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GPS track heatmap
Carry a GPS tracker with you, draw where you've been
2010-05-29 gps • heatmap • visualization • geography • maps
Thoughts on a bris
Interesting perspective from an old college friend on what Jewish ritual circumcision means
2010-05-29 jewish • jews • judaism • circumcision • bris • children • culture
Sweet WW2 love letter
Heartbreaking and beautiful
2010-05-28 via:metafilter • military • dadt • gay • humanrights • love
Protovis 3.2
The awesome Javascript visualization toolkit just got a big update
2010-05-28 protovis • visualization • javascript • graphics
Google's trading floor
Building an in-house money management platform for their cash reserves
2010-05-28 stocks • google • investment • banking
M.I.A. profile
By turns infuriating and charming
2010-05-27 music • mia • m.i.a. • via:metafilter
MMO thief botnet
Symantec investigates a botnet with 44 million gaming accounts. The crooks use a botnet to verify the account credentials!
2010-05-27 games • botnets • badtech • mmos
iPad GPS accuracy
In-flight test of an aviation app, the GPS isn't that great
2010-05-27 aviation • flying • foreflight • gps • ipad • iphone
Klikwerk
Clever little simon says / rhythm game
2010-05-27 games • rhythm
Social media Trojan horse
Random trojan spreading via Tweets
2010-05-26 twitter • badtech • malware • socialmedia
Tour of Visualizations
Nice summary of various chart types
2010-05-26 charting • data • visualization • infovis • computerscience • protovis
Pink Hitler
advertising campaign in Sicily
2010-05-26 italy • sicily • hitler • nazi • fashion • via:metafilter
AdSense revenue split
Google keeps about half the search ads and 1/3 the content ads. Why would they disclose this?
2010-05-25 adsense • revenue • cpc • google
Understanding node.js
Good explanation of the interesting server-side javascript thing
2010-05-22 node • v8 • node.js • javascript • server • code
Google Pac-Man kill screen
The Google doodle even emulates the infamous level 256 bug
2010-05-21 games • pacman • via:metafilter • google • killscreen
Diablo II Patch 1.13c
Blizzard keeps updating their 10 year old game
2010-05-21 games • diablo • blizzard
Trust condom ad
Pretty funny
2010-05-20 condoms • advertising • ads • safesex
SVG–oids
Asteroids done in SVG/Javascript as a Microsoft IE demo
2010-05-20 msie • ie • games • asteroids • svg • demo • javascript
Ultima Online interview
Nice reminescence with Lord British about the most important MMO ever
2010-05-18 games • mmos • ultimaonline
Warabi Mochi
sweet story about a snack treat in Japan
2010-05-18 japan • food • mochi
Men in Grey
Oblique but interesting video about digital privacy and wireless
2010-05-17 privacy • security • wireless • art
Banksy v. Robbo
Funny bit of graffiti war
2010-05-17 streetart • graffiti • banksy • robbo • via:metafilter
Operational transformation
Analysis of how Google Wave does simultaneous edits; documents are really a collection of mutation operations
2010-05-17 theory • wave • google • synchronization • concurrency
Youku Buzz
Highlights of China's equivalent of Youtube
2010-05-16 video • china • youtube • youku • culture
T-Engine 4
A game engine for roguelike games. Make your own by programming in Lua
2010-05-16 games • lua • roguelike • hack • tome
Malware Removal Guide
Reasonable step by step guide for scrubbing a Windows box
2010-05-16 malware • badtech • virus • antivirus • windows
Eve DB item loss
Interesting database logic bug in the online game
2010-05-14 games • bugs • eveonline • ccp • eve • mmos
Mario camera logic
Remarkably complex
2010-05-14 mario • games • snes • camera • via:waxy
Gomer Pyle love song
Sweet fan edit
2010-05-14 gay • via:metafilter • jimnabors • gomerpyle • tv
Programming language history
This is funny
2010-05-11 programming • code • software • computerscience
Pokewalker cheating
New Pokemon game has a pedometer with game rewards for walking. Or if you have a clever dad and a lot of Legos, rewards for cheating.
2010-05-10 games • cheating • pedometer • pokemon • nintendo • legos
Amateur aviation photos
Simple guide to taking decent photos in a cockpit
2010-05-10 flying • aviation • photos • photography
Facebook privacy evolution
Great visualization; click the right timeline
2010-05-07 visualization • facebook • privacy • badtech
iPhone app spam
Popular game has a bunch of spammy apps showing up on the Apple App Store
2010-05-07 games • iphone • apple • walledgarden • spam
Being phished
Cory Doctorow got scammed; you can too
2010-05-06 phishing • security • passwords
Arabic TLDs
International domain names go live in a big way
2010-05-06 idn • internationalization • arabic • internet • dns
ATT: 3x dropped calls
Why does Apple stay with the worst cell phone provider?
2010-05-05 apple • att • iphone • attfail
Chrome speed tests
The actual 2 minute video. Making of is more fun.
2010-05-05 google • chrome • speed • benchmark
Rekers' rentboy
Here's the young man the anti-gay activist hired to "carry his luggage" for a week on a trip to Europe
2010-05-05 sex • gay • politics • via:metafilter • lucien
Delete Facebook account
Turns out there is an option for completely deleting a facebook account
2010-05-04 facebook • privacy • delete • memoryhole
Anti-gay activist with rent boy
George Rekers, one of the leaders behind the hateful Family Research Council, is photographed returning from Europe with a rent boy
2010-05-04 gay • politics • humanrights • georgerekers • hypocrisy • prostitution • sex
Mos Dub
Mos Def + Dub
2010-05-04 music • mashup • via:metafilter • mosdef • dub • reggae • rap • hiphop
xkcd color survey
Funny and useful all at once
2010-05-04 xkcd • color • colour • statistics • names
New Chrome benchmark
Insane video of Google doing highspeed videography to demonstrate how fast Chrome is
2010-05-04 browsers • internet • chrome • google • phantom • slowmo • explosions • mythbusters
Clean Google URLs
Nice tip for Chrome users; get all the garbage out of the URL bar for searches
2010-05-04 google • chrome • urls
Product photos
Customer images for a motion activated sprinkler. Lots o' lulz
2010-05-04 lulz • funny • humor • amazon • photoshop
Tim O'Reilly profile
Good article, but it misses two key things about Tim. He's very, very smart. And he's very generous with his intelligence.
2010-05-04 oreilly • business • internet • timoreilly • siliconvalley
FlockDB
Twitter open sources a key social network database technology
2010-05-03 twitter • database • mysql • scalability • performance
SRTM DEM
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission: a freely downloadable digital elevation model, 100' resolution
2010-05-03 gis • geography • maps • altitude • elevation • dem • shuttle • srs
Civilization 5 features
Roundup of all we know about the upcoming game
2010-05-03 civilization • games • simulation • strategy • firaxis • sidmeier
IXTOC I
Massive oil spill in 1979 in the Gulf of Mexico
2010-05-02 oil • environment • disaster • gulfofmexico • text
RIP news.duke.edu
Death of Usenet is a real thing these days
2010-05-02 via:Waxy • usenet • nntp • duke • internet
Space Oddity
Very early video version, charming
2010-05-02 bowie • music • spaceoddity
1350 tower demo
LORAN tower in Alaska destroyed, neat video
2010-05-01 tower • loran • alaska • demolition
Twitter demographics
Interesting study
2010-05-01 twitter • statistics • users • population
Real time farms
Website for live reports on what's fresh at your local farmers market.
2010-05-01 food • groceries • farms • markets