Great description of why this game is so compelling

I'm really captivated by this photo

fascinating list of things you can't buy in Paris

First person account from someone who bought a house sight-unseen for $8000. Now what?

Recommended anti-malware software, newer than Spybot, etc.

Simple, cogent explanation of how Git models source code control

Been wondering about this; cloud-computing gaming seems really difficult to me, too

Famous investor / theorist does a casual interview

Actual documented fraud, exploiting a confusing UI in a voting machine

Waiter can still write when he wants to

Heartbreaking story of a financial disaster in a Humbolt county dairy cooperative

Nice appreciation of a classic video game

Detailed browsable photographs of these fantastic windows

Amazingly detailed description of what the worm is doing

Lulerific

Great paper about how the Lua language evolved

Great spoilerific interview with series creator, actors, etc

Nice note about his choice to leave. I think Google's data-driven approach to design is a unique strength, but I could see how it'd be terribly limiting for someone like Doug.

poignant comic

Didn't know about this? You are old.

Very simple idea, 5 second delay when sending mail allows you to cancel

Popular press account of the most recent major worm botnet

Great timelapse tilt-shift movie. Normally I find this stuff gimmicky, but this is a nice little short story.

Overview of a simple database-like storage engine, a competitor to BDB

Nice overview of Veen's new project

Australian government's blacklist of websites, all hyperlinked for your convenience

A Javascript graphics libraries for doing data visualization. Somewhere between a Processing and a full charting library

Explanation of the childish but amusing and versatile 4chan meme

Wireless electricity use monitor

Great photo series

Vintage game club is going to play the JRPG classic together. Looking forward to it!

Finance website announces new platform for banks and credit unions

Peer-voted list of favourite bash commands

Jamie picks out some tracks from this year's SXSW music festival

Considering moving my blog off of Blosxom to Typepad. Here's a python script that might help.

Summary of the top online games and how they make money

Map shows the fractured Palestinian territory as a series of islands

Simple list of the ways the free database is less capable than the expensive bloated database

Well reasoned, calm essay about the coming end of newspaper journalism and how to approach replacing it

Fantastic photos from a forgotten America

how one application developer deals with the tradeoffs between speed and correctness in Linux filesystems

Interesting Linux filesystem discussion; the new ext4fs only flushes data every 60 seconds or so, causing all sorts of problems with apps that don't fsync(). Ted T'so's comments are the most interesting.

Great little explanation of how quality and bid interact for Google ads. This formula is the key to Google's success, and Hal explains it well.

Wow, Google's head ad sales guy is now CEO at AOL.

Site to make it easier to bring RSS/Atom data into your Kindle for reading

Invader putting up a piece on a freeway

Some actual information on the new information product

Fun article about diamond thieves

Poster child for abstinence education to be a single mom

detailed presentation and code for making maps from software on Linux

Fantastic interactive map of immigration data in the US

Very interesting; they're now aggregating user data across sites. With a lot of transparency and user opt-out. This will work well for them.

Crazy story; a watchermaker tagged the inside of Lincoln's watch

Warcraft expansion faces Chinese regulation problems because of depictions of death

Handy reference to how carpets are made

nice history of an early usenet spammer: the cancelbot wars were interesting.

Concerts like this are usually temporary autonomous zones; why turn this one into a sting?

I never knew the passenger liner was likely carrying munitions

Sweet short film, a computer nerd love poem

If only The Watchmen were a Saturday kid's cartoon from 1987

Photos, just like it says on the label

Major improvement coming to Eve Online: better asteroids

Paul calls out Google for its smarmy language about shutting off the search api

Conveyor belt sushi carries a video camera around

From blog post to NYT article

Great set of photos

Beautiful little deconstruction of RPG gameplay

Small multiple portrait photography

On stage with the Roy-munching tiger Montecore