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CF-18 crash photos
Amazing images
2010-07-24 aircraft • flying • photos • photography
fathom.info
Ben Fry's new information design firm
2010-07-23 benfry • invofvis • maeda • processing • visualization
NMA News
Outlandish interpretive animations from some group in Taiwan. I assume it's intended as parody?
2010-07-23 taiwan • animation • news
Europe to US in a helicopter
A homebuilt, at that. Crazy.
2010-07-23 flying • aviation • oshkosh • helicopter
SpillMap
Aggregated reports of how the beaches are doing
2010-07-23 oilspill • bp • gulf • environment • twitter
Cow Clicker
Ian Bogost's satire of games like Farmville
2010-07-22 zynga • facebook • games • satire
Scalability of Linus
15+ years later and Linus still manages kernel patches incredibly well
2010-07-22 git • patches • linux • kernel • development
iWebKit
Toolbox for building iPhone friendly websites
2010-07-21 apple • iphone • html • javascript
WRT160N DNS flaw
A common consumer router gets DNS records mixed up
2010-07-21 dns • internet • routers • badtech • bug
Flipboard
Interesting social media powered magazine for the iPad
2010-07-21 apple • ipad • flipboard • magazine • publishing • socialmedia • lonelysandwich
Dwarf Fortress university
Someone on Reddit is teaching people to play the infamously impenetrable but fascinating game
2010-07-20 games • dwarffortress • roguelike
Inception theory
Spoilers. Goes beyond "it's all a dream, duh!" to make connections to the director
2010-07-19 movies • inception • nolan
Audrey Tang
Taiwanese transgender uberhacker
2010-07-19 gender • hacking • perl • haskell • hacker • transgendered
Perl 6 history
Notes from the first 10 years
2010-07-19 perl • perl6 • languages • vaporware
Red Dead time lapse
If you haven't seen the game, it's really beautiful. This video gives a good picture
2010-07-17 games • reddead • rdr • rockstar • reddeadredemption • timelapse
Online dating lies
Another amazing data analysis post from OkCupid
2010-07-16 dating • sex • culture • statistics
Ferris Club
Lovely movie mashup
2010-07-15 via:kottke • ferrisbuehler • fightclub • movies • mashup
Image scaling bug
Apparently all image processing software scales images as if they had a gamma of 1.0. oops.
2010-07-15 images • processing • photoshop • gamma • brightness • bug • badtech
Panopticlick
Your browser is uniquely identifiable
2010-07-14 eff • cookies • brower • javascript • privacy
Alejandro parody
Sort of funny
2010-07-14 ladygaga • music • alejandro • sherryvine • trannies • gay
Aerial photography tips
Great list of suggestions for amateur photography from an airplane
2010-07-14 wikipedia • photography • photos • planes • aviation
Uneven Google
New design
2010-07-13 funny • google • parody • via:reddit
Pixel blob game
Abstract RTS, kind of cute
2010-07-13 games • rts • flash
World Cup photos
Really great set of images
2010-07-13 photography • photos • sports • worldcup • soccer • football
ROM translation scene
Profiles of fan hackers who translated Japanese console games to English
2010-07-11 games • translation • japan • snes • scene • via:metafilter
Flight 19
A failure of dead reckoning
2010-07-11 flying • aviation • accident • lost • deadreckoning • navigation
Gay bathhouse
A remarkably well written Wikipedia article
2010-07-10 gay • bathhouse • sex • wikipedia • history
Shoot First
Fun little action roguelike game. Retro.
2010-07-10 games • roguelike • retro • 8bit
PLEX to be stealable
Eve Online changes the rules of the game so that a pirate could conceivably steal a $15 game card from you
2010-07-09 games • mmos • eveonline • eve • pvp • ccp • plex
Internet Dragons
An interesting, funny take on the privacy shitstorm stirred up in World of Warcraft right now
2010-07-09 games • mmos • blizzard • warcraft • privacy • identity
Bourne v. Bond deconstructed
Very astute comment about how action heroes reflect their society
2010-07-07 jamesbond • jasonbourne • movies • culture
Free Realms comments
Sony's free kid-oriented MMO is doing well
2010-07-06 games • mmos • kids • design • freerealms
iFraud
Want to steal money from Apple users? There's an app for that.
2010-07-06 iphone • itunes • apple • badtech • fraud • theft
Overclocking SSL
Performance hints
2010-07-04 https • ssl • security • network • protocol • internet
oauth_sign
Some simple C / command line code for generating signed OAuth requests
2010-07-02 oauth • twitter • code • acme • security
Wesabe accounts shutdown
My friends are shutting down much of their company. Very sad, but I really admire the classy way they're winding it down.
2010-07-02 wesabe • money • finance • startup • shutdown
La Central de Abasto
Mexico City's enormous wholesale food market
2010-07-02 markets • food • restaurants • mexico • mexicocity
WiFi GPS router
A GPS device that works via WiFi so your iPhone or iPad can talk to it
2010-07-02 wireless • gps • wifi • router • iphone • ipod • apple