4 -- http://images.google.com/hosted/life 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) 3 -- http://neil.fraser.name/news/2008/01/04/ 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) 3 -- http://walterhiggins.net/projects/twixenate.html 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) 3 -- http://hothardware.com/News/Swedens-UltraModern-Underground-Data-Center/ 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) 2 -- http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/11/24/081124sh_shouts_handey 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: ) 2 -- http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/ 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) 2 -- http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/california_wildfires_yet_again.html 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) 2 -- http://etherpad.com/ 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) 2 -- http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer/wiki 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) 2 -- http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex.htm http://del.icio.us/infovore : Life Lexicon "This is a lexicon of terms relating to John Horton Conway's Game of Life." Very comprehensive, with lots of examples. kevan : Life Lexicon (Introduction) Jargon for Conway's Game of Life. "Noah's ark [was] found by Charles Corderman in 1971. The name comes from the variety of objects it leaves behind: blocks, blinkers, beehives, loaves, gliders, ships, boats, long boats, beacons and block on tables." (Tags: conway emergence game gameoflife language life reference simulation) 2 -- http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/ 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) 2 -- http://peterhirschberg.blogspot.com/2008/11/adventure-for-iphone.html 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) 2 -- http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/112.html 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) 2 -- http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ 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) 2 -- http://magicalnihilism.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/he-has-no-words-and-must-design/ 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) 2 -- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html 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) 2 -- http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/11/19/Blaine-Lourd-Profile 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) 2 -- http://walterhiggins.net/projects/avatar.html 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) 2 -- http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ 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) 2 -- http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=8269#8273 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) 2 -- http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page 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) 2 -- http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/11/14/thomas-kincades-16-guidelines-for-making-stuff-suck.html 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) 2 -- http://www.typepad.com/blogging/bailout.html 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) 2 -- http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews 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) 2 -- http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/11/second-thoughts-on-emergent-narrative.html 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) 2 -- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html 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) 2 -- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1786497 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: ) 2 -- http://www.offworld.com/ 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) 2 -- http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/JS-909/ 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) 2 -- http://www.statusireland.com/statistics/property-house-price-statistics-for-ireland/ 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) 2 -- http://www.dollarshort.org/ds/2008/11/the-definition-of-a-slow-news-day.html 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) 1 -- https://m.freshbooks.com/ 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)