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Children of Men details
Amazing reel of some of the advertising and propaganda ephemera in the film
2007-02-28 advertising • childrenofmen • design • movie • via:waxy
Minesweeper history
Nicely written overview
2007-02-28 games • minesweeper • via:waxy
Some can't program
I had this experience at Google, too; a frightening number of applicants simply can't write code
2007-02-28 hiring • interview • programming
Guy Savoy / Vegas
our intrepid stagiere from Paris tries working at the Vegas outpost, finds it unimpressive
2007-02-28 cooking • food • guysavoy • restaurant
SF electronics dump
Free recycling day to get rid of your crap.
2007-02-22 recycling • sanfrancisco
Anil on Twitter
Thoughtful reflection on why Twitter is nice
2007-02-22 social • twitter • web2.0
Second Life trial
I can't write this well, but my experience was about the same (via BoingBoing)
2007-02-22 funny • games • secondlife
Turkmenistan report
Rare inside look at a country even weirder than North Korea
2007-02-22 news • turkmenistan
ftpdmin: win ftpd
Very simple FTP daemon for Windows, great for file transfers without using evil windows filesharing
2007-02-21 ftp • ftpd • software • windows
Cheney really is evil
NYT details from the Libby trial show how much machination Cheney was doing
2007-02-20 cheney • iraq • nyt • politics
Debian, dovecot, SSL
Sure is a lot easier than trying to understand how to generate certificates by hand
2007-02-20 debian • dovecot • imap • openssl
OpenSSL cheatsheet
Decoder ring for yet another mysterious Unix command line tool
2007-02-20 openssl • reference • ssl
SPF query tools
Various checks for the anti-spam system spf
2007-02-20 dns • email • smtp • spam • spf
Google disk failures
Survey of 100,000 hard drives and their failure modes
2007-02-20 google • harddrive • smart
Flickr cache failure
Nice explanation of a system bug. 1B photos a day!
2007-02-20 bug • flickr
Blosxom atomfeed
2005 Atom 1.0 plugin for Blosxom; is this the one? (via Pagaltzis)
2007-02-19 atom • blosxom • rss
Blizzard sues glider
Robot to play World of Warcraft for you is big enough threat that Blizzard is suing. Any precedent?
2007-02-19 blizzard • games • glider • warcraft
pydelicious
Simple Python library for the delicious API. Not great, but works.
2007-02-19 api • delicious • pydelicious • python
My linkblog has moved
I've relocated my linkblog to delicious. Everything should work as before; the RSS feed is redirected to its new location.
2007-02-17 delicious • linkblog
Delicious RSS limits
Switching my linkblog to host on delicious, I see the RSS feed has a 30 minute update delay. Urgh.
2007-02-17 badtech • delicious • rss
Plumbline music
Nice mellow electronic music band
2007-02-17 electronic • music • myspace • plumbline
EA History
Long, detailed history of the pioneering game company electronic arts
2007-02-17 ea • electronicarts • games • journalism
Sedaris essay
Top of his form
2007-02-17 article • culture • davidsedaris • essay • essays • funny • humor • newyorker • sedaris • toread • writing
Nelson Minar, scholar
Vanity search; surprising number of citations
2007-02-16
Palmyra Atoll murder
4 Americans living in the middle of nowhere. 2 kill the other 2.
2007-02-15 atoll • environment • history • island • ocean • palmyra • random • trivia • violence
Guano Islands Act
Birdshit defines our Pacific empire
2007-02-15 agriculture • law • modernagriculturalhistory
Howland Island
Middle of nowhere island that belongs to the US (via Google Sightseeing)
2007-02-15
Crease patterns
Origami templates are more beautiful than the folded thing (via kottke)
2007-02-15 art • cool • crafts • design • diy • fun • howto • origami • paper • papercraft • patterns
"chromed robot turd"
Righteous anti-gadget rant (via HotLinks)
2007-02-15 blog • business • culture • funny • gadgets • geek • gizmodo • humor • rant • technology • writing
Line Rider poetry
Freakin amazing (via kottke)
2007-02-15 amazing • animation • art • awesome • cool • fun • games • linerider • video • whoa • youtube
SCO / Groklaw
Trying to subpoena the author of the blog debunking SCO; does she really exist?
2007-02-14 blog • ibm • imported • lame • sco
Firefox quick find
Press / or ' and get a fast find in a page; used to be a source of bugs, now looks useful
2007-02-14 firefox • firefox_shortcuts • hack • hacks • lifehacker • mozilla • search • shortcuts • tip • tips • toread
Giant cargo ships
Huge enormous barges (via Metafilter)
2007-02-13 archive • cargo • engineering • fotos • images • photo • photography • photos • ships • sidebar • tanker
Blu-Ray HD-DVD crack
When will these idiots learn?
2007-02-13 blu-ray • copyright • drm • dvd • hack • hacking • hddvd • media • news • piracy • technology
Slinky chair
High concept design, and you can even sit on it! (via kottke)
2007-02-13 art • chair • design • folding • furniture • gadget • interesting • möbler • portable • video • youtube
mixd shutdown?
Yahoo's twitter like service is being disabled Feb 25. Is it coming back?
2007-02-13 community • mixd • mobile • photos • sharing • sms • social • socialsoftware • tools • web2.0 • yahoo
Idea vs. execution
Simple maxim of startups (via evhead)
2007-02-13 blog • business • cool • entrepreneur • execution • ideas • nda • socialmedia • startup • vote-for • web2.0
P. Glass: Two Pages
Very early pieces are sort of humble
2007-02-12
Kenisha restraint order
Panopticon at work
2007-02-12
I Love You Kenisha
This page is remarkable (via Metafilter)
2007-02-12 archive • crazy-people • delusion • divorce • funny • kenisha • marriage • religion • trainwrecks • tributes • websites
Jason's long weekend
Notes from taking half a year off
2007-02-12 career • goldman • gtd • inspiration • mindfulness • toread • travel • vacation • weblogs • work
More on Eve scandal
This article makes sense even if you don't understand the game
2007-02-11 article • corruption • crime • eve • game • games • geek • hate • interesting • mmorpg • virtual+reality
The US interstates
Schematic map (via BoingBoing)
2007-02-11 art • cool • design • interesting • interstate • map • maps • reference • transportation • travel • visualization
Second Life census
Detailed data released? That's a good thing.
2007-02-11 community • game • gaming • research • review • secondlife • sl_subito • statistics • stats • web2.0 • wired
dMarc / Google trouble
More detail than other reports, then again all unsourced rumour
2007-02-10 acquisition • advertising • dmarc • goog • google • hdradio • radio
Eve dev confession
One of the employees cheated in the game
2007-02-10 eve
PayPal security key
I wish more US accounts would offer these
2007-02-10 13 • authentication • finance • hardware • key • monetization • online • paypal • rsa • security • shopping
Eve / BoB scandal
This is why the people who make MMOGs should not play their own games
2007-02-08 eve-online • games
Game long exposures
Beautiful simple concept (via Waxy)
2007-02-08 80s • arcade • art • game • games • photography • photos • retro • video • videogames • visualization
Heterosexual miracle!
Meth freak man-whore-using priest is cured!
2007-02-07 addict • anal • christians • gay • god • haggard • meth • pastor • radioopensource • republican • sodomy
Alcatraz ferry
Took forever to find this since the contract changed to Hornblower
2007-02-06 san_francisco • sftrip • travel
Foreign currency fees
Quick roundup of this evil fee credit card companies charge... Because they can!
2007-02-05 business • conversion • creditcards • currency • fees • finance • foreign • international • money • travel • useful
Search history leaks
This threat never occurred to me
2007-02-05 * • ? • google • history • leaptag • personalization • privacy • search • security • spyware • to_read
"The sharks of the air"
Wild eagles attack paraglider
2007-02-03 attack • eagle • parachute • paraglider • skyshark
Emotion at Guy Savoy
I continue to love this woman's writing
2007-02-02
Scary bomb monster
Awesome commentary on the Boston stupidity
2007-02-02 aqua_teen • aquateenhungerforce • athf • awesome • cartoon • futureshock • mooninites • pop-culture • strangecrime
RIP Molly Ivins
A true Texas original
2007-02-01
Savings rate: -1%
Americans getting poorer and poorer
2007-02-01 finances • saving
Encrypted USB drive
Commercial products have been doing this for awhile, but this one's free and strong
2007-02-01 encryption • flash • howto • portable • security • software • thumbdrive • truecrypt • usb • usbdrive • windows