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lezarts de la bievre
Loose association of Paris street artists; Jef Aerosol puts this name in his stuff
2007-04-30 art • streetart • paris • france • "jef • aerosol" • 75013 • 75005 • 13eme • 5eme
Graffitis et Pochoirs
collection of Paris street art stuff
2007-04-30 streetart • paris • france • graffiti • mosko • jefaerosol • mesnager • speedygraphito • art
mmmm
Parisiens review their local restaurants; useful data presentation
2007-04-30 dining • food • restaurant • paris • france • map • reviews
Roue Libre
cheap bike rentals in Paris, run by the public transit agency
2007-04-30 bike • bicycle • rental • paris • france • velo • location
Gays in online games
General roundup of gay and lesbian issues in online MMOGs and others
2007-04-30 gay • politics • marriage • games • lordoftherings • fallout • sims
Steak frites in Paris
Honestly, France ain't the place for an American to have steak. But these places all sound awesome.
2007-04-28 via:marc • food • dining • paris • france • restaurant • beef • steak • frites
Lightroom $100 discount
Adobe's new photo editor gets more expensive soon
2007-04-28 adobe • photoshop • lightroom • software • discount
Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall
massively parallel data crunching platforms
2007-04-28 yahoo • google • mapreduce • api • programming • sawzall • pig • grid
France red/blue map
well really, pink/blue, but map of election results
2007-04-28 france • politics • election • map
Perfect DB storage
SmugMug's idea on what makes a great RAID array for MySQL
2007-04-28 mysql • db • database • raid • performance • hardware
Sumotori dreams
Hysterical physics based game from the demoscene
2007-04-26 via:waxy • via:metafilter • game • demo • scene • physics
Ace2 WoW tutorial
how to write addons for Warcraft using this excellent library
2007-04-25 warcraft • wow • lua • ace • ace2 • tutorial • code
How Paris voted
broken down by arrondissement. sure wish they had a map
2007-04-25 via:parisblog • politics • france • paris • voting
Military lies
Jessica Lynch: "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate lies,"
2007-04-25 military • iraqwar • politics • propaganda
From Ruby to Python
Longtime Ruby fan switches because of runtime implementation problems
2007-04-24 ruby • python • religiouswar • languages • scripting
lolcats
Anil's in my Internet, explaining my silly memes
2007-04-24 cat • culture • internet • linguistics • language • lolcats
Farm bill and fat
How US politics for corn and soy result in obese Americans
2007-04-24 via:metafilter • food • farm • politics • health • fat • obesity
Irony is over
Vietnam vet gives his Purple Heart to George W. Bush, to honor the president's emotional wounds
2007-04-23 politics • iraqwar • irony • batshitinane
Color tutorial
Way too long, but lots of detail
2007-04-23 colour • color • graphics • monitor • photoshop • photography
French electronic voting
They don't like it here, either
2007-04-23 france • election • voting • votingmachines • ballot
Hector Guimard
Famous art nouveau architect; list of his buildings in Paris
2007-04-23 Paris • architecture • building • artnouveau
VATech killer on eBay
AAAAA+++++!!!!!! SWould sell again!
2007-04-22 blazers5505 • murderer • ebay • profile • cho
City Walks: Paris
useful tour guide; little cards for interesting walks in Paris
2007-04-22 paris • france • walk • tourist • tourguide • book • map
Super Mario 5:00
A humbling display of exactitude; no hacks
2007-04-22 games • speedrun • video • snes • mario • nintendo
French candidates
Nice English article on the positions the various candidates are taking
2007-04-20 french • politics • france • sarkozy • royal • bayrou • for:skwirl
Today's Paris walk
4 miles through a bunch of different neighbourhoods. I'm exhausted!
2007-04-20 walk • paris • france • map • 4eme • 11eme • 20eme
Upcoming changes
Andy's baby gets integrated into yahoo. Congratulations!
2007-04-20 via:waxy • waxy • upcoming • yahoo • events
RIP Dragon magazine
A 20 year old D&D stalwart ends
2007-04-20 magazine • publishing • d&d • dragon
New Linux scheduler
Ingo goes away for 60 hours, comes back with a new CPU allocation scheme
2007-04-19 linux • kernel • ingo • opensource • code • molnar
S5: HTML slides
Nicely put together package for doing slides in a browser, not powerpoint
2007-04-19 S5 • via:markpilgrim • slides • presentation • powerpoint
French government
How the government is structured
2007-04-19 government • politics • france
Segolene / Kruger
Interesting comparison of poster styles
2007-04-19 art • politics • france • segolene • royal • barbara • kruger
Paris Parks
National Geographic article about urban parks in paris
2007-04-19 paris • parks • france
Sarkozy vis-a-vis the US
American take on the front-runner for president of France
2007-04-19 politics • france • sarkozy
Guggenheim cracks
I love the NYT visualizations
2007-04-18 via:kottke • architecture • wright • nytimes • nyt
My walk in the 11eme
Short stroll through Paris looking for invaders
2007-04-18 spaceinvader • paris • france • walk • 75011 • 11eme
Google buying Performics?
Interesting shift in the market
2007-04-18 google • doubleclick • performics • seo • sem • advertising
Paris 11e
Guide to the arrondissement near my apartment
2007-04-18 paris • 75011 • 11eme • france
Vagina power
Hysterical public access bit; the mefi discussion helps find the bottom of it, right to my brain.
2007-04-18 video • sex • vagina • penis • funny • via:metafilter
Google news sources
Interesting hack to figure out where Google News gets their stuff from
2007-04-18 google • news • hack
Downstairs Guy
The drama of French apartment living
2007-04-17 romance • france • paris
Ode to Westlake
I feel equally nostalgic for this kind of neighbourhood
2007-04-17 westlake • joe's • dalycity • doelger • weeds • littleboxes • architecture • design • retro • california
Compact fluorescents
A simple rating / test guide.
2007-04-17 via:wesabe • home • lightbulb • energy • green
About me! In French!
A French friend picked up my blog post; fun to work out what they're saying about me.
2007-04-17 nelson • french • lesson • "moulin • a • merde"
Dodgeball founders quit Google
They lasted less than two years! Sad for everyone involved.
2007-04-16 dodgeball • google • employment • acquisition • quit • job
Tilt/shift lenses
Nice writeup of some photographic magic
2007-04-16 lens • camera • canon • ts-e • tiltshift • perspective • photography • photo
He never calls
Cheney hasn't called his former close friend Libby since the trial. Washington friendships.
2007-04-16 politics • cheney • libby • iraq
Harry Potter fan sites
Good retrospective
2007-04-15 fandom • websites • blogs • harrypotter
Marathon de Paris
Tomorrow, right outside my door!
2007-04-14 marathon • running • paris • france
Super Mario sadism
Hysterical in a limited domain
2007-04-14 games • mario • via:metafilter
Google + Doubleclick
Seems inevitable to me
2007-04-14 google • advertising
Daniel Rose restaurant
American chef making friends in Paris
2007-04-13 restaurant • chef • "daniel • rose" • paris • france
Twitter engineer interview
One of the Twitter guys talks about how well Ruby on Rails is working for them
2007-04-13 ruby • rails • performance • twitter • web
Boys' handcuffs
Good scout's delight!
2007-04-12 via:metafilter • advertisement • 1920s
craplets
Nice rant against the crap that computer sellers shovel at you. White label machines don't have this problem; neither do Thinkpads
2007-04-12 advertising • computer • hardware • software • craplets • trialware
Click fraud botnet
Google releases details of some fraud directed at AdWords
2007-04-11 clickfraud • botnet • security • hacking
Le Zinc d Hugo
Excellent casual restaurant in Aix en Provence
2007-04-11 France • Provence • Aix • restaurant
More on non-persons
Some background to the latest list
2007-04-11 security • terrorism • batshitinsane • dhs • fbi
non-persons list
Text version of the list of thousands of names of people with whom Americans are not allowed to do business
2007-04-11 terrorism • security • batshitinsane • fbi • dhs
Pakistan gun market
Nice little video travelog
2007-04-10 travel • pakistan • guns • darra • arms
Microsoft is Dead
It's not quite true, but it's a good essay
2007-04-09 microsoft • google • internet • culture • business • monopoly
Trickshot bowling
Awesome 40s era video
2007-04-06 bowling • video • via:metafilter
Blue cheese spill in Mecca, CA
And the Salton Sea was threatened!
2007-04-06 via:dailyrotten • news • california • saltonsea
Book of Curiosities
lovely annotated 11th century manuscript
2007-04-06 via:metafilter • science • history • islam
Lawyerbear
The Leader in Ursine Litigation and Defense
2007-04-06 silly • comic • via:metafilter • lawyers • law
Critical mass stupidity
SF bike anarchy gets out of control
2007-04-05 bicycle • anarchy • criticalmass
Google My Maps
this seems significant
2007-04-05 wikimapia • google • maps • api • kml • geolocation
The Marriage
Interesting abstract social game
2007-04-04 game • software • social • marriage
Glonass update
GPS network alternatives. I hadn't realized the European one was suspended after the DRM was broken.
2007-04-04 gps • navigation • space • satellite
Aix restaurants
Seems a fairly good list; better than the spammy crap Google turns up
2007-04-03 aix • en • provence • restaurant • review • france • food • dining
King o' Pop is comin back!
A 50 foot robot that shoots laser beams!
2007-04-03 michael • jackson • batshitinsane • vegas • via:dailyrotten
Universal Studios spoof
hysterical video from the South Park guys
2007-04-03 universal • satire • video • southpark
Alanis / My Humps
It sounds dumb, but it's really pretty great
2007-04-03 satire • video • parody • music • alanis • junkinthetrunk
Calissons d'Aix
Regional candy
2007-04-03 aix • en • provence • candy
Crazy security stories
Computer security is only getting worse
2007-04-03 security • computer • code • javascript • ani • bug
Crazy plane formation
I guess the P-51 is fast enough to keep up
2007-04-03 aviation • photo • airplane • formation
Limiting API access
Some ways to control your developers; doesn't address the sticky authentication problem
2007-04-03 code • api • limit • access • authentication