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That's Gay: Johnny Weir
Decent editorial calling out the awful coverage of the American skater
2010-02-28
skating • gay • homophobia • sports • tv
Tsunami map
Beautiful visualization of a wave spreading out from the earthquake in Chile
2010-02-27
chile • earthquake • tsunami • map • visualization • ocean
Colgan 3407 animation
NTSB animation of what happened in a bad airplane crash
2010-02-26
airplane • aviation • pilot • colgan • colgan3407 • crash • stallman
Cycling to the Arctic
Photo journal of a guy riding north out of Vancouver
2010-02-26
canada • travel • bicycle • bikes • via:metafilter • photos
Vajazzling (NSFW)
After you've waxed all your pubic hair off, glue some jewels on!
2010-02-26
vagina • sex • waxing • shaving • via:metafilter • batshitinsane
My Avatar review
Crazy animated review, funny
2010-02-26
via:metafilter • avatar • review • animation
Chat roulette explained
Great little movie about the crazy videochat service
2010-02-25
cams • chatroulette • funny
ATT Fail chart
San Francisco data network is 55% reliable!
2010-02-25
attfail • iphone • att • smartphone • 3g • via:amitp
Clicks per banner
Finally, an Internet advertising company that understands what real Internet people want
2010-02-24
ads • advertising • banners • clicks • funny • parody
Sushi cat
Silly pachinko-like game featuring sushi-eating longcat
2010-02-24
4chan • games • via:Waxy • sushi • cat • neko • silly • flash
Desktop Dungeons
Surprisingly engaging little roguelike
2010-02-24
games • roguelike • nethack • windows • free
Cassandra @ Twitter
Description of Twitter's plan to migrate data into Cassandra, a distribute datastore
2010-02-23
databases • cassandra • scalability • twitter • engineering
Rutan Boomerang
Crazy asymmetric twin prop plane design
2010-02-23
rutan • planes • aviation • design • aerodynamics • balance
IE6 Funeral
Services are March 4
2010-02-22
via:mathowie • msie • ie6 • internet • browser • standards
Map Compare
Simple tool to compare various online map layers
2010-02-20
google • osm • openstreetmap • maps • cartography
Garmin synthetic vision
New generation of avionics software includes 3d virtual reality view of terrain
2010-02-19
aviation • flying • gps • ifr • garmin • g1000 • g600
Google Buzz dashboard
Users now have more insight and control over Buzz. I'm impressed with how fast Google has moved to fix problems with Buzz, just a shame they didn't start this way!
2010-02-19
privacy • google • buzz
Intellectual Ventures' shell companies
Myrvhold's patent troll company has 1100 shell companies suing people
2010-02-18
patents • intellectualproperty • intellectualventures • myrvhold • microsoft
Intellectual Ventures
Profile of the world famous tech troll company
2010-02-18
myrvhold • microsoft • patents • law • legal • ip
Austin crash manifesto?
Rumoured to be a post from the guy who crashed a place in Austin
2010-02-18
austin • batshitinsane • joestack • n2889d
Made in China: Skill
Great examples about how manufacturing in China is skillful
2010-02-18
china • economy • skill • bunnie • hacking • production • manufacturing • via:metafilter
Older women
OKCupid drops another incredible statistics-packed blog post about their dating population
2010-02-17
okcupid • dating • romance • age • sex
MicroSD problems
One of the world's most famous reverse engineering hackers delves deep into 2GB flash cards
2010-02-16
memory • flash • fraud • bunnie • xbox • hack • hacking • china
Traceroute, in detail
56 slide PDF explaining details of the complexity of traceroute. Good stuff!
2010-02-16
tcpip • tcp • internet • traceroute • diagnostics • networks • routing
Buzz Kill
Thoughtful editorial on how Google has now moved the privacy goalposts
2010-02-16
google • buzz • privacy • badtech
PLEX for Haiti: $30,000
Eve Online did a fund-raiser for Haiti. Most people donated with in-game currency, but the end result is about a $30,000 donation
2010-02-16
eveonline • games • haiti • charity
Signals iPhone app
Makes a map of cell signal strength
2010-02-16
iphone • attfail
SF war on fun
More police harassment at DNA Lounge
2010-02-16
sanfrancisco • sf • nightlife • clubs • dnalounge • jwz • police
micro-Transport Protocol
µTP is a new BitTorrent transfer protocol, a TCP alternative that claims to be friendlier to interactive traffic
2010-02-15
utp • µTP • bittorrent • tcp • internet • tcpip • protocol • ietf
Blip the digital game
Crazy old electronic game toy, turns out to really be mechanical
2010-02-14
games • blip • history • via:metafilter
Polyline encoding
Complex 5 bit ascii encoding for geographic features
2010-02-14
google • geography • mapping • encoding • googlemaps • batshitinsane
Drawing Thane
Notes from a game artist about designing a new character for Mass Effect 2. He's great in the game.
2010-02-14
thane • games • art • artists • masseffect2
Twitter Olympians
List of athletes who are tweeting
2010-02-14
twitter • olympics • sports
Google Static Maps API
for when you'd rather inline an image than javascript
2010-02-12
maps • api • google • javascript • noscript
Shader Toy WebGL
Lets you play with procedural shaders right in your browser
2010-02-11
shaders • graphics • webgl • opengl
Broken feedback loops
I agree with Matt: Buzz feels like one channel too many
2010-02-10
google • twitter • facebook • buzz • socialmedia • feedback • blogs
Eve's girl pirate corp
Interview with the founder of Hellcats, an all-women pirate corporation in Eve Online
2010-02-10
games • eve • eveonline • ccp • mmos • women • gender • piracy
The Anatomy of a Whale
Great example of a Twitter engineer investigation into performance problems
2010-02-10
scalability • twitter • engineering • memcache • performance • optimization
Steam software survey
New version of popular game system survey includes software info. 63% of computers have Firefox, 12% have Chrome. 30% have uTorrent!
2010-02-09
performance • computing • statistics • steam • games • software • survey
Eve ship costs
What the various ships in Eve cost, in terms of hours of play or US dollars. The crazy thing about Eve is these ships can be destroyed, value obliterated
2010-02-09
games • eveonline • ccp • economics • isk
Mouse tracking pictures
Simple data visualization, looks fun
2010-02-09
mouse • ui • hci
Async programming is hard
Nice overview of current inadequate options for asynchronous programming
2010-02-09
performance • optimization • coding • asynchronous • scalability • via:zawodny
$8 for plane blanket
Commercial air travel just gets more and more hideous
2010-02-09
service • planes • flying • americanairlines
Tiny Speck / Glitch
Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson's new game company
2010-02-09
games • flickr • stewartbutterfield • calhenderson • vc • entrepreneur • startup
Alaska Nanooks video
Awesome hockey intro video: polar bears in fighter jets!
2010-02-09
funny • hockey • animation • polarbear • scientology
GroupTweet
Twitter reflector: set up an account that broadcasts tweets to a group
2010-02-08
twitter • group • communication
Pedobear at the Olympics
4chan's lulzy pedophile mascot shows up in a Polish paper as part of the Vancouver Winter Olympics
2010-02-08
4chan • pedobear • olympics • poland • mascot
Better Gmail
Gmail needs a UI refresh. Until then, here's a Chrome extension to clean it up
2010-02-07
chrome • google • ui • userinterface • gmail
How VORs work
PDF describing this effective navigation beacon
2010-02-06
vor • navigation • aviation • vortac • flying
Super Bowl as film
Super Bowl produced in the style of Tarantino, Lynch, Anderson, etc
2010-02-06
via:kottke • movies • film • parody • superbowl • sports • davidlynch • quentintarantino • wesanderson
mathowie's photo work flow
Very simple, not too intensive. Key thing is Matt has a great eye
2010-02-06
photos • photography • mathowie • iphoto • photoshop
Twitter's code swarm
Amazing visualization of project checkin activity at Twitter
2010-02-06
visualization • git • vcs • development • programming • twitter
Apple Bandai Pippin
Apple's foray into settop box hardware in 1996
2010-02-04
apple • pippin • settop • console • tv • television
WoW auction house in browser?
Blizzard is opening up the economic part of Warcraft to players outside the game. Web browser or iPhone based trading
2010-02-03
games • warcraft • blizzard • mmos
War and Peace
The game Civilization, reduced to one button
2010-02-03
civilization • games • sidmeier
http://to./
It's a valid URL, and it works.
2010-02-03
tonga • url • dns • tinyurl • urlshortener
Cat Massage
When is the best time for cat massage? Whenever!
2010-02-02
cats • funny • video • massage
Le Corbusier
collection of portraits
2010-02-02
architecture • lecorbusier • france • photos • portraits
iPhone Explorer
Lets you mount your iPhone as a USB drive
2010-02-02
iphone • windows • software • filesharing • usb
Curt Schilling's game startup
A baseball star funds a gaming company. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, other than the $28 million.
2010-02-02
startups • entrepreneurs • baseball • bighugegames • 38studios • curtschilling • investment
Python async servers
Nice comparison of a bunch of event-driven server frameworks
2010-02-01
python • async • coding • performance • via:zawodny • twisted • tornado • sockets • network
Highcharts
Interactive Javascript charts, easy to produce?
2010-02-01
charting • graphing • statistics • visualization • javascript • programming • web