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Wal-Mart stampede
Employee killed; grimly funny or just awful?
2008-11-28 christmas • shopping • stampede • walmart
True Blood titles
3 minute version of the True Blood arty titles
2008-11-27 titles • trailer • trueblood • tv
Cthulhu's minions
Squid with elbows filmed by deep sea oil drilling
2008-11-25 animals • lovecraft • ocean • squid
Bad ballots
Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
2008-11-20 election • hci • politics • userinterface • via:metafilter
Kinkade critique
Amazing deconstruction of Thomas Kinkade's cliches, identifying interesting and disturbing aspects (follow the link anchor; big comment by "suedehead" at the end)
2008-11-20 art • critique • kinkade • thomas
Google Deadly
Only product Google has launched that made me completely think WTF? Guess it's not a success.
2008-11-20 deadpool • google • lively
Fallout design
Interesting commentary on how the game and narrative work
2008-11-19 design • fallout • games • rpg
Fallout 3 rave
Nice commentary on a great game
2008-11-18 fallout • games
Atari Adventure for iPhone
classic Atari 2600 game ported
2008-11-18 2600 • adventure • atari • games • iphone • via:waxy
Thomas Kinkade formula
Direction to filmmakers: be insipid in 16 easy steps
2008-11-18 art • kinkade • movie • painting • thomaskinkade • via:metafilter
Danger slide!
Crazy concrete slide in the Castro
2008-11-18 castro • sewardstreet • slide
Electric Avenue
No idea what the hell this is, but I likes it
2008-11-18 electricavenue • music • via:merlin • video
New market slot machines
3x leveraged ETFs
2008-11-16 etf • gambling • investing • speculation • stocks
Obama / Cotton
Interesting correlation
2008-11-16 cottons • elections • politics • race • slavery
No on 8 SF protest
Nationwide protests against the gay marriage ban planned
2008-11-13 civilrights • gay • gayrights • marriage • politics • protest
Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals
An entire Elsevier journal full of nonsense and crap. The old academic journal system is broken.
2008-11-12 elsevier • scandal • science
Java2D fonts
Surprise, turns out rewriting Microsoft and Apple font rendering code doesn't always work out
2008-11-12 design • fonts • java • software • typography • via:raffi
Kittenwar!
A Hot or Not site full of pussies
2008-11-11 cats • hotornot • kittens • photos
MouseJail
For dual monitors: traps the mouse in the primary monitor if the program you're running isn't smart enough to
2008-11-11 display • dualview • games • mouse • software • windows
AVG vs user32.dll
Popular anti-virus software destroys Windows. What's wrong with AVG's quality control?!
2008-11-11 avg • badtech • testing • virus • windows
Spam economics
Researches infiltrate the Storm botnet, get amazing data on the results
2008-11-10 badtech • botnet • economics • spam
VC cash problems
I've been hearing about this from several quarters: limited partners are out of funds to answer capital calls
2008-11-08 investment • vc • venturecapital
Virtual flute
Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app. Creative endeavour or sign of the apocalypse?
2008-11-07 iphone • music • ocarina • via:waxy
Mechsuit for you legs
Power assisted walking
2008-11-07 cyborg • disabled • handicap • robot • robotics
Prop 8 funding
Database of who funded the anti-gay measure
2008-11-07 civilrights • gay • marriage • politics • proposition8
Why OpenDNS is evil
The DNS system is not the place to be providing application features
2008-11-07 badtech • dns • google • speed • via:merlin
Election change map
good critique of a good NYT visualization
2008-11-06 critique • design • election • graphics • information • map
Twitter stats
2-3 times as much traffic as normal and the site performed very well. Good job, guys.
2008-11-05 election • goodtech • scaling • twitter
Obama photos
Great portraiture
2008-11-05 obama • photography • politics • portrait
Prop 8 detail
Good election map
2008-11-05 california • civilrights • election • map • marriage • politics
1,000 Web APIs
Nice directory of APIs. Surprised that as much as 22% of them are SOAP. Sorry!
2008-11-04 internet • protocol • rest • soap • technology • webapis