This year
Perfection kills » Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
Fortunately, just few days before, Opera folks came out with an experimental “style profiler” (followed by WebKit’s ticket+patch shortly after). The profiler was meant to reveal the performance of CSS selector matching, document reflow, repaint, and even document and css parsing times.
2011
China bus blaze ‘kills 41′
by alamat & 1 other (via)
A fire on an overcrowded bus carrying flammable materials killed 41 passengers in central China on Friday, state television reported, in one of the country’s worst road accidents this year.
10 Ways of Looking at Blade Runner
by bouilloire
"2. Deckard, a man who is not artificial, believes that he is not murdering anyone when he kills Replicants who want only to be free. He is wrong."
J'adore cette phrase !
2010
Diaspora's curse - (37signals)
by François Hodierne & 1 other
Diaspora, the “open Facebook alternative” (NYT story for background if you aren’t familiar), has raised Over $170,000 from over 4600 people in just a few weeks. All for an idea.
That’s an impressive start if victory was measured in press coverage, cash, and cool. Here’s the problem: Diaspora has all the wrong things at the wrong time. Competition that kills isn’t pre-announced — it catches as unsuspecting incumbent by surprise.
Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results
by nhoizey
Google’s SearchWiki is a thing of the past. The ability to re-order, remove, and comment on search results has been replaced by a scaled-down version that Google is simply calling “stars” or “starred results.”
Disable Google Fade-in for Greasemonkey
by etheriau
If you hate that new "fade-in" "feature", this kills it.
2009
What Kills Startups? | caycon.com
by simon_bricolo
Sooner or later, disaster will strike. A disciplined approach to identifying and mitigating risks can help you beat the odds. Will you be ready?
2008
Google kills Anonymous AdSense account | The Register
by kuroyagi
"Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web's most influential anti-Scientology sites."
2007
HA Xen Cluster with DRBD, LVM and heartbeat
by camel
We have implemented a 2-node HA Xen cluster, which consists of two physical machines (hosts,) and runs several virtual servers (guests) each, for our company's internal services (mail, web applications, development, etc.)
When one host gets down unexpectedly, the other host physically kills it (STONITH - power down or reset) and then takes over all the guests the failed host was running.
When we want to shutdown a host machine for maintenance (to replace a fan, add disk or memory, etc.), we just type the usual shutdown command, and the guests are automatically live-migrated to the other host. Since the guest servers keep running throughout the migration process, except for the less than a second pause, users would never even notice the event.
The Cleaning Ladies of Dun Morogh
by awylfing
Audrey Wylfing kills her first Rockjaw Trogg in World of Warcraft and wonders who cleans up the corpses.
Perhaps the Polish Cleaning Ladies are enjoying the good life in the background to this entertaining game
Self Cleaning Water Coolers and Bottled Water Dispenser - Electrotemp Water Coolers
by Brennan123
Self cleaning water cooler that kills bacteria. 62% of bottled water coolers have bacteria counts higher than recommended. The coldest water dispensers available. Water dispenser with the lowest energy use.
U.S. Prosecutor Held in a Child Sex Sting Kills Himself
by soul1383
MIAMI, Oct. 5 — A federal prosecutor charged with traveling from Florida to Michigan to have sex with a 5-year-old girl committed suicide on Friday in prison, his lawyer said.
The prosecutor, J. D. Roy Atchison, 53, was arrested on Sept. 16 leaving
Why Social Media Kills the Competition:Yelp.com Case Study | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
by couder & 1 other
I just came back from a trip to San Francisco. Apart from having a great time, I discovered a new social media site that just blew my mind and blows the competition away....
Yelp.com is not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination -- haven't reviews of local restaurants, nightlife, bars, businesses, etc. been done to death? Citysearch, for instance, founded in 1995 by idealab, would have cornered the market in local reviews, right?
Typhoon kills therr, heads out to Pacific | The Japan Times Online
As of 6 p.m., the typhoon was moving east some 180 km southeast of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, at a speed of about 55 kph. It had an atmospheric pressure of 980 hectopascals.
Man-yi was expected to blow out into the waters east of the Kanto area by nightfall.
Salt Lake Tribune - Neo-Nazi inmate kills guard at hospital, steals SUV before being nabbed at fast food restaurant
by lukeslytalker
Scary prison escapee captured
Why Social Media Kills the Competition:Yelp.com Case Study | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
by sbrothier & 1 other
I just came back from a trip to San Francisco. Apart from having a great time, I discovered a new social media site that just blew my mind and blows the competition away....
Yelp.com is not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination -- haven't reviews of local restaurants, nightlife, bars, businesses, etc. been done to death? Citysearch, for instance, founded in 1995 by idealab, would have cornered the market in local reviews, right?
