Waxy.org: Links Archives: September 2010

The Case of the "Audiosonic Identiglyph" (Adam Kempa needs help decrypting encoded audio on vinyl)

8 Bit Wood (lovely pixel art sculpture, coming soon to Etsy)

Cyberpunk Style Guide (framegrabs from Hackers, just in time for the 15th anniversary party)

Asteroids Bookmarklet (destroy any webpage)

Wired on the rise of ThinkGeek (don't miss the linked Tommy O'Riley cover)

AOL acquires TechCrunch (for a rumored $40M)

Journalism in the Age of Data (one-hour documentary featuring the all-stars of information visualization)

Anasomnia (reminds me of Nose Pilot) [via]

Norwegian Recycling's "Miracles" (impressive mashup seamlessly splices new verses out of 16 pop songs) [via]

Michael Heilemann's analysis of user behavior by blog (on a long article, Hacker News and Boing Boing readers stick around, Reddit users bail quickly)

Google Blacklist (terms that won't work on Google Instant) [via]

Jason Schwartzman introduces the New Yorker iPad app (lonelysandwich has some new competition)

Ron Gilbert joins Double Fine (he's working with Tim Schafer on a secret new game)

Portal mod for Minecraft (chocolate and peanut butter)

MSN Spaces closing down (better than most, they're offering six months' notice with Wordpress migration and URL redirects)

ThinkUp beta released (wonderful DIY Twitter/Facebook archiving, visualization, and analysis tool)

Kanye Jordan (Tom Armitage turns a funny tweet into a Twitter bot)

Tilt-Shift Van Gogh (applying photographic effects to paintings) [via]

MakerBot announces the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer (supports a print queue, clearing the build surface between prints; $1,225, cheap!)

Google Pizza (Gimme Pizza!)

Anil Dash on the launch of Gourmet Live (the secret A-list team included Paul Ford, Andre Torrez, Garrett Murray, and Liz Spiers)

Maker Faire New York starts this weekend (on the site of the 1964 World's Fair!)

Mojo (easy way to add simple achievements/points to any website) [via]

What happens if you put your hand in front of the LHC beam? (they're not sure, but it seems like a bad idea) [via]

Gourmet Magazine relaunched as an iPad app (the rewards are interesting; first magazine to give you achievements for reading?)

Evercookie, proof-of-concept undeletable tracking cookie (Ars interviewed the creator, whose name might sound familiar) [via]

Recreating Shazam in Java (very readable, visual explanation of an audio recognition algorithm)

M.I.A.'s Story to Be Told (CAPTCHA and vintage net.art as music video, created by dump.fm) [via]

Aaron Meyers maps the moon's topography to frames of a Paul Robertson animated GIF (with suitably insane results; the original GIF, a detail view, and the entire thing animated)

Mena's farewell to Six Apart (thanks for everything)

Last.fm plots listening preferences by gender and age (Cali Lewis is the only charting female that mostly men like)

12x5 pixel LED display built in Minecraft (by the way, the official site's back up today and the game for sale)

VideoEgg to acquire Six Apart, rename to Say Media (end of an era)

Never Mind the Bullets (an HTML comic created to promote IE9) [via]

Starring the Computer (tracking computer appearances in film and TV, like the Burroughs B205 and IBM AN/FSQ-7)

Chinese employees get creative with holiday work schedules (interesting that in the Inception version, holidays are reality and work is the dream state)

White Knuckles by OK Go (from the director of "Here It Goes Again") [via]

First homebrew game and emulator released for the PS3 (every time a new Sony DRM scheme is cracked, an angel gets its wings)

The Visual 6502 (impressive Javascript emulator visualizes chip operations at a transistor level) [via]

Misspelled Food (from 4chan, naturally)

Looxcie, always-on POV video recorder (the personal panopticon is coming)

Austin Seraphin's first week on the iPhone (a blind user's emotional response to Apple; also, he switched from Linux to Mac last week)

Steven Frank compiles Newton emulator for the iPad (What is Newton?)

Jim Henson making Muppets in 1969 (15 minutes of raw creativity, along with the great Don Sahlin)

Derek Yu's guide to finishing a game (several apply to non-game development, too) [via]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year (they're making $70k/day; don't miss the creator's essay on how piracy works)

Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30 (the flipside; directly inspired by Reddit's campaign)

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011 (two of my favorite games ever)

Increpare's Cascode (figure out the rules to win the game)

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster (every performer's depicted as a generic corporate logo)

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box (a locked box that can only be opened in a specific location; watch the video interview) [via]

Alex Payne on the new Twitter (he internally argued, unsuccessfully, for decentralization)

Diaspora releases first source code (by the end of summer, as promised in their original project; power geeks, try it here)

SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen (the writer is a trained chef who's worked at Gramercy Tavern and Jean Gorges) [via]

Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962 (from Lost World's Fairs, experiments in type on the web) [via]

Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs (this year, they were featured in the main show)

Hyperbole and a Half's The Party (related: an interview with Allie Brosh)

10k Apart contest winners announced (impressive design in Matchuppps, with CSS3 animations, Typekit fonts, and images from the Dribbble API) [via]

The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter (don't miss the author's explanation on how it was planned and written)

Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean (he's taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand)

jsTerm (ANSI-capable HTML5 telnet terminal emulator by Peter Nitsch)

Twitter announces new design (inline images and video from 16 partners, including Kickstarter; they released a growth chart)

Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism (many more newsgame examples in his Watercooler Games archive)

BERG's light painting with the iPad (cross-sections of 3D models shot with long exposures)

SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed (for you geezers still using a "feed reader" on a "computer")

Everything is a Remix, Part 1 (new four-part series on remix culture by Kirby Ferguson)

Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free (they're raising money to hire an orchestra to record public domain symphonies)

Burnbit (free service creates a torrent from any web-accessible file)

New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg (by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas) [via]

Digital Comic Museum (growing archive of Golden Age comics with expired copyright status)

Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr (a familiar post-acquisition story; they stated they "will not develop it further at this stage.")

YouTube Time Machine (with a lovely design by Kickstarter's own Andrew Cornett)

Graph Your Inbox (clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail)

Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews (awesomem worth the price vs. crashing useless waste of money) [via]

FFFFUUU statue (aka Rage Guy; please make this 3D rendering real)

xkcd on password reuse and evil plans ("it'll be hilarious the first few times this happens")

Rob O'Hare's playable review of GET LAMP (interactive fiction reviewing an interactive documentary about interactive fiction) [via]

Anil Dash on the cultural implications of forking (and Sippey forked his article) [via]

YouTube Instant (Stanford student's great take on Google Instant lands him a job offer from Chad Hurley)

Bloglines to shut down on October 1 (replaced by Google Reader, and made moot by Twitter and Facebook)

Pixar's Up gets BLAM'd (cutting parody of Disney's awful remixing of classic cartoons)

Inside the Soviet arcade museum (great little trip report; reminds me of the North Korean arcade)

James Bridle's 12-volume set of edits to the Wikipedia Iraq War page (12,000 changes spanning nearly 7,000 pages)

Monstrous Discrepancies (a comic by Winston Rowntree)

The Room: The Game (based on the truly horrible film)

Cache Rules Everything Around Me (Evan Roth sets his animated GIF collection to music)

Google Scribe, autocomplete any text (for fun, try typing any word and hit enter repeatedly) [via]

OK Trends crunches the data to find what white people really like (as always, funny, insightful, and controversial; don't miss the religion and writing proficiency charts)

George and Jonathan's "The Best Music" (free superhappy chiptune album created with Cave Story creator Pixel's Piston Collage) [via]

MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song (with lead vocals by the very talented Ken Flagg)

Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness (the followup to Braid was at an unmarked table)

Craigslist shuts down adult services section (17 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down )

Health Month (like Epic Win, Buster Benson's trying to turn self-improvement into a game)

There is a Horse in the Apple Store (Frank Chimero is not hallucinating)

Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox (everyone's favorite vaporware is playable on the PAX show floor, 13 years in the making)

NYC health dept. shuts down underground lobster roll dealer (Jeff Rubin shows how people ordered from "Dr. Claw") [via]

Copyright holders choosing ad income over cease-and-desists on YouTube (more than a third of YouTube's 2B weekly ad views are infringing videos deliberately left online) [via]

Buzzfeed's "infographic" about infographic spam (thanks to this Reddit user for exposing this unusual SEO trickery)

Six Apart shuts down Vox (less than a month's notice, with export tools to Typepad and Flickr)

LA Times interview with the author behind Slaughterhouse 90210 (interesting process behind her Tumblr curation)

Informative Prints (by 16-year-old Swedish graphic artist Kiko Seiz)

Cheerleader wins lawsuit by suing the wrong website (Dan Quayle's son famously wrote a column for TheDirty.com) [via]

Anatomy of a Rickroll, hypnotic visualization of network packets (here's an image request slowed down 40x; made with Packet Flight)

Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours with Node.js and MongoDB (the results are impressive; some of the Node.js Knockout entries are amazing)

Bear's Double Rainbow ad for Microsoft (also: meet Bear) [via]

First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge (they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park)

Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU (even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7)

Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions (over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions)

Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad (impressive tech demo, now available for free)

GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest (if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself)

Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes (their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow)