Chris Han's Love Songs, mashup of 33 songs with "love" in the title
— watching the fullscreen output from Ableton Live is strangely hypnotic (via) #
Flickr designer George Oates on her insane layoff from Yahoo!
— she was in Taipei when she got the call; her last Flickr blog post about The Commons was just posted yesterday (via) #
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
— documentary about his obsessive research, now archived at the University of the Arts London #
1UP's exclusive preview of Noby Noby Boy, new game by Katamari Damacy creator
— Wired has more screenshots, mostly taken from the adorable official site #
MusicBox, mapping and visualizing music collections
— the demo video gives a great overview of the software, created for her thesis at MIT (via) #
Parry Gripp's Young Girl Talking About Herself
— Nerf Herder's lead singer is making minute-long pop gems inspired by YouTube culture (via) #
Antville's Best Music Videos of 2008
— the best music video community nominates their picks for their yearly awards #
I Love Katamari comes to the iPhone
— very slow once the ball gets big, but how could I not buy this? #
New York Times' Year in Ideas 2008
— love the selections, not fond of the un-weblike layout that's hard to link to #
Rara Racer, meta racing game in the form of a YouTube playthrough
— very clever, the narration reminds me of Night of the Cephalapods #
Chef, an esoteric programming language where source resembles recipes
— try the Hello World Souffle, discussed in Nick Montfort and Michael Mateas' paper on weird languages and code aesthetics (via) #
Jeff Atwood on Swoopo, the most evil shopping site ever
— it's a money-making machine, preying on hope and desperation #
Metro Rules of Conduct
— Flash game simulates the awkwardness of avoiding eye contact on public transit #
Michal Kosakowski's Just Like the Movies
— the WTC attacks retold as a pastiche of scenes from hundreds of pre-9/11 movies (via) #
Is This Your Paper on Single Serving Sites?
— academic essay on the trend, with a spreadsheet of 133 sites with their registration dates #
Library of Congress releases report on success of Flickr Commons
— the project was pioneered by the brilliant George Oates, Flickr's lead designer who was laid off earlier today #
Sol Sender on the evolution of the Obama '08 logo
— the rejected logos are fascinating, especially the speech balloon (via) #
Dennis Jerz on Google Maps' "Report a Concern" wording on Street View
— also: saying "I'm sorry" is an implied admission of guilt, which is why CEOs never, ever say it #
David Rosen's design tour of Knytt Stories
— like his World of Goo tour, explains the graphical, audio, and gameplay decisions that make the game special (via) #
Image Evolution, evolve your own image with Javascript
— a Canvas-based reimplementation of the Mona Lisa genetic programming hack #
How the Perceptron music recommender weights its data sources
— using mixtapes and Myspace top friends is clever; give it a try #
ATMachine's House of LucasArts and Sierra Oddities
— including the comprehensive evolution of Indy game maps, Guybrush and Elaine, LeChuck, the LucasArts logo, and a rare Japanese Maniac Mansion #
Anil Dash on his night sleeping in the Guggenheim
— ever since I read Basil E. Frankweiler, I've wanted to do this #
Popular Science magazine archives from 1872-2008 on Google Book Search
— they've expanded into magazine archives, including Popular Mechanics, Mother Jones, Dwell, and New York #
Google's Native Client, run x86 apps in the browser
— their open-source alternative to Java or Alchemy for Flash (via) #
Genetically evolving a car in real-time with Flash
— here's one iteration after a few hours; the author discussed it on Reddit (via) #
How GoDaddy secretly profits from expired domains
— they auction off popular expired domains, and quietly keep the rest for themselves #
Pulitzer Prize extended to online "newspapers," but not online "magazines"
— the distinction is meaningless, but this is still a step in the right direction #
The Lonely Island's Jizz in My Pants on SNL
— Jorma and Akiva finally appear on-screen in the first single off Incredibad, their debut album coming in February (via) #
Wikiscanner2 beta
— Virgil's using a new technique for identifying more organizations and conflicts-of-interest (via) #
WSJ on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" on the Sundance Channel
— I've been waiting for a show like this, about the love of music, my entire life #