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Burj Dubai
great set of aerial photos of the 2000 foot skyscraper
2008-09-30 buildings • burjdubai • construction • dubai • photography • via:metafilter
Bill Owens
Amazing American photographer
2008-09-30 america • billowens • photography • photos • suburbia
Barney Frank pwns
Probably not good to add fuel to the fire right now, but damn he's funny
2008-09-29 bailout • barneyfrank • politics • republics
Google for gay marriage
Quite a strong statement, good for them
2008-09-27 california • gay • google • politics
Viral virtual lighter
Nice analysis of a silly toy app
2008-09-26 apple • iphone • lighter • viral
Miss Alaska 1984
Sarah Palin lists her qualification as "recognized by Who's Who"
2008-09-26 alaska • politics • sarahpalin • via:waxy • whoswho
North Korean arcade
Old videogames
2008-09-26 arcade • games • northkorea • via:waxy
Paris confrontation
Hysterical little story of someone standing up for themselves in a Paris restaurant
2008-09-25 france • french • paris • restaurant
Net Moguls
1996ish satire of Web leaders
2008-09-25 culture • internet • netmoguls • suck • web
Spore commentary
Nice summary of the disappointment
2008-09-24 games • sims • spore • wilwright
Viva Pinata review
I'm loving this game
2008-09-24 games • rare • vivapinata • xbox360
YouTube / Wii
Clever video ad
2008-09-23 nintendo • via:waxy • wario • wii • youtube
Photographer's mug
Can't decide if it's beautiful or horrifying
2008-09-23 coffee • mug • photographer • photography
Hedge fund job ad
lulz
2008-09-23 financials • hedgefund • money
Be my wife!
Awesome crazy man personal ad
2008-09-20 batshitinsane • marriage • personals • via:metafilter • wife
Observing Ramadan
Yet another amazing Big Picture
2008-09-19 islam • muslim • photography • ramadan
Time of my Life
17 years of a guy photographing himself daily
2008-09-19 aging • life • photography • timelapse • via:waxy
Cisco buys jabber.com
Good lord, did they actually look at the protocol?
2008-09-19 cisco • im • jabber
Myhrvold’s IP racket
A company that produces nothing but patent lawsuits and the ability to buy your way out of them
2008-09-17 ip • law • legal • myrvhold • patents
Yahtzee on Spore
As always, Yahtzee gets quickly to the point of his reviews and nails it
2008-09-17 games • review • spore • yahtzee
Bank closures and you
Nice simple piece about how bank closures affect average americans
2008-09-15 banks • fdic • money
Convert MKV to AVI
Repackaging video from one container format to another
2008-09-14 avi • convert • divx • mkv • video • xbox • xvid
Open source forks
Thoughtful roundup of forks in open source projects
2008-09-11 opensource • software
Freestyle rap
Translated for the Princeton debate set
2008-09-11 freestyle • rap • via:waxy
Ensemble Studios shutdown
Troubling news; Microsoft shutting down one of their great game studios
2008-09-10 ageofempires • ageofmythology • ensemble • games • gaming • halowars • microsoft
UAL: not bankrupt
Trading debacle from a combination of an undated newspaper article and an overzealous stock tip feed
2008-09-10 badtech • news • stocks • trading • united
Rails gets threads
Congratulations; it's like 1997 for the Ruby web development community
2008-09-04 performance • rails • ror • ruby • threads • webapps
Google's browser
Google pushing browser UI in interesting directions. Based on Webkit?!
2008-09-01 browser • firefox • msie • via:waxy • webkit