11 days ago
nelson : Scientology rundown - Amazingly detailed investigative reporting, sourced from some high up insiders
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nelson : Hodgman on geeks v. nerds - Roasting Obama at the Radio & TV Correspondents dinner, totally great
# copy17 days ago
nelson : Ajax Nethack - Browser based version of one of the best games ever
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nelson : Marine Traffic - interesting live overlay of cargo ships on a Google map
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nelson : Dice-O-Matic - Crazy machine for rolling a million dice a day
Simon Willison : Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator - Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator. An outstanding piece of applied geekery, now generating dice rolls for GamesByEmail.com. “It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day.”
deusx : Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator - GamesByEmail - "Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the dice rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day.The Dice-O-Matic is 7 feet tall, 18 inches wide and 18 inches
philgyford : Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator - GamesByEmail - A 7 foot tall machine that can roll 1.3 million dice every day, photographs them, and uses them as a random number generator for code.
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1 month ago
nelson : Star Wars first draft - May the force of others be with you all
Andy Baio : Highlights from the truly horrible Star Wars first draft script - constraints led Lucas to make one great film; without them, he turned out films like this draft [via]
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nelson : Ball and cup - Really smooth version of the classic magician trick
# copy2 month ago
nelson : My credit crisis - Horrifying, direct story of an NYT economics reporter getting underwater with credit
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2 month ago
nelson : Wave motors - Crazy bit of power generation history; early 1900s tidal power
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Andy Baio : Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms closes down - hopefully, marking the end of one of the longest vaporware projects of all-time
nelson : Duke Nukem never - World's longest running game vapourware seems to be dead
# copy2 month ago
nelson : Play him off, keyboard cat - Can't stop laughing
Andy Baio : Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat - more on the meme's origins [via]
joshua : Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat
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2 month ago
nelson : Crazy biology illustrations - Neat collection of 70s era biology textbook drawings
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nelson : "First of May" in ASL - Coulton's naughty song done in sign performance
Andy Baio : Jonathan Coulton's "First of May" performed in sign language - in case you need to know how to say "in flagrante delicto" in ASL [via]
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nelson : This Ain't Star Trek XXX - Hustler does a Star Trek spoof (SFW link)
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nelson : Sir Allen Stanford - Great profile of the latest financial fraud wizard
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nelson : Sugar subtleties - Examination of the idea that HFCS is really worse than other sugars
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nelson : GiantURL.com - Like TinyURL, but bigger and therefore better
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nelson : Open relay in space - Military satellites rebroadcast whatever they receive. Brazilian truck drivers take advantage.
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Dork Yearbook - Sweet photos with surprisingly sympathetic commentary
Andy Baio : Dork Yearbook - Joel Johnson's Boing Boing Gadgets entry became its own site [via]
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Stop motion with wolf and pig - Very clever animation
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3 month ago
nelson : Holy weekend in SF - Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence agenda
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