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IBM Slides 1975
Beautiful graphic design
2008-07-31
fonts • graphics • ibm
Do not pee here
With scissors
2008-07-31
sign
Ancestry by county
Nice map of census data
2008-07-31
america • census • heritage • usa
Paris Candid Camera
American TV show sends obnoxious Texans to Paris cafes, films results
2008-07-30
america • france • paris • stereotypes • texas • 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
barbeque • chili • cooking • culture • food • icehouse • texas
Amazon S3 postmortem
Nicely detailed writeup of what went wrong
2008-07-26
amazon • operations • ops • postmortem • s3
1 trillion URLs
Even trying to filter out the junk, the web is still really freaking enormous
2008-07-25
google • metrics • size • web
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
california • marijuana • politics • pot
Baby’s first Internet
Haw haw
2008-07-22
blogosphere • culture • internet • parody
Beijing Olympics photos
Phenomenal collection of architecture photographs
2008-07-21
architecture • beijing • olympics • photography
Cannibal map
nom nom
2008-07-21
cannibalism • map
Microwave cake results
It tastes a little like strawberries, and a little like failure.
2008-07-21
cake • food • microwave • via:metafilter
Microwave cake
This is ridiculous
2008-07-21
cake • food • microwave • via:metafilter
Thomas Kinkade / AT-AT
totally awesome bit of image work
2008-07-20
art • kinkade • parody • starwars • via:boingboing
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
history • html • img • marca • via:goldman
Grace Jones / Pee-Wee Herman
Christmas special!
2008-07-16
awesome • gracejones • peewee • via:metafilter
Greg Pass' blog
One of the Summize guys; very interesting eclectica
2008-07-15
art • diagrams • gregpass • morrislous • summize • twitter
Summize on the deal
Notes from the Summize guys on being acquired by Twitter
2008-07-15
acquisition • search • summize • twitter
Twitter + Summize
Congratulations guys, this is great for Twitter
2008-07-15
acquisition • search • summize • twitter
Fallout 3 trailer
Gameplay looks iffy, but still excited
2008-07-14
bethesda • fallout • games • xbox
SF walkability
Walkscore + Google Maps
2008-07-14
livability • neighborhoods • sanfrancisco • via:waxy • walking
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
parody • security • ssh
EVE community minutes
Online game has created a player council to address game design issues; interesting notes
2008-07-10
ccp • eve • eveonline • games • mmog
Remote control vasectomy
We are now living in the future
2008-07-09
contraception • vasectomy • via:metafilter
More on Google Lively
interview explaining the product
2008-07-08
google • lively • secondlife • via:waxy • virtualreality • virtualworlds
Google Lively
Some 1998esque virtual world thing from Google. Really? Totally baffled.
2008-07-08
google • jumptheshark • secondlife • via:techcrunch • virtualreality • virtualworlds
Browser sync open source
Google puts their discontinued Firefox syncer out open source.
2008-07-08
code • firefox • google • 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 • internet • security • smtp
Protocol buffers
Google's internal IDL gets released. It's pretty good as these things go.
2008-07-07
google • idl • opensource • rpc
Gas price map
Nice heatmap visualization
2008-07-07
gas • gasoline • heatmap • map • petrol • taxes • visualization
IntelBits
US wiretapping explained by the Snuggly Security Bear
2008-07-04
civilliberties • fiore • nsa • politics • via:boingboing
WinXP SP3
Haw haw
2008-07-03
funny • software • windows
Fox News photo lies
It's so blatantly silly it's hard to believe this happened
2008-07-03
conservatives • fox • journalism • politics • via:waxy