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Clever online ad
2007-12-30 advertisement • animation • product • fourthwall
Trap-jaw ants
Beautiful high speed movies
2007-12-29 via:metafilter • ants • highspeed • movie
Samba gets docs!
After years of reverse engineering the Windows filesharing protocols, Microsoft is finally compelled to document them for the samba team
2007-12-27 opensource • microsoft • smb • samba • filesharing • windows
Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here?
New York Times with the local angle!
2007-12-27 tiger • newyork • sanfrancisco • nytimes
Honk if you miss our tiger!
Ah, San Francisco, whose people will second guess killing a rampaging tiger
2007-12-27 tiger • sanfrancisco • hippies • california
Bhutto assassinated
such a shame
2007-12-27 bhutto • pakistan • via:twitter • politics • assassination
XSRF attacks
The most common vulnerability in webapps today. Apparently Gmail was vulnerable.
2007-12-26 exploit • xsrf • csrf • web • security • hack
Tiger mauling at SF Zoo
"The zoo, festooned with holiday decorations was silent after the attacks, save for police helicopters and police officers sweeping the grounds for potential additional victims."
2007-12-26 tiger • zoo • christmas
Xmas mission accomplished
the War on Christmas is over, and we have won
2007-12-25 iraq • santa • christmas • parody • war
Happy
Aperture Science wishes you a happy holiday
2007-12-22 portal • games • valve • halflife
John Maeda to RISD
My favourite professor from the MIT Media Lab is moving on
2007-12-22 risd • mit • medialab • design • maeda
Trajan is the Movie Font
Type criticism can be funny!
2007-12-22 via:waxy • fonts • trajan • movies • cliche • graphicdesign
Eventually Consistent
Werner breaks down some distributed system design choices
2007-12-22 amazon • aws • concurrency • db • database • consistency • distributed • architecture • transactions • systems
Seed: evolution game
Neat little procedural toy
2007-12-22 games • procedural • evolution • geneticalgorithms
The snowclones database
A whole blog and list of stupid cliches
2007-12-21 snowclones • cliches • language
Facebook in 50 years
"You just got poked with a walking stick, poke back?"
2007-12-20 facebook • parody
Star Wars lost intro
It's awful, but now I know who the hell Biggs is
2007-12-18 starwars • footage • lucas • skywalker • biggs
Paris neighbourhoods
Handy little map!
2007-12-18 paris • france • stereotypes • map
Hong Kong, pixelart
Amazing map
2007-12-18 via:tomcoates • map • hongkong • china • pixelart • pixel
Eventual consistency
Simpledb's writes take several seconds to commit. That seems crippling to me.
2007-12-17 consistency • replication • database • simpledb • amazon
SimpleDB analyzed
Ryan explains what Amazon's SimpleDB really is
2007-12-17 simpledb • amazon • webservices • code • linda • tuplespaces
LucasFilm Christmas cards
30 years of Lucas nerdism
2007-12-15 via:metafilter • starwars • lucas • lucasfilm • christmas
Anil Dash on Google
A very thoughtful critique of where Google is weak
2007-12-14 google • analysis • critique • knol
Amazon SimpleDB
I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services
2007-12-14 amazon • aws • webservices • database • cloud
Washing a keyboard
Mine is disgusting
2007-12-13 keyboard • clean • dishwasher
Anil likes my blog!
Tooting my own horn, but a weblog endorsement from Anil Dash is pretty damn flattering
2007-12-13 weblogs • nelson
Lagos
Long New Yorker article about an enormous African city
2007-12-12 via:metafilter • nigeria • lagos • africa
Eve boot.ini postmortem
How a game developer destroyed the Windows install of thousands of customers
2007-12-12 bugs • games • eveonline • eve • ccp • badtech • windows • boot.ini
Pelosi was OK with torture
2002 briefing of Democrat leaders
2007-12-11 torture • humanrights • politics • washington • democrats • pelosi
Passage statement
Description of what the artist intended
2007-12-11 games • passage • melancholy • death
Passage, a melancholy game
Bittersweet and poetic, the review does it justice
2007-12-11 games • art • passage • review • death
Chef Charlie's book
Google's amazing chef has a book coming out
2007-12-11 cooking • google • book • food • cookbook
Chanukah ham!
Anything to sell some pork
2007-12-08 chanukah • holiday • religion • funny • pork • food
Huckabee 1992 hatred
In 1992 he's advocating quarantining people with HIV
2007-12-08 huckabee • politics • HIV • AIDS • gay
Carbon burns black bowel
Particularly bad example of nonsensical Chinese to English translation. Quite funny.
2007-12-07 via:zawodny • english • engrish • translation • menu • chinese • funny
Google Chart API
Yay, I can cancel my little project
2007-12-06 via:marc • google • api • charts • graphs • data
Eve Online breaks Windows
The client upgrade overwrites boot.ini. Good show, folks.
2007-12-06 ccp • games • windows • badtech • eveonline • eve
Xbox 360 Divx near perfect
Report from the field; seems to work well for me, too
2007-12-05 xbox • video • codec • xbox360 • xvid • divx • mpeg
Tracing a spam botnet
Excellent detailed account of tracing Ron Paul spam back into botnets and email spam services
2007-12-05 via:kottke • nenastnyj • ronpaul • spam • badtech • botnet • hackers • exploits • crime
The Wire Prequels
Three short promos for the new season; the Omar one is pretty great
2007-12-05 thewire • video • tv • hbo
IRSeek shutdown
Backlash against indexing semi-public IRC channels
2007-12-04 irc • culture • privacy • via:techcrunch
Eidos lying about reviews
Mini-scandal about game reviews includes the publisher of Kane & Lynch making up positive reviews
2007-12-04 games • eidos • scandal • kotaku • kaneandlynch
Blogger OpenID
Ryan implements Google's first OpenID product!
2007-12-03 authentication • openid • google
The DaMoonkin Code
Great bit of Warcraft moviemaking about the evils of Moonkin, script from Halloween II. Probably only interesting if you play WoW and like lazer chikkens.
2007-12-02 moonkin • druid • warcraft • games • machinima • halloween
Dwarf Fortress love
Nice appreciation for this bizarre game
2007-12-02 games • dwarfortress • roguelike • simulation
Combien de bises?
2, 3, or 4 little kisses when in France? Depends on where you are
2007-12-02 map • cartography • france • culture • bizou • kisses
Larry Craig's lovers
4 men go on the record by name describing their sexual relationships with Larry Craig
2007-12-02 gay • politics • scandal • idaho • larrycraig