October 31, 2008
MTV censors names of P2P apps from Weird Al video
— could be old news, and only recently noticed with the launch of MTV Music #
Lorna Mills' class on outsider net.art from 4chan to Nasty Nets
— a mess of interesting links, just start from the first class and work forward #
ReConstitution 2008, live infoviz remix of the 2008 presidential debates
— three MIT grads used custom C++ code to remix the closed captioning in real-time #
Rescue Princess 2.0, ways to make web apps more game-like
— exploratory learning with levels, items, inventory, quests, and scores #
Trailer for Touchgrind, multitouch skateboarding game for the iPhone
— let your fingers do the grinding #
Shoot the Player
— musicians filmed live in Australia, inspired by La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows #
Polifics, the Election '08 Fanfiction community
— Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton/Biden, and even Obama/McCain slashfic (via) #
Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill
— very creepy NYC storefront with animatronic hot dogs, squirming chicken nuggets, and monkey porn #
Flickr now offering shape boundaries for 150,000 places
— also, new user-created OpenStreetMap tiles for Baghdad and Kabul #
CNN asks voters to say something nice about the other guy
— like Greene, I find this really refreshing #
James Kochalka hits 10 years of drawing American Elf
— I highly recommend the first two collections, and the third's out next month (via) #
Girl Talk's Feed the Animals: The Official Sample List
Last month, I dissected Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals using the list of samples lovingly collected by hundreds of Wikipedia users. But that was totally unofficial, a crowdsourced attempt to find musical needles in a giant mashup haystack.
Well, the official CDs were shipped out last week to everyone who donated more than $10. Inside, as promised, was the official sample list — a one-page insert with every single sample on the album. Steve Heil was the first to scan it and contact me.
Unfortunately, a huge block of printed small-caps text isn’t very useful for my kind of fun, so I tried throwing into several OCR engines on WeOCR to turn the image into text. Tesseract gave the best results, but it was still a mess that needed quite a bit of cleanup.
Anyway, here it is. The complete list of all 322 samples in Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals, available as a CSV, Excel, or Google Spreadsheets document.
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Errol Morris on the history of real-people political ads
— the McCain campaign also used this approach in their Joe the Plumber testimonials #
WTF, Broccoli: Part Two
— more photos of little food people, though Cascadian Farms is removing them on their packaging redesign #
West Virginia vote flipping caught on tape
— if the interface is this flaky, can you imagine what the data store and security look like? #
Mega Man 9 stop-motion with paper
— the real game even reproduces NES flaws like flickering and framerate issues (via) #
Christian Science Monitor to go web-only in April 2009
— the first national newspaper to drop the "paper," and not the last #
The Unfinished Swan, beautiful indie game in an all-white world
— oddly, announced at the same time as the Whitewash tech demo in Unity #
Google strikes deal with book publishers, creates Book Rights Registry
— reading the terms, I still don't think publishers should be able to stop people previewing their books; here's their side (via) #
François Macré's Thriller, an a cappella rendition in 64 parts
— it's the season for over-the-top Thriller remakes #
Flaming Lips' Guitar Hero double-necked guitar mod
— "because a lot of kids out there think this is actually the way you play guitar" (via) #
MTV Music, huge music video collection with a Hulu-like interface
— 22,000 videos, embeddable and streaming; someone should mash the API with the 120 Minutes Playlists archive (via) #
Gunman Kills 15 Potential Voters In Crucial Swing State
— it seems like all news is political these days #
Flickr's Rev. Dan Catt on RjDj for the iPhone as augmented reality
— if you haven't tried it, you're really missing out #
Gentrify, help San Francisco urban elite find places to live
— I love the individual apartment listings; another great Rails Rumble entry #
Kevin Kelly on the evidence of a global superorganism
— some great comments, though the reverse-chronological order drives me insane #
Prince of Persia creator posts first video shoot from 1985
— if you've played the game, you'll recognize the movements immediately; Jordan's posting his old development diary online (via) #
NYT writer invites 700 Facebook "friends" to a party, one shows up
— rethinking the meanings of "friend," "attending," and "maybe" (via) #
Using the NYT Campaign Finance Data API with Google Spreadsheets
— taking advantage of Google Spreadsheets' XML import methods; related: web service to normalize candidate names #
GreenDot Project, identifying humans with body language
— Obama moves vertically, McCain horizontally, and Bush a mix of both (via) #
Flight404's Processing flocking experiment turned into $235 Paul Smith shirt
— Robert finds it flattering, but it's bad form to turn this into this without credit #