Bad dinner guests

PhilG blogs someone's family's list of allergies

2008-08-29 allergy • food • dinner • dining

Banksy New Orleans

Famous street artist does his thing in N.O.

2008-08-29 neworleans • banksy • streetart

Google + Mozilla

Advertising deal that funds Firefox extended to 2011

2008-08-28 google • mozilla • firefox • cpc • ads

Software bundling sleaze

You can pay Best Buy $30 to remove the crap that's preinstalled on your PC

2008-08-28 badtech • software • hp • dell • bestbuy • via:jeffmcmanus

Shadow botnet bust

Or so it's rumoured; somewhat skeptical

2008-08-27 botnet • shadow • security • badtech

Stephany gets an enema

Freaky fetish video: safe for work, essentially

2008-08-27 fetish • enema

Keylogger in space

International Space Station is infected by a keylogger that steals Warcraft passwords

2008-08-27 security • badtech • keylogger • space • iss

Obama gamerpic

Interesting crossover of politics to gaming. McCain, too

2008-08-27 xbox • obama • mccain • politics • election • games

Faster prime sieving

Some clever modular math to more efficiently generate large primes

2008-08-27 numbers • math • prime • cryptography

Oil Rocks

crazy off-shore drilling platforms in Azerbaijan

2008-08-27 azerbaijan • maps • oil • drilling • platform

Google UI experiments

Google discusses one of their most effective tools for improving user experience

2008-08-26 google • ui • experiment • hci

RedHat Perl broken

Well, more broken than Perl elsewhere

2008-08-26 performance • redhat • linux • perl • via:zawodny

Airline Fees

Handy chart of the stupidity of airline pricing

2008-08-26 via:jeffmcmanus • airfare • planes • travel • airline

Warcraft silliness

Great article about the perverse reward system in Warcraft

2008-08-26 warcraft • games • zhevra • wow

Pidgin crash fix

Windows / AIM crashes reliably; install this DLL and the problem stops

2008-08-25 pidgin • bug • fix • aim • im

Onigiri on parade

Guide to basic Japanese comfort food

2008-08-25 food • onigiri • japan • sushi

Big Picture: Olympics

Another photo collection, this one a bit more mainstream

2008-08-25 olympics • sports • photos • photography

Antivirus 2009

Malware protection racket

2008-08-25 malware • spyware • scumware • virus • software

Olympic photos

Odd selection, a bit heavy on the lulz but good images

2008-08-25 olympics • photos • photography

Sex and the Olympic city

Athlete hotties get it on at the Olympics

2008-08-23 olympics • sex • culture

Epke Zonderland

Some artistic photographs

2008-08-23 gay • olympics

Diebold counts most of your votes

Voting machine glitch, coverup, etc

2008-08-22 diebold • election • fraud • ohio

Phelps is back home

Onion lulz

2008-08-22 swimming • olympics • phelps

Understanding Joshua

Disturbing art. (Some slightly NSFW)

2008-08-22 photography • art • bizarre

Wireless power

60 watts transmitted via magnetic fields

2008-08-22 power • battery • intel • technology

Getting shot at

Turkish journalists wander into machine gun fire in Georgia

2008-08-21 via:metafilter • war • georgia • ossetia • journalism • gunfire

Warrior's Machete blog

Wrestling dude also writes. A lot.

2008-08-21 wwe • wwf • wrestling • warrior • ultimatewarrior

Four Barrel Coffee

opened today; finally, a serious coffee place without fucking wifi

2008-08-21 coffee • mission • sanfrancisco

Olympic ages caches

Someone goes delving in Baidu's cache of Chinese government websites, confirms the gymnasts are 14

2008-08-20 china • olympics • gymnastics • scandal • age

Olympics photography

Great notes from a guy working the Olympics

2008-08-20 photography • via:kottke • olympics

Deeppresso

lulz

2008-08-19 coffee • engrish

Bicycle clips

Winged messenger

2008-08-19 bicycle • clips • art • moma

Slow motion skate

Beautiful 120fps HD video of skateboarding

2008-08-19 skateboard • skateboarding • via:kottke

Weight loss as RPG

Weight Watchers system uses RPG elements

2008-08-19 games • weight • weightwatchers • eating • food • calories

Flagship Studio failure

Big name game company failed; interview with the founder

2008-08-18 games • flagship • diablo • hellgate • blizzard

C-3PO says don't smoke!

Insane PSA; faggy robot catches trashcan smoking a cigarette, ends on a bleak existential note about droids having no souls

2008-08-18 starwars • smoking • psa • c3po

Pac-Man cereal ad

I miss leg warmers

2008-08-18 pacman • 80s • advertising

Genetic map of Europe

Beautiful visualization of variances in DNA of Europeans

2008-08-18 genetics • maps • europe

SF Fleet Week

Looking forward to it this week!

2008-08-16 via:stevej • fleetweek • starwars • military • sanfrancisco • parody

Cavic's blog

Great, honest writeup of what it felt like to come in 2nd by 0.01 seconds.

2008-08-16 cavic • phelps • olympics • swimming • via:kottke

Phelps v. Cavic

Outstanding underwater photos of the incredibly close race last night

2008-08-16 sports • olympics • phelps • cavic • photofinish

Molniya orbit

Eccentric orbit allows a satellite to dwell over one part of the earth

2008-08-16 space • satellites • orbit

Happy Olympics boys

Are there any out gay teams in the Olympics?

2008-08-15 olympics • sports • gay

iPhone is a bad phone

more data on the 3g fiasco

2008-08-15 apple • iphone • 3g

Finding yourself on Youtube

Old flutist friend of mine's comments on discovering his performance was recorded and put online

2008-08-15 youtube • flute • music • classical • fenwicksmith • fenwick

Making Swiss cheese

Great photoessay of traditional alps cheesemaking

2008-08-15 switzerland • swiss • cheese • alps • via:metafilter

Fake Olympic kids

56 ethnic groups? Not so much

2008-08-15 olympics • china • via:metafilter

SmokePing

nice looking network / web server response time tool. Does multiple samples

2008-08-14 monitoring • network • latency • sysadmin

New King of Tonga

Yet another stunning Big Picture collection. It cracks me up this hereditary Polynesian king uses European trappings

2008-08-13 tonga • photography • king • coronation

Braid sales

He's doing well, but it's still a small thing

2008-08-13 braid • games • xbla • xbox

Baby's first high heels

Start 'em early

2008-08-13 via:dstroy • wtf • babies • shoes

Maps of web users

Interesting breakdown of who uses websites by US state

2008-08-12 geography • maps • web • seo • google

Prince (squee!)

Awesome little animated photograph

2008-08-12 sex • prince

Car detailing

55 hours cleaning up a sports car, obsessively documented

2008-08-12 cars • detailing • obsession

Pirating the Olympics

Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads

2008-08-12 olympics • pirating • television • tv • usenet • bittorrent

Official Georgia warblog

Government of Georgia is communicating via blogger

2008-08-12 georgia • russia • war • blogging • politics

Empty Olympics seats

It does seem odd how few people are actually watching the sport

2008-08-12 sports • olympics • china • potemkin

Olympic song fake

7 year old girl chosen to be pretty, lip syncs other 7 year old girl's singing

2008-08-12 china • olympics • lipsync

BSOD at Olympics

One of the projection computers crashed at the opening ceremony

2008-08-11 windows • bsod • crash • olympics

Olympic fireworks fake

The video of the fireworks over the stadium was a digital fake. Very Orwellian, creepy.

2008-08-11 orwell • 1984 • totalitarian • olympics • fake • photoshop • nbc

Pixeljunk Eden

Beautiful looking game; wish I had a PS3

2008-08-11 pixeljunk • games • ps3 • playstation

Keeping score

An appreciation of the nuances of baseball scorekeeping and how it influences game design

2008-08-11 baseball • games • scorekeeping • micromanagement

Braid Review

Does a good job capturing why this game is so important. A bit spoilerish.

2008-08-11 games • braid • review • xbox

levelhead

crazy tangible UI game demo

2008-08-10 via:metafilter • games • ui • tangible • hci • chi

Google "graph paper"

Awesome image search

2008-08-10 google • search • graphpaper

Hotel Union Square

nice looking boutique hotel in downtown SF; recommended by some friends

2008-08-10 hotel • sanfrancisco • tourism

Olympics / Silverlight bundling

Markoff calls out Microsoft's strategic move in making Olympics video use their new technology

2008-08-10 silverlight • antitrust • microsoft • olympics

War of the Worlds tripod

Sculpture tribute to Wells' novel

2008-08-10 wells • art • sculpture • via:metafilter • tripod • waroftheworlds

Pathologic

Commentary on an obscure 2005 Russian videogame that's problematic but uniquely interesting

2008-08-10 games • via:metafilter • pathologic

President Bubba

Just replace the water with a beer

2008-08-09 olympics • bush • volleyball

Hulu search: "Olympics"

Awesome! NBC's video site has all sorts of video for the Olympics; mostly history lessons about the 1980 boycott of Moscow

2008-08-09 olympics • nbc • drm • copyright

Fix Youtube Olympics

Some broad US blocking of Olympics video on Youtube; here's how to circumvent it

2008-08-09 olympics • tv • drm

Tombs of Asciiroth

Cute rogue-like, implemented in flash

2008-08-08 via:anarchaia • roguelike • games

Wikipedia saturation

English edits have levelled off

2008-08-08 via:anarchaia • wikipedia • statistics

Eclipse HDR

Nice use of very wide exposure range to show an eclipse in a new way

2008-08-08 sun • corona • astronomy • photography • hdr

Olympics opening pics

Looks beautiful, particularly the drummers. Also SPOILER ALERT: the US is 18 hours in the past.

2008-08-08 olympics • photography

Switch (game)

Nice little Flash game, surprisingly deep

2008-08-08 games • flash

Olympics TV schedule

Google calendar format

2008-08-08 olympics • tv • nbc

Russia and Georgia at war

and the whole world thinking about the olympics

2008-08-08 politics • russia • georgia • ossetia

Typepad migration

6A is simplifying a bit by lowering the number of different blog platforms they have

2008-08-06 sixapart • blogs • typepad • vox

Wesabe + Twitter

Nice combination; easy way to track your cash expenses

2008-08-05 wesabe • twitter • cash

Google on Street View

Employees have some fun when the camera passes by

2008-08-05 google • maps • streetview

Switching to the Mac

Even-minded comments on switching from Windows to Mac

2008-08-05 windows • macos • computers

WWDD?

What would Don Draper do?

2008-08-04 via:kottke • madmen • tv • dondraper

George Hart sculpture

More by the artist; apparently he dyes the nylon laser printed objects

2008-08-04 art • sculpture • generative • georgehart

3d printer output

Beautiful little art; love the colour

2008-08-04 fractal • art • generative

Nitrous Oxide in Paris

Sculpture commemerating the discovery of anesthesia

2008-08-04 paris • france • sculpture • surgery • anesthesia • wells

WSJ's fake Obama story

Reporter planted leading questions on the web, then quoted the only fake answer

2008-08-02 journalism • obama • wallstreetjournal • ethics • via:mathowie

Youtube MLM scams

Merlin's fascinating investigation into human desperation

2008-08-02 mlm • scam • youtube

Large Hadron Collider

Great pictures

2008-08-01 photography • collider • lhc • switzerland • machines

Wesabe + processing

Interesting use of processing.js to bring beautiful graphs into your financial accounts

2008-08-01 money • wesabe • processing • design