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December 30, 2009
— a bot that can make up bad puns #
— most new users aren’t active or engaged, so clickthroughs and replies don’t change with the influx #
December 29, 2009
— the only thing that makes me jealous of the Pre via waffle.wootest.net #
— mashing up Billboard’s Top 25 of 2009 into a completely new song #
— Matt Haughey gets some help from web superstars for his last post before the transition #
December 28, 2009
— Mario meets Tetris mashup, with a challenging ending #
December 27, 2009
— brilliant novella about quantum computing and the digital occult #
— in 1997, over half the country watched the animated special, first aired in 1958 via Delicious #
December 23, 2009
— find popular links across all your feeds, and surface a new feed of the results #
— someone do DJ Shadow and the Avalanches next! #
— haunting short film by a Pixar animator, only viewable for a short time via MetaFilter #
— I fully expect Anonymous to show up #
December 22, 2009
— great talk on crowdsourcing and the fine line between volunteering and exploitation #
December 21, 2009
— horrible shutdown procedure: ten days’ notice during the holidays to save everything manually #
— like the Phantom Menace, the lack of constraints can lead to disaster #
— in their official response, they blame “insufficient foreground lighting” via MetaFilter #
— think outside the box via Indie Games+ #
— fictional comic history about the hacking/phreaking scene; I bought both and am anxiously awaiting Volume 3 via Boing Boing #
December 20, 2009
— great followup to Paul Kedrosky’s original post about trouble in the Google ecosystem #
December 19, 2009
— even a simple basketball game becomes compelling with multiple realtime players #
— an archive of artist/coder _why the lucky stiff’s known works via Hacker News #
December 18, 2009
— a new Christmas carol, with Anton Patzner on violin and Zoe Keating on cello #
— only works in modern browsers, uses HTML5 audio #
— I wonder how much of the criticism stems from perceptions of Twitter as frivolous #
— more than half the length of the film itself #
— packing feats and ordinary objects reassembled to look like model toys #
— so exciting; I still think Night at the Hip-Hopera is the best mashup album ever #
— street names are often unknown, so they just describe what you’ll pass by #
December 17, 2009
— the most thoughtful and realistic I’ve seen #
— a collage of hyperspace scenes in film via @kirstinbutler #
— they compare it to the demographics of the Internet and United States #
— this would be great for Analytics, to view your community’s actual screen sizes #
December 16, 2009
— she should hang out with pixelated girl and polygon guy #
— PC exploration game, like the Knytt series with a more elaborate storyline and gameplay #
— good to hear, thanks Jeremy #
— “I own this town from 41st to 47th” #
— from the gallery that started Crazy 4 Cult 3-D #
— they were acquired last week for $26M by a Malaysian company; the pre-IPO Google offer could’ve been worth $1B today via @textfiles #
— my top 10 would be virtually identical; I haven’t played Saira yet, but soon #
— they asked several people, including me, for our favorites #
December 15, 2009
— mind-numbingly stupid, the videos are free viral ads for their catalog; related: ASCAP demanding fees for Guitar Hero parties #
— roll a D20 saving throw whenever the GM tries to poison you (i.e. when you feel like smoking) via androidandme.com #
— my brother-in-law’s free holiday EP, for fans of Van Dyke Parks and Nilsson #
