lezarts de la bievre

Loose association of Paris street artists; Jef Aerosol puts this name in his stuff

2007-04-30 "jef • 13eme • 5eme • 75005 • 75013 • aerosol" • art • france • paris • streetart

Graffitis et Pochoirs

collection of Paris street art stuff

2007-04-30 art • france • graffiti • jefaerosol • mesnager • mosko • paris • speedygraphito • streetart

mmmm

Parisiens review their local restaurants; useful data presentation

2007-04-30 dining • food • france • map • paris • restaurant • reviews

Roue Libre

cheap bike rentals in Paris, run by the public transit agency

2007-04-30 bicycle • bike • france • location • paris • rental • velo

Gays in online games

General roundup of gay and lesbian issues in online MMOGs and others

2007-04-30 fallout • games • gay • lordoftherings • marriage • politics • sims

Steak frites in Paris

Honestly, France ain't the place for an American to have steak. But these places all sound awesome.

2007-04-28 beef • dining • food • france • frites • paris • restaurant • steak • via:marc

Lightroom $100 discount

Adobe's new photo editor gets more expensive soon

2007-04-28 adobe • discount • lightroom • photoshop • software

Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall

massively parallel data crunching platforms

2007-04-28 api • google • grid • mapreduce • pig • programming • sawzall • yahoo

France red/blue map

well really, pink/blue, but map of election results

2007-04-28 election • france • map • politics

Perfect DB storage

SmugMug's idea on what makes a great RAID array for MySQL

2007-04-28 database • db • hardware • mysql • performance • raid

Sumotori dreams

Hysterical physics based game from the demoscene

2007-04-26 demo • game • physics • scene • via:metafilter • via:waxy

Ace2 WoW tutorial

how to write addons for Warcraft using this excellent library

2007-04-25 ace • ace2 • code • lua • tutorial • warcraft • wow

How Paris voted

broken down by arrondissement. sure wish they had a map

2007-04-25 france • paris • politics • via:parisblog • voting

Military lies

Jessica Lynch: "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate lies,"

2007-04-25 iraqwar • military • politics • propaganda

From Ruby to Python

Longtime Ruby fan switches because of runtime implementation problems

2007-04-24 languages • python • religiouswar • ruby • scripting

lolcats

Anil's in my Internet, explaining my silly memes

2007-04-24 cat • culture • internet • language • linguistics • lolcats

Farm bill and fat

How US politics for corn and soy result in obese Americans

2007-04-24 farm • fat • food • health • obesity • politics • via:metafilter

Irony is over

Vietnam vet gives his Purple Heart to George W. Bush, to honor the president's emotional wounds

2007-04-23 batshitinane • iraqwar • irony • politics

Color tutorial

Way too long, but lots of detail

2007-04-23 color • colour • graphics • monitor • photography • photoshop

French electronic voting

They don't like it here, either

2007-04-23 ballot • election • france • voting • votingmachines

Hector Guimard

Famous art nouveau architect; list of his buildings in Paris

2007-04-23 architecture • artnouveau • building • paris

VATech killer on eBay

AAAAA+++++!!!!!! SWould sell again!

2007-04-22 blazers5505 • cho • ebay • murderer • profile

City Walks: Paris

useful tour guide; little cards for interesting walks in Paris

2007-04-22 book • france • map • paris • tourguide • tourist • walk

Super Mario 5:00

A humbling display of exactitude; no hacks

2007-04-22 games • mario • nintendo • snes • speedrun • video

French candidates

Nice English article on the positions the various candidates are taking

2007-04-20 bayrou • france • french • politics • royal • sarkozy

Today's Paris walk

4 miles through a bunch of different neighbourhoods. I'm exhausted!

2007-04-20 11eme • 20eme • 4eme • france • map • paris • walk

Upcoming changes

Andy's baby gets integrated into yahoo. Congratulations!

2007-04-20 events • upcoming • via:waxy • waxy • yahoo

RIP Dragon magazine

A 20 year old D&D stalwart ends

2007-04-20 d&d • dragon • magazine • publishing

New Linux scheduler

Ingo goes away for 60 hours, comes back with a new CPU allocation scheme

2007-04-19 code • ingo • kernel • linux • molnar • opensource

S5: HTML slides

Nicely put together package for doing slides in a browser, not powerpoint

2007-04-19 s5 • powerpoint • presentation • slides • via:markpilgrim

French government

How the government is structured

2007-04-19 france • government • politics

Segolene / Kruger

Interesting comparison of poster styles

2007-04-19 art • barbara • france • kruger • politics • royal • segolene

Paris Parks

National Geographic article about urban parks in paris

2007-04-19 france • paris • parks

Sarkozy vis-a-vis the US

American take on the front-runner for president of France

2007-04-19 france • politics • sarkozy

Guggenheim cracks

I love the NYT visualizations

2007-04-18 architecture • nyt • nytimes • via:kottke • wright

My walk in the 11eme

Short stroll through Paris looking for invaders

2007-04-18 11eme • 75011 • france • paris • spaceinvader • walk

Google buying Performics?

Interesting shift in the market

2007-04-18 advertising • doubleclick • google • performics • sem • seo

Paris 11e

Guide to the arrondissement near my apartment

2007-04-18 11eme • 75011 • france • paris

Vagina power

Hysterical public access bit; the mefi discussion helps find the bottom of it, right to my brain.

2007-04-18 funny • penis • sex • vagina • via:metafilter • video

Google news sources

Interesting hack to figure out where Google News gets their stuff from

2007-04-18 google • hack • news

Downstairs Guy

The drama of French apartment living

2007-04-17 france • paris • romance

Ode to Westlake

I feel equally nostalgic for this kind of neighbourhood

2007-04-17 architecture • california • dalycity • design • doelger • joe's • littleboxes • retro • weeds • westlake

Compact fluorescents

A simple rating / test guide.

2007-04-17 energy • green • home • lightbulb • via:wesabe

About me! In French!

A French friend picked up my blog post; fun to work out what they're saying about me.

2007-04-17 "moulin • a • french • lesson • merde" • nelson

Dodgeball founders quit Google

They lasted less than two years! Sad for everyone involved.

2007-04-16 acquisition • dodgeball • employment • google • job • quit

Tilt/shift lenses

Nice writeup of some photographic magic

2007-04-16 camera • canon • lens • perspective • photo • photography • tiltshift • ts-e

He never calls

Cheney hasn't called his former close friend Libby since the trial. Washington friendships.

2007-04-16 cheney • iraq • libby • politics

Harry Potter fan sites

Good retrospective

2007-04-15 blogs • fandom • harrypotter • websites

Marathon de Paris

Tomorrow, right outside my door!

2007-04-14 france • marathon • paris • running

Super Mario sadism

Hysterical in a limited domain

2007-04-14 games • mario • via:metafilter

Google + Doubleclick

Seems inevitable to me

2007-04-14 advertising • google

Daniel Rose restaurant

American chef making friends in Paris

2007-04-13 "daniel • chef • france • paris • restaurant • rose"

Twitter engineer interview

One of the Twitter guys talks about how well Ruby on Rails is working for them

2007-04-13 performance • rails • ruby • twitter • web

Boys' handcuffs

Good scout's delight!

2007-04-12 1920s • advertisement • via:metafilter

craplets

Nice rant against the crap that computer sellers shovel at you. White label machines don't have this problem; neither do Thinkpads

2007-04-12 advertising • computer • craplets • hardware • software • trialware

Click fraud botnet

Google releases details of some fraud directed at AdWords

2007-04-11 botnet • clickfraud • hacking • security

Le Zinc d Hugo

Excellent casual restaurant in Aix en Provence

2007-04-11 aix • provence • france • restaurant

More on non-persons

Some background to the latest list

2007-04-11 batshitinsane • dhs • fbi • security • terrorism

non-persons list

Text version of the list of thousands of names of people with whom Americans are not allowed to do business

2007-04-11 batshitinsane • dhs • fbi • security • terrorism

Pakistan gun market

Nice little video travelog

2007-04-10 arms • darra • guns • pakistan • travel

Microsoft is Dead

It's not quite true, but it's a good essay

2007-04-09 business • culture • google • internet • microsoft • monopoly

Trickshot bowling

Awesome 40s era video

2007-04-06 bowling • via:metafilter • video

Blue cheese spill in Mecca, CA

And the Salton Sea was threatened!

2007-04-06 california • news • saltonsea • via:dailyrotten

Book of Curiosities

lovely annotated 11th century manuscript

2007-04-06 history • islam • science • via:metafilter

Lawyerbear

The Leader in Ursine Litigation and Defense

2007-04-06 comic • law • lawyers • silly • via:metafilter

Critical mass stupidity

SF bike anarchy gets out of control

2007-04-05 anarchy • bicycle • criticalmass

Google My Maps

this seems significant

2007-04-05 api • geolocation • google • kml • maps • wikimapia

The Marriage

Interesting abstract social game

2007-04-04 game • marriage • social • software

Glonass update

GPS network alternatives. I hadn't realized the European one was suspended after the DRM was broken.

2007-04-04 gps • navigation • satellite • space

Aix restaurants

Seems a fairly good list; better than the spammy crap Google turns up

2007-04-03 aix • provence • dining • en • food • france • restaurant • review

King o' Pop is comin back!

A 50 foot robot that shoots laser beams!

2007-04-03 batshitinsane • jackson • michael • vegas • via:dailyrotten

Universal Studios spoof

hysterical video from the South Park guys

2007-04-03 satire • southpark • universal • video

Alanis / My Humps

It sounds dumb, but it's really pretty great

2007-04-03 alanis • junkinthetrunk • music • parody • satire • video

Calissons d'Aix

Regional candy

2007-04-03 aix • provence • candy • en

Crazy security stories

Computer security is only getting worse

2007-04-03 ani • bug • code • computer • javascript • security

Crazy plane formation

I guess the P-51 is fast enough to keep up

2007-04-03 airplane • aviation • formation • photo

Limiting API access

Some ways to control your developers; doesn't address the sticky authentication problem

2007-04-03 access • api • authentication • code • limit