Snap previews suck

Glad someone wrote this down

2007-01-31 accessibility • blog • blogging • internet • javascript • snap • snappreview • usability • webdesign • widgets • wordpress

Bush above the law

No penalty for violating the first and fourth amendments

2007-01-31

Amazon S3 in practice

How to outsource storage when it's not 100% reliable

2007-01-31 amazon • aws • blog • hosting • performance • programming • reliability • s3 • smugmug • storage • webservices

VC, VCs, Tech VC

Doin my bit for venture capitalists who haven't hired SEOs :-)

2007-01-30 webrankings

Jim Gray is missing

Turing Prize winner hasn't been seen since going sailing on Sunday

2007-01-30 jimgray • turingprize

Disable snap previews

Get rid of those horrible popups (via kottke)

2007-01-30 advertising • annoying • browser • disable • firefox • howto • javascript • preview • snap • troubleshooting • web

Human beatbox

Reggie Watts is awesome with a sampler

2007-01-30 amazing • art • audio • beatbox • cool • fun • music • performance • reggiewatts • sampling • video

Limelight Networks

Bandwidth providers for about half the streaming video on the Internet

2007-01-30 audio • cdn • content • delivery • hosting • media • network • podcasting • streaming • technology • video

Vista DRM crack?

Still early stages on this, but it's inevitable

2007-01-30 computer • drm • hack • hacking • hacks • microsoft • news • security • tech • vista • windows

Mutant fungus ants

NSF anyone afraid of their brains being eaten by fungus

2007-01-29 animals • imported • science

Yahoo login / OpenID

Interesting idea of authentication by proxy (via Waxy)

2007-01-28 api • authentication • bbauth • identity • internet • openid • privacy • simonwillison • web • web2.0 • yahoo

Sponge moon

Freaky

2007-01-28 apod • astronomy • crater • espacio • fotos • hyperion • moon • photography • photos • saturn • science

Po-210 in the teapot

ABC News reports rumours from the investigation

2007-01-28 assassination • espionage • kgb • litvinenko • murder • politics • russia • russian • secret • security • uk

Driving in Baghdad

Arrogance or essential safety, either way it's interesting.

2007-01-27 blogs • bush • driving • fun • humvee • iraq • politics • video • war • youtube

Slickr

Good slideshow display of Flickr photos

2007-01-27 download • flickr • freeware • photo • photography • photos • screensaver • slickr • software • tools • windows

Death Star trench

Famous space battle, manually re-enacted (via MeFi)

2007-01-26 animation • cool • fun • funny • hands • humor • movies • starwars • video • videos • youtube

SL Economy rebuttal

Castronova argues that Second Life's economy is ok, just very small

2007-01-26 antihype • debunk • economics • economy • hype • interesting • market • metaverse • second_life • secondlife • world

Horrifying dentistry

Cute smiles for your dentist mask, auuugh!

2007-01-26 dentistry • horror

53 CSS Techniques

Lots of random things you can do with web page design

2007-01-26 css • design • development • howto • html • reference • tips • tutorial • web • webdesign • webdev

Structured Flickr tags

Machine tags are triples: namespace, keyword, value

2007-01-26 api • flickr • folksonomy • machinetags • metadata • microformats • rdf • semanticweb • tagging • tags • web2.0

Election machine keys

Someone makes a working Diebold election machine key from a photograph

2007-01-26 democracy • funny • hack • hacks • paranoia • politics • security • technology • voting • wingnuts • zukunft

Synth coke

When you're too cheap to buy your ho real coke (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-26 80s • ads • adversary • cocaine • commercial • drugs • funny • synthcoke • video • videos • youtube

An autistic's account

The video is interesting but a bit irritating; it's singificantly humanized when the woman speaks for herself in the Metafilter comments

2007-01-26 asperger's • autism • mental • metafilter • psychology

Light Criticism

Beautiful Eyebeam criticism of new NYC ad medium

2007-01-26 advertising • art • graffiti • grafitti • ideas • inspiration • marketing • technology • youtube

WGA false positives?

Some data suggesting Microsoft's anti-piracy measure doesn't work right

2007-01-25 bol • drm • microsoft • natn • news • oops • security • software • wga • windows

More SL economy

Longer version of the valleywag article

2007-01-24 blog • business • community • economics • economy • gaming • life • money • second • secondlife • virtual

Real economics of Second Life

This analysis applies to all online games, not just SL

2007-01-24 article • business • culture • economics • economy • finance • games • money • secondlife • sl • technology

Textual analysis of State of the Union

Awesome visualization tool (via Jeff McManus)

2007-01-24 bush • design • flash • information • language • news • politics • speech • stateoftheunion • visualization • words

Crowd control science

I was wondering why stoning the pillars went so smoothly this year

2007-01-24 architecture • design • islam • pedestrian • physics • religion • simulation

pwdhash

clever Firefox extension to deal with the trivial password problem

2007-01-24 add-on • dequoijememail • extensions • firefox • generator • notice • password • passwords • security • software • web

Google Groups redone

It no longer tastes like burning!

2007-01-24 blog • blogger • discuss • google • group • groups • newsgroups • sentido6 • service • tutorial • usenet

Penis evolution

"It's a kind of glorified water balloon."

2007-01-24 biology • evolution • genetic • genetics • quaint • research • sex

Vagina evolution

Quite well written (via Metafilter)

2007-01-24 articles • biology • blog • evolution • human • interesting • reproduction • science • sex • toread • vagina

Pirating the Oscars

Waxy researches the downloads of Oscar nominated films

2007-01-23 bittorrent • business • copyright • culture • drm • film • media • movies • oscars • p2p • piracy

Andy Griffith/PATRIOT

Back when the US understood civil liberties (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-23 bush • culture • justice • law • patriot • politics • privacy • surveillance • tv • video • youtube

Blu-ray keys

Now all we need is the decryption program (via diveintomark)

2007-01-23 aacs • blueray • bluray • drm • security • video

Second Life rebuttal

See, if you just spend 20+ hours there you'll start to find it interesting

2007-01-23 clayshirky • culture • general • hype • opensource • sears • secondlife • sl • technology • wagnerjamesau • web

Public transit carpets

Great collection of photos, alas with flash vignetting (via kottke)

2007-01-23 art • bus • design • fabric • flickr • pattern • patterns • photography • textile • train • transportation

Drag Queen AC/DC

Purports to actually be Celine Dion, but I think it's a pickle surprise (via kottke)

2007-01-23 anastacia • celinedion • fun • funny • humor • music • toshare • video • weird • wtf • youtube

Ninja Warrior TV

pure awesome. "spidawakku!"

2007-01-22 fromwork

Intensely lazy

Woman keeps journal at work of how she avoids work by journaling

2007-01-22 bad_behavior • employment • funny • goofingoff • incompetence • laziness • nsfw • rants • showoff • work

Get a First Life

obvious response to second life (via mathowie)

2007-01-22 community • culture • fun • funny • humor • humour • parody • satire • second_life • secondlife • web2.0

Burning Crusade notes

Some insight on how the expansion is doing, seems about right to me

2007-01-21

The ad generator

1997 is calling to you (via Techcrunch)

2007-01-21 ads • advertising • art • cool • design • flash • flickr • fun • generator • marketing • mashup

Black is the new black

Interesting visualization of a cliche (via Kottke)

2007-01-21 art • culture • design • diagram • funny • graphics • humor • information • language • media • visualization

Animal hands

Odd photos (via Kottke)

2007-01-21 animals • art • cool • fun • gallery • hands • images • interesting • photo • photography • photos

419 county treasurer

Government official scammed by Nigerians (via Merlin)

2007-01-21 article • humour

It's Flicky

Clever video (via Metafilter)

2007-01-21 cool • funny • humour • mobile • movies • music • phone • rundmc • samsung • tricky • video

North Korea travelogs

Collection of first person accounts of visits to the DPRK

2007-01-21 collection • dprk • interesting • kommunista • korea • list • north • north_korea • northkorea • travel • északkorea

Meatlifting

Meat is #1 stolen item in grocery stores

2007-01-20 article • crime • daily • food • interesting • meat • slate • society • steal • theft • usa

MySpace quick start

The official site docs are awful

2007-01-20 myspace • sac • web.admin • web.resources

iPhone ringtone

"sounds like holy angels peeing"

2007-01-19 apple • audio • gadgets • gizmodo • iphone • mobile • music • news • ringtone • sdr • smartphones

NYT WoW nerd

lotus eaters, all

2007-01-19

Dealing with mudflation

Excellent game design insights from Raph Koster

2007-01-19 article • design • economics • gamedesign • games • geek • mmog • mmorpg • money • mudflation • videogames

Unfortunate CAPTCHA

The handicap icon is sort of the icing on the cake (via Peter)

2007-01-19 captcha • darrend • fun • funny • google • humor • humour • images • irc/channel/php.thinktank • lol • userpic

IP address icons

Simple transform of IP address to tiny icon

2007-01-19 blogs • comments • icons • identity • security

Delicious custom cake

Just a small problem (via Waxy)

2007-01-19 cake • code • error • food • funny • html • humor • humour • microsoft • printing • programming

Mudflation

problems for fictional economies

2007-01-18 economics • mmog • mmorpg • videogames • virtual • wikipedia

AACS: DRM for video

Overview of the encryption/antipiracy tech in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray

2007-01-18

Uniqlo Mixplay

J-Pop-Lock music video

2007-01-18 advertising • animation • awesome • dance • dancing • fun • music • robot • uniqlo • video • youtube

DVD protection history

Sad, sorry story. Glad to have Mark back!

2007-01-17 copyright • drm • dvd • encryption • fun • history • protection • reference • security • tech • video

1st Star Wars trailer

Wow, this is awful; only indication the movie would be good is the effects quality

2007-01-17 film • funny • geekery • movies • star+wars • star_wars • starwars • trailer • trailers • video • youtube

Pickle Surprise!

Like Brini Maxwell, only 10x psychedelic

2007-01-16 drag • funny • humour • humourous • music-videos • rubnitz • surprise • vid • video • weird • youtube

Process Explorer

Show what resources a program is using in Windows

2007-01-15 explorer • free • freeware • microsoft • process • programming • security • software • tools • utilities • windows

Devlin Internet trail

Kids have Internet presence, even kidnapped ones

2007-01-15 abductors • ibt4im • malware • myspace • news • social_networks • stuff • tech • usa

visiting goggle.com

Awesome little video (via Marc)

2007-01-15 computers • fun • funny • heh • humor • ie • microsoft • security • video • windows • youtube

hd-dvd.torrent

Yet another stupid DRM system is broken

2007-01-15 bittorrent • dvd • firefly • hacking • hd • hd-dvd • hddvd • movies • news • piracy • serenity

Google office in SF

If they'd done this a year ago, I might still be there

2007-01-14 gap • google • officespace

Escalation to Iran?

Trying to read tea leaves

2007-01-14 abuse • bush • fear • imported • iran • iraq • military • occupation • politics • usa • war

jackbauer killcount

Breaking eggs to defend America from terrorist omelettes

2007-01-14 24 • amusing • tv

KeyTweak

Remap WinXP keyboard via registry, with a GUI

2007-01-14 free • freeware • hardware • keyboard • remap • software • tool • tools • utilities • windows • xp

Apple bullies bloggers

Stupid lawyer tricks

2007-01-14 apple • blog • blogging • blogosfera • iphone • law • legal • mobile • software • techcrunch • windows

Naughty NASA prank

Apollo 12 moonwalk checklist included pr0n

2007-01-14 apollo • digg • funny • history • humour • images • moon • nasa • playboy • pranks • space

iPhone lockin

Free culture? Or Apple fanboy?

2007-01-14 apple • boingboing • cellphone • drm • geek • iphone • ipod • itunes • music • phone • technology

Robbing a liquor store

Hijinks video, pretty funny (via Metafilter)

2007-01-14 crime • fun • funny • humor • humour • liquor • robber • store • video • videos • youtube

GDP Density

Econbrowser: The distribution of world income

2007-01-14 economics • economy • gdp • geography • history • map • maps • politics • statistics • visualization • world

MMOG 2006 review

Good roundup of what happened

2007-01-13

Terrified mummy

note the tied hands (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-13 amazon • creepy • culture • halloween • history • mummies • mummy • peru • photo • science • southamerica

R2D2 and Chewbacca ran the show

A retcon of the original Star Wars movie

2007-01-13 analysis • culture • film • funny • geek • humor • interesting • movie • movies • scifi • starwars

Let's go to Tehran!

When you escalate, don't screw around

2007-01-12

Passwords are broken

We need a new security technology

2007-01-11 article • bruceschneier • computer • computers • password • passwords • privacy • reference • security • tips • wired

WoW Addon intro

Simple explanation to what was a major game design innovation

2007-01-11 later • videogame • worldofwarcraft • wow

Gates at Hooters

Hangin with Warren Buffet; money does not buy class

2007-01-11 bikini • buffet • business • cool • fun • girl • hooters • irc/nick/vard • linkblog • microsoft • money

Goldman on iPhone

Good point: the "you can't use it yet" helps the hype

2007-01-11

Paris homeless camp

Looks like the settlement on Canal St. Martin is becoming permanent

2007-01-10 blog

Lighting 101

Notes on photography lighting in blog form

2007-01-10 blog • camera • flash • howto • lighting • photo • photography • reference • technique • tutorial • tutorials

Google 3d Warehouse

Contributed 3d models for Google Earth, others

2007-01-10 3d • architecture • design • free • google • googleearth • graphics • models • search • sketchup • software

Salton Sea film

narrated by John Waters!

2007-01-10 california • dissresearch • kitch • movies

An effective tout

WSJ: Analyst beats Vegas point spreads (via Metafilter)

2007-01-10 article • business • gambling • gaming • money • sports • statistics • story • to_read • toread • via:metafilter

AdWords API criticism

Analysis of licensing costs (via Battelle)

2007-01-10 ads • adsense • advertising • adwords • analysis • analytics • api • google • mashup • search • vc

Swallowed by Google

small startups disappear when acquired

2007-01-10 assimilation • evhead • google • googleacquisitions • jot • jotspot

fj: On The iPhone

fj worked at Nokia/mobile for a long time, so I trust his insights

2007-01-10

Freaky British poster

Surely this is a joke? (via Terry)

2007-01-10 1984 • images • liberty • london • photo • photos • politics • privacy • propaganda • security • uk

AutoHotkey

looks like a particularly good Windows key remapper

2007-01-09 automation • free • freeware • keyboard • macro • opensource • productivity • software • tools • utilities • windows

Flash Element TD

Nicely implemented tower defence game

2007-01-09 cool • defence • flash • free • fun • game • games • online • tower • warcraft • web

Colemak keyboard

Alternative layout; fast like Dvorak, but not as radical a change

2007-01-09 colemak • dvorak • ergonomic • hardware • interface • keyboard • layout • qwerty • software • typing • usability

Webapp keyboard

Easy input of characters in any language

2007-01-09 hebrew • internet • keyboard • language • online • teclado • tool • tools • travel • useful • virtual

US attacks Somalia

But that's ok, it's the terrristrs.

2007-01-09

Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Costik defends the game/art project

2007-01-08 art • article • bored • columbine • digital_storytelling • games • gaming • politics • violence

Markoff on Botnets

Not a very good article, but a strong warning

2007-01-08 internet • security

Dumb Blizzard idea

Threatening to split players apart in the game

2007-01-08 gaming • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

Relativistic Rocket

Some math about space travel; 20 years (subjective) to the center of the galaxy!

2007-01-07 cc_post • complicated • einstein • lightspeed • physics • relativistic • relativity • science

Lessons of James Kim

Father's op/ed on changes that could make a difference

2007-01-07 death • interesting • james-kim • jameskim • jc • kim • llis • print • todo • toread • twit

TSA advertising

Security theater is a revenue center! (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-06 corporatism • dumbfuck • government • terrorism

GOOG CA tax revenue

All those stock sales add up

2007-01-06 business • california • finance • google • news • taxes

BSG / WoW video

nerdsplosion

2007-01-05 humor • tocheck • toread • video

Who speaks Irish?

"confronted by an unbending foot soldier of the Irish Taliban"

2007-01-05 article • culture • gaeilge • gaelic • guardian • ireland • irish • language • languages • society • writing

Bush reads your mail

Amazing contempt for the legislative process

2007-01-04 bush • fascism • government • illegal • law • mail • news • privacy • secrecy • security • spying

Bezos' spaceship

Some secrecy slightly lifted (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-04 amazon • bezos • blogit • blueorigin • cool • dose • gross • ideafestival • space • temp • wild

PDF security hole

Wow, this is massive (via Evan)

2007-01-04 adobe • exploits • hack • javascript • pdf • security • web • xss • xss_docs

13 photographs that changed the world

Excellent commentary

2007-01-03 art • blog • gallery • history • images • interesting • list • photo • photography • photos • war

America the Overfull

Wistful Theroux op/ed

2007-01-03 america • article • culture • opinion • politics • population • society • toread • travel • world • writing

20 Full moons

Month by month animation (via apod)

2007-01-03 astronomy • cool • educational • fotos • full • moon • movie • nasa • photography • science • space

Larry Lessig at 23C3

Hour+ video, but he's a great speaker (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-03 code • copyright • creativecommons • culture • law • lessig • opensource • politics • technology • towatch • video

Firefox: $53M in 2005

Nearly $30M from "search engine relationships"

2007-01-03 browser • financials • firefox • firefox_pillole • free • money • mozilla • mytech • opensource • search • web

God talks to Pat

Robertson predicts mass killing in the US

2007-01-03 politics

Top XBLA games

Xbox Live's download service

2007-01-02

ephemeral profiles

Dana's notes from field research into how teens use social Internet services

2007-01-02 community • culture • identity • social • socialnetworking • technology • teens • usability • web • web2.0 • youth

Fisting on Metafilter

The discussion is awful, but some of the links are interesting gay history

2007-01-01 meira • read-this

Gay bathhouse history

Factual, but ads NSFW

2007-01-01

Crippling Vista DRM

Detailed analysis of how Windows DRM features will make computers worse

2007-01-01 analysis • article • copyright • drm • hardware • microsoft • politics • security • software • vista • windows

Americans on the Hajj

Hajj an adventure for young Americans - Yahoo! News

2007-01-01