iPhone 1.1.1 changes

A detailed full list. Safari debug mode!

2007-09-30 iphone • apple • upgrade • notes • releasenotes

NTP abuse

Roundup of some NTP server problems over time

2007-09-30 ntp • abuse • badtech • firmware • computers • internet • time

Map of my Paris restaurants

Alex plays around and makes a cool map!

2007-09-30 map • food • paris • restaurant • amac • creativecommons

BioShock critique

Thoughtful essay on the storytelling in bioshock

2007-09-30 games • narrative • bioshock • critique • criticism

jwz - PSA: backups

<3 JWZ

2007-09-29 backups • sysadmin • jwz • harddrive • rsync

Tornado potatoes

Awesome looking junk food

2007-09-28 korea • food • southkorea • junkfood • potatoes

Blank Halo 3 maps

The new Forge feature lets you place objects; here's some blank maps to start. Bungie has a cool download queuing feature, too.

2007-09-28 halo • halo3 • games • forge • online • map • tool

n64 controller bong

Proving you can smoke pot out of anything

2007-09-28 bong • marijuana • games • nintendo • n64

Being on the Daily Show

Painfully funny and insecurely honest bit by Lauren Weedman

2007-09-27 comedy • women • insecurity • dailyshow • tv • sausagemaking

Freistaat Flaschenhals

A bit of weirdness from World War I

2007-09-26 germany • war • politics • maps

Beijing Olympics logo

I can't decide if this is funny, or offensive, or both

2007-09-26 china • politics • satire • olympics • logo

Harvard Master Chief

nice Halo / MIT hack

2007-09-25 mit • hack • halo • games • harvard

Xbox Media Center

Nice tour of what this app can do. Too bad it's all unauthorized.

2007-09-24 xbox • xbmc • hack • mediacenter • hometheater

proof of purchase

Poetic little online diary

2007-09-24 via:metafilter • diary • blog • culture • receipt

Mozy: $76m

Acquisition rumour, good for them!

2007-09-24 backup • startups • storage • acquisition • valuation • emc • mozy

AudioGames

Directory of sound oriented games

2007-09-22 accessibility • audio • games • sound • blind

Warcraft class popularity

Interesting graph; this is for Alliance, Horde is different

2007-09-22 warcraft • statistics • data • class • graph • games

Halo 3 leaked

Requires a modded XBox; I see a couple thousand downloaders on mininova

2007-09-21 pirate • games • xbox • theft • halo • bittorrent

Mandom

Charles Bronson is more man than you, at least in this Japanese cologne commercial

2007-09-21 japan • advertisement • charlesbronson • via:metafilter

Monkey drummer

Aphex Twin's sliced up beats are playable, by a robot monkey at least

2007-09-20 via:jwz • aphextwin • chriscunningham • drummer • music • drums • sequencer

Warcraft game balancing

Nice visualization of tweaks Blizzard has made over time

2007-09-19 via:wowinsider • warcraft • wow • mmog • blizzard • balance • gamedesign

LOLthulhu

Anil, what have you wrought?

2007-09-19 via:boingboing • cthulhu • lovecraft • lolcats • memes • humor

LT security break

They blog their "confidential" disclosure

2007-09-19 layeredtech • security • breach • server • hosting

Hadoop interview

Doug Cutting is one of the smartest programmers I know

2007-09-19 cutting • hadoop • lucene • mapreduce • distributed • cluster • via:zawodny • opensource • code • yahoo • scalability • grid

Go see Cal

And his dog Spot

2007-09-19 via:metafilter • advertising • cars • ads • calhenderson • tiger • tv

double backflip coffin

New skating game has an awesome video upload feature

2007-09-18 games • skating • ea • skate • trick • skateboard • video • editing

Menu cliches

Funny bit from Tony Bourdain

2007-09-18 menu • cooking • via:kottke • food • bourdain • restaurant • satire

Zork map

Lovely hand drawn map

2007-09-18 via:digg • games • zork • history • infocom • adventure • map

Bay Bridge replacement

Awesome time lapse video of 72 hours of work

2007-09-18 movie • timelapse • bridge • engineering • construction • via:boingboing • sanfrancisco • baybridge

MySQL replication practice

Great blog entry about reliable snapshots, repliation delay, etc

2007-09-18 mysql • database • replication • backup • snapshot • sql • binlog

Bullying Post-Its

amusing image

2007-09-17 funny • postit • bully • art • comic

Design portfolio

Crazy UI for some modern digital design

2007-09-17 via:mariuswatz • design • animation • flash

Queen wins school lottery

two bars of soap and bath oil

2007-09-17 queen • england • lottery • funny • soap

Comcast: 100G/month

Someone from Comcast finally explains "excessive use"

2007-09-17 comcast • download • bittorrent • bandwidth • limit • internet

Blackwater ousted from Iraq

Major private mercenary company banned?

2007-09-17 iraq • war • blackwater • mercenary • politics

fine iTunes rant

Great example of some of the disaster that is iTunes

2007-09-16 itunes • rant • badtech • via:digg • apple • drm • ipod • iphone

SCO bankrupt

Just rewards for a company taken over by stupid lawyers

2007-09-15 legal • linux • sco • revenge • opensource

Warcraft nude mod

What's particularly freaky is what's missing: pubic hair and men.

2007-09-14 nude • warcraft • wow • silly • games • nsfw

Metroid Prime rant

Mike doesn't like his new game

2007-09-14 wii • metroid • samus • rant • games • game • nintendo

Ringtones are a scam

Cogently written essay on why Apple's profit-mongering is wrong

2007-09-14 apple • iphone • itunes • ringtones • copyright

Ten broken fingers

Wince-inducing photo

2007-09-12 cricket • sports • health • fingers • photo • ouch

Hacker Canon firmware

Hack your mid-range Canon camera to do RAW output, other things

2007-09-12 hack • camera • canon • raw • photography

Rez on Xbox 360

Very creative video game, now on new hardware

2007-09-12 game • rez • xbox360 • xbox • games • music

ZeroShell

A Linux distribution custom designed for routers

2007-09-11 linux • livecd • firewall • network • embedded • router

Kismet

Wireless layer 2 sniffer

2007-09-11 wifi • wpa • wep • 802.11 • ethereal • sniffer

Chris Crocker

freaky Youtube celebrity

2007-09-11 chriscrocker • youtube • gay • culture

Wanted: gullible lawyers

Amazing story of a scam; nice punchline at the end, too

2007-09-10 via:metafilter • scam • job • lawyer • craigslist

John Maeda design process

Great little slide show on how John makes the cover for Key magazine

2007-09-10 via:kottke • johnmaeda • maeda • design • process

Seven holes

Amusing little blog post about holes

2007-09-10 holes • via:digg

iPhone / Etymotics

High end in-ear headphones for your iPhone, third party mod

2007-09-08 etymotic • headphones • iphone • apple • sound • hardware

Street Fighter: the Later Years

Remarkably funny little action spoof

2007-09-08 games • streetfighter • video • spoof

Oblivion: 10,000 melons

Fun with in game physics

2007-09-08 havoc • oblivion • physics • machinima • hack • funny • games

Twitter journalism

"the right kind of stupid."

2007-09-07 twitter • journalism • news • web • technology

Lurid Digs (NSFW!)

Gay porn recontextualized as interior design critique

2007-09-07 gay • porn • pornography • nsfw • funny • design • critique • camp

Republican sex scandals

A handy little list

2007-09-06 politics • hypocrites • rape • rapist • sex • scandal • republican

Ghostzilla

A way to hide a web browser so your boss doesn't easily see it on your screen

2007-09-06 firefox • software • browser • web • goofingoff

Crack my knuckles

Freaky little web toy

2007-09-06 via:aboutblank • hand • knuckle • crack • body • video • creepy

Google Reader search!

Huzzah! Glad they got this built; personal search engines are tricky

2007-09-06 search • google • via:digg • rss • reader • newsfeed

Losing $114M

misfortune of a lottery winner

2007-09-05 via:zawodny • sad • fortune • lottery • misfortune • money

Myanmar's new capital

Insanity of an authoritarian regime

2007-09-04 via:boingboing • urbanplanning • design • city • naypyidaw • authoritarian • batshitinsane • tickytacky • burma • myanmar

Microsoft OOXML fails

Bullet narrowly dodged

2007-09-04 microsoft • standards • ods • openoffice • via:digg • politics

Eve mineral economics

I used to make virtual money trading off some of these economic complications

2007-09-03 mmog • mmorpg • eveonline • ccp • eve • games • trade • economy

Google Phone rumours

Columnist claims to have talked to people who've seen it

2007-09-03 google • phone • cell • technology • rumour

TwonkyMedia xbox360

Portable server that can stream media to whatever bizarre protocol the Xbox 360 needs

2007-09-03 sharing • media • xbox360 • games • music • movies

Blade Runner hospital scene

Something that's never turned up in an edit, no doubt for the comic overacting

2007-09-03 hospital • bladerunner • scene • editor • movie • film • pkdick • ridleyscott

Space Giraffe response

This game definitely provokes

2007-09-02 spacegiraffe • game • games • xbox • xbox360 • minter • crazy

Free SF Wifi mesh net

Small local ISP is stepping into the gap left by the city government vs. Earthlink

2007-09-01 free • wifi • network • internet • sonicnet • google