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CF-18 crash photos
Amazing images
2010-07-24 aircraft • flying • photography • photos
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 animation • news • taiwan
Europe to US in a helicopter
A homebuilt, at that. Crazy.
2010-07-23 aviation • flying • helicopter • oshkosh
SpillMap
Aggregated reports of how the beaches are doing
2010-07-23 bp • environment • gulf • oilspill • twitter
Cow Clicker
Ian Bogost's satire of games like Farmville
2010-07-22 facebook • games • satire • zynga
Scalability of Linus
15+ years later and Linus still manages kernel patches incredibly well
2010-07-22 development • git • kernel • linux • patches
iWebKit
Toolbox for building iPhone friendly websites
2010-07-21 apple • html • iphone • javascript
WRT160N DNS flaw
A common consumer router gets DNS records mixed up
2010-07-21 badtech • bug • dns • internet • routers
Flipboard
Interesting social media powered magazine for the iPad
2010-07-21 apple • flipboard • ipad • lonelysandwich • magazine • publishing • socialmedia
Dwarf Fortress university
Someone on Reddit is teaching people to play the infamously impenetrable but fascinating game
2010-07-20 dwarffortress • games • roguelike
Inception theory
Spoilers. Goes beyond "it's all a dream, duh!" to make connections to the director
2010-07-19 inception • movies • nolan
Audrey Tang
Taiwanese transgender uberhacker
2010-07-19 gender • hacker • hacking • haskell • perl • transgendered
Perl 6 history
Notes from the first 10 years
2010-07-19 languages • perl • perl6 • 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 • rdr • reddead • reddeadredemption • rockstar • timelapse
Online dating lies
Another amazing data analysis post from OkCupid
2010-07-16 culture • dating • sex • statistics
Ferris Club
Lovely movie mashup
2010-07-15 ferrisbuehler • fightclub • mashup • movies • via:kottke
Image scaling bug
Apparently all image processing software scales images as if they had a gamma of 1.0. oops.
2010-07-15 badtech • brightness • bug • gamma • images • photoshop • processing
Panopticlick
Your browser is uniquely identifiable
2010-07-14 brower • cookies • eff • javascript • privacy
Alejandro parody
Sort of funny
2010-07-14 alejandro • gay • ladygaga • music • sherryvine • trannies
Aerial photography tips
Great list of suggestions for amateur photography from an airplane
2010-07-14 aviation • photography • photos • planes • wikipedia
Uneven Google
New design
2010-07-13 funny • google • parody • via:reddit
Pixel blob game
Abstract RTS, kind of cute
2010-07-13 flash • games • rts
World Cup photos
Really great set of images
2010-07-13 football • photography • photos • soccer • sports • worldcup
ROM translation scene
Profiles of fan hackers who translated Japanese console games to English
2010-07-11 games • japan • scene • snes • translation • via:metafilter
Flight 19
A failure of dead reckoning
2010-07-11 accident • aviation • deadreckoning • flying • lost • navigation
Gay bathhouse
A remarkably well written Wikipedia article
2010-07-10 bathhouse • gay • history • sex • wikipedia
Shoot First
Fun little action roguelike game. Retro.
2010-07-10 8bit • games • retro • roguelike
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 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • mmos • plex • pvp
Internet Dragons
An interesting, funny take on the privacy shitstorm stirred up in World of Warcraft right now
2010-07-09 blizzard • games • identity • mmos • privacy • warcraft
Bourne v. Bond deconstructed
Very astute comment about how action heroes reflect their society
2010-07-07 culture • jamesbond • jasonbourne • movies
Free Realms comments
Sony's free kid-oriented MMO is doing well
2010-07-06 design • freerealms • games • kids • mmos
iFraud
Want to steal money from Apple users? There's an app for that.
2010-07-06 apple • badtech • fraud • iphone • itunes • theft
Overclocking SSL
Performance hints
2010-07-04 https • internet • network • protocol • security • ssl
oauth_sign
Some simple C / command line code for generating signed OAuth requests
2010-07-02 acme • code • oauth • security • twitter
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 finance • money • shutdown • startup • wesabe
La Central de Abasto
Mexico City's enormous wholesale food market
2010-07-02 food • markets • mexico • mexicocity • restaurants
WiFi GPS router
A GPS device that works via WiFi so your iPhone or iPad can talk to it
2010-07-02 apple • gps • iphone • ipod • router • wifi • wireless