2010 Nov 15, 12:00Arts technical 2010 Nov 8, 3:32We were just talking about hating Ticketmaster. A brief history and business of Ticketmaster.
ticketmaster software wired concert music business 2010 Nov 8, 3:31Genetic algorithm finds awesome SC2 build order
ai algorithm blog code videogames game starcraft2 sc2 genetic-algorithm 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"
video videogame christopher-lloyd bttf backtothefuture 2010 Oct 28, 8:26Time travel, flow charts, and humor.
flowchart time-travel humor image 2010 Oct 14, 10:26"Doctor Who Special starring Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, Hugh Grant (as Doctor Who), Jonathan Pryce and Joanna Lumley."
humor video doctor-who rowan-atkinson hugh-grant parody youtube 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"
backtothefuture bttf movie video eric-stoltz 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."
mime contenttype browser web ietf reference history mimetype mime-sniffing sniffing technical 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...
technical p2p wikipedia network networking torrent web 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."
webkit adam-barth uri url api javascript dom html html5 browser webbrowser technical 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."
humor video stephen-colbert politics immigration farm labor house 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.'
humor podcast chris-hardwick doug-benson doug-loves-movies 2010 Sep 22, 12:13Last.fm sorts its user's music prefs by gender and age and graphs it.
music data statistics visualization lastfm age gender 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."
light diy hand head-lamp tool 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,"'
bee bees humor onion 2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.
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