iPhone 1.1.1 changes

A detailed full list. Safari debug mode!

2007-09-30 apple • iphone • notes • releasenotes • upgrade

NTP abuse

Roundup of some NTP server problems over time

2007-09-30 abuse • badtech • computers • firmware • internet • ntp • time

Map of my Paris restaurants

Alex plays around and makes a cool map!

2007-09-30 amac • creativecommons • food • map • paris • restaurant

BioShock critique

Thoughtful essay on the storytelling in bioshock

2007-09-30 bioshock • criticism • critique • games • narrative

jwz - PSA: backups

<3 JWZ

2007-09-29 backups • harddrive • jwz • rsync • sysadmin

Tornado potatoes

Awesome looking junk food

2007-09-28 food • junkfood • korea • potatoes • southkorea

Blank Halo 3 maps

The new Forge feature lets you place objects; here's some blank maps to start. Bungie has a cool download queuing feature, too.

2007-09-28 forge • games • halo • halo3 • map • online • tool

n64 controller bong

Proving you can smoke pot out of anything

2007-09-28 bong • games • marijuana • n64 • nintendo

Being on the Daily Show

Painfully funny and insecurely honest bit by Lauren Weedman

2007-09-27 comedy • dailyshow • insecurity • sausagemaking • tv • women

Freistaat Flaschenhals

A bit of weirdness from World War I

2007-09-26 germany • maps • politics • war

Beijing Olympics logo

I can't decide if this is funny, or offensive, or both

2007-09-26 china • logo • olympics • politics • satire

Harvard Master Chief

nice Halo / MIT hack

2007-09-25 games • hack • halo • harvard • mit

Xbox Media Center

Nice tour of what this app can do. Too bad it's all unauthorized.

2007-09-24 hack • hometheater • mediacenter • xbmc • xbox

proof of purchase

Poetic little online diary

2007-09-24 blog • culture • diary • receipt • via:metafilter

Mozy: $76m

Acquisition rumour, good for them!

2007-09-24 acquisition • backup • emc • mozy • startups • storage • valuation

AudioGames

Directory of sound oriented games

2007-09-22 accessibility • audio • blind • games • sound

Warcraft class popularity

Interesting graph; this is for Alliance, Horde is different

2007-09-22 class • data • games • graph • statistics • warcraft

Halo 3 leaked

Requires a modded XBox; I see a couple thousand downloaders on mininova

2007-09-21 bittorrent • games • halo • pirate • theft • xbox

Mandom

Charles Bronson is more man than you, at least in this Japanese cologne commercial

2007-09-21 advertisement • charlesbronson • japan • via:metafilter

Monkey drummer

Aphex Twin's sliced up beats are playable, by a robot monkey at least

2007-09-20 aphextwin • chriscunningham • drummer • drums • music • sequencer • via:jwz

Warcraft game balancing

Nice visualization of tweaks Blizzard has made over time

2007-09-19 balance • blizzard • gamedesign • mmog • via:wowinsider • warcraft • wow

LOLthulhu

Anil, what have you wrought?

2007-09-19 cthulhu • humor • lolcats • lovecraft • memes • via:boingboing

LT security break

They blog their "confidential" disclosure

2007-09-19 breach • hosting • layeredtech • security • server

Hadoop interview

Doug Cutting is one of the smartest programmers I know

2007-09-19 cluster • code • cutting • distributed • grid • hadoop • lucene • mapreduce • opensource • scalability • via:zawodny • yahoo

Go see Cal

And his dog Spot

2007-09-19 ads • advertising • calhenderson • cars • tiger • tv • via:metafilter

double backflip coffin

New skating game has an awesome video upload feature

2007-09-18 ea • editing • games • skate • skateboard • skating • trick • video

Menu cliches

Funny bit from Tony Bourdain

2007-09-18 bourdain • cooking • food • menu • restaurant • satire • via:kottke

Zork map

Lovely hand drawn map

2007-09-18 adventure • games • history • infocom • map • via:digg • zork

Bay Bridge replacement

Awesome time lapse video of 72 hours of work

2007-09-18 baybridge • bridge • construction • engineering • movie • sanfrancisco • timelapse • via:boingboing

MySQL replication practice

Great blog entry about reliable snapshots, repliation delay, etc

2007-09-18 backup • binlog • database • mysql • replication • snapshot • sql

Bullying Post-Its

amusing image

2007-09-17 art • bully • comic • funny • postit

Design portfolio

Crazy UI for some modern digital design

2007-09-17 animation • design • flash • via:mariuswatz

Queen wins school lottery

two bars of soap and bath oil

2007-09-17 england • funny • lottery • queen • soap

Comcast: 100G/month

Someone from Comcast finally explains "excessive use"

2007-09-17 bandwidth • bittorrent • comcast • download • internet • limit

Blackwater ousted from Iraq

Major private mercenary company banned?

2007-09-17 blackwater • iraq • mercenary • politics • war

fine iTunes rant

Great example of some of the disaster that is iTunes

2007-09-16 apple • badtech • drm • iphone • ipod • itunes • rant • via:digg

SCO bankrupt

Just rewards for a company taken over by stupid lawyers

2007-09-15 legal • linux • opensource • revenge • sco

Warcraft nude mod

What's particularly freaky is what's missing: pubic hair and men.

2007-09-14 games • nsfw • nude • silly • warcraft • wow

Metroid Prime rant

Mike doesn't like his new game

2007-09-14 game • games • metroid • nintendo • rant • samus • wii

Ringtones are a scam

Cogently written essay on why Apple's profit-mongering is wrong

2007-09-14 apple • copyright • iphone • itunes • ringtones

Ten broken fingers

Wince-inducing photo

2007-09-12 cricket • fingers • health • ouch • photo • sports

Hacker Canon firmware

Hack your mid-range Canon camera to do RAW output, other things

2007-09-12 camera • canon • hack • photography • raw

Rez on Xbox 360

Very creative video game, now on new hardware

2007-09-12 game • games • music • rez • xbox • xbox360

ZeroShell

A Linux distribution custom designed for routers

2007-09-11 embedded • firewall • linux • livecd • network • router

Kismet

Wireless layer 2 sniffer

2007-09-11 802.11 • ethereal • sniffer • wep • wifi • wpa

Chris Crocker

freaky Youtube celebrity

2007-09-11 chriscrocker • culture • gay • youtube

Wanted: gullible lawyers

Amazing story of a scam; nice punchline at the end, too

2007-09-10 craigslist • job • lawyer • scam • via:metafilter

John Maeda design process

Great little slide show on how John makes the cover for Key magazine

2007-09-10 design • johnmaeda • maeda • process • via:kottke

Seven holes

Amusing little blog post about holes

2007-09-10 holes • via:digg

iPhone / Etymotics

High end in-ear headphones for your iPhone, third party mod

2007-09-08 apple • etymotic • hardware • headphones • iphone • sound

Street Fighter: the Later Years

Remarkably funny little action spoof

2007-09-08 games • spoof • streetfighter • video

Oblivion: 10,000 melons

Fun with in game physics

2007-09-08 funny • games • hack • havoc • machinima • oblivion • physics

Twitter journalism

"the right kind of stupid."

2007-09-07 journalism • news • technology • twitter • web

Lurid Digs (NSFW!)

Gay porn recontextualized as interior design critique

2007-09-07 camp • critique • design • funny • gay • nsfw • porn • pornography

Republican sex scandals

A handy little list

2007-09-06 hypocrites • politics • rape • rapist • republican • scandal • sex

Ghostzilla

A way to hide a web browser so your boss doesn't easily see it on your screen

2007-09-06 browser • firefox • goofingoff • software • web

Crack my knuckles

Freaky little web toy

2007-09-06 body • crack • creepy • hand • knuckle • via:aboutblank • video

Google Reader search!

Huzzah! Glad they got this built; personal search engines are tricky

2007-09-06 google • newsfeed • reader • rss • search • via:digg

Losing $114M

misfortune of a lottery winner

2007-09-05 fortune • lottery • misfortune • money • sad • via:zawodny

Myanmar's new capital

Insanity of an authoritarian regime

2007-09-04 naypyidaw • authoritarian • batshitinsane • burma • city • design • myanmar • tickytacky • urbanplanning • via:boingboing

Microsoft OOXML fails

Bullet narrowly dodged

2007-09-04 microsoft • ods • openoffice • politics • standards • via:digg

Eve mineral economics

I used to make virtual money trading off some of these economic complications

2007-09-03 ccp • economy • eve • eveonline • games • mmog • mmorpg • trade

Google Phone rumours

Columnist claims to have talked to people who've seen it

2007-09-03 cell • google • phone • rumour • technology

TwonkyMedia xbox360

Portable server that can stream media to whatever bizarre protocol the Xbox 360 needs

2007-09-03 games • media • movies • music • sharing • xbox360

Blade Runner hospital scene

Something that's never turned up in an edit, no doubt for the comic overacting

2007-09-03 bladerunner • editor • film • hospital • movie • pkdick • ridleyscott • scene

Space Giraffe response

This game definitely provokes

2007-09-02 crazy • game • games • minter • spacegiraffe • xbox • xbox360

Free SF Wifi mesh net

Small local ISP is stepping into the gap left by the city government vs. Earthlink

2007-09-01 free • google • internet • network • sonicnet • wifi