2009-11-16 openid • authentication • typepad
Aviation abbreviations
Flying is full of domain specific jargon
2009-11-15 aviation • flying • language • culture • abbreviation
Pirate Bay top 100
Interesting view in what people are stealing.
2009-11-14 piracy • torrents • bittorrent • movies • music • culture
The LSD No No
Great little animation of Dock Ellis' infamous no-hitter
2009-11-13 via:metafilter • baseball • lsd • drugs • funny • sports
YouTube 1080p
YouTube's increasing quality is one of the best things about the web
2009-11-13 youtube • video • quality • hdtv
Don't store memory pointers
15 year old design decision in Visual C++ precompiled headers turns into serious bug with Windows 7 address space randomization
2009-11-13 bugs • visualc++ • microsoft • badtech
Mad Men vs. X-Men
Highlighting the similarities
2009-11-12 via:jemiah • madmen • tv • xmen • mashup • comics
Julia Child
Great shot from the side of the set
2009-11-12 tv • television • cooking • juliachild
Making coloured maps
Nice little tutorial: get the SVG for a blank map, edit it for colours
2009-11-12 mapping • visualization • svg • data • maps • cartography
Phil Agre is missing
Internet pioneer Phil Agre has been missing for several months
2009-11-12 philagre • redrockeater • internet • missing
Murdoch's empire of theft
Great roundup of Murdoch-owned websites that "parasite" content from the web
2009-11-11 google • murdoch • fox • journalism
1927 color film of London
Amazing process, historical footage
2009-11-11 film • photography • 1920s • london • england
Eve's sovereignty system
Very interesting change in the game design, particularly the transition plan
2009-11-11 eveonline • eve • ccp • games • mmos
Go
Guys behind Plan 9 (now at Google) launch a C-like programming language with built in concurrent coroutines
2009-11-11 languages • programming • c • coroutines • parallelism
Modern Warfare 3
Sneak preview of the new ultrarealistic military game
2009-11-10 games • parody • callofduty
AviatorApps
List of iPhone pilot apps
2009-11-09 iphone • flying • aviation
Eve economic newsletter
Latest quarterly report from the in-game economist. Interesting analysis of the impact of banning a bunch of gold farmers, also increasing the supply of a low level crafting material
2009-11-09 economics • mmos • eve • eveonline • ccp • games
Spatial indexing
Simple data structures for storing and finding geodata
2009-11-09 mapping • indexing • datastructures • quadtrees • geohashes
Using Google Closure
Nice notes from a Google engineer about using Google's Javascript compiler and library
2009-11-09 closure • google • code • javascript • programming
Photoshop CS4 sliders
One product: 10 different styles for a single UI control
2009-11-08 ui • hci • adobe • photoshop • badtech • design
Kalinin K-7
Ridiculous 1930s era Russian flying fortress. Really crazy.
2009-11-08 airplanes • russia • sovietunion • flying • aviation • via:metafilter
Li'l Cthulhu
A primer for children
2009-11-08 cthulhu • lovecraft • funny • azathoth • animation
Farmville Halloween winners
People make their farms look like haunted houses
2009-11-07 halloween • games • contest • farmville
Unreal Development Kit
Popular game engine is now available (without source) free of charge for non-commercial use. 25% royalty.
2009-11-07 games • unreal • software • code
Google Dashboard
Google publishes all the data it's collected about you. This is great for users
2009-11-05 google • privacy
AC power plug types
Little review of why we have 11 different types of plugs in the world
2009-11-05 power • electricity • engineering
Wilford Brimley vs. Ratatat
Well made remix of Brimley's lolfamous "diabeetus" infomercial
2009-11-04 brimley • music • ratatat • diabetes • funny • remix
Prayer as healthcare
Healthcare overhaul bill includes "religious and spiritual healthcare" as covered
2009-11-04 religion • healthcare • government • politics
Yubikey
Multi-factor authentication dongle. Emulates a USB keyboard to generate one time passwords
2009-11-03 yubikey • password • authentication • login • security
Movie narrative charts
Great timeline visualization
2009-11-03 visualization • data • movies • lotr • starwars
Visiting Argleton
Fake town in Google's database
2009-11-03 maps • google • argleton • england • photos • photography
Leaving Scientology
Tampa Bay paper publishes part 3 of their investigation, including crazy stories on how hard it is to leave Scientology
2009-11-03 cult • scientology • religion • journalism
HTML history: IMG tag
Great little trip down 16 year old mailing list discussions
2009-11-03 internet • web • html • standards • history • multimedia • mime • mosaic
jQTouch
Javascript library for iPhone development
2009-11-03 iphone • webapps • javascript • jquery
Powder Puff Pilot
Girlie-girl gear for feminine flyers
2009-11-02 pilot • aircraft • gender • women
Cartographer.js
Library for overlaying data on Google Maps
2009-11-02 infovis • visualization • maps • javascript • library