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Driving on left vs. right
May or may not be accurate, but it's interesting
2010-06-30
accident • cars • convention • driving • history • imperialism • via:metafilter
HTC EVO vs iPhone4
Flip side of the other video, also funny and pottymouthed
2010-06-29
android • apple • funny • iphone
iPhone4 vs HTC Evo
Pretty funny, NSFW for pottymouth
2010-06-29
android • apple • funny • htc • iphone • via:waxy
Crackdown 2 tech
Detailed interview with the game developers
2010-06-29
crackdown • games • xbox
Bionic cat video
Pretty sweet
2010-06-28
amputees • cat • prosthetics
Bionic cat
2010-06-28
cat • prosthetics
Bob and Henry get married
Interview and wedding footage from the happy DC couple
2010-06-28
civilrights • gay • love • marriage • via:metafilter
A DC gay wedding
A remarkably romantic story
2010-06-28
civilrights • gay • love • marriage • via:metafilter • wedding
Psycho storyboards
Saul Bass drew storyboards for the famous shower scene
2010-06-28
hitchcock • horror • movies • psycho • saulbass
California Gurls
Eyepopping music video
2010-06-28
candyland • katyperry • music • snoopdogg • video
RC Helicopter filming
$5000 for a capable airborne video platform
2010-06-22
canon • helicopter • photography • video
Snoop Dogg "Oh Sookie"
True Blood, Doggystyle. Also freakin' hilarious.
2010-06-21
funny • music • snoopdogg • sookiestackhouse • trueblood
Mardi Gras Indian funeral
2005 funeral of Tootie Montana, at the center of a bit of New Orleans culture
2010-06-21
creole • indians • mardigras • neworleans • tootiemontana
Jason Kottke arrested
Not really, but that mug shot sure looks familiar
2010-06-21
arrest • kottke • murder • peru
eBook legal issues
Alex Macgillivray's analysis of a bunch of complicated legal problems
2010-06-21
amac • amazon • books • copyright • ebooks • google • kindle • legal
Disturbing Simpsons
Compelling story about vegetarianhood
2010-06-20
funny • meat • simpsons • vegetarian • via:reddit
New Super Mario level
Underwater level in the Gulf of Mexico
2010-06-19
funny • games • mario • nes • oilspill • snes
Wikileaks / Lamo
Salon looks into the story about Bradley Manning and says it doesn't make sense
2010-06-19
government • journailsm • lamo • manning • politics • poulsen • wikileaks
The original Empire Strikes Back
Lucas basically remade a 1950s movie. Well, not really, but it's a great edit.
2010-06-19
mashup • movies • premake • starwars
Barbès market
Less touristy, more everyday side of Paris
2010-06-19
france • markets • paris
Roger Ebert on The Muse
"The Muse visits while you are writing, not before."
2010-06-19
creativity • rogerebert • wisdom
Google wifi collection
Straightforward explanation of how Google could accidentally have recorded too much data
2010-06-19
google • privacy • security • skyhook • streetview • wifi
OnLive review
Cloud gaming service actually works?
2010-06-18
games • internet • onlive • streaming
keming
A term of art in typography
2010-06-18
fonts • funny • kerning • typography • via:ckline
Diving reflex
When you get cold water on your face, your heart rate slows and you get other oxygen conservation effects
2010-06-18
biology • diving • reflex • science • swimming
Vuvuzela
Lol image macro
2010-06-18
music • noise • via:reddit • vuvuzela
Julio the Sewer Diver
How do you repair a sewer pipe? With a diver!
2010-06-18
cities • diving • mexico • sewers • via:metafilter
Freedom Bridge
Short, poignant game. Can games be unfun?
2010-06-17
art • emotion • games • via:waxy
Eve Online's server
280 cores + 2.3TB RAM to build a cluster that supports 60,000+ people playing simultaneously
2010-06-16
ccp • eveonline • games • hardware • mmog • servers
Better than Rez 2
Q? / Mizuguchi making a game that looks very much like Rez 2
2010-06-16
games • rez • via:jwz
Pete Rose's corked bat
Crazy he'd sell a bat with evidence of cheating
2010-06-15
baseball • cheating • peterose • sports
Beach photos
Interesting collection
2010-06-15
beach • brucegilden • martinparr • photography • photos
@thevuvuzelahorn
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2010-06-15
football • twitter • vuvuzela • worldcup
Sell Metafilter?
Matt answers the question of whether Metafilter could be bought
2010-06-13
business • community • culture • mathowie • metafilter
iPhone Karma
Nice indictment of Jesus Diaz and his failure to report anything interesting with the misappropriated iPhone 4
2010-06-11
apple • ethics • gizmodo • iphone • jesusdiaz • journalism
Gay Mardi Gras balls
I've got no memory of where this came from, but it's a pretty great oral history
2010-06-11
1980s • culture • gay • mardigras • neworleans
New Thomas Kinkaide
His work is taking a more complex theme. With robots.
2010-06-10
art • funny • kitsch • parody • thomaskinkaide
Veriplace
Geolocation services for mobile phones: they get the data from the cell network, not the end device, so it may be harder to spoof
2010-06-09
authentication • geolocation • location • phones • security • veriplace
Silly Bandz
A pre-teen fad
2010-06-09
culture • fad • kids • via:metafilter
Ekranoplan
Ground effect vehicle in flight
2010-06-08
aviation • ekranoplan • flying • russian • soviet
Protovis primer
Nice introduction to the Javascript visualization library
2010-06-07
code • graphics • javascript • protovis • tutorial
Bay Area shortest path
Visualization of times to get places by walking and BART
2010-06-07
barcode • bayarea • map • sanfrancisco • transit • visualization
Why I sold Zappos
Detailed piece by Hsieh about managing a company with a specific cultural goal
2010-06-07
amazon • business • culture • investment • vc • zappos
Proto Indo-European nouns
No idea if this list is really correct, but it's interesting
2010-06-07
etymology • language • linguistics • words
Supremacists love Tolkein
Hysterical exploration of the Stormfront forums on Lord of the Rings, etc.
2010-06-07
fantasy • racism • stormfront • tolkein • via:metafilter • wtf
Tourists v. Locals
Awesome spin on the Flickr geomap, categorizing photographers as locals vs. tourists
2010-06-07
infovis • maps • photography • photos
How to date a white bitch
Hysterical parody of the ridiculous HuffPo article
2010-06-06
comedy • funny • india • satire • stereotypes
Stall recovery
Another accelerated stall at a Red Bull Air Race, but with just enough room to recover
2010-06-06
aerobatics • crazy • flying • pilot • recovery • redbull • stalls
Free diving
Atlantic on a crazy sport
2010-06-05
diving • freediving • ocean • oxygen
gay chicken
"Straight" boys will do anything to let them kiss other boys
2010-06-05
culture • gay • words
Blur tech interview
Many details about the implementation of the beautiful arcade racer Blur. Multi-threaded rendering, aggressive dynamic level of detail, etc
2010-06-05
blur • games • graphics • playstation • realtime • technology • xbox
Underwater base jumping
Bizarre, probably an ad, but kind of beautiful
2010-06-05
diving • scuba • underwater • via:metafilter
Only 43% of the US hates fags!
OK, so it's good news, for once a majority of Americans polled say gay is OK
2010-06-05
civilrights • gay • politics • poll • via:metafilter
Another Adobe hole
Flash + Reader, both vulnerable
2010-06-05
adobe • badtech • flash • reader • security • zeroday
M.I.A. considered
Thoughtful response to the NYT profile
2010-06-04
criticism • maya • mia • music • srilanka
US constitution-free zone
2/3 of Americans live in a region where the 4th amendment doesn't really apply
2010-06-04
border • civilliberties • civilrights • customs • dhs • legal • rights • security
ATT: fast and awful
iPhone's captive network has an 87% "consistency" rate. Not sure exactly what that means, but it's clearly not 5 nines.
2010-06-04
apple • att • attfail • iphone • networks
Self-replicator in Conway's Life
The simple CA gets something that can reproduce itself
2010-06-04
cas • cellularautomata • complexsystems • conway • life
App Engine System Status
I love Google's approach to visibility of system health
2010-06-03
appengine • dashboard • google • performance • status
Chrome RLZ tracking
Some sort of tracking parameter built in to Google Chrome to keep up with whose distribution you got Chrome from
2010-06-02
advertising • chrome • google • tracking
Stealing news stories
Long-respected blog journalist Danny Sullivan documents how a bunch of news agencies stole his story about a lawsuit
2010-06-02
ap • copyright • dannysullivan • ethics • google • journalism • news
Apple vs. Flash
Today's sale on http://shirt.woot.com/
2010-06-01
apple • flash • funny • t-shirt • woot
Email address regex
Comparison of various tortuous email address recognizers
2010-06-01
code • email • programming • regex • regexp • rfc822 • via:zawodny
Guatemala sinkhole
This could happen in any city
2010-06-01
city • guatemala • sinkhole • utilities
Dennis Hopper's photos
These are quite compelling
2010-06-01
art • dennishopper • photography • photos • via:metafilter