BowMaster

charming little Flash game (via Metafilter)

2006-09-30 cool • flash • free • fun • funny • game • games • gaming • online • software • web

Gay congress scandal

Republican Foley resigns for flirting with pages

2006-09-30

Rushing off a cliff

Strongly worded NYT editorial against the disastrous new torture bill

2006-09-29 america • bullshit • bush • democracy • fear • law • politics • rights • securitystupidity • terror • terrorism

Google Earth / Paris

Lots of useful overlays and placemarks

2006-09-29

Paris map w/ Metro

Google Maps overlay; Poskanzer comes through again

2006-09-28 france • google • googlemaps • map • mapping • maps • mashup • metro • paris • subway • travel

Warcraft lore comic

Amazing fan setting of the WoW story (via We Know)

2006-09-28 comics • games

Sidewalk power play

Social dynamics of getting out of the way in public

2006-09-28

Google maps KML

Easy way to make a custom map with lots of waypoints; Google Maps just reads KML directly

2006-09-27 geocoding • geotagging • google-maps • googleearth • googlemaps • hacks • kml • mapping • mormonhacker • tips • tocheckout

Silence / signal ratio

How many emails do you not return?

2006-09-27 blog • communication • genius • productivity • simplicity

Middle East history

Clever animated map (via jwz)

2006-09-27 animation • flash • geography • history • map • maps • middleeast • politics • reference • visualization • war

Web 2.0 losers

I disagree with a couple, but some thoughtful criticism (via kottke)

2006-09-27 blogs • business • interesting • internet • list • lists • microsoft • startup • top10 • web • web2.0

Mouse Print

weasely marketing footnotes (via Metafilter)

2006-09-27 advertising • blog • blogs • business • consumer • information • marketing • media • news • shopping • tips

Old Paris photos

Lots and lots of interesting images

2006-09-24 history • nostalgia • paris • photography

Space Invaders Paris

Exhaustive catalog site, this is my key

2006-09-24 art • arts_visuels • cartes_geographiques • lang_fr • monde • paris • photo • space_invaders • spaceinvaders • urbanisme

Guns for TSA safety

Prevent airport goons from stealing your cameras by packing a gun with them

2006-09-24 camera • flying • guns • hacks • howto • lifehacks • luggage • photography • security • travel • tsa

Pages Jaunes

French yellow pages of a sort

2006-09-22 b_task_yp • france • french • internationaldirectories • living-in-france • pages • paris • phone • search • travel • yellow

La vache qui regarde

Odd bit of public art in Brussels

2006-09-22

Hide of the Drama Queen

WoW ha ha

2006-09-22

Python 2.5 highlights

Not much here excites me (via Zawodny)

2006-09-21 2.5 • language • languages • new • news • programming • python • python_2.5 • release

Eve Online GDP

Some new financial statistics

2006-09-20 economics • eveonline • mmorpg

Google hosts photos

Flickr competitor?

2006-09-20 flickr • google • online • photo • photography • photos • picasa • software • tools • web • web2.0

20,000 Myspace pwds

Analysis of some found passwords

2006-09-20 analysis • blog • hack • myspace • password • passwords • phishing • privacy • research • security • statistics

2006 Macarthur grants

25 recipients

2006-09-20 art • arts • awards • genius • jazz • literature • macarthur • music • people • research • science

Agh, get it off me!

World's first transplanted penis removed because of psychological rejection

2006-09-20 content • interesting • medicine • plueballs • sex

The Shire / Bend, OR

Live like Tolkein! (via Metafilter)

2006-09-18 community • design • development • fantasy • hobbit • home • house • housing • lotr • oregon • shire

"france": Google Maps

I'm in France, but the map I get is of the US

2006-09-17

Win traffic shaper

cFosSpeed, looks sophisticated

2006-09-17 bittorrent • cool • coolapz • gaming • internet • network • networking • software • tool • utilities

Architecture of Control

Blog about design that intentionally makes things difficult (via HotLinks)

2006-09-16 architecture • blog • blogs • control • culture • design • environment • politics • psychology • technology • theory

Pre Catalan for free

Warm story

2006-09-16

Amazon Unbox DRM

More anti-consumer products

2006-09-16 amazon • boingboing • business • drm • internet • movies • privacy • rights • shopping • unbox • video

Zombie parasites

This can't be true, can it? (via Biz)

2006-09-16 article • funny • hoax • humor • news • scary • science • weird • wtf • zombie • zombies

Google phishing bug

The dangers of hosting content from other sites

2006-09-15 browser • exploit • gmail • google • hack • hacks • javascript • phishing • security • web • xss

Craigslist hookers

Smoking Gun has mugshots (via Daily Rotten)

2006-09-15 #guild

NiN Kirk/Spock

Awesomest thing ever

2006-09-15 funny • humor • mashup • media • music • nineinchnails • slash • spock • startrek • video • youtube

Reno balloon race

Time lapse creativity

2006-09-15 amazing • art • balloon • balloons • cool • film • fun • funny • timelapse • video • youtube

Viral video chart

Currently popular Internet videos (via Waxy)

2006-09-15 aggregator • blog • chart • fun • myspace • video • videos • viral • web • web2.0 • youtube

US dishonest on Iran

Remarkable public disagreement

2006-09-15 dishonest • iran • nuclear • outrageous • un • usa

Segway recall

Wheelchairs for healthy people can hurt you

2006-09-14

Burning man hate

Hysterical nasty review of Burning Man (via Zawodny)

2006-09-14 blog • burningman • business • culture • funny • humor • opinion • rant • review • reviews • toread

Helvetica man tarot

Cool design (via jwz)

2006-09-14 art • cards • cool • design • humor • icons • illustration • images • occult • tarot • wishlist

Just say d'accord

David Sedaris (via kottke)

2006-09-14 culture • davidsedaris • essay • france • french • funny • humor • language • sedaris • toread • writing

The Paris Blog

amusing writing

2006-09-14 blog • blogs • collaboration • culture • english • expat • france • frankreich • paris • photography • travel

Hot Captcha (Web 2.0)

"I met my wife on your captcha" (via Metatalk)

2006-09-14 captcha • cool • fun • funny • hotornot • humor • internet • javascript • mashup • security • web

SNCF in English

French train schedules

2006-09-13 berck • france • holidays • sncf • trains • travel

Subversion 1.4

Brian, I was wrong, you helped birth a fantastic product

2006-09-12 development • notes • opensource • programming • release • scm • software • subversion • svn • sysadmin • tools

Olbermann / YouTube

Another online video

2006-09-12 9/11 • commentary • olbermann

Olbermann video

via Peter

2006-09-12 9/11 • 911 • bush • news • olbermann • opinion • political • politics • terrorism • video • war

2001 flu delay

Hypothesis is the air travel ban in the US slowed down the spread of flu

2006-09-12

Olbermann OpEd

Sounds powerful, looking for video

2006-09-12 9/11 • 911 • bush • history • news • olbermann • politics • speech • terrorism • toread • war

GPSTagr

Simple web service for adding GPS tracks to your Flickr photos

2006-09-12 flickr • geotag • geotagging • gps • map • maps • photo • photography • photos • tagging • tools

Google cokewash

Google used to be too smart to do dumb things like this

2006-09-12 coke • digg • funny • google • google_stuff • hide • pepsi

L#: Lisp on .NET

A Lisp with useful libraries!

2006-09-11 .net • c# • development • dotnet • functional • l# • languages • lisp • lsharp • programming • scripting

More on HeadOn

Slate's hot investigative journalism

2006-09-11 ads • advertisement • advertising • commercial • forehead • funny • head.on • tv • tw • weird

Head On

Apply directly to forehead (via Merlin)

2006-09-10

Very gay Nintendo

Singlet-wearing construction man shakes his butt in the air

2006-09-10 nintendo • video • videogames

Au revoir Advogato

Social sites have a lifespan. Thanks, Raph!

2006-09-10 advogato • community • discussiongroups • floss • history • internet • metric • open-source • raph-levien • trust • trust-metrics

Fred Phelps video

Preaching against Stewart/Colbert. He sounds just like Wliliam S Burroughs! (via jwz)

2006-09-10 colbert • fundamentalists • jonstewart • progressivechristianity • video • youtube

Russ Meyer tarot

The Beyond The Valley of The Dolls Tarot Deck

2006-09-10 cult • ebert • film • funny • humor • images • movie • movies • occult • readme • tarot

Amazon Unbox: bad?

Stupid DRM tricks

2006-09-10 amazon • amazonunbox • article • complaint • drm • privacy • readme • review • security • unbox • video

English/French

excellent online dictionary

2006-09-09 anglais • dico • dictionary • dictionnaire • dictionnary • english • francais • french • language • reference • translation

Faster Windows boot

Clear explanation of some reasonable tweaks to make Windows boot faster (via Digg)

2006-09-09

Truckstop hookers

Sad, good reporting (via Metafilter)

2006-09-09 crime • dallas • police • prostitute • trucker

WoW EU/US switch

How to bypass Blizzard's continent restrictions

2006-09-08 gameworlds • howto • internationalisation • tip • worldofwarcraft • wow

Paris Metro KML

Add metro stops to Google Earth

2006-09-08

More Paris markets

Here's the list I needed

2006-09-08 food • paris

Paris markets

Open air shopping

2006-09-08 food • markets • paris • shopping • travel • travel.paris

Paris metro tickets

Monthly passes explained a Anglais

2006-09-08 eurotrip06 • metro • paris • reference • subway • transportation • travel

Stupid C bugs

Analysis of a large C codebase shows bugs that have been obsolete for 10 years in modern programming languages

2006-09-08 analysis • browser • bugs • code • firefox • geek • hacking • klocwork • opensource • security • software

Family tech support

Mail a computer neophyte VNC so you can help them with their computer

2006-09-07 computer • howto • network • reference • remote • software • support • tech • tutorial • ultravnc • vnc

PrePaid GSM France

Simple site comparing prepaid plans

2006-09-07 france • mobile • price

Weed thieves caught

Clever marketing for a good TV show

2006-09-07 billboard • jwz • showtime • video • viral • weeds

Search log editorial

Eloquent call for search engines to not retain user search history

2006-09-07 aol • data • google • government • msn • opa • privacy • retention • search • storage • yahoo

Wheaties for your Wallet

My friend Marc's new personal finance company has a blog, off to a good start

2006-09-06 advice • blog • blogs • business • consumer • economics • finance • financial • money • personalfinance • tips

AOL Resrch: closed?

So the rumour goes (via Inside Google)

2006-09-04 2006 • aol • from_bloglines • nightmare • research • search • search-engines

6 years of self photos

The music on this is very nice (via Populicious)

2006-09-04 art • cool • film • fun • interesting • media • photo • photography • time • video • youtube

Who writes Wikipedia?

Aaron's campaigning, an interesting result on Wikipedia edits

2006-09-04 collaboration • community • culture • interesting • research • statistics • technology • web • web2.0 • wiki • wikipedia

Usability problems

Response to my post about copying favourites

2006-09-04

32G flash hard drives

Solid state IDE hard drives are here

2006-09-03 drives • flash • shock • ssd • vista

GeoReTagr

Goes through Flickr photos and geotags them if you have EXIF geotags. Only needed for old photos.

2006-09-03 flickr • geo • geotagging • gps • mashup • photography • photos • redskaber • spaceplace • tagging • tools

gpsPhoto.pl

Hackerware for geotagging photos. Supports CR2!

2006-09-02 exif • flickr • geo • geotagging • gps • gpx • perl • photo • photography • photos • software

Flickr geo/exif

By default Flickr won't geotag from your EXIF data; have to turn it on

2006-09-02 exif • flickr • geo • geotagging • gps • location • mapping • maps • metadata • photography • photos

Browzar is a scam

Claims to be a lightweight privacy preserving browser, actually just ad crap

2006-09-02 adware • browser • browsers • browzar • internet • malware • security • software • spyware • technology • web2.0

KITT vs KARR

TV never got any better than this

2006-09-02 comedy • hasselhoff • humor • karr • kitt • knightrider • retro • tv • video • villians • youtube

Eve bug: hash collision

32 bits is not a big enough hash function

2006-09-01

Olbermann / Rumsfeld

Forceful editorial calling out a bully (via M)

2006-09-01 culture • fascism • government • iraq • journalism • news • olbermann • politics • rumsfeld • video • war

Disable caps lock

Registry hacks for Windows

2006-09-01 capslock • hack • hacks • hardware • howto • keyboard • software • tips • tools • tweaks • windows