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IBM Slides 1975
Beautiful graphic design
2008-07-31 ibm • fonts • graphics
Do not pee here
With scissors
2008-07-31 sign
Ancestry by county
Nice map of census data
2008-07-31 america • usa • census • heritage
Paris Candid Camera
American TV show sends obnoxious Texans to Paris cafes, films results
2008-07-30 paris • france • america • texas • stereotypes • tv
Litter robot
Space age solution for cat turds
2008-07-30 cats • litter
Lifebloom's bloom generates no threat
Great example of Warcraft nerds reverse engineering the game in exquisite detail
2008-07-28 ai • games • warcraft
Hidden Kitchens Texas
Just listened to this NPR program, very nostalgic for Texas now
2008-07-26 texas • culture • food • cooking • icehouse • barbeque • chili
Amazon S3 postmortem
Nicely detailed writeup of what went wrong
2008-07-26 operations • ops • amazon • s3 • postmortem
1 trillion URLs
Even trying to filter out the junk, the web is still really freaking enormous
2008-07-25 google • web • size • metrics
Marijuana in California
From my personal experiences, its clear to me that most "medical pot" is sold for recreational purposes. But so what?
2008-07-25 politics • marijuana • pot • california
Baby’s first Internet
Haw haw
2008-07-22 internet • culture • blogosphere • parody
Beijing Olympics photos
Phenomenal collection of architecture photographs
2008-07-21 beijing • olympics • architecture • photography
Cannibal map
nom nom
2008-07-21 map • cannibalism
Microwave cake results
It tastes a little like strawberries, and a little like failure.
2008-07-21 food • microwave • cake • via:metafilter
Microwave cake
This is ridiculous
2008-07-21 food • microwave • cake • via:metafilter
Thomas Kinkade / AT-AT
totally awesome bit of image work
2008-07-20 via:boingboing • parody • starwars • kinkade • art
proposed new tag: IMG
1993 archives. I love how the original proposal is what we ended up doing, and all the later suggestions are terrible
2008-07-16 html • history • marca • via:goldman • img
Grace Jones / Pee-Wee Herman
Christmas special!
2008-07-16 via:metafilter • gracejones • peewee • awesome
Greg Pass' blog
One of the Summize guys; very interesting eclectica
2008-07-15 gregpass • summize • twitter • diagrams • morrislous • art
Summize on the deal
Notes from the Summize guys on being acquired by Twitter
2008-07-15 twitter • summize • search • acquisition
Twitter + Summize
Congratulations guys, this is great for Twitter
2008-07-15 twitter • summize • search • acquisition
Fallout 3 trailer
Gameplay looks iffy, but still excited
2008-07-14 fallout • games • bethesda • xbox
SF walkability
Walkscore + Google Maps
2008-07-14 sanfrancisco • neighborhoods • livability • walking • via:Waxy
NY’s top child porn
Mark Pilgrim always cracks me up
2008-07-12
ssh-keygen
all the convenience of secret passwords online!
2008-07-10 security • ssh • parody
EVE community minutes
Online game has created a player council to address game design issues; interesting notes
2008-07-10 games • eveonline • eve • ccp • mmog
Remote control vasectomy
We are now living in the future
2008-07-09 via:metafilter • contraception • vasectomy
More on Google Lively
interview explaining the product
2008-07-08 via:Waxy • google • lively • secondlife • virtualworlds • virtualreality
Google Lively
Some 1998esque virtual world thing from Google. Really? Totally baffled.
2008-07-08 google • virtualreality • jumptheshark • virtualworlds • secondlife • via:techcrunch
Browser sync open source
Google puts their discontinued Firefox syncer out open source.
2008-07-08 google • firefox • code • opensource
DomainKeys advances
Big deal today; gmail is refusing email from ebay and paypal without proper DomainKeys certification. Big step towards secure email, but also concentrated email power.
2008-07-08 domainkeys • email • smtp • internet • security
Protocol buffers
Google's internal IDL gets released. It's pretty good as these things go.
2008-07-07 google • opensource • idl • rpc
Gas price map
Nice heatmap visualization
2008-07-07 gas • petrol • gasoline • map • taxes • heatmap • visualization
IntelBits
US wiretapping explained by the Snuggly Security Bear
2008-07-04 politics • civilliberties • fiore • via:boingboing • nsa
WinXP SP3
Haw haw
2008-07-03 windows • software • funny
Fox News photo lies
It's so blatantly silly it's hard to believe this happened
2008-07-03 fox • conservatives • politics • via:waxy • journalism