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The Vault, the Fallout wiki - Fallout: New Vegas and more

2010 Nov 21, 11:07PermalinkCommentsfallout fallout4 wiki new-vegas videogame game video-game

Golf

2010 Nov 18, 2:58PermalinkCommentsComics Andy Keith technical

TorrentMeter – A steampunk bandwidth meter

2010 Nov 15, 12:00PermalinkCommentsArts technical

Everyone Hates Ticketmaster — But No One Can Take It Down | Magazine

2010 Nov 8, 3:32We were just talking about hating Ticketmaster. A brief history and business of Ticketmaster.PermalinkCommentsticketmaster software wired concert music business

lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders

2010 Nov 8, 3:31Genetic algorithm finds awesome SC2 build orderPermalinkCommentsai algorithm blog code videogames game starcraft2 sc2 genetic-algorithm

YouTube - TelltaleGames's Channel

2010 Oct 28, 10:41"In part one of our Back to the Future: The Game behind the scenes series, Bob Gale and Christopher Lloyd speak on their involvement and excitement on working with Telltale"PermalinkCommentsvideo videogame christopher-lloyd bttf backtothefuture

Flowchart: Understanding the Web, for Fans of Charles Dickens | Fast Company

2010 Oct 28, 8:26Time travel, flow charts, and humor.PermalinkCommentsflowchart time-travel humor image

Good Night, Moon by Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling and Tim Bower | Tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Stories

2010 Oct 14, 10:30PermalinkCommentstodo fiction scifi rudy-rucker bruce-sterling short-story

YouTube - Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who - Classic Comic Relief

2010 Oct 14, 10:26"Doctor Who Special starring Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, Hugh Grant (as Doctor Who), Jonathan Pryce and Joanna Lumley."PermalinkCommentshumor video doctor-who rowan-atkinson hugh-grant parody youtube

Never-before-seen footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back To The Future

2010 Oct 13, 3:11"To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Back To The Future, we've got never-before-seen footage of original star Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. Plus Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale all explaining why they replaced him with Michael J. Fox"PermalinkCommentsbacktothefuture bttf movie video eric-stoltz

John Resig - ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

2010 Oct 6, 7:35Layman summary of ECMAScript 5 strict mode.PermalinkCommentsecma es5 strict js javascript json reference security technical article john-resig

Internet Media Types and the Web

2010 Sep 30, 2:48A surprisingly readable and delightfully accurate summary of the history of MIME in the web followed by proposed next steps. Sounds like a plan to me! "We need a realistic transition plan from the unreliable web to the more reliable one. Part of this is to encourage senders (web servers) to mean what they say, and encourage recipients (browsers) to give preference to what the senders are sending."PermalinkCommentsmime contenttype browser web ietf reference history mimetype mime-sniffing sniffing technical

Peer-to-peer tech now powers Wikipedia's videos

2010 Sep 27, 3:15This is awesome and similar to something I got a cube for. Wikipedia runs its videos through a service that sets up torrents for arbitrary URLs. So awesome! Now if only this were built into the user agent rather than requiring hardcoding the sites to use it...PermalinkCommentstechnical p2p wikipedia network networking torrent web

Revision 60.000, first bits of the URL API and pingin’ the anchor « Peter Beverloo

2010 Sep 27, 3:08Adam Barth's URI API draft starts to appear in webkit: "One of the things Adam Barth is currently working on is an URL API. Citing it, the API can be used for constructing, parsing and resolving URLs through scripting, easening up tasks like getting and setting parameters. Today the first part landed in WebKit, which added the “origin” property."PermalinkCommentswebkit adam-barth uri url api javascript dom html html5 browser webbrowser technical

C-SPAN Video Player - House Judiciary Subcmte. Hearing on Immigration and Farm Labor

2010 Sep 24, 8:38"Comedian Stephen Colbert joined the panel of witnesses at a House hearing on immigrant farm workers. Mr. Colbert has partnered with United Farm Workers and their campaign calling on unemployed Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector. The organization's president, Arturo Rodriguez, also testified at the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
Washington, DC : 2 hr. 10 min."PermalinkCommentshumor video stephen-colbert politics immigration farm labor house

Doug Loves Movies

2010 Sep 24, 3:00You'd imagine that putting the folks from the funny podcast The Nerdist onto the funny podcast Doug Loves Movies would be even funnier still -- and you'd be correct: 'Doug welcomes his podcast brethren Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray and Matt Mira of "The Nerdist" to the show.'PermalinkCommentshumor podcast chris-hardwick doug-benson doug-loves-movies

Last.fm – the Blog · Now in the playground: Gender Plots

2010 Sep 22, 12:13Last.fm sorts its user's music prefs by gender and age and graphs it.PermalinkCommentsmusic data statistics visualization lastfm age gender

Make: Online : Hand lights — Cool Tools contest winner

2010 Sep 14, 2:24Good idea and solves some of the head lamp problems: "...Enter the Hand Lights, a pretty simple and cheap DIY project that puts adjustable lights on your forearms to light whatever is in your hands."PermalinkCommentslight diy hand head-lamp tool

Area Man Suddenly Realizes He's The One Who's Been Killing Off World's Bee Population | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2010 Sep 8, 2:16'Following a news update on the depopulation of honeybees across North America and much of the world, it suddenly dawned on local bank teller Keith Orlander Tuesday that he, personally, was responsible for the dramatic and theretofore unexplained disappearance of the insects. "Boy, come to think of it, I guess I have been killing millions of bees lately,"'PermalinkCommentsbee bees humor onion

Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan from Gedanken Fictions: Stories on Themes in Science, Technology, and Society By Thomas A. Easton

2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy scifi fiction read short-story brain
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