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Magnolia outage
Such a shame
2009-01-31
backups • badtech • bookmarks • delicious • magnolia
Hotel room portraits
Great series of intimate autoportraits. Some NSFW
2009-01-29
gay • motel • photography • via:metafilter
Cello scrotum
Dangerous affliction or funny hoax? Yeah, hoax.
2009-01-29
cello • music • scrotum • via:metafilter
iPhone app store
Not sure if this is official, but a way to browse iPhone apps that's not iTunes
2009-01-26
apple • iphone • via:al3x
Decisions in games
Thoughtful essay pointing out that old kids games were much stupider than new ones
2009-01-26
children • games • kids • play
Merrill's $4B bonuses
It's pretty astonishing that federal money is used to pay failing bank executive bonuses
2009-01-26
economics • finance • merill • merrilllynch • scandal • tarp
Python 3.0 overview
What's new in the release. Lots of fixes to warts, mostly.
2009-01-23
code • programming • python • python3000 • python3k
World of World of Warcraft
Breakthrough simulation
2009-01-22
games • onion • parody • theonion • warcraft
Gridrunner+++
Minter's newest crazy game
2009-01-22
games • gridrunner • llamasoft • minter • shooter • spacegiraffe
OpenStreetMap edits
Timelapse video of where additions were made to the map
2009-01-22
animation • ito • maps • openstreetmap • visualization
New presidential ethics
Obama's first action is to make it clear how he's going to run the government
2009-01-22
ethics • obama • politics • president
Inauguration photos
Amazingly curated collection; I linked to my favourite, #10
2009-01-21
inauguration • kenya • obama • president
Home power monitor
Hacker's cobbled together sensor system
2009-01-21
electricity • green • power • via:joshua
Twitter stats
5x traffic, suffered some short delays. Good job folks!
2009-01-20
inauguration • stats • twitter
Melting bunnies
Sad, fascinating little video
2009-01-20
art • bunny • chocolate • rabbit • via:frauenfelder • video
Marble Madness speedrun
I'd forgotten how great the sound is in this game
2009-01-19
atari • games • marblemadness • speedrun • trackball • via:waxy
Not a journalist
Mike Arrington makes it clear, "I don’t claim to be a journalist, and I’m never neutral."
2009-01-19
arrington • journalism • techcrunch
Tweet-a-watt
Power monitor hooked to Twitter
2009-01-19
energy • green • hack • power • twitter
Eefing
Beat-boxing by early 60s hillbillies
2009-01-19
beatbox • eefing • heehaw • music
Our new president
Are there any bad photographs of Obama?
2009-01-17
bumpercars • obama • president
Von Heimat zu Heimat
Amazing child's map of his journey out of Nazi Germany to a new home in South America
2009-01-17
diaspora • germany • holocaust • jewish • maps
Radio spectrum
FCC allocation chart of where it all goes
2009-01-17
bandwidth • communications • frequency • radio • technology • via:mariuswatz
AppStore PEE
Tweetie adds a flashlight and fart noises to improve its iPhone app store rankings
2009-01-16
apple • fart • iphone • parody • twitter
80 Million tiny images
Interesting visualization: words arranged by semantic meaning, then represented by average images
2009-01-16
dictionary • infovis • via:metafilter • visualization • wordnet • words
Roxanne by Songsmith
Vocals from The Police fed through the auto-harmony Microsoft doodad
2009-01-15
microsoft • music • roxanne • songsmith • sting • thepolice
Funny condom ad
Sex is funny. Balloon animal sex is hilarious.
2009-01-15
ad • advertisement • condoms • durex • funny • sex
More Google trimming
Cutting some unsuccessful or redundant products. Including, sadly, Jaiku and Dodgeball
2009-01-15
dodgeball • downsizing • google • jaiku
Robots per capita
Great visualization of who has the most robots / worker
2009-01-14
japan • maps • robots • visualization
Dining with Dubya
Great little reminiscence from one of the Bush daughter's friends on his casual dinners with the family
2009-01-14
bush • gay • politics • via:metafilter • whitehouse
Adware Anatomy
fascinating article about how evil malware works
2009-01-14
adware • badtech • malware • software • via:metafilter • virus
White Balance explained
Great, simple explanation of what white balance is and how to adjust it
2009-01-11
camera • color • colour • kelvin • photography • photos • temperature • whitebalance
Luzern travel map
Beautiful visualization of places you can go from Luzern
2009-01-09
data • lucerne • luzern • map • switzerland • vintage • visualization
Microsoft Songsmith
Jaw-droppingly awful ad. OTOH, the researchers who made the software are the actors, so that's kinda cute
2009-01-09
advertising • microsoft • music • songsmith
Mirror eyes
Amazing fish uses a focussing mirror instead of a lens to see
2009-01-08
evolution • eyes • fish • mirror • science • via:metafilter
Don't Buy From Bigots
List of businesses that donated to the anti-gay measure proposition 8.
2009-01-08
civilright • gay • proposition8
S3://
Firefox extension to let you get to Amazon S3 files in your browser
2009-01-08
amazon • cloud • firefox • s3
Book Burro
Firefox addon that looks up info on books in stores and libraries. Using this to help me check out a book at the library rather than buy it.
2009-01-08
amazon • books • firefox • libraries
Israel shooting at UN relief trucks
Did I really read this right?
2009-01-08
gaza • israel • palestine • redcross • un • unitednations • war
#sqlputdowns
Funny nerd humour
2009-01-08
database • sql • twitter • via:zawodny
Captions vs Subtitles
Interesting differences
2009-01-07
accessibility • captions • deaf • subtitles • via:diveintomark • video
[obama unicorn]
Awesome Google Images search
2009-01-06
images • obama • search • unicorn
Travel time map
Heat map of how long it takes to get to a major city from everywhere in the world
2009-01-06
cartography • map • transportation • travel • world
Avoiding fake torrents
Practical advice for thieves who want to avoid being scammed
2009-01-06
bittorrent • malware • torrent
HIV Denial in the Internet Era
Review of how the Internet creates a community of nutjobs who argue HIV doesn't cause AIDS
2009-01-06
aids • community • culture • hiv • internet • via:metafilter
LiveJournal on the skids
LJ is a great example of a hugely valuable service that has never quite been a hugely valuable business
2009-01-06
blogging • business • livejournal
MacBook Wheel
Very well executed parody
2009-01-06
apple • funny • hci • video
Ice photos
Yet another awesome Big Picture
2009-01-05
ice • photography
NYT OpEd on the financial crisis
Scathing, detailed argument that the government's response to the financial crisis has been exactly wrong. Read the followup, too.
2009-01-05
economics • finance • politics • sec • via:kottke • wallstreet
Zim photos
Images of people using Zimbabwe's hyperinflated currency
2009-01-04
collapse • hyperinflation • inflation • via:robotwisdom • zim • zimbabwe
wingsuits
amazing BASE jump flying
2009-01-04
base • flying • skydiving • via:metafilter • wingsuit
aXXo profile
Great article about the movie pirating scene
2009-01-02
axxo • bittorrent • copyright • movies • property • theft • torrent • via:metafilter
True Blues
Absolutely mind-boggling painting of presidents playing poker
2009-01-01
art • democrats • poker • politics • presidents • tacky • trash