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Amazon caves on text2speech
I wonder if the Author's Guild also intends to prevent people from standing in a public square and reading a book aloud?
2009-02-28
amazon • books • copyright
FriendFeed datastore
Using MySQL just to store python dicts
2009-02-27
database • friendfeed • mysql • python • scaling
The Economist in Chinese
Waxy tracks down an unofficial fan translation project
2009-02-27
china • economist • scanlation • translation
Bacon Maple donut
Delish
2009-02-26
bacon • donut • food • via:kottke
Underwater armageddon
New BBC HD nature documentary showing an underwater hunt
2009-02-26
bbc • dolphins • nature • sharks • via:kottke
Zen Bound
iPhone game, I remember the concept demo from a year or two ago
2009-02-26
game • iphone • via:waxy
Author's guild stupidity
They want audio rights for audio they have no part in creating
2009-02-25
amazon • copyright • kindle • publishing
Geek attic office
Amazingly designed single person office
2009-02-25
computers • monitors • office • via:kottke
L'invasion de Paris 1.1
Space Invader's out of print book is being reissued
2009-02-24
book • paris • spaceinvader • streetart
Atom in stimulus bill
New government spending bill includes an implementation requirement mandating an Atom or RSS field and structured data
2009-02-24
atom • government • notification • rss • syndication
Java exceptions
Plain English explanations, a bit crooked
2009-02-23
funny • java • parody • programming
Techcrunch are full of shit
A response with more dignity than Arrington's gossipmill deserves
2009-02-23
journalism • lastfm • reporting • riaa • techcrunch
About Ask Metafilter
Nice article explaining the great advice website
2009-02-23
askmetafilter • askyahoo • community • metafilter • questions
How to act
Sir Ian McKellan breaks it down
2009-02-21
acting • funny • ianmckellan • lotr • mckellan
Meeting Shaq via Twitter
sweet story of a celebrity interaction
2009-02-20
basketball • shaq • twitter
Another Adobe exploit
Buffer overflow, "a fix will be coming". Adobe products are the weakest link in broswer security.
2009-02-20
adobe • badtech • bufferoverflow • exploit
Pakistan photos
Particularly good Big Picture
2009-02-18
muslim • pakistan • photography • photos
Confessions of a WoW Botter
Guy buys software to play Warcraft for him
2009-02-18
bot • games • glider • mmo • warcraft • wow
moot of 4chan
Neat profile of the guy behind the unruly bulletin board community
2009-02-17
4chan • community • moot • via:metafilter
Hard drive shredder
A hardware solution
2009-02-16
data • drive • hard • privacy • shredder • via:twitter
The Space Game
Great flash game, a union of RTS and tower defense
2009-02-16
games • rts • towerdefense • via:metafilter
BoB vs Goonswarm
Fantastic summary of the giant war raging across Eve Online
2009-02-15
bob • eve • eveonline • games • goonswarm • via:metafilter
Octuplets inside
Not positive this is real, but photo of the full-term octoplet mom
2009-02-13
batshitinsane • birth • octoplets • photo
Twitter financing
Announcement of another round of venture capital
2009-02-13
benchmark • financing • ivp • twitter • vc • venturecapital
Baby daddy
I love The Sun
2009-02-13
family • parenting • pregnancy
Satellite collision
So the question is, was this really an accident?
2009-02-12
collision • satellite • space
Yahoo API pricing
$1 / 10,000 spell corrections, $1 / 3000 search results, off peak is cheaper
2009-02-11
api • charging • price • search • yahoo
Le grand-père of Vimy
sweet story of French hospitality
2009-02-11
canada • france • guide • obituary • tourist
Pepsi logo process
Hysterically pompous advertising design document, but the design process is sort of beautiful
2009-02-10
advertising • branding • design • logo • pepsi
Fake autism data
Rumoured link between measles vaccine and autism based on fake data?!
2009-02-10
autism • health • measles • vaccination • via:metafilter
Dreams of Barack
Someone's aggregating twitter updates where people talk about their dreams of Barack Obama
2009-02-08
barack • dreams • obama • president • twitter
Morphable faces
impressive CG demonstration
2009-02-08
cg • cgi • face • graphics • via:mbostock
Google van vs. deer
Crazy Streetview photos
2009-02-08
deer • google • maps • roadkill • via:dailyrotten
BoB spy recruitment
Great chat logs of Goonswarm recruiting the turncoat for BoB
2009-02-08
bob • ccp • eve • eveonline • games • mmo • via:metafilter
BoB destroyed in Eve
Former fearsome alliance that controlled Eve Online now completely screwed by social engineering
2009-02-06
bob • ccp • eve • eveonline • games • mmog • via:plasticbaguk
Netflix + Xbox = 1M users
Streaming TV is here. Average of 25 hours per user in half a year
2009-02-06
netflix • tv • xbox
French pig butchery
Everything but the squeal
2009-02-06
boudinnoir • butcher • food • france
Workrave break reminder
Decent little break reminder app
2009-02-03
ergonomics • rsi • software • window
Map projections
Nice visualization of some unusual projections
2009-02-03
cartography • mapping • mapprojections • maps • via:jwz
Super Bowl logos
Interesting colour treatment of the logos
2009-02-03
color • colour • superbowl • visualization
Super Bowl tweets
Amazing visualization of what people were saying during the game
2009-02-03
superbowl • twitter • visualization
Thelonius Monk’s advice
Fantastic little note
2009-02-02
jazz • monk • music • piano • sax
Phelps' bong photo
Looks like a pro. Also, he gives a shit if he smokes pot?
2009-02-02
bong • marijuana • olympics • phelps • pot • scandal • swimming