February 3, 2012
February 2, 2012
Darkness
(a brilliant 24-hour comic by French cartoonist Boulet)
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January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012
Bellbot
(web app that beeps when you get new signups or sales)
ScratchML
(markup language for recording and replaying turntablism)
January 29, 2012
ChatChat
(Terry Cavanagh's multiplayer game about being a cat)
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January 27, 2012
January 26, 2012
January 25, 2012
January 24, 2012
January 23, 2012
Focus on the User
(hack by Twitter, Facebook and Myspace devs shows how Google sacrifices relevance for Google+ promotion)
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January 22, 2012
January 20, 2012
January 19, 2012
Wat
(simple nerd test: do you laugh harder at the photos or the code output?)
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January 18, 2012
Republic, Lost
(essential Lessig lecture on "striking at the root" to fix government)
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Herpderpedia
(hoping some of them channel their anger into picking up the phone)
Stop the Wall
(great video from Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on stopping SOPA/PIPA, and a handy tool to make calls)
The Oatmeal on SOPA
(love that he says he's pirated constantly, but that this is the wrong way to address it)
January 17, 2012
ClueDB
(Joshua Schachter's repurposed his lifehack site into a daily email)
Elevator: Source
(delightfully surreal co-op elevator simulator; watch the gameplay video)
January 16, 2012
Hello
(Lionel Ritchie recreated with film clips)
January 15, 2012
January 14, 2012
January 10, 2012
January 9, 2012
January 7, 2012
January 6, 2012
NASA goes open-source
(finally, I can process National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project Sensor and Environmental Data Records!)
January 4, 2012
January 3, 2012
Record MP3
(dead-simple utility for recording audio and getting a link, perfect for MTurk tasks)
January 2, 2012
January 1, 2012
December 31, 2011
December 30, 2011
December 29, 2011
December 28, 2011
December 27, 2011
December 26, 2011
December 24, 2011
December 23, 2011
December 22, 2011
December 20, 2011
December 19, 2011
December 16, 2011
December 13, 2011
December 12, 2011
The pr0n Index
(safe for work, estimates what percentage of Google Images results for a phrase are NSFW)
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December 11, 2011
Future Drama
(Tumblelog tracking visions of technology's future)
December 10, 2011
December 9, 2011
Twine
(very cool Kickstarter project for building wireless sensors connected to web services)
December 8, 2011
Cowbird
(collaborative storytelling platform from Jonathan Harris)
December 6, 2011
December 4, 2011
December 1, 2011
Echofi
(solid Pandora-ish radio for Spotify, powered by the Echonest)
November 30, 2011
November 29, 2011
November 28, 2011
November 27, 2011
Feast
(a video tribute to food in film)
November 24, 2011
November 23, 2011
November 22, 2011
Occuprint
(posters from the #occupy movement)
xkcd's Money chart
(insanely comprehensive visualization of what things cost and where money goes)
November 21, 2011
November 20, 2011
November 19, 2011
November 18, 2011
November 17, 2011
November 16, 2011
November 15, 2011
November 14, 2011
November 13, 2011
November 12, 2011
November 11, 2011
24 Hours of Flickr
(artist prints out every public photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period)
November 10, 2011
November 9, 2011
Mixel
(Khoi Vinh's collaborative drawing and remixing app for iPad;
his thoughts on the app)
November 8, 2011
PoleRiders
(new game by Bennett Foddy, the creator of
GIRP and
QWOP; meant for two players, but the training mode is fun)
November 7, 2011
November 6, 2011
November 3, 2011
Skinemax
("Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes")
November 2, 2011
November 1, 2011
Supercut.org
(I redesigned the site as a community-driven database; related: I did
some analysis of the meme in my new Wired column)
October 31, 2011
src img
(bookmarklet finds original images using Google Image Search's reverse lookup)
October 28, 2011
October 27, 2011
PataNoir
(fascinating "surreal noir" interactive fiction where every metaphor becomes real)
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October 26, 2011
October 25, 2011
Nest
(gorgeous learning thermostat created by leaders of the iPod design team)
Siri Meets Eliza
(Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner brings two eras of natural-language processing together)
October 22, 2011
October 21, 2011
October 20, 2011
October 19, 2011
October 18, 2011
Jotly
("Like ducks? Jotly will show you big and little ducks!")
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October 17, 2011
October 12, 2011
October 11, 2011
Ira Glass Sex Tape
(pitch perfect parody, I'm not sure most listeners would notice until the 4-minute mark)
Make Pixel Art
(Ben Brown and Katie Spence's awesome new pixel editor with built-in sharing)
October 10, 2011
October 9, 2011
October 8, 2011
October 7, 2011
October 6, 2011
