23/12/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
joshua : ImgBurn: Free CD/DVD image burning for Windows
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23/12/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR - memeorific and sacrilicious "tale of three nerds turning a nativity scene into a LARP battle"; don't miss the video responses [via]
adamrg : IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR
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23/12/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
joshua : XCDE - XML Compressed Document Engine
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23/12/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
joshua : Hyper Estraier: a full-text search system for communities - from the qdbm guy
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23/12/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic - New York Times - "But in general, the nerds with minimal social lives like me are well down in the Valley, and the cool kids with the trendy glasses and Prada shoes who like to go to parties are in San Francisco"
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23/12/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Last Man on Earth, full-length film on Archive.org - 1964 adaptation of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" starring Vincent Price as Dr. Will Smith
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23/12/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Peter Sellers riffing on Laurence Olivier’s Richard III, using the lyrics from A Hard Day’s Night - Also: best hat ever. Via Wilson. ∞ [via]
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23/12/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Beginner's Digital SLR buying guide: The Sifry Starter Photo Package - Beginner's Digital SLR buying guide: The Sifry Starter Photo Package: Dave's guide to DSLRs
Linkorama : Beginner's Digital SLR buying guide - The Sifry Starter Photo Package
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23/12/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : WebOb - WebOb. WebOb is “an extraction and refinement of pieces from Paste”—provides a very nice request and response object, clearly inspired partly by Django. The documentation includes the differences between the WebOb API and that of other frameworks.
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23/12/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Johnny Chung Lee: Projects Wii - Johnny Chung Lee: Projects Wii. Awe-inspiring hardware hacks built on top of the Wiimote, including a dirt cheap interactive whiteboard and a head tracking system that turns a normal display in to a 3D VR environment.
Ethan Marcotte : Wii hacking with Johnny Chung Lee - Bringing low-budget hacking to new heights. Frickin' inspirational, this is. ∞
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23/12/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber - 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber. I like the idea of using the square-footage allocated to different things in Walmart to get an idea for what’s popular outside of geekdom.
deusx : Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber - "In a country where the median HOUSEHOLD income is $48k, the average SF engineer in his late 20s making $130k might want to read a little more about how the rest of the country is split up."
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23/12/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Quantcast top 100 US sites - Quantcast top 100 US sites. The vast majority of the top 100 attract a more female than male audience. Digg is one notable exception. [via]
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23/12/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
jcgregorio : In a Force for Iraqi Calm, Seeds of Conflict - New York Times - Unbelievable, this administration has now acted out every single bad war plan since WWI, with this final move being a complete parallel of what we did with the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, only for them to later turn into the Taliban.
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23/12/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
joshua : amazing first-person video from a remote control plane
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23/12/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Jingler - Adds in-time sleigh-bells (and Santa) to any MP3 uploaded. [via] #
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