http://images.google.com/hosted/life [4]
First posted 2008-11-18T17:25:07Z

http://del.icio.us/aehso : LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

What a cool archive of world history...
http://del.icio.us/hublicious : LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
http://del.icio.us/tbyfield : LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Andy Baio : LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google

millions of high-res photos, most never published

(Tags: image images magazine photography research search)

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2008/01/04/ [3]
First posted 2008-11-14T15:57:00Z

Justin Mason : Wooden Brain

MRI scan, pasted onto a block of wooden bricks. want
Rod Begbie : Wooden Brain

MRI scans + wooden cubes = Interactive slicing and dicing of the human brain. Awesome!
blackbeltjones : Neil Fraser: News: Wooden Brain

(Tags: 3d brains bricks craft infovis infoviz mri neuroscience puzzle scans sculpture want wood)

http://walterhiggins.net/projects/twixenate.html [3]
First posted 2008-11-18T17:28:41Z

http://del.icio.us/topgold : Twixenate ~ Twitter Profile Picture Editor

@walter shows another excellent use of the Twitter API.
http://del.icio.us/walterh : Twitter Profile Picture Editor

Does what it says in the title. Edit your twitter avatar image easily.
Justin Mason : Twixenate

Walter's Twitter profile pic editing tool; enter your username and use the Pixenate image-editing tools to hack at your profile pic, then re-upload -- all from the browser. great demo of Pixenate

(Tags: @sxoop avatar editing editor image-macros images picture pixenate profile pxn8 twitter x_ref125sm)

http://hothardware.com/News/Swedens-UltraModern-Underground-Data-Center/ [3]
First posted 2008-11-16T17:52:15Z

http://del.icio.us/lee : Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware

Got your Bond-villain server farm right here.
http://del.icio.us/negatendo : Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center

Coolest NOC ever.
n0wak : Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware

dang

(Tags: Architecture Awesome Design Geekery Tech architecture design net networking top)

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/11/24/081124sh_shouts_handey [2]
First posted 2008-11-20T00:26:32Z

Andy Baio : Jack Handey's The Plan

it's foolproof [via]
Rod Begbie : Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan

A *nearly* foolproof plan by Jack Handey. "The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen:"

(Tags: )

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-20T17:39:55Z

http://del.icio.us/nelson : Bad ballots

Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
splodinvark : MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge

Representatives from the campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken have been challenging ballots across the state. It's your turn to play election judge. Tell us how you would rule in the case of these challenged ballots.

(Tags: election hci politics usa userinterface via:metafilter)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/california_wildfires_yet_again.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-17T18:27:46Z

Andy Baio : The Big Picture on the California wildfires

also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath
ignatz : California wildfires (yet again) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

what a great apocalypse

(Tags: california fire news photography usa wildfire)

http://etherpad.com/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-19T14:45:54Z

http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur : EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
http://del.icio.us/fozbaca : EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

(Tags: AJAX Collaboration Design Editor JavaScript Online Web Writing collaborative document editing productivity wiki)

http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer/wiki [2]
First posted 2008-11-14T16:46:19Z

http://del.icio.us/hublicious : DBSlayer - Trac
Jeremy Zawodny : DBSlayer

"a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose"

(Tags: architecture craigslist database json mysql nytimes performance programming proxy scaling server)

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-16T02:32:11Z

http://del.icio.us/nelson : Obama / Cotton

Interesting correlation
http://del.icio.us/werty : 330 - From Pickin' Cotton to Pickin' Presidents: Strange Maps

Love the information correlation in these maps

(Tags: cottons elections interesting politics race slavery)

http://peterhirschberg.blogspot.com/2008/11/adventure-for-iphone.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-17T18:57:51Z

http://del.icio.us/nelson : Atari Adventure for iPhone

classic Atari 2600 game ported
Andy Baio : Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app

related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on ~~BitTorrent~~ Showtime in December [via]

(Tags: 2600 adventure atari games iphone via:Waxy)

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/112.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T09:29:42Z

http://del.icio.us/aehso : Engineers Rule - Forbes.com

Superb piece on the engineering lead corporate culture in Honda.
http://del.icio.us/pierce : Engineers Rule - Forbes.com

On Honda's engineering culture.

(Tags: business culture engineering environment honda lean technology via:aehso)

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-19T19:03:17Z

http://del.icio.us/negatendo : Let me google that for you

Nice. Better and more linkable than justfuckinggoogleit.com.
Rod Begbie : Let me google that for you

Awesome -- a more polite version of justfuckinggoogleit.com!

(Tags: google humor search tools web)

http://magicalnihilism.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/he-has-no-words-and-must-design/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-20T02:45:39Z

http://del.icio.us/infovore : He has no words and must design « Magical Nihilism

"The next generation on from them - e.g. Jonathan Smith, Doug Church and of course Greg Costikyan (from whose classic essay on developing such a critical language the title of this post is lifted) are always eloquent, passionate and insightful speakers and spokespeople for their medium. Unlike Molyneux." Not too annoyed I missed this, given Matt's comments.
warrenellis : He has no words and must design « Magical Nihilism

"(Peter Molyneux)... didn’t have the critical language to describe what he (or more correctly, his teams) had created. He isn’t nearly as literate in why his own games work as the current generation playing his games."

(Tags: culture design games lecture media notes petermolyneux talk)

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-17T10:11:10Z

http://del.icio.us/walterh : Stevey's Blog Rants: Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs

Ejacs is just a toy, but I think it also shows a kind of promise. Scripting Emacs using JavaScript (if anyone ever actually implements it) could be really interesting. It could open up the world's most powerful, advanced editing environment to millions of people. Neat.
Jeremy Zawodny : Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs

the dude is crazy, I tell you... crazy!

(Tags: coding elisp emacs javascript language lisp steveyegge toread)

http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/11/19/Blaine-Lourd-Profile [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T23:09:44Z

http://del.icio.us/aehso : Blaine Lourd Profile - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com

If you put a thousand people in barrels and push them over Niagara Falls," one of them says, "some of them will survive. And if you take those guys and push them over again, some of them will survive. And they’ll write books about how to survive being pushed over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
http://del.icio.us/pierce : The Evolution of an Investor - Blaine Lourd Profile

(Tags: business economics finance money news via:aehso wallstreet)

http://walterhiggins.net/projects/avatar.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T13:44:53Z

http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur : Twitter Profile Picture Editor
http://del.icio.us/walterh : Twitter Profile Picture Editor

Does what it says in the title. Edit your twitter avatar image easily.

(Tags: avatar editor picture profile twitter)

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T11:05:23Z

Andy Baio : Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN

very complementary with S3
Justin Mason : Amazon CloudFront

Amazon's new CDN enhancement to S3; 17c per GB (plus an initial 10c/GB "origin fetch" charge), vs 10c/GB with basic S3. no upfront setup required, beyond S3 itself. Uses HTTP cache-control headers. nice! looking forward to playing with this

(Tags: amazon aws caching cdn cloud cloudfront hosting http web)

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=8269#8273 [2]
First posted 2008-11-16T17:06:06Z

http://del.icio.us/negatendo : Great Caesar's ghost!

No. Way! "During the conversation, apparently Zero Wing came up. You know, the Sega Genesis video game. I don't know how. And apparently, my friend made the off-hand comment of 'All your base are belong to us'. And Obama leaned forward in his chair, quirked his eyebrow a bit, and responded 'What you say?'"
n0wak : Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Great Caesar's ghost!

"my friend made the off-hand comment of 'All your base are belong to us'. And Obama leaned forward in his chair, quirked his eyebrow a bit, and responded 'What you say?'"

(Tags: Geekery Meme Politics cool geek obama politics via:revgeorge)

http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T20:41:51Z

http://del.icio.us/lhl : Social Patterns Wiki

meta-collection of design patterns
http://del.icio.us/rabble : Main Page - Social Patterns

(Tags: design designpatterns interaction patterns reference socialmedia socialsoftware toread usability web2.0)

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/11/14/thomas-kincades-16-guidelines-for-making-stuff-suck.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T16:29:26Z

http://del.icio.us/nelson : Thomas Kinkade formula

Direction to filmmakers: be insipid in 16 easy steps
ignatz : Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck: Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.com

our foremost painter of light has guidelines on how to make movies

(Tags: art culture failure film ha kinkade movie painting thomaskinkade via:metafilter)

http://www.typepad.com/blogging/bailout.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-17T20:50:25Z

http://del.icio.us/bldgblog : TypePad's Journalist Bailout Program
http://del.icio.us/werty : TypePad - Why Blog - Journalist Bailout Program

Love

(Tags: blog blogs business economics humor journalism writing)

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews [2]
First posted 2008-11-19T06:45:32Z

http://del.icio.us/werty : Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy | The A.V. Club

Great, great, great album review, and by "album" I mean "15-year explosion of finality"
Andy Baio : Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy

mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it

(Tags: music writing)

http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/11/second-thoughts-on-emergent-narrative.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-19T11:43:21Z

http://del.icio.us/infovore : The Brainy Gamer: Second thoughts

"But succeed or fail, my awareness of game design is omnipresent, and I like it that way. It enriches my experience of playing. The in-world experience remains my first thought, but my second thought is nearly always focused on the system, especially when that system demonstrates originality or beautiful execution. I don't think I'm the only gamer who behaves this way." No, but it requires a certain degree of awareness of the medium to think about the second; the first is much more immediate, and the second is about an engagements with games, rather than a particular game.
http://del.icio.us/nelson : Fallout design

Interesting commentary on how the game and narrative work

(Tags: choice design fallout freedom games narrative openworld rpg)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-20T02:15:36Z

http://del.icio.us/nelson : Google Deadly

Only product Google has launched that made me completely think WTF? Guess it's not a success.
Andy Baio : Google to shut down Lively next month

the most baffling of all Google products, this one is closing after less than six months

(Tags: deadpool google lively)

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1786497 [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T01:07:31Z

Andy Baio : Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch

no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email
Rod Begbie : Pictures automatically attach to e-mail?

Woman finds sent email from husband to another woman with attached photo of him having a hand shandy. Husband claims this is a known iPhone bug. She turns to the Apple support boards for confirmation. "The future of my marriage depends on this answer!"

(Tags: )

http://www.offworld.com/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-17T22:11:15Z

Andy Baio : Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld

good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra
n0wak : Boing Boing: Offworld

What the world needs now is another gaming weblog like I need a hole in my head

(Tags: Gaming Weblog)

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/JS-909/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-17T16:46:28Z

Andy Baio : JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash

through a hack, it even works in IE 6
ignatz : JS-909

Roland JS-909 drum machine simulator in a browser

(Tags: drumming emulators music via:ethan_t_hein webtoys)

http://www.statusireland.com/statistics/property-house-price-statistics-for-ireland/ [2]
First posted 2008-11-19T22:27:38Z

http://del.icio.us/aehso : Status Ireland: Irish Statistics - property house price statistics for ireland

Good stats source for Irish society metrics.
http://del.icio.us/pierce : Status Ireland: Irish Statistics - property house price statistics for ireland

Ouch.

(Tags: climate finance ireland irish news population property statistics via:aehso)

http://www.dollarshort.org/ds/2008/11/the-definition-of-a-slow-news-day.html [2]
First posted 2008-11-18T17:59:42Z

Andy Baio : Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation

my favorite was Space Mountain Snob
Les Orchard : Dollarshort: The Definition of a Slow News Day

"I could go all defensive about this piece on Valleywag about our extravagant Disneyland trip, but I won't. Instead, I'll be gracious and help Owen during these troubled times for Valleywag. Here's a couple of story ideas based on a few photos from our weekend. Enjoy! "

(Tags: disneyland funny parody sixapart trott valleywag)

https://m.freshbooks.com/ [1]
First posted 2008-11-20T07:30:22Z

vielmetti : The Future home of FreshBooks Mobile Edi Client Login Page

unreleased entry point for mobile phone version of freshbooks

(Tags: accounting finance freshbooks mobile money not-quite-ready-yet)

http://www.rin.ac.uk/what-cost [1]
First posted 2008-11-17T13:10:15Z

http://del.icio.us/hublicious : what does it cost and who pays? scholarly communications globally and in the uk | RIN

(Tags: 2008-12-11 cal)