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June 30, 2009
— it was a requirement of their funding from the Knight Foundation #
— one of the bands responds in the comments and gets schooled by Anthony via musicmachinery.com #
— I’m loving this series #
— Eurogamer estimates 1 million Chinese gold farmers with worldwide trade worth more than US$10 billion annually via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— Brokep’s statement is delusional; being acquired will almost certainly kill the site #
— authoritative 518-page history of Lucasfilm, the creation of Pixar, and much more via Michael Heilemann #
June 29, 2009
— he recently switched from free, open-source games; also, EA claims Spielberg’s LMNO isn’t cancelled #
— they collaborated with Jimmy Wales directly to freeze the entry; NPR asks if it was ethical via MetaFilter #
— possibly starring Michael Cera or Shia LaBeouf as Zuckerberg; this sounds familiar via Fimoculous #
— outstanding blog reporting, with industrial food testing from 17 different restaurants and research into suppliers #
June 28, 2009
— looking at the paintings, I felt like I’d actually visited those locations in real-life via Offworld #
— not all games need to be fun via Delicious #
June 27, 2009
— I’m in London right now, and I’ve seen several massive vigils and tributes on the streets via Andre Torrez #
— check the leaderboard for the first score to break the 10% improvement threshold via Daring Fireball #
— backstory on how it works and the Hawthorne effect; simply measuring something can change its behavior via Paul Bausch #
June 26, 2009
— with no way to back up videos at all via @cshirky #
— also: Virt’s incredible VRC6 cover of Thriller #
June 25, 2009
— Stephen Holden and Neil Strauss have a limited musical vocabulary via Matt Haughey #
June 24, 2009
— I love his gallery page, full of BBSes #
— they deliberately made it game-like to encourage participation via powazek.com #
June 22, 2009
— first of a series on Time.com, reminiscent of The Show via Daring Fireball #
— this is way awesome, the mashup possibilities are endless #
June 19, 2009
— “all of blogging is hip hop” #
— prepare to weep via Daring Fireball #
June 18, 2009
— brilliantly using readers to dig through 700,000 documents to aid their investigation #
— he looks at the number of plays per listener for a simple metric #
— cliche supercut of TV/film characters suddenly hit by moving vehicles #
June 17, 2009
— not as flawless as I thought; it disables Visual Voicemail, but you can check manually until the new hack’s out tomorrow #
— drawn freehand in Photoshop, they contain no photos or scanned material #
— related: Clay’s TED talk from last month at the State Department #
— PHP/MySQL app, it recommends stories in your feeds based on link popularity #
— he still makes me giggle #
— tarnished Chrome, boring Safari, and old Firefox; “get rid of it, or get lost” #
— start from the beginning and keep reading; his writing is outstanding via Alice Taylor #
June 16, 2009
— also known as “trespassing” #
— sending all traffic through Opera’s proxies creates more centralization instead of less #
— only about 8% knew; Rocketboom got very different answers on the NYU campus in 2005 #
— Internet meme plus chiptunes equals Waxy love #
— “It’s official: Andrew W.K., world’s best babysitter.” #
— everything sounds better autotuned; see also: Winston Churchill and MLK #
— web server hosted in the browser using Opera’s proxy servers for a simple URL; file sharing seems the most useful #
— Super Mario Bros. in a blender #
— he’s publishing his notebook of “someday” ideas, and they’re all winners #
June 15, 2009
— Doors style parody featuring Ray Manzarek on keyboards, directed by Liam Lynch via Maximum Fun #
— a Twitter client for the Commodore 64/128 via Delicious #
— new candidate for best error ever #
— I want to see this on the Wii with head tracking via Indie Games+ #
