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Yes We Did
Posted Nov 4, 2008
(Updated Nov 6, 2008)
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November 20, 2009
Regretsy gets a book deal
— the anonymous author turned out to be April Winchell, collector of audio oddities
Google Chrome OS Demo
— a world without a local filesystem and apps; also, the Chrome UI concept video
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Patrick Moberg's Internet Vices
— funny, Tumblr feels more like beer than wine to me
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"
— Keith Schofield's surreal video and insane treatment were inspired by FFFFOUND and Reddit, but maybe too explicitly
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November 19, 2009
YouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions
— starting with some partner channels, but auto-timing is available to everyone today
Microsoft tries to patent Edward Tufte's sparklines
— they were recently added to Excel
Leonard Lin's Retweet Avatars for Greasemonkey
— a subtle change, but a big improvement
Web-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy
— he's the last of the original Ludicorp team to go
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November 18, 2009
Laptop Steering Wheel Desk
— don't miss the product photos
Interview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E
— from last February, but new to me; I didn't know the Axiom had three passenger classes
NSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight"
— warning: very offensive and sexist, but the attention to 16-bit detail by director Jérémie Perin is incredible
NY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project
— Expert Labs debuted at Web 2.0 today, funded with a $500k grant from the MacArthur Foundation
November 17, 2009
Google's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days
— this gets second-place for quirkiest Android bug
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Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns
— his style of comedy usually makes me uncomfortable, but this made me laugh
The Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good
— they're switching to DHT instead
November 16, 2009
How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago
— Brooke was part of the early UK blog scene
ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory
— the developer also posted videos of Paradroid and Boulder Dash
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Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games"
— his SAP prototype looks like great ambient fun
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NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement
— nothing new here, but good overview with a wonderful closing anecdote from Cactus
Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web
— "more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform"
November 14, 2009
Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files
— along with a torrent with 51,000 MIDIs rescued by Archive Team
Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response
— there were about 1,000 #mathowielove tweets in 24 hours
Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity
— only six people in the world knew, she only told her parents yesterday
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Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd
— great discussion, and it's hard not to see where both are coming from
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November 13, 2009
Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy
— I'm with Marco, the only fix is allowing external apps, but it's unlikely
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Numb3rs on IRC
— "Luckily, I speak l33t."
Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank
— hard to say if life-threatening situations are funnier than public humiliation
301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data
— the shorteners will provide regular backups and hand over data on closure, though TinyURL's conspicuously missing
November 12, 2009
Quizipedia
— simple game with trivia scraped from Wikipedia entries
Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames
— sounds like the English analogue of Amusement I was hoping for
5:57 AM
Nice.
(What a relief!)
6:39 AM
Beware false messiah's...and the people who worship them.
6:52 AM
Beware lemmings, those who are incapable of thinking for themselves, and the people who take advantage of these people.
7:02 AM
WAY TO GO!!! Love it.
7:31 AM
Beware of anonymous soothsayers incapable of seeing last night's election for what it is: a testament to democratic ideals and participatory government, and the very deliberate and thoughtful decision to nominate the better candidate by a sweeping majority of Americans.
Any more anonymous comments (i.e. without a real name and/or homepage link) will be removed.
8:08 AM
Pay no attention to the NAYSAYERS! Keep CELEBRATING and looking FORWARD to the FUTURE!!
AND, be ready to WORK when this wonderful man raises his right hand on JANUARY 20!
8:17 AM
And by work do you mean paying more in taxes, paying more for goods and services because those who run the businesses are passing on the tax increases in the form of higher prices?
And by work do you mean paying more for energy prices because other companies know that we will not work to produce our own energy sources?
If that's work, I'm glad to be like the one lady who feels that her mortgage and gas will be paid for because Lord knows I'll be unable to afford either.
9:12 AM
Last night and today, I feel so much hope. I feel so much pride. I feel like my one vote was a single drop of water in a great Tsunami of change. I feel like I was one of a million voices screaming in the night, "I love my country and I'm taking it back!" I'm so proud of the country that I love and have so much hope in my heart that we can together heal the wounds that have been such a source of pain and anger to us all. No more living in fear. No more living in hate. We can overcome! Yes we can!
I know Obama isn't going to fix the economy overnight. I know he won't be able to provide healthcare to all Americans by February '09. I know Obama isn't a Messiah who four years from now will have turned this country into a fabled utopia, but I also know Obama will make moral decisions. I know Obama will try to unite where others try to divide. I know Obama will help to make America the beacon of hope it once was to others. I know that at 46 years of age, I witnessed one of the most important and hopefully glorious chapters in American history.
I know hope. We can overcome! Yes we can! God bless you, God Bless Barack Obama, and may God Bless the United States of America!
9:55 AM
Most of the preceding comment was borrowed from this Andrew Sullivan post. With that, I'm closing comments.