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GSpot video analyzer
Scans those weird video files and tells you what's in them
2007-11-30 avi • codec • codecs • divx • software • video • xvid
Koremutake
A coding for numbers that makes pronouncable strings of syllables. They got the vowels wrong, though.
2007-11-30 coding • phonetic • phonetics • syllable • tinyurl
Xbox 360 video codecs
Very detailed data; looks like they're supporting almost all you could want
2007-11-30 divx • mpeg • video • xbox • xbox360
DivX support for Xbox 360
w00t!
2007-11-30 codec • divx • video • xbox • xbox360 • xvid
IRC search engine
All digital media will be indexed
2007-11-30 chat • irc • privacy • search
Sega Activator
Crazy full body game controller from 1994
2007-11-30 activator • controller • games • genesis • hci • sega • ui
PayPerPost misery
Thoughts from the heads of spammers after they are busted
2007-11-29 cpc • google • pagerank • spam • via:waxy
Facebook critique
"a nutrient-rich bath in which advertisements can flourish"
2007-11-28 culture • facebook • marketing • web
MS response to Halo gay bashing
Polite response from Microsoft's community guy. Sadly, no real solutions.
2007-11-28 culture • games • gay • halo • homophobia • majornelson • microsoft • xbox
Stealth clock repair
Amazing story of an unauthorized repair to the Pantheon clock in Paris
2007-11-28 clock • culture • france • hacking • paris • repair • via:zawodny
Facebook beacon
Detailed tech article on what it does
2007-11-28 badtech • facebook • javascript • privacy • via:hotlinks • web20
Sigmoidal
Great down to earth reaction to "exponential growth"
2007-11-28 growth • math • metrics • statistics
Makani power
Google's working with Saul Griffith to build electricty generators using kites
2007-11-28 energy • google • power • saulgriffith • wind
Paris riots
I'll never understand the French feeling entitled to daily revolution
2007-11-27 banlieu • culture • france • paris • police • riot
Kenya sex tourism
Interesting story about older British women going to Kenya for nookie
2007-11-26 culture • england • kenya • sex • tourism
Portal 15, 28 seconds
Dizzying speed run
2007-11-25 games • halflife • portal • valve • via:digg
Assassin's Creed failure
Nice bit of game criticism
2007-11-25 assassinscreed • games • review • xbox • xbox360
10 pound bezoar
Yum, stomach masses
2007-11-23 bezoar • doctor • hair • health • medical • stomach • via:dailyrotten
Thanksgiving Prayer
William S. Burroughs for your dose of cynicism
2007-11-22 gusvansant • politics • tanksgiving • williamsburroughs • wsb
Sarkozy wins?
Looks like SNCF workers returning to work
2007-11-22 france • labor • labour • mainf • sarkozy • sncf • strike • train • unions
Perspective tricks
Fun photographs matching currency to monuments
2007-11-22 currency • monuments • perspective • photography • via:peterk
Tamable ghost wolf
Warcraft hunters: the most difficult pet to obtain
2007-11-21 games • ghostwolf • hunter • warcraft • wolf
Space Giraffe despair
brilliant game designer is pissed off that his games don't sell as well as crappy games
2007-11-21 games • minter • spacegiraffe • xbla • xbox
Anil on Portal
I should write more game criticism
2007-11-21 games • halflife • portal • valve
The future of reading
Scalpel-sharp critique of Amazon's e-book implementation
2007-11-21 amazon • culture • ebooks • kindle • orwell • via:waxy
Boy play
Story about the crazy homoeroticism in traditional Afghanistan
2007-11-21 afghanistan • culture • gay • via:dailyrotten
Lost in the Static
Interesting visual design
2007-11-19 games • noise • static • texture • via:waxy
The laptop club
Amazing custom laptops drawn by young kids
2007-11-19 child • culture • design • laptop • via:waxy
"First word is Google"
Breathtaking arrogance and fabrication from Negroponte. But that's nothing new... Or maybe it's a misquote
2007-11-19 language • laptop • olpc
Workplace safety ads
Snuff advertising!
2007-11-17 advertising • osha • safety • union
Oil reserves map
Nice view of where the oil is
2007-11-17 map • oil • peakoil • politics • visualization
facebook vs myspace
Navigational queries are the new Alexa graphs
2007-11-16 alexa • data • facebook • google • myspace • popularity • trend
Console game resolutions
Upsampling in the industry
2007-11-16 antialiasing • games • hardware • hdtv • quality • upsampling • via:digg • video
gluttonous texting
Good post from Danah about how texting rates influence usage. Put some data behind it and you'd have a PhD chapter!
2007-11-16 culture • im • mobile • research • sms • texting
Bad bear hunt
Crazy photos of a bear hunter almost dying to his prey
2007-11-16 bears • hunting • kashmir • pakistan • via:dailyrotten
FOX News porn
Endless supply of sexy videos, straight from Fox.
2007-11-15 conservative • fox • foxnews • movie • parody • porn • sex • video
Top 100 Wikipedia pages
I had no idea this data was available
2007-11-15 data • statistics • wikipedia
Chris Harrison
Nice collection of visualization projects. Also a study on how to lie with progress bars
2007-11-15 design • graphics • interface • ui • visualization
Baseball pitches
Nice infographics
2007-11-15 baseball • design • infographics • pitching • sports • via:kottke
Beatphone
First third party iPhone app I could imagine jailbreaking for
2007-11-15 iphone • music • sequencer • software
Gay crackwhore NSFW
A little urban photoseries of people having sex and smoking crack
2007-11-14 crack • drugs • nsfw • prostitution • via:metafilter
Viva la summer holiday!
Awesome music video
2007-11-13 cheese • music • parody • via:bostock • video
China sub showoff
They snuck a submarine up to a massive aircraft carrier and then showed themselves
2007-11-13 china • military • navy • politics • submarine • via:dailyrotten
Robot Wisdom
The first ever linkblogger is still at it
2007-11-12 blog • jorn • jornbarger • linkblog • robotwisdom
Waxy is leaving Yahoo
Good luck, Andy!
2007-11-12 career • upcoming • waxy • yahoo
VC failure
Even the top VC firms at best broke even for funds 2000-2004
2007-11-12 economics • investment • money • venturecapital
Martian colors
Fun stories of synesthesia
2007-11-12 neuroscience • perception • psychology • science • synesthesia • via:kottke
Firefox memory fragmentation
Seems like a problem a better malloc() could fix
2007-11-12 analysis • firefox • malloc • memory • mozilla • opensource • performance
Technophilanthropy from a victim
Scathing view of $100 laptop, etc: "They almost always fail, but they satisfy the giver. To the recipients, the things have no context, no relationship to their ideas of themselves or their possibilities"
2007-11-12 africa • olpc • philanthropy
$100 laptop UI
Nice 5 minute movie showing how it works
2007-11-12 interface • linux • olpc • ui
c.e.b. reas
Generative artist; a friend of mine has a beautiful print from him
2007-11-12 art • generative • processing
Zelda Parallel Worlds
Fan-made new Zelda game in the Link to the Past engine
2007-11-11 games • homebrew • nintendo • snes • zelda
jwz mixtapes
He wrote your emacs, he wrote your web browser. Now he's crafted a mixtape just for you
2007-11-11 dnalounge • jwz • music
Gentoo is for ricers
Funny old parody of a Linux distribution
2007-11-11 linux • opensource • parody • via:diveintomark
Orangina is for furries
Every weird sexual subculture is eventually used to advertise mundane products
2007-11-11 advertising • furries • orangina • via:waxy
Petrushka on accordion
Classic Stravinsky ballet on a squeezebox. Quite good.
2007-11-10 accordion • music • petrushka • stravinsky • via:metafilter
Halo 3 heatmaps
I love how Bungie is handling stats tracking
2007-11-10 bungie • data • games • halo • heatmaps • statistics • visualization • xbox • xbox360
Three botnets
Good overview of how these things operate
2007-11-10 badtech • botnet • hacking • internet • security • trojan • via:boingboing
People can fly
Heartstoppingly exciting
2007-11-10 fly • flying • parachute • via:boingboing • wingsuit
Swear like a French chef
Funny little notes from the kitchen
2007-11-10 chef • cooking • france • restaurant
David Bowie mugshot
hot!
2007-11-09 davidbowie • mugshot • music • police • via:waxy
Sci-Fi starship size
Lovely redrawn spaceships
2007-11-09 scifi • spaceships • startrek • starwars • via:kottke
Portal speed run
18 minutes for the full game, some amazing skillz in the second half
2007-11-09 games • halflife • portal • speedrun • via:digg
24 from 1994
Actually kind of funny, and kind of cool
2007-11-09 24 • funny • parody • tv • via:metafilter
Evil Bee interview
How it was made
2007-11-09 animation • bee • interview • movie • video
Evil Bee
Beautiful animated short
2007-11-08 animation • bees • via:metafilter
Snowclone
Snowclones are the new cliches! Yes, Virginia, there is a Snowclone.
2007-11-08 cliche • culture • via:evanm
Portal love
Man tattoos himself with Portal images
2007-11-07 games • halflife • portal • valve • via:waxy
Heroes failings
Kring admits his show sucks, explains why
2007-11-07 heroes • kring • tv
Found her!
Guy makes a good web page about "NY girl of my dreams", friend recognizes her and puts them in touch
2007-11-07 cartoon • dating • love • newyork • romance • stalking • via:marc
c|net photo response
Sounds like cnet takes this seriously. Good.
2007-11-07 cnet • copyright • jerryyang • photo • via:digg
c|net photo stealing?
Flickr photo used on c|net news page without attribution or permission
2007-11-07 cnet • copyright • jerryyang • licensing • photo • via:digg
Apple vs Ron Paul
whose rabid fanboys are the bigger nutjobs?
2007-11-06 apple • crazy • funny • internet • ronpaul
Ron Paul endorsement
Stormfront comes out for him, so he's got a lock on the white supremacist vote
2007-11-06 batshitinsane • politics • racism • republican • ronpaul
Second Life valuation?
It's not good news when your VC sells part of your company
2007-11-05 games • secondlife • valuation • vc • venturecapital
60% freeloaded Radiohead
Statistics on who paid what for the Radiohead album
2007-11-05 comscore • distribution • drm • inrainbows • music • radiohead
Ron Paul spam
Lots of links to this weird phenomenon
2007-11-05 badtech • libertarians • politics • ronpaul • spam
My book to help America
Charming kids WWII book showing a different era of war
2007-11-05 book • children • propaganda • savings • via:boingboing • war
Jenkem
Get high huffing sewage! Or maybe not.
2007-11-05 drugs • jenkem • sewage • urbanlegend
Torture 2.0
A web how-to for waterboarding. Maybe Mukasey would like to read up?
2007-11-05 humanrights • mukasey • politics • shame • torture • via:boingboing
LifeGem
Turn your dead loved one into a creepy diamond
2007-11-04 creepy • death • diamond • funeral • ghoul
Andy Rubin profile
Weird Markoff article; full profile of the guy presumably leading the Google Phone project, but no official words on the Google Phone
2007-11-04 android • cellphone • danger • google • mobile • phone • rubin • sidekick
gOS interview
Actual reporting! From a blog!
2007-11-04 everex • google • gos • linux • opensource
Son of Knight Rider
Bringing the awesome back to tv
2007-11-03 kitt • knightrider • tv
Hwy 99 crash carnage
Tule fog strikes again
2007-11-03 accident • california • crash • fog • highway • jgballard • traffic
History of LOLCats
I'm ashamed to promulgate last month's funny, but this is pretty well done
2007-11-02 cats • documentary • kenburns • lolcats • spoof • via:metafilter
gOS Official Forum
All brand new; looks like the launch caught them by surprise
2007-11-02 gos • linux • opensource
gOS - Trac
Timeline, tickets, etc
2007-11-02 gos • linux • opensource
Good TechCrunch report
It's not all bad blogging; an actual quote! From a named source!
2007-11-02 facebook • investment • journalism • techcrunch
Dave Liu gOS #2
Weblog for a guy behind gOS.
2007-11-01 blogs • everex • google • gos • linux • opensource
David Liu gOS
He's the contact for thinkgos.com
2007-11-01 google • gos • linux
gOS
The Google oriented OS running on the $200 Walmart Linux boxes.
2007-11-01 google • linux • opensource • software
Deposit@Home
Wow, that's cool; just scan a check to deposit it
2007-11-01 bank • money • usaa
Ron Paul spamnet
Someone's disguising the mail's origins
2007-11-01 badtech • libertariansareidiots • politics • ronpaul • spam • via:digg
Another gay Republican
Hypocritical state representative resigns
2007-11-01 gay • politics • richardcurtis • washington
Batter Blaster!
It comes in a can!
2007-11-01 cooking • food • pancakes • via:metafilter
Portal interview
Author from Old Man Murray, very funny
2007-11-01 games • halflife • oldmanmurray • portal • valve • via:boingboing
Phelps guilty
Crazy anti-gay family finally held liable
2007-11-01 court • funeral • gay • military • phelps • politics