Bad dinner guests

PhilG blogs someone's family's list of allergies

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

Banksy New Orleans

Famous street artist does his thing in N.O.

2008-08-29 banksy • neworleans • streetart

Google + Mozilla

Advertising deal that funds Firefox extended to 2011

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

Software bundling sleaze

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

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

Shadow botnet bust

Or so it's rumoured; somewhat skeptical

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

Stephany gets an enema

Freaky fetish video: safe for work, essentially

2008-08-27 enema • fetish

Keylogger in space

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

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

Obama gamerpic

Interesting crossover of politics to gaming. McCain, too

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

Faster prime sieving

Some clever modular math to more efficiently generate large primes

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

Oil Rocks

crazy off-shore drilling platforms in Azerbaijan

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

Google UI experiments

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

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

RedHat Perl broken

Well, more broken than Perl elsewhere

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

Airline Fees

Handy chart of the stupidity of airline pricing

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

Warcraft silliness

Great article about the perverse reward system in Warcraft

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

Pidgin crash fix

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

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

Onigiri on parade

Guide to basic Japanese comfort food

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

Big Picture: Olympics

Another photo collection, this one a bit more mainstream

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

Antivirus 2009

Malware protection racket

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

Olympic photos

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

2008-08-25 olympics • photography • photos

Sex and the Olympic city

Athlete hotties get it on at the Olympics

2008-08-23 culture • olympics • sex

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 olympics • phelps • swimming

Understanding Joshua

Disturbing art. (Some slightly NSFW)

2008-08-22 art • bizarre • photography

Wireless power

60 watts transmitted via magnetic fields

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

Getting shot at

Turkish journalists wander into machine gun fire in Georgia

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

Warrior's Machete blog

Wrestling dude also writes. A lot.

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

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 age • china • gymnastics • olympics • scandal

Olympics photography

Great notes from a guy working the Olympics

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

Deeppresso

lulz

2008-08-19 coffee • engrish

Bicycle clips

Winged messenger

2008-08-19 art • bicycle • clips • 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 calories • eating • food • games • weight • weightwatchers

Flagship Studio failure

Big name game company failed; interview with the founder

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

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 c3po • psa • smoking • starwars

Pac-Man cereal ad

I miss leg warmers

2008-08-18 80s • advertising • pacman

Genetic map of Europe

Beautiful visualization of variances in DNA of Europeans

2008-08-18 europe • genetics • maps

SF Fleet Week

Looking forward to it this week!

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

Cavic's blog

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

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

Phelps v. Cavic

Outstanding underwater photos of the incredibly close race last night

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

Molniya orbit

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

2008-08-16 orbit • satellites • space

Happy Olympics boys

Are there any out gay teams in the Olympics?

2008-08-15 gay • olympics • sports

iPhone is a bad phone

more data on the 3g fiasco

2008-08-15 3g • apple • iphone

Finding yourself on Youtube

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

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

Making Swiss cheese

Great photoessay of traditional alps cheesemaking

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

Fake Olympic kids

56 ethnic groups? Not so much

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

SmokePing

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

2008-08-14 latency • monitoring • network • 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 coronation • king • photography • tonga

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 babies • shoes • via:dstroy • wtf

Maps of web users

Interesting breakdown of who uses websites by US state

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

Prince (squee!)

Awesome little animated photograph

2008-08-12 prince • sex

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 bittorrent • olympics • pirating • television • tv • usenet

Official Georgia warblog

Government of Georgia is communicating via blogger

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

Empty Olympics seats

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

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

Olympic song fake

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

2008-08-12 china • lipsync • olympics

BSOD at Olympics

One of the projection computers crashed at the opening ceremony

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

Olympic fireworks fake

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

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

Pixeljunk Eden

Beautiful looking game; wish I had a PS3

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

Keeping score

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

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

Braid Review

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

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

levelhead

crazy tangible UI game demo

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

Google "graph paper"

Awesome image search

2008-08-10 google • graphpaper • search

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 antitrust • microsoft • olympics • silverlight

War of the Worlds tripod

Sculpture tribute to Wells' novel

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

Pathologic

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

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

President Bubba

Just replace the water with a beer

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

Fix Youtube Olympics

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

2008-08-09 drm • olympics • tv

Tombs of Asciiroth

Cute rogue-like, implemented in flash

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

Wikipedia saturation

English edits have levelled off

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

Eclipse HDR

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

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

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 flash • games

Olympics TV schedule

Google calendar format

2008-08-08 nbc • olympics • tv

Russia and Georgia at war

and the whole world thinking about the olympics

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

Typepad migration

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

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

Wesabe + Twitter

Nice combination; easy way to track your cash expenses

2008-08-05 cash • twitter • wesabe

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 computers • macos • windows

WWDD?

What would Don Draper do?

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

George Hart sculpture

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

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

3d printer output

Beautiful little art; love the colour

2008-08-04 art • fractal • generative

Nitrous Oxide in Paris

Sculpture commemerating the discovery of anesthesia

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

WSJ's fake Obama story

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

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

Youtube MLM scams

Merlin's fascinating investigation into human desperation

2008-08-02 mlm • scam • youtube

Large Hadron Collider

Great pictures

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

Wesabe + processing

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

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