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