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Andy Baio : Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins of "Friendster" Civilization - they were acquired last week for $26M by a Malaysian company; the pre-IPO Google offer could've been worth $1B today [via]
jcgregorio : Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - I've said it before: "The problem with "social media" sites is that they're like bars, even if they become the next Studio 54, they will all, eventually, become the next Studio 54."
philgyford : Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Brilliant stuff, and an amazing discovery. Why did that civilisation die out so suddenly?
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Jeremy Zawodny : Geeks drive girls out of computer science - Geeks drive girls out of computer science: It's difficult for me to understand how "research" was needed to figure this out.
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Andy Baio : Brandon Boyer's top 10 indie and iPhone games of 2009 - my top 10 would be virtually identical; I haven't played Saira yet, but soon
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jcgregorio : Sultry World Found Circling the Star GJ 1214 - NYTimes.com - I've always wondered, given some peoples vehement reaction to natural selection, what their reaction would be to the discovery of life on another planet.
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jcgregorio : World Bank Data Visualizer - There is a negative correlation between GDP and Trade as a % of GDP, and that correlation holds over the past 34 years. Would like to able to plot that against 'abundance of natural resources', but that's obviously not a choice.
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joshua : Diesel Sweeties Music & Robot T-Shirts, Hoodies & Socks! - Bacon Is A Vegetable
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Jeremy Zawodny : How to destroy the Earth - How to destroy the Earth: something to try in your spare time
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Jeremy Zawodny : Craigslist CEO on the 2 Meg Whitmans [video] - Craigslist CEO on the 2 Meg Whitmans [video]: heh
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Andy Baio : Bygone Bureau on the best new blogs of 2009 - they asked several people, including me, for our favorites
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jcgregorio : Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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kaninka.net : Tæmandi listi yfir smákökur sem ég man eftir á þessu augnabliki - Piparkökur Loftkökur Sörur Hálfmánar
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kaninka.net : Myndmál Morgunblaðsins á forsíðu eftir "hrun" #2 - Tíminn og Starrinn eru fuglar sem fljúga hratt - 29. október 2009
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deusx : What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about? - Stack Overflow - "However, I don't refer to commonly used shortcuts that a noob would find cool. I am talking about a seasoned unix user (be she/he a developer, admin, both, etc), who thinks (s)he knows something 99% of us never heard or dreamed about. Something
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nelson : 1 billion spams analyzed - Nice stats on 5 years of spam collection. Fraud is on the upswing
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philgyford : The Technium: 1,000 Years of Forgetting - I often think how even the most famous people alive today won't be remembered in the distant future. But more importantly... A BRILLIANT video from the year 3000!
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philgyford : Charlie Brooker: why I love video games | Technology | The Guardian - Not just interesting on why games are good, but on exactly how non-games-players get frustrated with them. Would be good to talk about that more.
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philgyford : Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Ha!
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philgyford : Visualizing empires decline on Vimeo - Lovely visualisation of the expansion and contraction of four empires over 200 years. (via Long Now)
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Simon Willison : Notes from the No Lone Zone - Notes from the No Lone Zone. A computer scientist with a background in cryptography visits a Titan II ICBM launch complex.
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Andy Baio : Capitol Records sues Vimeo over lip dubs - mind-numbingly stupid, the videos are free viral ads for their catalog; related: ASCAP demanding fees for Guitar Hero parties
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Jeremy Zawodny : Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices - Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices: it was just a matter of time
nelson : EC2 spot prices - Graph of Amazon pricing
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Jeremy Zawodny : Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert - Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert: amusingly awesome
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joshua : American Airlines Corporate Business Travel | Corporate Travel Services | AA.com
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joshua : United Airlines - United PassPlus Secure program
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kaninka.net : heartbreaknympho: jkrabbit: via www.mariasphoto.com [via]
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Rod Begbie : Happy Turkday, Hilary - "Birthday greetings outsourced to Mechanical Turk." Amazing. A friend of Hilary Mason couldn't decide what to write to wish her a happy birthday… so he paid Mechanical Turkers to write for him. [via] #
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Andy Baio : How MC Frontalot quit smoking with Dungeons & Dragons - roll a D20 saving throw whenever the GM tries to poison you (i.e. when you feel like smoking) [via]
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kaninka.net : "Over on Edible Geography, Nicola Twilley takes a look at the under-appreciated art of geophagy:..." - “Over on Edible Geography, Nicola Twilley takes a look at the under-appreciated art of geophagy: eating soil. There is apparently a whole subculture around the practice, Twilley writes, in one case coming complete with “tasting notes for soil, which d
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kaninka.net : seenoevil: (via hgmonster) [via]
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kaninka.net : "The internet filter is just more cotton wool for a generation of professional overparenting cunts,..." - “The internet filter is just more cotton wool for a generation of professional overparenting cunts, who use “for the children” as a catch-all excuse to police other people. It’s just another gadget, another smokescreen, to distract the dumb consum [via]
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kaninka.net : seenoevil: hgmonster: firstboner: dtybywl: (via... - seenoevil: hgmonster: firstboner: dtybywl: (via junkyard.dogs) [via]
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kaninka.net : Astrid Kruse Jensen - Hotel Room
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Simon Willison : StartupBoeing - Starting an Airline - StartupBoeing—Starting an Airline. Boeing’s guide to starting your own airline. [via]
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