SoaP has had reshoots to make it more R-rated, and to add the line “I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!”. I genuinely cannot wait for this movie!
Interesting take on collaborative filtering — Finds you movie reviewers whose opinions match yours. Initial signs point to it being wicked fricking awesome.
Five-year engagement broken off due to Firefox bug. Well, due to bloke surfing pr0n and lying about it, but the Firefox bug got him caught.
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The kind of attention to trivia that Britannica can never hope to beat. A detailed analysis of whether 1980s transit policy in Boston would have allowed Charlie to deboard the train.
Tip of the Hat: Reddit
The main problem with good UI design is that it’s transparent. People don’t notice the good stuff—they just focus on the thirty things that are broken.
So a tip of the hat to a smart UI design that I just noticed on reddit. When you’re logged in and have javascript enabled, reddit tracks all the sites you click-through to. Yes yes, evil tracking, spyware, etc.
But what’s rather charming is that when you view reddit, the links you’ve already visited are displayed in purple. You know, that webbrowser standard for a followed link. Even if you’re on a different PC. It’s such a nice touch—Links that I viewed at home this morning are purpled-out when I’m at my desk at work. And I didn’t have to learn anything—it so snuggly fitted my mental model for How The Web Works that it took me a few weeks to notice.
Compare that to digg where even on the same PC, I can’t eyeball the page and see new links.
Nice work, reddit-folk!
Another good Bruce Schneier article. Worth it for the sentence “Although we should all be glad that Richard Reid wasn’t the ‘underwear bomber.’”
Another great danah boyd essay. “Hanging out on Friendster is like hanging out in a super clean police state where you can’t chew gum let alone goof around and you’re told exactly how to speak to others. Hanging out on MySpace is more like hanging out in a graffiti park with fellow goofballs while your favorite band is playing.”
I know, I know, it’s the most obvious joke possible given the band name. The execution (sic) still made me laugh.
Reverse-engineering the heavily obfuscated Skype binary and protocol.
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Well, it’s the law. Apple either have to open up their DRM to other devices and music stores, or shutdown the iTunes Music Store in France. I’ll put $50 on the latter. (Update: OK, it’s not the law yet: It has to pass France’s Senate yet. Stupid multi-house parliamentary systems)
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Personal non-business business cards in cool designs. Just ordered myself a box.
The funniest flashgame I’ve played in ages. Can you work out the secret to not shooting the puppy?
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Everything you dreamed it would be. SPOILER WARNING: There’s an aircraft, and it appears to be infested with some form of cold-blooded legless reptiles.
A ‘smooth, creamy coffeehouse classic’, apparently
Or, alternatively, half-a-mug of piss-weak, nastily artifically-sweetened, CoffeeMate-crammed brownwater. The rather disappointing result of trying a HomeCafe "frothy cappuccino" pod.
I got the coffee machine for free from BzzAgent, but I still feel ripped-off. I'll stick with my Senseo, thanks.
Distributed P2Pish secure backups. You give up 10Gb of your hard drive, for the rights to distribute 1Gb of your files across hundreds of peers. Sadly Windows-only, and there’s no way to tweak how much *bandwidth* you’re willing to give up, but could come in handy.
Bootdisk that fits on a 1.44Mb floppy which securely nukes every scrap of data off of hard drives. Handy to have if you’re about to sell an old computer.
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