July 2008 - Page 3 of 3

July 8, 2008

Thsrs, the shorter thesaurus — enter a long word to get a shorter synonym #

Handwritten Typographers — comparing type designers' handwriting to the typefaces they created #

Improv Everywhere's Human Mirror — Cam Barrett, a participant, mentioned an aborted four-hour prank at Starbucks (via) #

12:01 PM, time-travel short film from 1990 — Kurtwood Smith lives a grim version of Groundhog Day where time repeats every hour #

The Quiet Earth — apocalyptic "last man on Earth" film from 1985, in its entirety on YouTube #

Wil Shipley's Greatest Bug of All — I love a good bug-slaying yarn (via) #

The iPhone's Gaming Mettle — DS and PSP comparison from Touch Arcade, a new weblog devoted to iPhone gaming (via) #

How It Turned Out, the fate of the Peanuts gang — pulled from this collection of Peanuts futurism, with more in the comments #

Google ASCII Art — hmm, no results (via) #

July 7, 2008

Totem Destroyer — like a stripped-down, Flash version of Boom Blox #

R. Lee Ermey on VB.NET — it's like boot camp that never ends (via) #

Rabble on the gentrification of geek news communities — I hadn't thought of it in those terms before #

Lee Byron's bubbly infographic in the New York Times — bubbles try to push themselves out when clicked; the first infographic with physics? #

I Met the Walrus, Oscar-nominated animated short — 1969 conversation with John Lennon; be sure to switch to high quality (via) #

Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon — Google Maps-like controls for zooming and panning the shelves (via) #

July 6, 2008

Pixar and Courtney, the girl who cried at Wall-E — wonderful first-person anecdote about Pixar in a long politicized thread (via) #

Oh No My Money — use the savings to pay off the credit card debt, Eric #

Trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion — documentary about animatronics nuts keeping Showbiz Pizza nostalgia alive #

July 5, 2008

Better Than the Van — open up your couches for bands on tour (via) #

July 4, 2008

TED releases the top 10 most-viewed talks — the usual suspects, but a great primer #

July 3, 2008

Features are a one-way street — once your userbase is big enough, you can't pull features without backlash (via) #

Amazon EC2 used to distribute spam, malware — inevitable, but it'll be very hard to stop (via) #

The Last Days of Dr. Wily — don't miss the screenshots at the end (via) #

July 2, 2008