Prince Harry story was held

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

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

Clinton's Daisy ad

This is just horrible, what a fiasco

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

comScore clarification

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

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

More Abu Ghraib

Yet more images of American torture

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

Prince Harry in Afghanistan

Great slideshow

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

Plutocracy in action

Dollars raised is a proxy for votes in the Democratic primary

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

Audi iPod link

Only took them three years to develop it!

2008-02-29 ipod • music • audi • car

French wedding etiquette

you can be invited just for desert!

2008-02-28 france • wedding • etiquette

Why do we scream at each other?

A simple flowchart

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

Oprah's Big Give review

Totally pans it; I love reading well written negative reviews

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

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 piracy • games • business • drm

DivX / Stage6 drama

Techcrunch has some very juicy unsourced fumour

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

Clinton vote manipulation

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

2008-02-27 politics • clinton • democrats

Google AuthSub

third party authentication for Google web apps

2008-02-27 google • api • authentication

mysqlsniffer

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

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

FriendFeed launch

Congrats to my Google alumni friends!

2008-02-26 google • friendfeed • 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 britneyspears • britney • 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 gdc • games

Google / MySpace bad deal?

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

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

keming

Funny typography joke

2008-02-25 kerning • typography • funny

Hadoop + EC2 + S3 = NYT PDF

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

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

garfield minus garfield

Lovely remix of the stupid strip

2008-02-25 garfield • comics

On game criticism

Costikyan talks about criticism vs. reviews

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

Stephen Colbert, WoW

A rumoured unused trading card

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

High alcohol wines

Brief article about the trend towards 15% wines

2008-02-23 alcohol • wine • drinks

White Rabbit / Star Trek

Awesome period mashup

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

TV movement map

Beautiful visualization of a family watching TV together

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

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 yahoo • google • search • opensource • hadoop • dougcutting • code • systems

MP3 cataloging

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

2008-02-19 mp3 • music • m3u • metadata • itunes • 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 iphone • books • ebook

Jane Fonda said "cunt"

And everyone's freaked out

2008-02-16 janefonda • language • cunt

$100M to SCO

Private capital bails out SCO; some new IP play?

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

trust.salesforce.com

Amazing system status dashboard

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

Prince Philip movement

Another Vanuatu cult, this time dedicated to a living person

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

Happy John Frum day!

Today's the holy day of the Vanuatu cargo cult

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

White stag

With photo

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

MMOGChart update

WoW doesn't stop

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

Li'l J

Sad little girl pretending to be gangsta

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

Kickbreak (upsetting)

Nasty video of a kickboxer's leg snapping

2008-02-13 ouch • kickboxing • break

Flying sharks

Crazy nature documentary about sharks launching themselves after seals

2008-02-13 nature • bbc • sharks

Warcraft companion cube

Love is in the air!

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

A Twitter bug in detail

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

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

loom.cc

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

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

anonymous vs scientology

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

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

e-gold Examiner

Holdings of the freaky virtual currency

2008-02-11 money • currency • gold

White glove results

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

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

Consumption spreading

The bottom graph is amazing

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

Linux kernel root exploit

Ugly bug in the linux kernel

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

Microsoft buys Danger

Mobile is the new battleground

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

Democrats' Civil War

Sharply worded editorial about Clinton politicking

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

Sexsual healing

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

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

Tech employee campaign contributions

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

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

Saudi oil production

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

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

How to grow a glacier

Crazy technique from India/Pakistan

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

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 • travel • government

Year of the cute mouse

Google's artist takes some liberties with "rat"

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

OpenID, the big day

All the big players join. Congratulations!

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

Super Tuesday infographics

Roundup and critique

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

Elevator Neon Bible

crazy Arcade Fire live performance

2008-02-07 music • arcadefire

Timeline of Web Browsers

Amazingly detailed

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

Camp 7, Gitmo

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

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

Bully: gay kisses

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

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

Superbowl tweets by minute

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

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

obama vs clinton

Google Trends has Obama winning

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

Twittering today's vote

Amazing little mashup app; congrats again, Twitteroos!

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

Google and Twitter

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

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

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 music • snoop • autotune

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 movies • piracy • bittorrent • oscars

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 music • via:metafilter • arcadefire • blackmirror • flash

More Many-Worlds Mario

Explanation from the videomaker

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

Many-Worlds Mario

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

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

Fred on Yicrosoft

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

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

Google fights back

David Drummond raises anti-trust issues with IM and email

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

What I killed today

A veterinarian's record of euthanasias

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

Fine Arrington rant

He'd be an awesome Andy Rooney

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

skate outsold Tony Hawk

Somewhat of a surprise how quickly an old franchise can fall

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

Facebook financials

Reported to be from Zuckerberg himself. Nasty leak.

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