How To Draw God-Man
— related: Molly Norris redacted her cartoon; paintings were pulled from the Met #
Irish music blogs under attack
— they may try to demand money from MP3 blogs outside of Ireland, too #
Know Your Meme's guide to challenging YouTube takedowns with fair use
— your video will be immediately viewable after submitting #
John Goerzen's downloadable archive of Gopherspace circa 2007
— 780,000 documents, 15GB compressed; sadly, Firefox is the last popular browser with Gopher support (via) #
Food, Inc. now available for free online viewing
— great documentary about the food industry, 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes (via) #
2 Girls 1 Cup: The Infographic
— tracking the volume and video movement of 20 reaction videos; don't miss the collage (via) #
Super Mario Crossover
— loving tribute to NES history, play SMB as Link, Samus, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, or the Contra guy #
Indianapolis Star reporter researches a teenager with no official identity
— a journalist, a staff librarian, and Facebook rewrote his entire life (via) #
Spotify adds social features in newest version
— not available in the U.S. yet, so very jealous (via) #
Agenda Circling Forth, first-place demo at Breakpoint 2010
— everything's a particle; don't miss the video if you can't run the real-time demo (via) #
Apple //t, Twitter display for the Apple II
— everyone's favorite tweeting cat makes a cameo at 1:46 in the video (via) #
YouTube explains "fair use" option for disputed videos
— publishers can then decide to file a DMCA request; apparently not new, but new to me (via) #
Akihabara, open-source HTML5 pixel game toolkit
— the demos are an impressive range of genres and all work on iPad/iPhone #
How an Apple employee lost the iPhone 4G prototype
— I feel bad for the guy; no mention of who found it, how Gizmodo acquired it, or media ethics #
New York Magazine's cover story on the NYC tech scene
— Kickstarter featured on page 5 and the slideshow #
Roger Ebert believes videogames can never be art
— I completely disagree with him, along with nearly every commenter #
Stupid Fight on Twitter
— compare the language skills of the last 100 replies to Twitter celebs (via) #
Nieman Lab on the results of Gawker's comment moderation experiments
— hiding less trusted commenters leads to higher quality comments and more activity #
Nate Silver takes on NYC neighborhood livability
— like his election work, distills an incredible amount of data into something readable #
Google to open-source On2's VP8 codec for HTML5 video
— Chrome, Firefox, and Opera will support; Safari and IE are less certain #
Star Wars Uncut's "The Escape," five-minute teaser
— first look at the finished project to remake Star Wars in 15 second increments (via) #
Flash CS5 to support limited HTML5 canvas export
— outputs in Adobe's SVG-like FXG format, with a JS library to display in a canvas element (via) #
Giant Bomb adds elaborate quests system
— nicely done, though it's having some unintended side effects; I made a screencast of a simple subquest #