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November 10, 2006
— the inevitable followup to this Ask Metafilter question from a friend of one of the guys #
November 9, 2006
— corporate America takes on U2’s “One”; painful to watch in its sincerity #
— they hit 16,777,216 comments, the upper limit for a mediumint in MySQL #
— sounds painfully awkward via Boing Boing #
— good look at what gets stories to the Digg homepage, but doesn’t cover everything #
November 8, 2006
— they’re getting so good at fake news, it’s turning into reality #
— this sounds like the domain trademark wars all over again; update: they gave it back #
— I’d love to see the videos of bands attempting to play their own songs in the game #
— lovely design, launched at Web 2.0 along with 12 others #
— don’t miss the linked footnote on how she got out of debt via Leonard Lin #
— “Vote for Miss Viola Swamp, Board of Education” #
November 7, 2006
— maybe I’m just giddy from the election results, but I can’t stop laughing at this #
— it’s still baffling why he’s selling it if it takes so little effort via Tom Coates #
November 6, 2006
— excellent (and long) followup of the Michael Crook and the EFF lawsuit against him #
— collect them all! via Andre Torrez #
November 5, 2006
— HBO looks at voting machine irregularities #
— making Bob Ross look like a slacker via Fimoculous #
— “I drove that bus better than most Lynx drivers could” via iwillteachyoutoberich.com #
November 4, 2006
— coming out of her musical retirement #
November 2, 2006
November 1, 2006
— more about the case from Jeff Diehl at 10 Zen Monkeys and the PDF of the complaint filing #
October 31, 2006
— the finished product is 38,240 blocks standing six feet tall; it cost over $900 wholesale! via Flickr #
— I didn’t see that one coming #
October 30, 2006
— fascinating read about collusion between Google and the major media companies #
— The Sims was partially inspired by his daughter’s dollhouse and his own house burning down #
— they’re releasing a comic book after every episode with additional backstory; clever! #
— 3D fabrication of freehand drawings in space via Slashdot #
— wonderful breakdown of the many ways to die in Nethack #
— excellent BBC documentary on Blade Runner, with an unreleased scene at the 40:00 mark via jwz #
October 29, 2006
— collection of phone phreak voicemail messages from 1990; glimpse into a quirky subculture #
— identity aggregation; still way too hard to use, but a step in the right direction via abstractdynamics.org #
— it took me a second to realize how this was a phishing attack #
— blaming a web programmer for inadequate airport security #
— 0 bids via Simon Carless #
October 27, 2006
— a mirror of the art site from 2001; background drama here via Slashdot #
— South Park, Colbert, and Daily Show clips removed en masse via Fimoculous #
— throw these in a geek gym with Doom treadmills via Matt Haughey #
October 26, 2006
— Strong Bad’s Trogdor and Dethklok hand-in-hand with Buckethead and Voivod #
— yay! drinks are on Ben and Mena #
— tons of great stuff here #
— beyond Google Earth, this CSV of lat-long coordinates for 55,00 Wikipedia articles has tons of potential; thanks, Tom #
— the new company will follow a similar philosophy to Robot Co-op and 37 Signals #
October 25, 2006
— incredible type built with trees, wire, and clouds; more here and here via justinspace.com #
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