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A Little Too Accessible
Posted Dec 3, 2002
November 3, 2009
Eric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume
— incredibly creepy, like videogames leaking into the real world
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November 2, 2009
Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element
— told through annotated conversations from 1993
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Every vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page
— I wonder which edits managed to stay in the longest without detection
November 1, 2009
Mike Pusateri's Halloween costume data collection
— for the fifth year, he's collected every costume name; this year, "nothing" spiked to #2
XKCD's movie narrative charts
— here's a more serious attempt at Primer's timeline
October 30, 2009
GameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix
— extremely minimalist interpretations of 12 different games
October 29, 2009
Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat
— it measures your smile and stabs you if you're not smiling sufficiently
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October 28, 2009
Auto Tune de Nieuws
— needs an angry Dutch gorilla
Facebook prank memorializes living person
— the Facebook team should allow an email veto, or at least require better documentation
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2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup
— don't miss the breakdown by OS and country
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FreeForm's short film on the Open Internet
— impressive set of interviewees, directed by Jesse Dylan of Yes We Can fame
Using Flickr as a paintbrush
— coloring overhead maps based on the dominant colors of photos taken on the ground
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October 27, 2009
Football Hero, three-story-tall Guitar Hero controlled with soccer balls
— they used pressure pads with Arduino boards wired up to Frets on Fire
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Chris Ware's Halloween cover and comic for the New Yorker
— the masks that grown-ups wear
Interactive Fiction Competition 2009
— 14 of the 24 nominees are playable online; Emily Short has a list of reviewers, as well as her own
John Resig on the serious spam issues with Google Groups lists
— if you want to know which areas of big companies are being ignore, watch for spam taking over
October 26, 2009
Amazon launches Relational Database Service
— MySQL 5.1 with automated backups
Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer's "A Piece of My Mind"
— new to me, love the sound; if you like that, try his chap-hop medley
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Graphic history of newspaper circulations from 1990-2009
— related: the Christian Science Monitor is finding success after killing their print edition
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Facebook games analyzed by an MMO player
— interesting, though cynical, perspective of the underlying mechanics
Playing guitar-less Guitar Hero with a muscle-computer interface
— they should add a heart monitor that triggers star power when things get intense
Google's Social Search experiment goes live in Labs
— a little module with content from your Reader subscriptions and Gmail contacts
Brandon Boyer's feature on Machinarium's concept artwork
— if you haven't already, buy it for PC, Mac or Linux
Jonathan Puckey's tool-assisted Delaunay vectorization portraits
— don't miss the video at the bottom showing a conversion
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Facebook memorializes profiles for people who have passed away
— they no longer show up in Suggested Users and privacy's increased
October 25, 2009
xkcd's homage to Geocities
— Yahoo! Ate My Balls
October 24, 2009
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
— authoritative source for arcane timezone trivia
Explaining the math behind ASCIIp0rtal
— surprisingly understandable
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October 23, 2009
iPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app
— vaguely related: World of Goo's pay-what-you-like sale results
October 22, 2009
7:11 PM
It sucks that you waited like three weeks to update. It's awesome, however, that three weeks of waiting together with one short post can make me laugh so hard. Beautiful.
10:36 PM
That's sick, man. What's sicker, is that Cameron already said exactly what I was going to say.
9:32 PM
And I don't even want to know why, in the lower left-hand corner of the cover, it says "New Riders."
I feel dirty all over -- like every word on that Amazon page is a salacious double entendre. "Accessible." "Used and New."
"Have one to sell? Sell yours here."
9:20 AM
Holy Christ. AAACK! You know he did that on purpose.