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iPad supports printing!
Just need some third party hardware from HP
2010-04-30 apple • funny • ipad • printing
Poocharé
It's dog food. It's all meat. It's now.
2010-04-30 advertising • dogfood • funny
WHEEEEEE!!!!!!
Nice street art; I like the cap bill
2010-04-30 cars • funny • signs • steretart
Jobs on Flash
this is a pretty amazing and direct communication
2010-04-29 adobe • apple • flash • iphone • mobile
Hustler Club Honeys
Amazing list of stripper names. Does "Savanna" ever get in a fight with "Savannah"?
2010-04-28 huster • names • sanfrancisco • sex • stripclub • strippers
Bay Area 50s airports
Old sectional shows San Mateo, Belmont airports
2010-04-28 aviation • bayarea • flying • sanfrancisco
Google's IPO
Eric Schmidt wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the Google IPO process
2010-04-28 ericschmidt • google • ipo
StuckMic
A forum for air traffic controllers. Pilots hang out too.
2010-04-28 atc • aviation • community • flying • forum
Journey into Manhood
Sad, crazy story about a weekend "cure yourself of the gay" retreat
2010-04-27 abuse • gay • homosexuality • masculinity • religion • sex • via:metafilter
Apple //t
Great hack project, displaying Twitter messages on an old Apple //e
2010-04-27 apple • hacks • retrocomputing • twitter • via:waxy
My new blog design
Respeck
2010-04-27 design • eyewash • geocities • via:metafilter
Google Earth in Maps
The Google Earth plugin is now an official part of Google Maps
2010-04-26 google • googleearth • mapping • maps
Stephen Hawking gossip
Insidery commentary on Hawking's role in the physics community
2010-04-26 hawking • physics • scandal • stephenhawking
Steve Jobs' new liver
Details on the organ transplant and his efforts to improve organ transplant chances in California
2010-04-26 apple • liver • medicine • organ • politics • stevejobs • transplant
Drugs at Reed
My college's annual spring party is getting focussed for drug enforcement effort. This article is a pretty good summary of the issues and school.
2010-04-26 bearwilner • college • drugs • police • reed
Dwight David Honeycutt
for Conway School Board
2010-04-24 election • funny • parody • politics
Internet Accountability
Software for porn addicts: sends your browser history to someone else for review
2010-04-24 addiction • christian • internet • privacy
Private key
people post their SSH private keys to a public site
2010-04-24 badtech • pastebin • privacy • security • ssh • stupid
Smells like Dwarf Fortress
Great illustrated story from the insanely complex simulator game
2010-04-24 dwarffortress • games • roguelike • simulation
Google's fair use tool
Youtube uploaders now have an option to mark a disputed video as fair use
2010-04-23 copyright • fairuse • google • youtube
Facebook privacy
New Facebook data sharing feature defaults on, here's how to turn it off.
2010-04-23 badtech • ethics • facebook • privacy
To My Old Master
Wonderful letter from a freed slave responding to his former owner's offer of employment
2010-04-22 america • civilwar • race • rhetoric • sarcasm • slavery • via:metafilter
Low pass at Dublin
GA pilots having fun while the big boys are shut out of European airports
2010-04-21 ashcloud • aviation • dublin • flying • ga • shannon
McAfee breaks Windows
Bad virus update recognizes a critical part of the OS as a virus
2010-04-21 antivirus • badtech • mcaffee • virus • windows
Tuning temperament
Readable article on different tuning systems
2010-04-21 classical • music • musictheory • tuning • via:metafilter
Tog on iPhone, iPad
Old Apple designer comments on Steve Jobs' style and the iPhone/iPad. Particularly telling comment: "It results in most of us not wanting to work for Steve Jobs more than once, but it also results in products that most of us want to buy, and buy, and buy."
2010-04-21 apple • design • flash • ipad • iphone • jobs • stevejobs
HTML game toolkit
Akihabara, Javascript libraries for sprites, animations, pathing, etc
2010-04-20 canvas • code • games • html • html5 • javascript • library
Google auth attacked
The Chinese attack seemed to have specifically targeted Google's single sign-on system
2010-04-20 badtech • china • espionage • gaia • hacking • passwords • security
Aircraft radio frequencies
Handy list of standard VHF frequencies for aviation
2010-04-20 aviation • flying • radio • vhf
So you need a typeface
Handy flowchart of typographic standards
2010-04-19 design • fonts • typography • via:metafilter
iPad printing: solved
Lul
2010-04-19 apple • funny • ipad
Innovative marketing Ukraine
profile of a malware company. $180 million / year
2010-04-18 badtech • crime • internet • malware • ukraine
Dwarf Fortress computer
Implementation of a simple register computer inside the bizzaro-complex game Dwarf Fortress
2010-04-16 dwarffortress • games • roguelike • turing • via:metafilter
Air 2 air linkage
Guy climbs out of one glider, grabs on to another
2010-04-15 aviation • batshitinsane • gliders • parachuting • redbull • stuntflying
Twitter Chirp live
Live video feed from Twitter's developer conference
2010-04-14 chirp • developers • programming • twitter
Eve 14x multibox
Gamer nerd runs 14 clients simultaneously, uses mechanical linkages on mice and keyboards to not violate a "no macro" rule
2010-04-14 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • hackers
GPS satellite failure
One of the WAAS satellites failed, which may screw up precision navigation for the whole year
2010-04-14 aviation • gps • navigation
Earth's magnetic field 1590 - 1990
great animated image
2010-04-14 compass • earth • geology • magnetic • navigation
TellApart
Former Google friends' startup: data mining to improve your marketing
2010-04-13 advertising • datamining • entrepreneurs • google • marketing • startup
apache.org hacked
Passwords stolen
2010-04-13 apache • badtech • hack • passwords • security
Sinead on priest child rape
Very thoughtful editorial
2010-04-13 abuse • catholic • ireland • pope • priest • rape • scandal
Star Wars "The Escape"
Fans remake clips of Star Wars, edited together into a suprisingly compelling film
2010-04-13 fandom • movies • starwars
North Korea: 3rd party map
Google Earth data highlight roads, railways, and 1000+ important sites
2010-04-12 googleearth • korea • maps • northkorea
North Korea: Google maps
completely blank spot
2010-04-12 batshitinsane • google • maps • northkorea
Capsule apartment
A new style of home in Beijing
2010-04-12 beijing • capsule • china • tiny • urban
Cuil's Cpedia
A sort of machine generated encyclopedia. Also, a complete trainwreck.
2010-04-11 absurd • ai • badtech • cuil • encyclopedia • search • trainwreck • via:metafilter • wikipedia
Craig Morton's airports
Nice map of all the public airports in California, and where he has and has not landed
2010-04-10 airports • aviation • california • flying • maps
"Infographic"
Deserves a close read
2010-04-10 funny • infographics • via:waxy • visualization
Denny's wine list
Red, white, or pink?
2010-04-10 dennys • funny • via:mathowie • wine
WAC-TAC
Remarkably simple online store for ordering aviation charts
2010-04-10 aviation • charts • commerce • flying • naco • pilot • sectionals
Early computing aesthetics
Image captures from computer generated art 1950-1980
2010-04-10 art • design • generative • via:metafilter
Pixels
Clever animated short film with an 8bit retro aesthetic
2010-04-09 8bit • film • pixels • raster • via:iamcal • via:waxy
iPad wallpaper
It's gonna look like this anyway
2010-04-09 apple • dirt • disgusting • fingers • grease • ipad • iphone • wallpaper
Gruber on the iPad
Thoughtful design review
2010-04-08 apple • computers • hardware • hci • ipad • iphone
iPad for a 2 year old
iPhone-savvy kid plays with an iPad. Amazing how natural the swipe and rotation gestures are
2010-04-06 apple • hci • ipad • iphone • kids • userinterface
iPad jailbreak
took less than a day
2010-04-04 apple • freedomtotinker • ipad • iphone • jailbreak
Future girlfriend guy
1998 meme guy comes back as an adult, talks about what it was like
2010-04-03 futuregirlfriend • gay • meme • via:waxy
TF2: Law Abiding Engineer
Great bit of machinima
2010-04-03 games • machinima • movies • steam • teamfortress2 • valve
iPhone HTML5 apps
build an offline iPhone app entirely in Javascript and HTML
2010-04-02 code • iphone • safari
Timeboxing
Simple timeouts for local computation
2010-04-01 code • threads