Uninstall StarForce

This piece of crap installed itself by surprise; here's how to remove it. Not clear this site is legitimate, but I think it is.

2006-01-31 copyright • drm • game • games • removal • software • spyware • starforce • tool • tools • utility

Wikipedia vs. politics

RFC to ban US Congress IP addresses from editing Wikipedia entries (via Digg)

2006-01-30 abuse • congress • funny • government • internet • politics • technology • usa • web • wiki • wikipedia

PhilG: early retirement

Reports from his life

2006-01-30 article • early • finance • happiness • life • lifehacks • money • productivity • retirement • toread • work

The World of TaB soda

Every product has a fan website

2006-01-30 drinks • soda • tab • wom

Hamachi: P2P VPN

Tunnels a network via UDP, can mediate NAT on both ends

2006-01-29 free • freeware • internet • network • networking • p2p • security • software • tools • vpn • windows

Chewbacca blog

Great images (via Digg)

2006-01-29 blog • blogs • chewbacca • chewy • fun • funny • humor • humour • movie • movies • starwars

Lawyer games

Phoenix Wright, Ace Anime Attorney

2006-01-29 adventure • culture • gameboyadvance • gaming • gyakuten • nintendods • phoenix • saiban • summary • wright

Face transplant photo

You were wondering, here it is (via Digg)

2006-01-29 business-sport • face • health • interesting • medicine • personals-place • photo • photography • science • transplant • weird

Wikipedia: bong

I don't think Britannica's entry is as detailed

2006-01-28 flix • ster

WikiProject photos

Guidelines for making Wikipedia better with your camera

2006-01-28 photography • wikipedia

Paris zoomable map

Google Maps-like UI for Paris, good map.

2006-01-28 city • flash • france • geography • information • map • mapping • maps • paris • reference • travel

WoW zoomable map

Google Maps-style UI for World of Warcraft

2006-01-28 game • games • gaming • google • googlemaps • map • maps • reference • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

Game developer blogs

A top 10 list

2006-01-28 blog • blog_post • blogs • design • developers • development • games • joelik • later • top10 • www.gamergod.com

Burgertime

Fan-made parody of videogame art

2006-01-28

Google in China

Good explanation of a difficult compromise

2006-01-28 blog • censorship • china • freespeech • google • internet • news • politics • privacy • rights • search

Tiananmen images US

Example of Google results in US (assuming your IP is in the US)

2006-01-28 tiananmen • apac • censorship • fromirc • google • googleimagesearch • photo • politics • search • usa

Tiananmen images CN

Example of Google results in China

2006-01-28 30-1-06 • apac • by__az • censorship • china • comparison • google • images • linklog • politics • search

Tamron lens rebates

Popular 3rd party lens cmopany has good rebates

2006-01-27

World GSM coverage

Cool map

2006-01-27 coverage • favorites • gsm • map • maps • mobile • network • phone • posters • reference • world

Space Oddity video

1969 music video! David Bowie was so nerdy... (via Metafilter)

2006-01-27 bowie • david • david-bowie • favorites • friends • movies • music • oddity • space • video • youtube

Bush through a bush

Weird photo; is this the best they could get?

2006-01-26

Free Steve Chung!

Random bit from Transmetropolitan

2006-01-26

Humping Pandas

Reversu pandaba

2006-01-25

Mute photoblog

Great photographer on Flickr

2006-01-25 art • blog • blogs • daily • photo • photoblog • photoblog-posts • photoblogs • photography • photos • toronto

Daniel Humm to NYC

Damn, I really liked him

2006-01-25

Campton Place chef

Daniel Humm, one of my favourite chefs, has moved on?

2006-01-25

Comic Sans apologia

It's all MS Bob's fault. (via Kottke)

2006-01-25 article • comic • comicsans • design • font • fonts • history • microsoft • sans • technology • typography

Oblivion interview

Enormous detail about the highly anticipated game

2006-01-25 elder • faq • gaming • interview • microsoft • morrowind • oblivion • pc • scrolls • video_games • xbox_360

Atari ET music video

Cute video about the worst-ever licensed game (via Joystiq)

2006-01-25 atari • blog • cool • fun • funny • games • geek • history • music • video • videogames

NintendoDS homebrew

How to run your own software on the DS. Run your own WiFi ROM server.

2006-01-25 development • diy • ds • games • hack • homebrew • nds • nintendo • programming • reference • tutorial

Ragdoll Masters

2d ragdoll game, fun as heck

2006-01-25 cool • download • free • game • games • gaming • mac • osx • ragdolls • shareware • software

Web authoring stats

Google's analysis of 1 billion web pages' HTML

2006-01-25 css • development • google • html • reference • statistics • stats • web • webdesign • webdev • xhtml

Warez bust

Looks like they went after some primary distribution ftp servers? (via Digg)

2006-01-24 blocked • downloads • games • hack • p • pc • piracy • privacy • security • software • warez

Loompanics closing

Coolest publisher ever closes its doors. Internet victim?

2006-01-24

Beware

This Thyssen earth mover actually exists (via Ask Metafilter)

2006-01-24 cool • crane • hardware • holyshit • machine • tools • wow

Konfabulator widgets

Rated by # of downloads (via Populicious)

2006-01-23 desktop • download • konfabulator • list • popular • software • tools • widget • widgets • windows • yahoo

Cry Engine 2 movie

Beautiful new game engine from the Far Cry company

2006-01-23

Banana peeling

Monkeys open bananas from the other side

2006-01-22 banana • boingboing • food • howto • info • interesting • sundayroast • transparency • useful • weird • ztf

Jack Russell

Vaguely Kirby Canvas Curse gameplay, cute falling dogs

2006-01-22 betty • dlsq • game • puzzle • timewaster • toblog

Ball Revamped IV

Little Flash dexterity game (via Jay is Games)

2006-01-22 action • addictive • ball • cool • flash • fun • game • games • managing • timewaster • webgames

Shatner LSD video

Amazing fan-made vide of Shatner's infamous Beatles cover (via UMMO)

2006-01-21 beatles • fun • funny • google • humor • humour • music • shatner • startrek • tv • video

Virtual currency chart

Handy display, updated regularly

2006-01-21 chart • currency • forex • gaming • mmo • secondlife • special_study • tom • virtual • virtual_money • virtualmoney

UMMO Letters

Great blog

2006-01-21 blog • personal

Survivor Scandal!

Richard Hatch claims people were sneaking food

2006-01-21

Eve Online hardware

Details from the MMOG guys; whole game runs on 70 dual Opteron systems

2006-01-21 architecture • blade • cluster • eve-online • hardware • mmog

Eve Online database

Interesting; this MMOG makes most of the game data available for download

2006-01-21 data • database • development • eve • eve-online • export • map • reference • sql • tools

Delicious beef spines

Japan's not taking US beef again

2006-01-20

Plane crash video

NASA test footage, eerie (via Metafilter)

2006-01-20 airplane • cool • crash • films • movies • nasa • pyrotechnics • test • video • videos • weird

1996 Riesling

This was a lovely bottle of wine

2006-01-20

Gold Farming

Too long, but the tribulations of a mom and pop operation in EQ

2006-01-20 article • economics • everquest • farming • games • gaming • goldfarming • mmo • mmorpg • videogames • virtualworlds

Cubeoban

Flash game vaguely sokoban-like (via Metafilter)

2006-01-19 cubeoban • flash • free • fun • game • games • juegos • online • puzzle • puzzles • webgames

Patriot Search

Help the government! (via Battelle)

2006-01-19 bush • fun • funny • google • government • humor • politics • privacy • satire • search • web

More on Fed hoover

Better article, lots of detail

2006-01-19 bush • google • government • internet • law • news • politics • privacy • rights • search • web

Animal Crossing auction site

Uses the DS WiFi to let players trade items for virtual currency

2006-01-19

Grim meathook future

This mini-essay makes me ashamed

2006-01-19 activism • culture • economics • future • grim-meathook-future • life • politics • society • sociology • technology • web

Scary nipple wall

jwz always finds the freakiest photos. Vaguely NSFW.

2006-01-19 funny • images • picture • toblog • weird

DOJ Internet hoovering

Broad reaching subpoena for Internet search records

2006-01-19

memepool / Nelson

Before there was del.icio.us and Metafilter there was memepool

2006-01-19

#181;Torrent

Lovely tiny Windows client

2006-01-18 bittorrent • download • free • freeware • internet • p2p • software • tools • torrent • torrents • windows

BCTP links

BitTorrent without torrent files. Interesting idea.

2006-01-18

Work / life balance

Thoughtful reflections from Jeremy

2006-01-18 alire • job • life • success • work • work/life_balance • worklife

Mac universal binaries

Early app gone dual-processor went smoothly (via kottke)

2006-01-18

Ted: Tivo for Bittorrent

Automated TV show downloads (via Waxy)

2006-01-18 bittorrent • bt • p2p • software • ted • tools • torrent • torrents • tv • utilities • windows

Laos unicycle tour

A friend of mine is riding hundreds of miles around Laos on a single wh eel

2006-01-18 touring • unicycle • weird

Canon 1Ds pinhole

Better article about DIY pinhole photography

2006-01-17 camera • canon • digital • diy • hack • howto • lens • photo • photography • photoshop • pinhole

Canon 350d pinhole

Lovely soft effects

2006-01-17 digital_pinhole • diy • foto • howto • photography • safari_export

Canon 30D leak

Canon's new camera. Not sure, but could be a hoax.

2006-01-17 humor • images

Moore's Wall on games

Raph Koster with a very thoughtful piece on the future of games (via Metafilter)

2006-01-14 creativity • design • development • future • gamedev • games • gaming • mmog • programming • technology • toread

MMO cheating

Lots of types of exploits I didn't know about (via Slashdot)

2006-01-13 games • jcantero • juegos • mmorpg • multiplayer • online • rpg

Trinidad's Pitch Lake

95 acres of tar (via Metafilter)

2006-01-13 cool • geography • interesting • nature • photos • pictures • pitch • science • tar • travel • weird

Ads in CounterStrike?!

In-game ads are sadly inevitable

2006-01-13 advertising • by_myrdin • fromirc • games • marketing • media • spam

Personal annual report

Clever idea (via kottke)

2006-01-12 2005 • art • blog • cool • creativity • design • ideas • inspiration • interesting • report • visualization

Rumstud / Geisha

Fantastic photo (via Metafilter)

2006-01-12 funny • geisha • literature • news • photography • picture • pictures • politics • rumsfeld • toread

Flash Earth

Google Earth-like UI entirely in Flash. Very nicely done. (via jayisgames)

2006-01-11 cool • earth • flash • geography • google • googlemaps • map • maps • reference • tools • web2.0

Diamonds are bad

Lots of interesting stuff in the comments

2006-01-11 africa • culture • diamond • diamonds • issues • metafilter • politics • scam • shopping • thread • toread

Veblen goods

Something that is more desireable the more expensive it is

2006-01-11 archangel • bigend • business • consumption • economics • ideas • psicologia • reference • trends • wikipedia • words

Tire specifications

All those random bits on the side of your tire mean something!

2006-01-10 asap • auto • cars • specifications • tire • tires

Kiko calendar

Nice online calendar, cool startup

2006-01-10 ajax • calendar • free • javascript • online • productivity • software • tools • web • web2.0 • webapp

Odyssey2 emulator

Is K.C. Munchkin as good as you remember?

2006-01-09 emulate • emulator • emulators • games • howto • odyssey2 • tutorials • video-games • videogames

Burning Man 2005

Photoalbum (via Metafilter)

2006-01-09 2005 • art • burning_man • burningman • diverse • event • festival • photo • photography • photos • pics

Oblivion tech interview

Lots of interesting details about a next-gen 3d game

2006-01-09 interview • oblivion • rpg • technology

Feedster overturn

Good journalism from WebProNews

2006-01-09 blog • feedster • rss • search • search+engine • syndicate

Harsh feedster update

An executive should never use the phrase "purged some personnel"

2006-01-09 commentary • failing • feedster • revisit • rssnews • snw • strategy • technorati

Entrepreneurs' lies

Funny-but-true list (via Zawodny)

2006-01-09 blog • blogs • business • entrepreneur • entrepreneurship • kawasaki • lies • startup • strategy • tips • vc

Windows RAW plugin

Makes thumbnails; and Microsoft has Firefox instructions!

2006-01-08

Oblivion preview

The game is nearly finished

2006-01-08 es_oblivion

Feedster pessimism

Hadn't realized Scott Rafer and Scott Johnson both left

2006-01-08 blogging • business • fee • feedster • jeremy • rss • search • startup • status • web2.0 • webservice

code-sign blog

My friend Mike has a new tech blog, good stuff

2006-01-07 blog • blogs • css • design • development • programming • techniques • web • webdev • xml • xslt

Portable game history

Nice family tree (via Joystiq)

2006-01-07 gadgets • game • games • gaming • handheld • hardware • history • nintendo • retro • tech • videogames

Sushi explained

Handy video etiquette guide (via Krane)

2006-01-07 culture • documentary • food • fun • funny • google • humor • japan • japanese • sushi • video

IGN top 10 games

More eclectic than the usual lists

2006-01-05

Best Fark photoshops

Funny even without context (via Waxy)

2006-01-05 .imported • 2005 • design • funny • graphics • humor • photography • photos • photoshop • reference • satire

web.py release

Congrats to Aaron for releasing yet another Python web framework!

2006-01-04 code • development • framework • opensource • programming • python • software • tools • web • web.py • webdev

Virtual Prison

For bad Second Lifers. Spooky. (via Waxy)

2006-01-04 crime • culture • game • games • gaming • geek • internet • mmorpg • prison • secondlife • virtual

Gay love bomb

Crazy chemical warfare experiments

2006-01-04 bbc • funny • gay • humor • military • news • sex • tech • war • warfare • wierd

Google Modules

Third party site lists modules you can put into a personalized Google page

2006-01-03 ajax • api • google • homepage • internet • module • modules • tools • web • web2.0 • widgets

WMF hole intentional

An image format designed to run arbitrary code. (via Hot Links)

2006-01-02 daily • escape • internetexplorer • security • spyware • vulnerability • web • win32 • windows • wmf • wmf_virus

Rael quits Blosxom

Switches blog to Typo. Why do I feel a chill?

2006-01-02 blogtools • blosxom • cms

Top 20 indie games

Jay is Games has a unique take on non-traditional games, great list of stuff here

2006-01-02 2005 • bestof • flash • free • fun • game • games • list • lists • online • web

Xbox 360 hack

Group figures out how to make a custom boot disc

2006-01-02

Eve Online technology

They use Stackless Python!

2006-01-02 multiplayer • python