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July 31, 2007
Polyvore (fascinating community built around collage of random images strewn around the web)
July 30, 2007
Casual Gameplay Design Competition 3 winners announced (some incredible entries cleverly using the "replay" theme)
Video: Airplane! vs. Zero Hour (looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue) [via]
July 27, 2007
Faceball (the national sport of Flickr, now with video tutorials and documentation)
July 26, 2007
Tether your iPhone: EDGE Internet on your laptop (neat and simple hack)
July 25, 2007
Human Brain Cloud (massively multiplayer word game, with one of the nicest graphs ever)
Furminator (pinball machine hacked into a first-person shooter; try the videos) [via]
Video: Guys and Dolls (documentary about men living with Real Dolls) [via]
Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not) (Wesabe's Firefox uploader and REST API quietly release your bank's stranglehold on your data)
The Hello Experiment (if this doesn't make sense, watch this first) [via]
July 23, 2007
Weekly World News shutting down after 28 years (Ed Anger is gonna be pissed) [via]
July 22, 2007
Myspace blocks the letter "i" (maybe a typo in a case-insensitive regex?)
July 19, 2007
Ask A Music Scene Micro-Celebrity (legendary record engineer Steve Albini answers questions in a poker message board)
David Weinberger debates Andrew "The Cult of the Amateur" Keen (Weinberger smacks down Keen's inane argument that the social web is making us illiterate)
July 15, 2007
Video: Echochrome gameplay footage (looks like a playable version of Escher's Relativity; see also: Portal)
July 11, 2007
Using your Apple IIe as a Linux terminal (detailed instructions and fun photos; or, if you prefer, hook it up to your Mac)
DEC's Glimpse of the Future from 1994 (marketing video pitching the very early Web to businesses; tons of vintage screen capture goodness)
July 10, 2007
Eyes Wide Shut in 1947 Life Magazine (Life Magazine asked comics artists to draw their iconic characters blindfolded) [via]
July 9, 2007
Vanity Fair's long oral history of The Simpsons (they interviewed Rupert Murdoch, Art Spiegelman, Barry Diller, Brad Bird, Ricky Gervais, and others) [via]
July 8, 2007
Terrorist organization logos, grouped by design motifs (see also: terror groups gone corporate)
July 6, 2007
Happy Birthday, Ollie Kottke (you've got baby!)
Telekinesis, an open-source iPhone remote (remote desktop, streaming video, and application server, all running in iPhone's Safari)
YouTube Doubler (play two videos at once; more entertaining than you'd think) [via]
iPhone Dev Wiki crew releases iPhoneInterface tool (they've figured out a way to start arbitrary services and move files around)
When They Started Hating You (Jason Scott on the history of user-aggressive software, from BBS crippleware to P2P adware)
Adrian Holovaty releases templatemaker, a Python library for smart screen scraping (given a large set of HTML documents, intelligently extracts the strings that change between them)
July 5, 2007
Fake Steve Jobs on the music industry (fake or not, this is great commentary on the Universal Music pullout from iTunes) [via]
July 4, 2007
Gnome corpses used to spam World of Warcraft players ("corpse graffiti" sounds like a made-up Jargon Watch entry)
A Sketch Towards a Taxonomy of Meta-Desserts (don't miss the full chart) [via]
First in-game footage of Rock Band (rocks hard, but those drums won't come cheap)
White Glove Tracking project is done (as promised, the data and visualizations have been released) [via]
DVD Jon breaks iPhone activation (I love that guy; also, the iPhone dev crew just released their own tool)
July 3, 2007
Appaholic Viral Dashboard (shows the fastest growing Facebook apps in the last day)
Poetry written in Inform 7 (the interactive fiction language is particularly well-suited to poetry and prose; more here)
NYT on the attention to culinary detail in "Ratatouille" (including Thomas Keller's ratatouille recipe for the film's final meal) [via]
iPhone Dev Wiki's Latest Summary (daily updates of progress in unlocking and modding the iPhone)