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Unicorn at Twitter
Better connection handling makes for faster response
2010-03-31 performance • twitter • unicorn • apache • ruby • mongrel
Teabonics
American's newest political movement has its own language
2010-03-31 teaparty • kkk • klan • politics • republicans
pwnat: NAT traversal
Cleverly uses ICMP and UDP behaviour in consumer NAT routers to bridge a connection without any mediation
2010-03-29 via:zawodny • nat • tcpip • hack • software • networking • internet
Every day the same dream
Poetic little indie game, takes some warming up
2010-03-29 games • indie • art • bartleby
Requiem For A Day Off
I love this genre of mashup
2010-03-29 movies • ferrisbueller • via:metafilter • film
Kid Pix
reminiscence on writing early very user friendly software
2010-03-28 ui • hci • userinterface • software • kidpix • mac
Run Jesus Run
10 second game. Mildly blasphemous, but also respectful within its medium.
2010-03-28 games • religion • via:waxy • jesus
Maxence Cyrin
Check out the black and white videos covering Daft Punk, Justice, etc.
2010-03-27 music • via:metafilter • video • daftpunk • justice
Facebook hates privacy
Yet more examples of the company mishandling your personal data
2010-03-27 facebook • privacy • badtech
Marine gay panic
"I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it."
2010-03-27 gay • politics • marines • military • gays • equalrights • civilrights
Landing on a road
Terrifying collection of videos
2010-03-27 airplanes • landing • emergency
Look At This Fucking Teabagger
Collection of protest photos, many frightening
2010-03-26 teaklan • obama • president • politics • protest • photography • teaparty
Chinese Minitru
Chinese government's instructions to Chinese news sites on how to report Google.
2010-03-26 censorship • google • china • news • journalism
Love MMO
Arty, indie cooperative online game. Looks sorta interesting
2010-03-25 games • love • mmos • mmorpgs • indiegames
Girl toy or boy toy?
Crazy gender identification from McDonalds
2010-03-24 mcdonalds • happymeal • gender • toys • kids
Johannesburg taxi hand signs
Complex system of gestures to tell the jitny where you want to go
2010-03-24 taxi • language • southafrica • johannesburg • joburg
Downloadify
Simple Flash shim to allow creating files in client-side javascript
2010-03-24 javascript • flash • library • code
@font-face kits
shrinkwrap solutions for web font embedding
2010-03-23 fonts • web • eot • fontface • typography
HFCS is worse
Princeton study shows that high fructose corn syrup causes obesity faster than other sugars
2010-03-22 diet • metabolism • sugar • via:mathowie • weight • health
Google in the PRC
Simple dashboard of which services the Chinese government has blocked today
2010-03-22 google • china • censorship • prc • dashboard
Godfather Blu-Ray
Merlin's hysterical commentary on the new Blu-Ray release of Godfather films
2010-03-22 movies • coppola • godfather • merlin • bluray
Amazing Gay Randi
James Randi, famous conjurer and debunker of woo, comes out
2010-03-21 gay • via:metafilter • randi • science • skepticism • courage
H.264 vs. Theora
Careful comparison of formats. No doubt the results are controversial
2010-03-21 video • html5 • h.264 • theora • ogg • patents
$200m+ game budget?
EA claims they will only break even if 1 million people play Star Wars: The Old Republic
2010-03-20 games • starwars • mmos
Future of social gaming
Soren Johnson's musings on the impact Facebook has had on traditional game developers
2010-03-20 games • socialmedia • facebook • zynga • ethics • gdc
Finger vs. table saw
Inventor deliberately puts his finger into a spinning saw blade. No blood, promise.
2010-03-18 saw • safety • sawstop • tv
Roger Ebert on making out
Great personal reminescence
2010-03-18 rogerebert • sex • 1960s • blueballs
Google network size
Interesting analyis: 5-10% of all Internet traffic, > 60% direct peering
2010-03-18 google • internet • peering • network
10 anti-gay gays
I feel bad for closeted men, but politicians have an obligation to protect people's rights: gay, straight, or conflicted
2010-03-17 gay • politics • hypocrisy
SpotRank
SkyHook has published data on the last five years of geolookups. Lots of data about where people are, particularly iPhone users
2010-03-17 iphone • geo • skyhook • database
Social gaming vs MMOs
Thoughtful piece on how games like Farmville and Mafia Wars threaten the current MMO industry
2010-03-17 mmos • games • farmville • zynga
Twitter Blog: @anywhere
More info on twitter's new deal
2010-03-15 twitter • socialmedia • integration • anywhere
Twitter @anywhere
New Twitter service announced at SXSW
2010-03-15 twitter • anywhere • integration
Database privacy
Microsoft Research on how to publish data while maintaining user anonymity
2010-03-15 data • privacy • databases • microsoft
Mass Effect 2: Jack
One of my favourite characters in the game. She's cheezy fanboy stuff, but there's more going on
2010-03-15 games • bioware • masseffect2
Shanghai Expo architecture
Photos of crazy buildings for a big trade fair
2010-03-15 shanghai • china • architecture • expose
Super Mario 8x8
Great student project
2010-03-15 games • supermario • nintendo • arduino • via:justin
Tim Bray to Google
Focussing on Android!
2010-03-15 google • timbray • android • iphone
Breakout
play for at least 3 minutes to see the full game
2010-03-14 games • breakout • via:Reddit • flash
Sugarcubes / Birthday (Icelandic)
Original version is really sweet. The video is awesome, great early digital video effects
2010-03-13 bjork • sugarcubes • iceland • music • birthday • video
Fiscal Chart of the United States
Beautiful census chart from 1872
2010-03-13 via:feltron • visualization • census • budget
Feltron tumblr
Good collection of infovis stuff
2010-03-13 infovis • graphs • feltron
Javascript sprites
Who needs Flash?
2010-03-12 javascript • games • sprites • code • jquery • for:amitp@cs.stanford.edu
Dear Leader, On The Spot
Kim Jong-Il official photos of him giving wise advice at factories
2010-03-12 northkorea • batshitinsane • kimjongil • photography • photos
Flowfield Pathfinding
Beautifully organic formation movement
2010-03-12 games • pathfinding • astar • flowfield • algorithms • for:amitp@cs.stanford.edu
Paris 26 Gigapixels
Great megapanorama
2010-03-12 photo • photography • paris • france • via:metafilter • panorama
Sous-Vide steak
Low temperature poaching turns out delicious meat
2010-03-11 cooking • food • sousvideo • via:kottke • steak
HTML5 video and audio
Opera does a great job explaining how to serve HTML5 multimedia
2010-03-11 html5 • video • opera • browser • javascript • web
Chatroulette Map
The illusion of privacy disintegrates
2010-03-11 privacy • chatroulette • via:waxy • maps
Mute Tweets
Great idea: briefly mute a Twitter user for when they're getting spammy.
2010-03-11 twitter • mute • filter
Canadian water usage during hockey
Graph of toilet flushing during the Olympics final game
2010-03-10 hockey • canada • water • toilet • graph
Sugarcubes / Birthday
Great old song, from before Bjork was a brand
2010-03-10 via:merlin • bjork • music • 1987 • sugarcubes
Battery charger backdoor
Some crappy USB device Energizer sells has been installing back doors on PCs for over two years
2010-03-10 via:metafilter • energizer • badtech • arucer.dll • virus • botnet
iPhone dev agreement
Abusive contract
2010-03-10 iphone • apple • mac • software • eff
Vodafone Malware
New cell phone infects your PC when you plug it in
2010-03-09 malware • botnet • badtech • vodafone • google • android
UbiSoft DRM fail
Buy the game legitimately? Can't play. Steal it? Plays fine.
2010-03-09 ubisoft • games • drm • badtech
Eve alliance map
Nice visualization of the politics of Eve Online
2010-03-08 games • eveonline • eve • mmog
Torrent movie download stats
District 9 is the #1 movie
2010-03-07 movies • torrent • bittorrent • piracy • downloads
Mass Effect 2 criticism
Very thoughtful analysis of Bioware's latest RPG
2010-03-07 games • rpgs • masseffect • masseffect2 • bioware
Poco Dolce
Uncommonly good chocolate
2010-03-06 chocolate • gift • food • sanfrancisco
Air Traffic Control tech
Nice overview of how ATC works
2010-03-06 flying • airplanes • atc • radar • ads-b • nexgen • faa
A380 nosegear cam
Fun aviation footage, unusual perspective
2010-03-05 video • aviation • airplane • airbus • a380
They came from the USSR
Edward Hill's freaky singing multiplied. View full screen. See also http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2010/02/edward-anatolevich-hill.html
2010-03-04 ЭдуардХиль • music • edwardhill • russia • culture • ussr
Lat/Lon to Elevation
Web service for accessing a digital elevation model
2010-03-04 geography • maps • dem • ned • elevation • altitude
Gruber on Apple patent suit
Very thoughtful
2010-03-04 apple • google • htc • patents • iphone
Magnetos
The magic part of a plane engine that generates the spark to fire the piston
2010-03-04 engines • airplanes • flying • magneto
Logging PIC time
Flow chart of when you can log time as a PIC
2010-03-04 flying • aviation • pic • logbook • regulations
Top 25 code security bugs
Classification of bugs in code that lead to security problems
2010-03-03 programming • code • security
Apple vs HTC patents
Analysis of the named patents
2010-03-03 apple • htc • legal • google • patents
Tainted Love versions
All versions of the awesome song made famous by Soft Cell and Coil
2010-03-02 music • songs • taintedlove • softcell • coil
Happy doggies
Great slow-mo advertisement
2010-03-02 dogs • food • pets • via:metafilter • slowmo • slomo • video
Black people Twitter
Awkward article, but there's an interesting social/demographic phenomenon happening on Twitter
2010-03-02 twitter • race • africanamerican • demographics
Chrome auto-translations
New feature in Google's browser: automatically translate web page text in the frame
2010-03-02 language • translation • google • chrome • browsers
Angels vs VCs
Recognizing the new needs of startup funding
2010-03-02 angels • vcs • venturecapital • funding • startups
Series Seed financing
Standard form documents for seed capital
2010-03-02 legal • venture • investment • vc
Apple patent suits
This is gonna get ugly
2010-03-02 patents • apple • htc • ip • legal
Portal: Transmission Received
Valve added some amazing easter egg content to the game Portal: here's all the spoilers from the nerds who figured it out
2010-03-02 games • portal • halflife • valve • easteregg
Warcraft authenticator hacked
Physical login token is subjected to man-in-the-middle attack. Bad guys steal your account in the next 30 seconds
2010-03-01 games • mmos • hacks • blizzard • badtech • warcraft • security
Lessons from Doom
Interesting re-analysis of Doom in the context of contemporary FPS. Lots of things to learn.
2010-03-01 games • via:Waxy • doom • idsoftware • robotron • criticism
Sony broke the PS3
A firmware update went badly wrong and Sony Playstations are now incapable of playing games, both online and offline.
2010-03-01 updates • badtech • sony • playstation • games
FlightAware stats KSFO to KJFK
Data about commercial air travel: median ticket price, percent of seats filled
2010-03-01 airlines • travel • commerce • flight • airplane