Unicorn at Twitter

Better connection handling makes for faster response

2010-03-31 apache • mongrel • performance • ruby • twitter • unicorn

Teabonics

American's newest political movement has its own language

2010-03-31 kkk • klan • politics • republicans • teaparty

pwnat: NAT traversal

Cleverly uses ICMP and UDP behaviour in consumer NAT routers to bridge a connection without any mediation

2010-03-29 hack • internet • nat • networking • software • tcpip • via:zawodny

Every day the same dream

Poetic little indie game, takes some warming up

2010-03-29 art • bartleby • games • indie

Requiem For A Day Off

I love this genre of mashup

2010-03-29 ferrisbueller • film • movies • via:metafilter

Kid Pix

reminiscence on writing early very user friendly software

2010-03-28 hci • kidpix • mac • software • ui • userinterface

Run Jesus Run

10 second game. Mildly blasphemous, but also respectful within its medium.

2010-03-28 games • jesus • religion • via:waxy

Maxence Cyrin

Check out the black and white videos covering Daft Punk, Justice, etc.

2010-03-27 daftpunk • justice • music • via:metafilter • video

Facebook hates privacy

Yet more examples of the company mishandling your personal data

2010-03-27 badtech • facebook • privacy

Marine gay panic

"I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it."

2010-03-27 civilrights • equalrights • gay • gays • marines • military • politics

Landing on a road

Terrifying collection of videos

2010-03-27 airplanes • emergency • landing

Look At This Fucking Teabagger

Collection of protest photos, many frightening

2010-03-26 obama • photography • politics • president • protest • teaklan • teaparty

Chinese Minitru

Chinese government's instructions to Chinese news sites on how to report Google.

2010-03-26 censorship • china • google • journalism • news

Love MMO

Arty, indie cooperative online game. Looks sorta interesting

2010-03-25 games • indiegames • love • mmorpgs • mmos

Girl toy or boy toy?

Crazy gender identification from McDonalds

2010-03-24 gender • happymeal • kids • mcdonalds • toys

Johannesburg taxi hand signs

Complex system of gestures to tell the jitny where you want to go

2010-03-24 joburg • johannesburg • language • southafrica • taxi

Downloadify

Simple Flash shim to allow creating files in client-side javascript

2010-03-24 code • flash • javascript • library

@font-face kits

shrinkwrap solutions for web font embedding

2010-03-23 eot • fontface • fonts • typography • web

HFCS is worse

Princeton study shows that high fructose corn syrup causes obesity faster than other sugars

2010-03-22 diet • health • metabolism • sugar • via:mathowie • weight

Google in the PRC

Simple dashboard of which services the Chinese government has blocked today

2010-03-22 censorship • china • dashboard • google • prc

Godfather Blu-Ray

Merlin's hysterical commentary on the new Blu-Ray release of Godfather films

2010-03-22 bluray • coppola • godfather • merlin • movies

Amazing Gay Randi

James Randi, famous conjurer and debunker of woo, comes out

2010-03-21 courage • gay • randi • science • skepticism • via:metafilter

H.264 vs. Theora

Careful comparison of formats. No doubt the results are controversial

2010-03-21 h.264 • html5 • ogg • patents • theora • video

$200m+ game budget?

EA claims they will only break even if 1 million people play Star Wars: The Old Republic

2010-03-20 games • mmos • starwars

Future of social gaming

Soren Johnson's musings on the impact Facebook has had on traditional game developers

2010-03-20 ethics • facebook • games • gdc • socialmedia • zynga

Finger vs. table saw

Inventor deliberately puts his finger into a spinning saw blade. No blood, promise.

2010-03-18 safety • saw • sawstop • tv

Roger Ebert on making out

Great personal reminescence

2010-03-18 1960s • blueballs • rogerebert • sex

Google network size

Interesting analyis: 5-10% of all Internet traffic, > 60% direct peering

2010-03-18 google • internet • network • peering

10 anti-gay gays

I feel bad for closeted men, but politicians have an obligation to protect people's rights: gay, straight, or conflicted

2010-03-17 gay • hypocrisy • politics

SpotRank

SkyHook has published data on the last five years of geolookups. Lots of data about where people are, particularly iPhone users

2010-03-17 database • geo • iphone • skyhook

Social gaming vs MMOs

Thoughtful piece on how games like Farmville and Mafia Wars threaten the current MMO industry

2010-03-17 farmville • games • mmos • zynga

Twitter Blog: @anywhere

More info on twitter's new deal

2010-03-15 anywhere • integration • socialmedia • twitter

Twitter @anywhere

New Twitter service announced at SXSW

2010-03-15 anywhere • integration • twitter

Database privacy

Microsoft Research on how to publish data while maintaining user anonymity

2010-03-15 data • databases • microsoft • privacy

Mass Effect 2: Jack

One of my favourite characters in the game. She's cheezy fanboy stuff, but there's more going on

2010-03-15 bioware • games • masseffect2

Shanghai Expo architecture

Photos of crazy buildings for a big trade fair

2010-03-15 architecture • china • expose • shanghai

Super Mario 8x8

Great student project

2010-03-15 arduino • games • nintendo • supermario • via:justin

Tim Bray to Google

Focussing on Android!

2010-03-15 android • google • iphone • timbray

Breakout

play for at least 3 minutes to see the full game

2010-03-14 breakout • flash • games • via:reddit

Sugarcubes / Birthday (Icelandic)

Original version is really sweet. The video is awesome, great early digital video effects

2010-03-13 birthday • bjork • iceland • music • sugarcubes • video

Fiscal Chart of the United States

Beautiful census chart from 1872

2010-03-13 budget • census • via:feltron • visualization

Feltron tumblr

Good collection of infovis stuff

2010-03-13 feltron • graphs • infovis

Javascript sprites

Who needs Flash?

2010-03-12 code • games • javascript • jquery • sprites

Dear Leader, On The Spot

Kim Jong-Il official photos of him giving wise advice at factories

2010-03-12 batshitinsane • kimjongil • northkorea • photography • photos

Flowfield Pathfinding

Beautifully organic formation movement

2010-03-12 algorithms • astar • flowfield • games • pathfinding

Paris 26 Gigapixels

Great megapanorama

2010-03-12 france • panorama • paris • photo • photography • via:metafilter

Sous-Vide steak

Low temperature poaching turns out delicious meat

2010-03-11 cooking • food • sousvideo • steak • via:kottke

HTML5 video and audio

Opera does a great job explaining how to serve HTML5 multimedia

2010-03-11 browser • html5 • javascript • opera • video • web

Chatroulette Map

The illusion of privacy disintegrates

2010-03-11 chatroulette • maps • privacy • via:waxy

Mute Tweets

Great idea: briefly mute a Twitter user for when they're getting spammy.

2010-03-11 filter • mute • twitter

Canadian water usage during hockey

Graph of toilet flushing during the Olympics final game

2010-03-10 canada • graph • hockey • toilet • water

Sugarcubes / Birthday

Great old song, from before Bjork was a brand

2010-03-10 1987 • bjork • music • sugarcubes • via:merlin

Battery charger backdoor

Some crappy USB device Energizer sells has been installing back doors on PCs for over two years

2010-03-10 arucer.dll • badtech • botnet • energizer • via:metafilter • virus

iPhone dev agreement

Abusive contract

2010-03-10 apple • eff • iphone • mac • software

Vodafone Malware

New cell phone infects your PC when you plug it in

2010-03-09 android • badtech • botnet • google • malware • vodafone

UbiSoft DRM fail

Buy the game legitimately? Can't play. Steal it? Plays fine.

2010-03-09 badtech • drm • games • ubisoft

Eve alliance map

Nice visualization of the politics of Eve Online

2010-03-08 eve • eveonline • games • mmog

Torrent movie download stats

District 9 is the #1 movie

2010-03-07 bittorrent • downloads • movies • piracy • torrent

Mass Effect 2 criticism

Very thoughtful analysis of Bioware's latest RPG

2010-03-07 bioware • games • masseffect • masseffect2 • rpgs

Poco Dolce

Uncommonly good chocolate

2010-03-06 chocolate • food • gift • sanfrancisco

Air Traffic Control tech

Nice overview of how ATC works

2010-03-06 ads-b • airplanes • atc • faa • flying • nexgen • radar

A380 nosegear cam

Fun aviation footage, unusual perspective

2010-03-05 a380 • airbus • airplane • aviation • video

They came from the USSR

Edward Hill's freaky singing multiplied. View full screen. See also http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2010/02/edward-anatolevich-hill.html

2010-03-04 culture • edwardhill • music • russia • ussr • эдуардхиль

Lat/Lon to Elevation

Web service for accessing a digital elevation model

2010-03-04 altitude • dem • elevation • geography • maps • ned

Gruber on Apple patent suit

Very thoughtful

2010-03-04 apple • google • htc • iphone • patents

Magnetos

The magic part of a plane engine that generates the spark to fire the piston

2010-03-04 airplanes • engines • flying • magneto

Logging PIC time

Flow chart of when you can log time as a PIC

2010-03-04 aviation • flying • logbook • pic • regulations

Top 25 code security bugs

Classification of bugs in code that lead to security problems

2010-03-03 code • programming • security

Apple vs HTC patents

Analysis of the named patents

2010-03-03 apple • google • htc • legal • patents

Tainted Love versions

All versions of the awesome song made famous by Soft Cell and Coil

2010-03-02 coil • music • softcell • songs • taintedlove

Happy doggies

Great slow-mo advertisement

2010-03-02 dogs • food • pets • slomo • slowmo • via:metafilter • video

Black people Twitter

Awkward article, but there's an interesting social/demographic phenomenon happening on Twitter

2010-03-02 africanamerican • demographics • race • twitter

Chrome auto-translations

New feature in Google's browser: automatically translate web page text in the frame

2010-03-02 browsers • chrome • google • language • translation

Angels vs VCs

Recognizing the new needs of startup funding

2010-03-02 angels • funding • startups • vcs • venturecapital

Series Seed financing

Standard form documents for seed capital

2010-03-02 investment • legal • vc • venture

Apple patent suits

This is gonna get ugly

2010-03-02 apple • htc • ip • legal • patents

Portal: Transmission Received

Valve added some amazing easter egg content to the game Portal: here's all the spoilers from the nerds who figured it out

2010-03-02 easteregg • games • halflife • portal • valve

Warcraft authenticator hacked

Physical login token is subjected to man-in-the-middle attack. Bad guys steal your account in the next 30 seconds

2010-03-01 badtech • blizzard • games • hacks • mmos • security • warcraft

Lessons from Doom

Interesting re-analysis of Doom in the context of contemporary FPS. Lots of things to learn.

2010-03-01 criticism • doom • games • idsoftware • robotron • via:waxy

Sony broke the PS3

A firmware update went badly wrong and Sony Playstations are now incapable of playing games, both online and offline.

2010-03-01 badtech • games • playstation • sony • updates

FlightAware stats KSFO to KJFK

Data about commercial air travel: median ticket price, percent of seats filled

2010-03-01 airlines • airplane • commerce • flight • travel