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March 31, 2009

Humanized versions of Disney and Pixar characters

— also: humanized Spongebob, South Park, and Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem via slashfilm.com #

Apple features John Cage's 4'33" as free iTunes download

— the first movement’s free, the other two are a steal for $0.99 each via LiveJournal #

The Onion on Prague's Franz Kafka International Airport

— don’t miss the attention to detail in the signage #

Short Storyspreadsheet, character study in Microsoft Excel

— action, dialogue, and each character’s thoughts in separate columns via Boing Boing #

iPhone pirating app attacks rival pirate app store

— glimpse into the increasingly sophisticated iPhone warez scene #

Harnessing hamster power with nanogenerators

— this is like Matt’s dream realized #

Pixel art "Viagra" spam using HTML tables and colored cells

— just spotted this myself, the spam equivalent of ANSI art #

Cheer Up the Chatbot

— don’t read how it works until you’ve played a little via MetaFilter #
March 30, 2009

Big Man Japan vs. the Stink Monster

— inexplicable clip from the alternative monster movie, Big Man Japan via @youtubereviewed #

The Big Picture on Earth Hour

— click each image to see the before and after photos #

Gamasutra on the Experimental Gameplay Sessions 2009

— the Achron gameplay videos are hurting my brain #

Ken Jennings' week of favorite metafiction

— he also highlighted his favorite meta films, songs, and TV series #

10 Zen Monkeys tracks down Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch

— the new book came out Wednesday; his Fox News appearance was bizarre #

24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr

— 64,410 photos visualized in Processing #

Omegle, chat with random strangers

— a social experiment populated by lolkidz, trolls, and confused people like you via buzzfeed.com #
March 28, 2009

Twitter shuts down @cwalken account

— in the past, Twitter’s renamed fakesters like Cliffy_B, Richard Dawkins, and Henry Rollins #
March 27, 2009

Google Street View timelapse across the Golden Gate Bridge

— here’s an earlier automated version from 2007 #

Caterina Fake explains Hunch.com, her new startup

— decision trees, informed by machine learning and user contributions #
March 26, 2009

Soy tu Aire, interactive Flash song visualization

— worth the loading time via Delicious #

Obsession Times Voice

— John Gruber, Merlin Mann, and Jonathan Coulton on writing for a living #

Robert Hodgin describes how he made snakes in Processing

— don’t miss his other snake studies via flight404.com #

SelfControl, Mac app blocks access to specified websites and email for time limit

— once set, it can’t be undone by the app or restarting the computer via fffff.at #

Justine Lai's oil paintings of herself having sex with each US President

— in chronological order, she’s up to Ulysses S. Grant spanking her; Rule 34, anyone? #

Kent Brewster discovers a security flaw in Amazon Wishlists

— he’d been trying to get them to patch it since last October via Delicious #

Filefront closes with only five days' notice

— Jason Scott notes it’s 48 terabytes of user-contributed data, gone #

Ask Metafilter on the origins of "selective invisibility" and the twit bit

— Clive Thompson said the technique was invented by Disqus, but it dates back to the BBS era #

Eurogamer breaks down the technical hurdles of OnLive

— on the surface, it seems impossible without huge sacrifices to quality and responsiveness #
March 25, 2009

JuicyDrop, music visualization in Javascript with Canvas and SoundManager2

— a port of Winamp’s classic MilkDrop visualizer with support for its presets #

Wikirank, popular and trending articles on Wikipedia

— related: WikiChanges, which charts edit activity over time #

HD trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are

— looks stunning via cdevroe.com #

OnLive's GDC press conference, real-time gaming over broadband

— demo starts at 10:30; stream PS3-level graphics to a low-end Macbook, or your TV with a tiny set-top box #

Gary "Numa Numa" Brolsma's ad for GEICO

— like Cherry Chocolate Rain, this just makes me sad #

John Carmack releases open-source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone

— his detailed design notes explain his gameplay changes #

Google's Wonder Wheel Experiment

— first example of dataviz in their results, plus the new option to restrict and sort by date #
March 24, 2009

Greasemonkey script adds Twitter Search results on Google

— surprisingly useful; I’m surprised Google hasn’t found a way to order the web by date #

Home of the Underdogs revived by fans

— the best abandonware site is back; the original reviews are up, but without downloads for now via MetaFilter #

Double Fine's Host Master and the Conquest of Humor

— an excellent one-room adventure game starring Tim Schafer himself; find all 22 jokes! #

Paul Lamere analyzes the Loudness War in modern music

— Avril Lavigne and Soulja Boy are louder than Megadeth #
March 23, 2009

Legend of Zelda theme performed on two Tesla coils at SXSW

— and it’s a SexyBack mashup, too #

NPR's All Things Considered interviews Kutiman about Thru-You

— he worked on it for two straight months, and only pitch-shifted three samples on the album #

NYT valiantly tries to explain a Chinese anti-censorship meme

— the original video was removed, but this explains the lyrics with translated wordplay #

Rands on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge

— a nice allegory for American innovation, which we need right about now #
March 22, 2009

419 scammer chats with security company CEO

— the brutal honesty is refreshing and continued for another hour #
March 21, 2009

Snaggs' giant hand-made Atari 2600 cartridges

— check out the detail, they’re sewn onto vinyl via Alice Taylor #

The Vimeo team gets auto-tuned

— I suggest a College Humor spin-off via dalasverdugo.com #

Jump on Mushrooms, Super Mario played in reverse

— mind-bending experimental PC game, reminiscent of Braid via the-inbetween.com #
March 20, 2009

NewsAlarm, smoke alarm wired up to the New York Times NewsWire API

— could be good for finance, severe weather, or even vanity alarms via infosthetics.com #

Pew releases State of the News Media 2009

— comprehensive and bleak report, studying all sectors of journalism; key findings here #

Small Talk, real-time weather visualization using Twitter

— part of the Google Chrome Experiments #

Quietube

— like Readability for YouTube; here’s a quick demo via booktwo.org #
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