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May 31, 2011
Intel's Museum of Me (clever Flash work; most interesting if you're active on Facebook)
The Grand Rapids Lipdub (what hath Lodwick wrought?)
Depixelizing Pixel Art (the site was slammed last week; side-by-side video from Super Mario World and other comparisons) [via]
Jeri Ellsworth's Brain Bulb (lightbulb over your head that lights on brainwave activity)
VHX opens to the public (playful video discovery from the Internet's Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh)
May 27, 2011
Rocketboom on the origins of Nyan Cat (trivia: this episode was written by Keyboard Cat's own Brad O'Farrell)
Visualizing 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2 (mapping every impact death creates a ghostly landscape)
Literally Unbelievable (Facebook users who think stories from The Onion are real)
May 26, 2011
Chinese prisoners forced to farm gold in World of Warcraft (Chinese officials denied the report, saying they disallow contact with the outside world)
Olly Moss's Paper Cuts (paper silhouettes of pop culture icons) [via]
Random New Yorkers asked what they're listening to (if devices passively broadcast song metadata, someone could actually build this)
Sonar for iPhone (brilliant app shows your shared Twitter/Facebook friends from the people around you)
Outloud.fm (chat rooms where anyone can drag MP3s into a shared, streaming playlist)
May 25, 2011
MIT study analyzes participation on 4chan and /b/ (the median life of a thread is under 4 minutes; read the whole paper)
Google Correlate (building on Flu Trends, upload your own time series and find correlations with search patterns)
May 24, 2011
Scott Rosenberg on the end of Salon's Table Talk (they're deleting 16 years of messages on June 10, with nothing indexed by Archive.org)
Fragmentr (collaborative image collages) [via]
Data Wrangler (web-based tool for cleaning up messy data, similar to Google Refine)
PBS Frontline releases Bradley Manning's Facebook archive (in advance of tonight's episode on Wikileaks) [via]
Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure (game developer takes his five-year-old daughter to Toronto Game Jam, sheer joy ensues)
Duke Nukem Forever goes gold (14 years after it was first announced in April 1997)
May 23, 2011
NYT on Cory Arcangel (the art world really seems to be embracing net.art)
Goldfish's "We Come Together" (music video steeped in gaming history) [via]
Jonathan Coulton on Snuggies and business models (great commentary on NPR's Planet Money podcast about whether his success is reproducible)
Annoying.js (how to be an ass with Javascript)
May 19, 2011
Day Glo Freaks (an album made entirely from from Steely Dan's discography; the timeline shows every sample)
Ronen's Adventure: Trapped in an iPhone (he's producing new videos every Friday) [via]
Amazon now selling more Kindle books than all print books (less than four years after the Kindle launched) [via]
Gamespot's Video Game History Month with Double Fine's Tim Schafer (excellent and silly interview about his Lucasarts, Psychonauts, and Double Fine's new experimentation)
NYT on yarnbombing (I stumbled on Sayeg's knitting team wrapping the Etsy ducts last month)
SMBC on Victorian tech support ("your technical redress remains unsatisfactory")
May 18, 2011
NYT editor Bill Keller on "The Twitter Trap" (Nick Bilton and Mat Honan respond, with two very different approaches)
Plush statistical distribution pillows (sleep on them to learn by osmosis) [via]
TermKit (fascinating reboot of the Terminal using WebKit and node.js) [via]
May 17, 2011
Netflix passes BitTorrent in U.S. bandwidth traffic (streaming's easier than piracy)
PC Emulator in Javascript (Fabrice Bellard's stunning hack lets your browser run Linux)
NEA grants expanded to include Internet, mobile, and videogame media (take that, Ebert!) [via]
Bret Victor's Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System (part of his brilliant Kill Math project; his ability to communicate math with design is amazing)
Lost Type Co-op (quality type on a pay-what-you-like model)
Radiolab's Rober Krulwich addresses Berkeley graduates on the future of journalism (sound advice for anyone just getting started in their field; listen to it here)
Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualized (impressive mashup viz using HTML5 and CSS3 )
RAGE for iOS rendered with WebGL (with the generous help of John Carmack)
May 16, 2011
Jason Calacanis on BitCoin (he calls it "the most dangerous open-source project ever created"; value's doubled in the last month, here's a good primer)
Paul Ford's "Nanolaw" (projecting a near-future where lawsuit bots are commonplace)
May 14, 2011
Supercut.org, algorithmic supercuts of supercuts (my 24-hour hack with Michael Bell-Smith for Seven on Seven; don't miss the supercut shuffle)
May 12, 2011
AIM AV (dead simple videoconferencing for up to four people)
Comcast helps The Pirate Bay resolve connection issues (Comcastic!)
The Mavenist on Permutations & Loops (very promising start to a new blog by Frank Chimero)
Like An Artist [via]
ROME's 3 Dreams of Black, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's new Chrome experiment (while it loads, watch the short film about the project and the gallery of user creations)
May 11, 2011
Chrome Angry Birds (the most impressive HTML5 game I've seen; Nelson has more details) [via]
Lady Gaga to debut new songs on Farmville ("Zynga has created a magical place in FarmVille where my fans can come play") [via]
NaClBox, DOSBox ported to Google's Native Client (play Monkey Island in your browser)
Pattern Matters (3D papercraft infographics) [via]
May 10, 2011
Automated BitTorrent lawsuit targets 140,000 film downloaders (so far, 23,322 IP addresses have been identified by their ISPs)
Clay Johnson on rebooting public notices (my personal favorite, courtesy of the FBI)
May 9, 2011
Olly Moss's Cut Out Show (love the John McClane one)
Bin Laden's compound recreated as a Counter-Strike map ("Counter-Terrorists Win.") [via]
Zach Seward on using sparklines in WSJ tweets (make your own using Sparkblocks)
Paul Ford on interacting with his archived self (I wonder if this is why so few people seem to care about preserving their digital past)
Visualizing the spread of Bin Laden's death on Twitter (Keith Urbahn's original tweet had 300 replies/retweets in the first three minutes) [via]
Cool but Obscure Unix Tools (great list; I've used 11 of these and they changed the way I work) [via]
May 6, 2011
Raspberry Pi (UK charity making complete PCs the size of a USB thumbdrive for $25 each) [via]
May 5, 2011
Adam Parrish's month of textperiments (one procedural poem a day) [via]
Wall Street Journal launches leak site (after calling for Assange's indictment) [via]
May 4, 2011
Spike: A Love Story (clever one-button game, playing as a spike trap in love)
Derek Miller's last post (he died yesterday of cancer, way too young)
NYT visualizes the reactions to Osama bin Laden's death (NYT commenters were asked to mark sentiment on a grid) [via]
Tim Carmody tracks down the fake MLK and Twain quotes (both spread quickly after bin Laden's death, with interesting origins)
May 3, 2011
Encyclopedia Dramatica capture from January 2010 (a 12 GB dump of 490,000 rescued files) [via]
OMGIMG (anonymous riffing on one photo per day using Google Images searches)
May 2, 2011
Planetary, Bloom's music visualization for the iPad (beautiful and free)
May 1, 2011
Street interviews with NYC teens about The Beatles (maybe Beatles 3000 isn't too far-fetched)