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Contemplating Miley Cyrus
Thoughtful discussion of the tempest in a teapot
2008-04-30 adulthood • disney • eroticism • girls • hannahmontana
GTA IV: 99/100
Highest review scores yet. Seems deserved from the little I've seen by the game, I'm overwhelmed by its complexity and beauty
2008-04-30 games • grandtheftauto • gta • review
Portishead Third review
The album's finally officially out, and it really is great
2008-04-30 album • music • portishead • review • third
FF3 color profiles
Off by default, but finally can have color corrected images in Firefox
2008-04-30 adobe • color • firefox • photoshop • profile
Is 15 old enough to be hot?
Hannah Montana reveals America's ambiguity with teenage girls
2008-04-30 celebrity • eroticism • hannahmontana • liebowitz • photography
Making chocolate
Home cook turns beans into chocolate bars
2008-04-28 cacao • chocolate • cocoa • cooking • food
Automated Blogger spam
Analysis of the network that's breaking Google's CAPTCHA and spamming the world
2008-04-28 blogger • botnet • captcha • google • security • via:waxy
Prince plays Coachella
Sounds awesome
2008-04-27 coachella • music • prince
About You Suck at Photoshop
Story about the creators
2008-04-26 humor • photoshop • via:valleywag
Top GTA IV pirates
Leaderboard of achievments. AKA: leaderboard of banned accounts.
2008-04-26 games • grandtheftauto • gta • gtaiv • piracy • xbox • xbox360
GTA IV players
Online game trackers tell you who's stolen the game
2008-04-26 gamercard • games • grandtheftauto • gtaiv • xbox • xbox360
101-gta4.nfo
NTSC release of Grand Theft Auto IV, 5 days before official
2008-04-24 games • grandtheftauto • gta • gtaiv • nfo • pirate • rockstar • scene • via:waxy • xbox360
It's not a compound
Awesome little techno mix from the ongoing saga of the FLDS in Eldorado
2008-04-24 cult • flds • mormon • remix • techno • via:jwz
Redneck Mansion
Awesome looking collection of linked trailers
2008-04-24 amsterdam • architecture • dutch • holland • housing • redneck • via:metafilter
icon-gta.nfo
The NFO file from the GTA IV leak
2008-04-23 games • grandtheftauto • gta • gtaiv • piracy • scene
GTA IV has leaked
6.36GB download, but I think it requires hacked hardware to play
2008-04-23 games • grandtheftauto • gta • piracy • rockstar
Charlie's new book
Google's former chef has a book out
2008-04-23 califia • charlie • charlieayers • cooking • food • google
Clotilde's Paris food book
Great French blogger now has her book out!
2008-04-22 clotilde • food • france • paris • restaurant
The Turkish-I Problem
In Turkish, capital i is not I
2008-04-22 i18n • internationalization • l10n • localization • programming • trtr • turkey • turkish
Third - Portishead
The album leaked a month ago, but now you can legitimately listen to it on last.fm
2008-04-22 music • portishead • third
Lost 2600 titles
Lovely collection of Atari box art
2008-04-21 2600 • atari • funny • games • vcs • via:metafilter
YFZ ranch
Nice backgrounder on the FLDS compound
2008-04-20 cult • flds • polygamy • religion
How to not steal software
Simple essay about how to avoid being a pirate
2008-04-18 copyright • ethics • opensource • software
Antarctic explorers' huts
100 year old expedition bases
2008-04-18 antarctic • cold • edmundsen • explorer • scott • shackleton • via:kottke
Apple IIgs laptop
Beautiful bit of hackery, nicely finished
2008-04-16 apple • gs • hack • hardware • iigs • laptop • via:waxy
Simpsons couch gags
Many simpsons intros spliced together into a 5 minute reel
2008-04-16 animation • cartoon • funny • simpsons • via:aboutblank
Game development problems (PPT)
Talk from a game developer about the challenges of writing games
2008-04-15 games • haskell • programming • unreal • via:ckline
Turn off MSIE click
The obscure path for turning off the stupid sound
2008-04-15 annoyance • badtech • msie • sound • windows
Eve source leak
Client code for the MMO was stolen and put out on BitTorrent
2008-04-15 eve • eveonline • games • mmog • via:slashdot
Trapped in an elevator
Mesmerizing time lapse film from a security camera. 41 hours.
2008-04-15 elevator • nightmare • trapped • via:metafilter
Market rate securities problems
Wall Street investment banks mislead their customers, again
2008-04-14 bonds • credit • finance • fraud • money
google app engine thoughts
Google engineer boils down some of his experiences using it.
2008-04-14 appengine • cloud • google • grid • programming
Quake family tree
Liberally licensed game engine has an impact
2008-04-13 freesoftware • games • opensource • quake
Dash GPS
GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow
2008-04-13 cars • crowdsourcing • driving • gps • traffic
Google data centers
No idea if this info is accurate, but it's interesting
2008-04-12 bandwidth • datacenter • deployment • distance • google • network • servers
jayisgames winners
Great site for showcasing new casual games
2008-04-12 casualgames • flash • games
Tweetable scripts
bash hacks that fit in under 140 characters
2008-04-12 bash • code • hacks • nerdy • script • shell • twitter
Startups and acquisition
Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
2008-04-10 business • entrepreneurs • markets • privatecapital • startups • vc • venturecapital
San Angelo, TX
Nice colour commentary. I spent a night in San Angelo, great little town.
2008-04-10 jeffs • polygamy • sanangelo • texas • tornado
Curry and mole are persian
Interesting story of how Mexican and Indian cuisine was influenced by the spread of
2008-04-10 cooking • culture • food • india • islam • mexico • via:metafilter
Commodity cloud hosting
Doug Cutting, one of the smartest engineers I've ever met, argues for the importance of non-proprietary cloud computing technologies
2008-04-09 computing • dougcutting • grid • lucene
SIDosis on Youtube
save yourself the trouble of downloading this crazy experimental film
2008-04-09 film • music • ukelele • video
Multiple SIDosis
Oddly experimental and yet totally square video of multitrack recording and splitscreen film.
2008-04-09 art • experimental • film • music • splitscreen • ukelele • via:merlin • video
Ruby's not ready
Flamebait, no doubt, but some insightful criticisms
2008-04-08 languages • python • religiouswar • ruby
10,000 cents
Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
2008-04-07 amazon • art • crowdsourcing • currency • mechanicalturk • money
gvn: svn wrapper
Google's wrapper for Subversion. Supports reviews before commit.
2008-04-07 code • codereview • google • scm • software • subversion • svn
Trader hand signals
Nice illustrated guide to floor trader hand signals
2008-04-07 communication • finance • hand • via:metafilter
You v. Mondrian
Cute little game with nifty visuals
2008-04-05 art • frogger • games • mondrian
South Park v. Youtube
Decoder ring for the brilliant episode. I love that about 1/3 of these videos were greatly enhanced by Waxy's researches
2008-04-05 internet • meme • southpark • video • viral • waxy • youtube
Snoop Dogg v. The View
amazing live performance of Sensual Seduction, check out the interview linked in the comments, too
2008-04-05 barbarawalters • music • rap • snoopdogg • theview • tv
Shirky v. Colbert
Weird to see someone you know try to get through the jamming
2008-04-05 clayshirky • colbert • culture • internet • shirky • tv
Military graffiti art
Great collection of painted barricades in kuwait
2008-04-04 art • graffiti • iraq • kuwait • military • war
Some VC advice
Good basic cynicism for entrepreneurs
2008-04-03 business • startup • venturecapital
Decorative OCR font
Funny story of typographer love
2008-04-03 design • fonts • ocr • rollingstone • swash • typography • via:kottke
Cherry chocolate rain
I'm late to the memeparty, but totally fascinated by Tay Zonday
2008-04-02 ad • advertising • chocolaterain • drpepper • music • soda • tayzonday
Molten Core
the 8 bit console game
2008-04-01 aprilfools • funny • games • parody • warcraft • wow
WatchPeanuts
The Watchmen drawn as Peanuts characters
2008-04-01 alanmoore • comics • peanuts • via:boingboing • watchmen
Cancel the Examiner
how to prevent the daily litter from this fake newspaper being delivered for free
2008-04-01 examiner • litter • newspaper • sanfrancisco