September 7, 2011
Venus Patrol, Brandon Boyer's new indie gaming blog, on Kickstarter
— his followup to Offworld, my favorite blog of 2009; the rewards are insane, with unreleased games by indie gaming's all-stars #
Jim Romenesko shuts down the Obscure Store
— one of the oldest active blogs, it ran for 13 years (via) #
Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout
— experimental procedural text toy for iPad from my favorite IF author #
Jason Scott's DEFCON talk on Archive Team
— powerful talk highlighting their incredibly important digital preservation work #
Google Correlate searches trends by drawing
— Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut's story shapes in with amusing results (via) #
Yahoo retiring Maps API on September 13
— as if hundreds of mashups suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced #
Wikileaks Cablegate emails leak in full online
— the Guardian published the password in a book, but they blame Wikileaks for lax security #