Prince Harry story was held

I was wondering how we got such great photos all of the sudden

2008-02-29 england • ethics • journalism • politics • princeharry

Clinton's Daisy ad

This is just horrible, what a fiasco

2008-02-29 advertising • clinton • daisy • democrats • fearmongering • lbg • obama • politics

comScore clarification

Detailed reading of the Google CPC report that showed a possible decline

2008-02-29 ads • advertising • comscore • cpc • google • metrics

More Abu Ghraib

Yet more images of American torture

2008-02-29 abughraib • iraq • politics • torture

Prince Harry in Afghanistan

Great slideshow

2008-02-29 afghanistan • england • harry • military • princeharry • royalty • soldier

Plutocracy in action

Dollars raised is a proxy for votes in the Democratic primary

2008-02-29 clinton • corruption • money • obama • plutocracy • politics

Audi iPod link

Only took them three years to develop it!

2008-02-29 audi • car • ipod • music

French wedding etiquette

you can be invited just for desert!

2008-02-28 etiquette • france • wedding

Why do we scream at each other?

A simple flowchart

2008-02-28 flowchart • music • prince • via:anildash

Oprah's Big Give review

Totally pans it; I love reading well written negative reviews

2008-02-28 oprah • reality • saccharine • tv

Vampire Weekend review

Despite myself I'm really liking this album

2008-02-28 music • vampireweekend

Game piracy numbers

Only 1 sale per 1000 illegal copies eliminated. 92% theft rate.

2008-02-28 business • drm • games • piracy

DivX / Stage6 drama

Techcrunch has some very juicy unsourced fumour

2008-02-28 divx • investment • stage6 • startup • vc

Clinton vote manipulation

Clay Shirky calls out DelegateHub, a Clinton argument for counting the invalid Michigan and Florida elections

2008-02-27 clinton • democrats • politics

Google AuthSub

third party authentication for Google web apps

2008-02-27 api • authentication • google

mysqlsniffer

like tcpdump/wireshark, but for mysql. Not sure why this isn't just a Wireshark filter...

2008-02-27 database • ethereal • mysql • network • sniffer • tcpdump • wireshark

FriendFeed launch

Congrats to my Google alumni friends!

2008-02-26 friendfeed • google • social

Tape and Vinyl mp3s

Reclaim Media digitizes old media

2008-02-26 mp3 • music • service

Britney's illness

Crisp editorial about the evil of the media's focus on a mentally ill personl

2008-02-26 britney • britneyspears • mentalillness

"inbred swamp thing"

Rolling Stone profiles Britney Spears

2008-02-26 britneyspears • mentalillness • sad • via:metafilter

GDC Roundup

As usual, Ryan does a great job summarizing the trends at the big game developers conference

2008-02-25 games • gdc

Google / MySpace bad deal?

Missed this in Feb 1; Google's aggressive deal for Myspace advertising is apparently not working out

2008-02-25 ads • advertising • cpc • google • myspace

keming

Funny typography joke

2008-02-25 funny • kerning • typography

Hadoop + EC2 + S3 = NYT PDF

Nice breakdown of how to use cloud computing services to do a large scale rendering job

2008-02-25 amazon • ec2 • hadoop • news • nytimes • s3 • systems

garfield minus garfield

Lovely remix of the stupid strip

2008-02-25 comics • garfield

On game criticism

Costikyan talks about criticism vs. reviews

2008-02-24 art • criticism • games • journalism

Stephen Colbert, WoW

A rumoured unused trading card

2008-02-23 colbert • funny • games • wow

High alcohol wines

Brief article about the trend towards 15% wines

2008-02-23 alcohol • drinks • wine

White Rabbit / Star Trek

Awesome period mashup

2008-02-20 fandom • jeffersonairplane • mashup • startrek • via:boingboing • whiterabbit

TV movement map

Beautiful visualization of a family watching TV together

2008-02-20 homebrew • house • map • maps • tv • via:kottke • visualization

A Sonos rave

Didn't realize sonos had been around this long

2008-02-19 mp3 • music • sonos

Hadoop success

Yahoo talks about how they do web indexing. Google considers their equivalent system highly proprietary; neat that Hadoop is open source.

2008-02-19 code • dougcutting • google • hadoop • opensource • search • systems • yahoo

MP3 cataloging

16 MeFi users marked my question a favourite! How to organize a music library.

2008-02-19 itunes • m3u • metadata • mp3 • music • sonos

iPhone books

data: URL hack means you can store a book and read it on your phone. Not ideal, but something.

2008-02-18 books • ebook • iphone

Jane Fonda said "cunt"

And everyone's freaked out

2008-02-16 cunt • janefonda • language

$100M to SCO

Private capital bails out SCO; some new IP play?

2008-02-16 lawsuit • linux • sco • unix

trust.salesforce.com

Amazing system status dashboard

2008-02-15 cloud • dashboard • salesforce • soa • sysadmin

Prince Philip movement

Another Vanuatu cult, this time dedicated to a living person

2008-02-15 cargocult • cult • princephillip • religion • vanuatu

Happy John Frum day!

Today's the holy day of the Vanuatu cargo cult

2008-02-15 cargocult • holdiay • johnfrum • maps • religion

White stag

With photo

2008-02-14 deer • legend • myth • scotland • stag • wildlife

MMOGChart update

WoW doesn't stop

2008-02-14 games • mmog • mmorpg • via:waxy

Li'l J

Sad little girl pretending to be gangsta

2008-02-13 gangsta • girl • via:boingboing

Kickbreak (upsetting)

Nasty video of a kickboxer's leg snapping

2008-02-13 break • kickboxing • ouch

Flying sharks

Crazy nature documentary about sharks launching themselves after seals

2008-02-13 bbc • nature • sharks

Warcraft companion cube

Love is in the air!

2008-02-12 companioncube • games • halflife • portal • warcraft

A Twitter bug in detail

Nice explanation of why updates were going missing for a few days

2008-02-12 bug • coding • memcache • software • twitter

loom.cc

Some crazy abstract data store that's useful for anonymous transactions, egold, etc

2008-02-11 cryptography • egold • finance • loom

anonymous vs scientology

it's like the yippies, only fighting CoS instead of The Man

2008-02-11 anonymous • chanology • protest • rickroll • scientology • v

e-gold Examiner

Holdings of the freaky virtual currency

2008-02-11 currency • gold • money

White glove results

Various interpretations of Michael Jackson's left hand. The last one is best.

2008-02-11 computervision • jackson • michaeljackson • music • via:aboutblank • video

Consumption spreading

The bottom graph is amazing

2008-02-11 consumer • consumption • infographics • spending • via:kottke

Linux kernel root exploit

Ugly bug in the linux kernel

2008-02-11 badtech • kernel • linux • security • via:reddit

Microsoft buys Danger

Mobile is the new battleground

2008-02-11 acquisition • danger • microsoft • mobile

Democrats' Civil War

Sharply worded editorial about Clinton politicking

2008-02-10 clinton • democrats • election • obama • politics

Sexsual healing

Kate Bush's terrible, awful cover of Marvin Gaye.

2008-02-10 cover • katebush • marvingaye • music • sexualhealing

Tech employee campaign contributions

Goldman breaks down the numbers for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc employees. Amazon sure loves their Libertarian nutjob.

2008-02-09 amazon • campaign • google • politics • tech • yahoo

Saudi oil production

Someone analyzes Google overhead imagery in great detail to divine what's going on in Saudi oil fields

2008-02-09 google • maps • oil • peakoil • saudi • saudiarabia

How to grow a glacier

Crazy technique from India/Pakistan

2008-02-08 glacier • ice • india • mountain • pakistan

US Customs steals laptops

They're looking for child porn, mostly. But why, on the theory that the Internet doesn't exist?

2008-02-08 civilrights • customs • government • travel

Year of the cute mouse

Google's artist takes some liberties with "rat"

2008-02-07 doodle • google • mouse • rat

OpenID, the big day

All the big players join. Congratulations!

2008-02-07 google • ibm • microsoft • openid • verisign • via:waxy • yahoo

Super Tuesday infographics

Roundup and critique

2008-02-07 data • politics • via:amitp • visualization

Elevator Neon Bible

crazy Arcade Fire live performance

2008-02-07 arcadefire • music

Timeline of Web Browsers

Amazingly detailed

2008-02-07 history • internet • software • timeline • via:aboutblank • web • www

Camp 7, Gitmo

Our secretive prison camp has an even more secretive sub-prison camp

2008-02-07 gitmo • guantanamo • humanrights • politics • prison

Bully: gay kisses

"Over the rainbow' achievment rewards gay activity in the release of Bully on the Xbox 360

2008-02-07 bully • games • gay • rockstar • via:waxy

Superbowl tweets by minute

Twitter guys publish a graph showing Twitter traffic as a function of Superbowl events

2008-02-05 graphs • sports • superbowl • twitter

obama vs clinton

Google Trends has Obama winning

2008-02-05 clinton • google • obama • politics

Twittering today's vote

Amazing little mashup app; congrats again, Twitteroos!

2008-02-05 google • maps • politics • twitter

Google and Twitter

"We've joined forces with Twitter to give you instant updates on Super Tuesday.". Congratulations, Twitteroos!

2008-02-05 election • google • politics • twitter

Talkbox vs Auto-Tune

Amazingly detailed analysis of the Snoop video. And here I thought he just had some silly bong thing in his mouth!

2008-02-05 autotune • music • snoop

Pirating the Oscars

6 years' data of screener leaks; takes less than a week from when the studio releases a DVD screener to when it shows up online

2008-02-05 bittorrent • movies • oscars • piracy

Using the gaming press

Insightful article in how to market games

2008-02-05 games • journalism

Black Mirror remix

Clever Flash presentation, choose your own audio

2008-02-04 arcadefire • blackmirror • flash • music • via:metafilter

More Many-Worlds Mario

Explanation from the videomaker

2008-02-04 games • manyworlds • mario • nes • nintendo • snes • video

Many-Worlds Mario

Fascinating bit of editing, showing multiple playthroughs on an insanely hard mario level

2008-02-04 games • mario • nes • nintendo • snes • via:metafilter

Fred on Yicrosoft

"Web services don't get better under the ownership of big companies. They get worse."

2008-02-04 acquisition • business • google • microsoft • yahoo

Google fights back

David Drummond raises anti-trust issues with IM and email

2008-02-03 acquisition • antitrust • business • google • microsoft • yahoo

What I killed today

A veterinarian's record of euthanasias

2008-02-02 death • killing • pets • sad • veterinarian • via:boingboing

Fine Arrington rant

He'd be an awesome Andy Rooney

2008-02-02 arrington • environment • green • rant

skate outsold Tony Hawk

Somewhat of a surprise how quickly an old franchise can fall

2008-02-02 ea • games • skate • skateboards • skating • tonyhawk

Facebook financials

Reported to be from Zuckerberg himself. Nasty leak.

2008-02-01 facebook • finances • leak • via:techcrunch