Lol

Trailer for new Coen brothers film. Looks tailor-made for @goldman

Simply make sure tragic words are in every mail

Small look into what it means for bit.ly to be based on Libya

Makes a perverse sort of sense

Amateur, but full of interesting links and stuff

Awesome talk about gender in the open source world

Nice promo video for the Eve Online game, highlights the single-server sandbox stuff

Buffer overflow = bad time. Phone manufacturers and carriers live in fear of bugs like this.

mostly SFW

Cogent explanation of why meetings are bad for programmers

Mostly been ignoring this sideshow, but Hitchens writing is dead-on

For the truly faithful

Sounds like the new deal basically replaces Yahoo's technology with Microsoft's

Copy and paste to work around the stupid resolution limit; may destroy EXIF data

Nice appreciation of the trend of web browsers to minimize their UI

Game companies really need to get the message this kind of sexist advertising won't work

Squabble over Google Voice native apps on the iPhone. This is why Apple's closed platform is evil.

This is apparently the go-to resource for learning basic x86 assembly

Delicious and delicate

Equal parts love and snark

Weren't they supposed to be the really secure company?

sub-second trade speeds allow companies with fast access to the stock market to profit

Jeff Bezos is one of my favourite company leaders

Authentication provider

"It was like some sort of creepy religious procession for poor Midwestern teens. "

How to query position for a wireless MAC address. Not sure if this still works

Part of how your iPhone knows where you are; a company wardrives and builds a database of WiFi locations

Anil breaks down some of the recent work around realtime messaging

Interesting view into how developers look at their JS libraries

Such diverse cuisine!

jQuery's unit testing framework for javascript

Self-destructing encryption, for making data disappear after several hours/days. The decryption key is scattered across many peers and disintegrates over time

Great set of simple articles explaining digital photo tech

Python -> Javascript compiler for client code. Like GWT, but for Python

Very simple pretty printer tool: good for figuring out what data that web service is returning

HTML scraping library in Python; similar to BeautifulSoup, but different

Congrats!

"Heavy is the head that wears the sausage crown…"

Congrats! Awesome letter from the CEO

Great isomorphic animation

Now we know for sure David Letterman is an old man

Engineers from Zappos code up some Javascript to help find SHA collisions for a contest.

Very nicely executed iPhone tower defense games

I can't say I bothered to read the whole thing, but the screenshots alone are hilarious

How do you work around the browser security restriction against loading data from remote servers? By evaluating any code they send you!

Yet another set of fun photos

Congratulations, Andy!

Absolutely amazing infographic from the NYT. It's worth the time to click through and understand.

Awesome article + picture of a guy who had vision restored by implanting an artificial lens in an empty eye socket

It was a stolen copy they accidentally sold. In some ways, their removing it makes sense.

I wasn't sure, but iPhone 3.0 supports the new geolocation protocol

Being an iPhone developer can suck

Brilliant Flash game

Funny 70s-era calculator for kids. Turns out all my friends had them, too

Thoughts on game design.

Handy flowchart, some appropriate swearing

Google logs have had a hidden Zelda figure embedded

Shamus makes a demo with Scratch

Nice post from Matt about making Metafilter. I love that community. Also admire all the hard work he and his colleagues do making it good

Digital media playback gizmo; sort of a media PC. My Xbox hacker friends are switching to this

Funny analysis from an owner

A delicious morsel of a game, well worth the $5 on Steam

Great Onion video. See also: Max Headroom's take on instant democracy

When is SNL going to pick this up?

Photographic study of tagging styles in Paris. Not to be confused with Paris street art.

"They've reached the point of corporate ambition and changing corporate culture that means they're going to be perceived as if they are. Whether they're able to truly internalize that lesson, accept it, and act accordingly will determine if they're able to extend their dominance in the years to come."

One of these houses has a little wind turbine; I think it's this house with the solar panels

Great post from their ops team about how they make this massive game work

I love that he waited several days to think and write this

Simple illustration

Interesting details about the financial collapse centered on AIG

Good, simple analysis of a big undercommercialized market

A wistful blog post about the River Bièvre, a small river that Paris buried

Funny video ad

Fold a frog out of a Paris metro ticket. It jumps!

Awesome photos of a Russian group live action role-playing Fallout

Nice Feynman clip

Great description of the twisted thinking required to write sploits

Sequential IDs are a bad idea. Also, social security numbers are not secrets.

It's so nice to have a guy I could actually *like* as president. Photo 17 of him kicked back on some steps in Paris is awesome

4th century Bible has been digitized and made available online

Quite an endorsement

iPhone app for making a journal of a trip

Tells you how much electricity you could generate based on your roof size (satellite map!) and average sunlight data

The API in the phone for accessing location data

Great design

Crazy photograph

I've always loved Arabic calligraphy; too bad there's no kufic here

If your regular doctor show were made of homeopaths

Trojan steals bank logins, sends money to dupes who then wire it to the crooks in Ukraine

Love the image: sad puzzle piece

Twitter inside World of Warcraft. A bit awkward; requires a 10 second UI reload to send or receive tweets. Neat hack though.

I had this beer on tap at lunch yesterday, it was great. Not usually one for flavoured beers, but this worked.

Pronouncing names right is a simple way of showing respect

Old infosystem finally shut down

Nigerian Gazprom. what?

Salient plot points examined and explained

Shows you all the URLs you're downloading by sniffing packets

Another famous Nelson. I keep getting Twitter messages for various Nelsons who aren't me

Suggestion that Windows Search is now setting browsers to search on Bing

Eve Online's player run bank had an embezzlement scandal, but seems to have survived it

Sell access to politicians and editors!

A bunch of all ages clubs in SF are getting hassled by the Alcoholic Beverage Control people

The 80s are strong in this video

Ludicrous bit of coding to work around a stupid patent

Crazy theory of a 65 million year cycle in Earth's biodiversity, based on our solar system's position relative to a nearby galaxy

Unusual floor plans

iPhone knockoffs made in China include a custom OS

Disposable address service; all ajaxy, very nice