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Driving on left vs. right
May or may not be accurate, but it's interesting
2010-06-30 convention • driving • accident • via:metafilter • history • imperialism • cars
HTC EVO vs iPhone4
Flip side of the other video, also funny and pottymouthed
2010-06-29 funny • iphone • android • apple
iPhone4 vs HTC Evo
Pretty funny, NSFW for pottymouth
2010-06-29 via:Waxy • iphone • apple • android • funny • htc
Crackdown 2 tech
Detailed interview with the game developers
2010-06-29 games • xbox • crackdown
Bionic cat video
Pretty sweet
2010-06-28 cat • amputees • prosthetics
Bionic cat
2010-06-28 cat • prosthetics
Bob and Henry get married
Interview and wedding footage from the happy DC couple
2010-06-28 civilrights • via:metafilter • gay • love • marriage
A DC gay wedding
A remarkably romantic story
2010-06-28 gay • civilrights • marriage • wedding • love • via:metafilter
Psycho storyboards
Saul Bass drew storyboards for the famous shower scene
2010-06-28 psycho • movies • horror • hitchcock • saulbass
California Gurls
Eyepopping music video
2010-06-28 snoopdogg • music • video • katyperry • candyland
RC Helicopter filming
$5000 for a capable airborne video platform
2010-06-22 photography • video • canon • helicopter
Snoop Dogg "Oh Sookie"
True Blood, Doggystyle. Also freakin' hilarious.
2010-06-21 music • snoopdogg • trueblood • sookiestackhouse • funny
Mardi Gras Indian funeral
2005 funeral of Tootie Montana, at the center of a bit of New Orleans culture
2010-06-21 neworleans • mardigras • tootiemontana • indians • creole
Jason Kottke arrested
Not really, but that mug shot sure looks familiar
2010-06-21 kottke • murder • arrest • peru
eBook legal issues
Alex Macgillivray's analysis of a bunch of complicated legal problems
2010-06-21 amac • legal • books • ebooks • copyright • amazon • google • kindle
Disturbing Simpsons
Compelling story about vegetarianhood
2010-06-20 simpsons • via:reddit • vegetarian • meat • funny
New Super Mario level
Underwater level in the Gulf of Mexico
2010-06-19 oilspill • funny • mario • nes • snes • games
Wikileaks / Lamo
Salon looks into the story about Bradley Manning and says it doesn't make sense
2010-06-19 politics • wikileaks • poulsen • manning • lamo • government • journailsm
The original Empire Strikes Back
Lucas basically remade a 1950s movie. Well, not really, but it's a great edit.
2010-06-19 movies • starwars • mashup • premake
Barbès market
Less touristy, more everyday side of Paris
2010-06-19 markets • paris • france
Roger Ebert on The Muse
"The Muse visits while you are writing, not before."
2010-06-19 wisdom • rogerebert • creativity
Google wifi collection
Straightforward explanation of how Google could accidentally have recorded too much data
2010-06-19 wifi • google • skyhook • security • privacy • streetview
OnLive review
Cloud gaming service actually works?
2010-06-18 onlive • games • streaming • internet
keming
A term of art in typography
2010-06-18 via:ckline • typography • fonts • kerning • funny
Diving reflex
When you get cold water on your face, your heart rate slows and you get other oxygen conservation effects
2010-06-18 biology • swimming • diving • reflex • science
Vuvuzela
Lol image macro
2010-06-18 via:reddit • vuvuzela • music • noise
Julio the Sewer Diver
How do you repair a sewer pipe? With a diver!
2010-06-18 diving • sewers • cities • mexico • via:metafilter
Freedom Bridge
Short, poignant game. Can games be unfun?
2010-06-17 games • art • emotion • via:waxy
Eve Online's server
280 cores + 2.3TB RAM to build a cluster that supports 60,000+ people playing simultaneously
2010-06-16 games • servers • hardware • eveonline • ccp • mmog
Better than Rez 2
Q? / Mizuguchi making a game that looks very much like Rez 2
2010-06-16 games • rez • via:jwz
Pete Rose's corked bat
Crazy he'd sell a bat with evidence of cheating
2010-06-15 baseball • peterose • cheating • sports
Beach photos
Interesting collection
2010-06-15 photography • photos • beach • brucegilden • martinparr
@thevuvuzelahorn
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2010-06-15 twitter • worldcup • football • vuvuzela
Sell Metafilter?
Matt answers the question of whether Metafilter could be bought
2010-06-13 metafilter • community • business • mathowie • culture
iPhone Karma
Nice indictment of Jesus Diaz and his failure to report anything interesting with the misappropriated iPhone 4
2010-06-11 gizmodo • journalism • ethics • jesusdiaz • iphone • apple
Gay Mardi Gras balls
I've got no memory of where this came from, but it's a pretty great oral history
2010-06-11 gay • mardigras • neworleans • culture • 1980s
New Thomas Kinkaide
His work is taking a more complex theme. With robots.
2010-06-10 funny • parody • thomaskinkaide • art • kitsch
Veriplace
Geolocation services for mobile phones: they get the data from the cell network, not the end device, so it may be harder to spoof
2010-06-09 veriplace • phones • geolocation • location • security • authentication
Silly Bandz
A pre-teen fad
2010-06-09 via:metafilter • kids • culture • fad
Ekranoplan
Ground effect vehicle in flight
2010-06-08 ekranoplan • aviation • russian • soviet • flying
Protovis primer
Nice introduction to the Javascript visualization library
2010-06-07 protovis • graphics • javascript • code • tutorial
Bay Area shortest path
Visualization of times to get places by walking and BART
2010-06-07 transit • sanfrancisco • bayarea • visualization • map • barcode
Why I sold Zappos
Detailed piece by Hsieh about managing a company with a specific cultural goal
2010-06-07 zappos • amazon • business • vc • investment • culture
Proto Indo-European nouns
No idea if this list is really correct, but it's interesting
2010-06-07 etymology • language • linguistics • words
Supremacists love Tolkein
Hysterical exploration of the Stormfront forums on Lord of the Rings, etc.
2010-06-07 via:metafilter • racism • stormfront • tolkein • fantasy • wtf
Tourists v. Locals
Awesome spin on the Flickr geomap, categorizing photographers as locals vs. tourists
2010-06-07 infovis • photography • photos • maps
How to date a white bitch
Hysterical parody of the ridiculous HuffPo article
2010-06-06 satire • comedy • funny • india • stereotypes
Stall recovery
Another accelerated stall at a Red Bull Air Race, but with just enough room to recover
2010-06-06 stalls • recovery • aerobatics • redbull • flying • pilot • crazy
Free diving
Atlantic on a crazy sport
2010-06-05 diving • freediving • oxygen • ocean
gay chicken
"Straight" boys will do anything to let them kiss other boys
2010-06-05 gay • culture • words
Blur tech interview
Many details about the implementation of the beautiful arcade racer Blur. Multi-threaded rendering, aggressive dynamic level of detail, etc
2010-06-05 games • blur • technology • graphics • realtime • xbox • playstation
Underwater base jumping
Bizarre, probably an ad, but kind of beautiful
2010-06-05 scuba • diving • underwater • via:metafilter
Only 43% of the US hates fags!
OK, so it's good news, for once a majority of Americans polled say gay is OK
2010-06-05 gay • politics • civilrights • via:metafilter • poll
Another Adobe hole
Flash + Reader, both vulnerable
2010-06-05 adobe • flash • reader • security • badtech • zeroday
M.I.A. considered
Thoughtful response to the NYT profile
2010-06-04 mia • maya • music • srilanka • criticism
US constitution-free zone
2/3 of Americans live in a region where the 4th amendment doesn't really apply
2010-06-04 dhs • security • customs • border • rights • civilrights • legal • civilliberties
ATT: fast and awful
iPhone's captive network has an 87% "consistency" rate. Not sure exactly what that means, but it's clearly not 5 nines.
2010-06-04 networks • attfail • att • iphone • apple
Self-replicator in Conway's Life
The simple CA gets something that can reproduce itself
2010-06-04 life • cas • cellularautomata • conway • complexsystems
App Engine System Status
I love Google's approach to visibility of system health
2010-06-03 appengine • google • performance • dashboard • status
Chrome RLZ tracking
Some sort of tracking parameter built in to Google Chrome to keep up with whose distribution you got Chrome from
2010-06-02 tracking • advertising • google • chrome
Stealing news stories
Long-respected blog journalist Danny Sullivan documents how a bunch of news agencies stole his story about a lawsuit
2010-06-02 google • copyright • ap • dannysullivan • news • journalism • ethics
Apple vs. Flash
Today's sale on http://shirt.woot.com/
2010-06-01 apple • flash • funny • t-shirt • woot
Email address regex
Comparison of various tortuous email address recognizers
2010-06-01 via:zawodny • email • regex • regexp • programming • code • rfc822
Guatemala sinkhole
This could happen in any city
2010-06-01 guatemala • sinkhole • city • utilities
Dennis Hopper's photos
These are quite compelling
2010-06-01 photography • photos • art • dennishopper • via:metafilter