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Carolina Bays
interesting geographical formation, as seen via Google Maps
2008-05-30 carolinabays • geography • google • maps
ColorFlip
cute little toy with animated color pages
2008-05-29 color • design • via:swissmiss
Flash exploit
Adobe strikes again; WoW accounts stolen via bug in Flash. So can anything else on your computer, no doubt.
2008-05-29 adobe • badtech • flash • games • security • warcraft
Eclipse + AppEngine
guide to getting everything working
2008-05-29 appengine • eclipse • gae • ide • pydev • python
Robokill
Great little casual game. Smash TV + upgrades
2008-05-29 flash • games • robotron • smashtv • via:waxy
Guitar Hero DS
Corporate committee makes a video "hip" to the "kids"
2008-05-29 gameboy • games • guitarhero • music • nds • nintendo
Motorcycling across Angola
Amazing trip photos
2008-05-27 angola • motorcycle • roadtrip • travel • via:metafilter
Dragnet about LSD
All you need to know about getting hopped up on sugarcubes
2008-05-26 60s • dragnet • drugs • lsd • tv
A* demo
My old friend Amit is doing some demos of game programming in Flash
2008-05-25 a* • algorithms • astar • flash • games • pathfinding
Jack Chick's "Lisa"
A particularly insane Chick tract
2008-05-25 batshitinsane • chicktract • christianity • jackchick • paedophilia • pedophilia • religion
Mars Phoenix is dying
Sad set of tweets as the Mars Phoenix robot is shutting down for winter
2008-05-25 astronomy • mars • nasa • science • space • twitter
WOW vs real life locales
Some of the archetypes that Warcraft draws from
2008-05-24 design • games • warcraft • wow
GTA IV: actor residuals?
Interesting article about the lack of royalty payments to video game talent
2008-05-23 acting • contract • games • gta4 • gtaiv • rockstar • sag • union • via:mathowie
Direct manipulation video player
Watch the teaser video; interesting UI for seeking in video
2008-05-23 hci • userinterface • via:techcrunch • video
Age of Conan fix
crippling "game does not launch" bug; official forums require login to read
2008-05-23 ageofconan • badtech • bug • conan • funcom • games
White House knew of torture in 2002
No big surprise here, but the whole "few bad eggs" thing is shown to be a lie
2008-05-23 civilrights • government • iraq • politics • torture
Wii = bad trainer
Interesting mom's eye view of how Wii Fit made her kids feel bad. Maybe a Japan/US culture clash?
2008-05-22 exercise • games • wii • wiifit
Friendly Floatees
Rubber ducks spilled in the ocean, cross through Bering Strait ten years later
2008-05-22 ducks • friendlyfloatees • maps
Debian/OpenSSL analysis
A very detailed examination of how the bug happened
2008-05-22 badtech • coding • debian • opensource • openssl • security
Viral meme data
Waxy gives us server stats for his role in the Star Wars Kid video
2008-05-22 internet • meme • movie • starwarskid • viral
Fire rainbows
Odd atmospheric effect
2008-05-21 clouds • firerainbow • meteorology • weather
Wedding earthquake
Photographer at a Sichuan wedding gets amazing photos during earthquake
2008-05-21 china • earthquake • photography • photos • via:metafilter • wedding
Underground runways
North Korea builds runways in tunnels
2008-05-19 aircraft • googlemaps • military • northkorea • runway
The Obama sea
Enormous turnout in Oregon for the Obama rally
2008-05-19 barackobama • democrats • election • obama • oregon • politics
David Lynch panties in his mouth
Must be great to be so completely bizarre
2008-05-19 davidlynch • movies • panties • via:kottke
Xbox towel trick
One recommended fix: deliberately overheat your console. No frickin way, thanks.
2008-05-18 badidea • badtech • games • hardware • xbox • xbox360
Xbox 360: 30% failure rate
My console died. Apparently that's not uncommon.
2008-05-18 badtech • failure • games • hardware • xbox • xbox360
GTA4 fanfic
Funny, creepy story
2008-05-17 fanfic • grandtheftauto • gta • gta4
Iron Man appreciation
Old anthropologist friend of mine has a nice bit about the movie
2008-05-17 criticism • guns • ironman • movies
ssh brute force attacks on the upswing
A few days before the Debian disclosure there was a significant increase in attacks on ssh servers. That is bad news.
2008-05-17 botnets • hacking • openssl • ssh • via:metafilter • vulnerability
Beer over IP
Costik has a ground floor investment opportunity
2008-05-15 beer • internet • parody • tcpip • vc • venturecapital
Yahtzee on GTA4
Everyone's favourite curmudgeon game critic
2008-05-15 criticism • games • grandtheftauto • gta4 • gtaiv • review • rockstar • yahtzee
Street View face blurring
Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology
2008-05-15 facialrecognition • google • maps • privacy
Debian ssh exploit
Someone published a list of all possible Debian ssh keys. In case you weren't sure the bug was serious.
2008-05-15 debian • hacking • openssh • openssl • ssh
Dealing with Debian's ssh vulnerability
For two years the ssh keys generated by Debian have been broken.
2008-05-15 bug • debian • hacking • openssh • openssl • security • ssh
The Whitburn Project
Andy documents another awesome underground resource; a database of all the top songs since the 1890s
2008-05-15 billboard • charts • music • usenet • whitburn
Happy Bea-Day!
Bea Arthur's birthday; ten video clips to remind you what an amazing performer she is. Don't miss her singing about getting high with Rock Hudson.
2008-05-14 beaarthur • gay • rockhudson • television • tv • via:metafilter
Jon the Collector
Incredibly detailed blog about Java garbage collection
2008-05-14 garbagecollection • gc • java • jvm • memory • sun
100 essential Jazz albums
Great list with links to purchase. Note the lack of Amazon associate IDs in the links; d'oh!
2008-05-13 jazz • music • via:kottke
Liberty City landmarks
Side by side photos from GTA and New York
2008-05-13 games • grandtheftauto • gta • gta4 • gtaiv • photography • virtualcities
Free geocoding
Yahoo makes their geodatabase available for free, 50,000 queries / day
2008-05-13 api • geocoding • maps • yahoo
Yakuza experience
Fascinating story of a gaijin crime reporter in Tokyo
2008-05-13 crime • japan • mafia • organizedcrime • yakuza
Treadmill Kittens
aw, cute kitties!
2008-05-12 cats • kitties • treadmill • via:zawodny
ph34t the g00gl3
Italians having none of being filmed on the street
2008-05-12 google • italy • maps • privacy • surveillance
sitemaps robots.txt
I had no idea there was a simple way to tell search engines about your sitemaps
2008-05-12 google • robots.txt • seo • sitemaps • yahoo
Speed Racer: 35/100
Reviews are pretty bad
2008-05-09 film • movies • speedracer
Processing.js
A heroic project, the design Java framework ported to run in Javascript
2008-05-09 canvas • design • graphics • hack • javascript • processing • via:waxy
Scala message queue experiment
Robey ports Starling to Scala, talks about what he learned
2008-05-08 code • distributedsystems • java • ruby • scala • starling
EFF/archive.org victory
The forces of good fought a Patriot Act gag order and won
2008-05-08 aclu • civilliberties • eff • freedom • internetarchive • patriotact
Gravel + Obama Girl
Very creepy, but kinda funny. Also, a Twitter shoutout
2008-05-08 batshitinsane • mikegravel • obama • politics
Speed Racer review
Bad, but good. Review from an old friend of mine
2008-05-07 movies • review • speedracer • wachowski
GTA IV: $500M
incredibly enormous first week sales, half a billion dollars
2008-05-07 games • grandtheftauto • gta4 • gtaiv • rockstar
Piet language
Programming language whose programs are 2d images
2008-05-06 batshitinsane • code • languages • mondrian • programming • via:waxy
Google/Yahoo analysis
Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising
2008-05-05 ads • adwords • analysis • google • microsoft • yahoo
GOP / Fairlight
Founder of one of the most famous pirate groups is now a Republican Party official in california
2008-05-05 copyright • fairlight • games • republicans • scandal • strider • via:waxy • warez
Justice - Stress comments
Nice critical commentary
2008-05-04 critique • justice • music • stress • video
Justice - Stress
New video from the French group. Very disturbing, what are they playing at?
2008-05-04 banlieu • france • justice • music • paris • via:metafilter • video • violence
GTA 4 map
Google Maps-style UI with fan-added comments on things in the game
2008-05-03 games • grandtheftauto • gta4 • gtaiv • map • rockstar • spoilers
"ghey"
According to Urban Dictionary, intended to remove sexual orientation from the insult
2008-05-03 gay • ghey • homophobia • language • slang
Google code review tool
Google's released something much like its internal code review tool
2008-05-03 appengine • code • django • google • mondrian • python • review • subversion
All Streets
Beautiful visualization of all the roads in the US
2008-05-02 benfry • data • map • processing • roads • streets • visualization
Wilford Brimley cats
It's Friday, look at some funny cats
2008-05-02 brimley • cats • lolcats • via:boingboing • wilford • wilfordbrimley
Muxtape
Quick and easy hosting of an MP3 mixtape
2008-05-02 copyright • mp3 • music • muxtape
Ridiculous headline
"Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies any more"
2008-05-02 cocaine • drugs • news • racism
GTA IV maps/cheats
Lots o' spoilers
2008-05-01 cheats • games • grandtheftauto • gta • maps • rockstar
Maker Faire this weekend
Terrible website, but the Faire is in San Mateo this weekend
2008-05-01 fair • hackers • hacking • maker • oreilly • sanmateo
Arabic typesetting
Good overview of the challenges and history
2008-05-01 arabic • calligraphy • design • fonts • tasmeen • typesetting • via:metafilter