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August 31, 2012
Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources (three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I've ever heard)
Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube (including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app)
August 30, 2012
Photo Hunt (proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter's new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform)
August 29, 2012
Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit (Reddit's under severe load now)
Coding.fm (the sound of coding)
The Waiting Game (a time-wasting simulator)
We Are Back (classic '90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework) [via]
The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive (they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players)
August 24, 2012
Insane in the Chromatophores (Cypress Hill visualized in color-changing squid cells) [via]
Brooklyn Integers (artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers)
Gangnam Style, Dissected (most of the heavy lifting from Onsemiro's blog post)
August 22, 2012
Super Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600 (really impressive fan conversion)
Twitter revokes Tumblr's friend finding privileges (this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter's the social network graph that matters most to me)
August 20, 2012
Uncertain Rainbow (replacing identity on Twitter with a color)
August 18, 2012
Give Up (a Flash game about failure and regret; after you play, watch this playthrough)
Case study of Indie Game: The Movie's distribution (opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control)
Awkward Stock Video (thumbs up to wind!) [via]
August 17, 2012
How Mat Honan recovered his data (he got his baby photos back, fortunately)
August 16, 2012
Kickstarter case study of Robin Sloan's book project (cameo by yours truly)
August 15, 2012
How Gasketball's free-to-play app business model backfired (if you make a free app, make it really, really easy to give you money)
Staggering Beauty (shake vigorously)
Obvious announces Medium, a new blogging platform ("this is good")
August 14, 2012
Khan Academy's new interactive computer science program (created by John Resig, who wrote about the project)
August 13, 2012
Progressive Insurance defends policy holder's killer in court (a horrific new low for an insurance company, an impressive feat)
August 12, 2012
Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra (inspired by Kutiman's Thru-You, Gotye's remix of YouTube covers of "Somebody That Used to Know")
August 11, 2012
A Long Drawn-Out Trip (Gerald Scarfe's pre-Wall 1973 animation, largely unseen because of music clearance)
August 10, 2012
Hieroglyphy, a tool to turn any JS code into ()[]{}!+ (try it here) [via]
Kirby Ferguson's Embrace the Remix talk at TED (nice distillation of the core ideas behind Everything Is A Remix)
Mixel to close in September (one of the only iOS apps to allow public remix, shutting down way too soon)
Beck's new album released only as sheet music (a collaboration with McSweeney's)
August 8, 2012
What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? (the physics of silliness)
Internet Archive offers over a million torrents of books, music, and films (now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org)
How YouTube lets content companies claim public domain footage (five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA) [via]
August 7, 2012
The Onion's Sex House (it's quickly moving from simple reality show parody to dystopic scifi)
Visualizing the Racial Divide (old but new to me; more background)
NYT visualization on the history of the Olympic men's 100m sprint (love the auralization at the end)
August 6, 2012
Mat Honan on the Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to his hack (the scariest: all you need to hack an iCloud account is a billing address and the last four credit card digits)
Moot on 4chan's one billionth post (more a 4chan State of the Union, tracking the site's incredible growth and future)
Togather (fan-funded book tours with built-in scheduling; reminds me of my earlier post)
YouTube's Content ID from Scripps takes down NASA's Mars Rover video (automation run amok, NASA says "everything from imagery to music gets flagged")
Little Techie (my five-year-old nephew's obsessed with Apple devices, so he makes his own)
August 5, 2012
NASA's Mars Curiosity landing livestream (bracing for the seven minutes of terror)
Touch Arcade's review of 10000000, brilliant puzzle/RPG for iOS (I was addicted to this all weekend)
"Dude. Will you marry me?"
Knight Capital accidentally deployed test suite into production (the trading software bug caused $440M in losses, wiping out a 17-year-old firm in 45 minutes)
Pareidoloop (generate random polygons, match with face recognition algorithm, and mutate)
Highlights from EA's The Sims cloning lawsuit against Zynga (the RGB values for skin tones were exactly the same)
August 4, 2012
Mat Honan's post-mortem on getting hacked (they bypassed his security questions for iCloud by phone with Apple tech support)
August 3, 2012
Nucleal (three.js demo decomposing images into particles) [via]
CLOP (new game by Bennett Foddy, creator of QWOP and GIRP)
August 2, 2012
This Is Now (real-time stream views of Instagram in various cities)
Sight, sci-fi short on augmented vision (related: Black Mirror's The Entire History of You) [via]
August 1, 2012
Animated Pizza Gifs (deal with it)
Alternate Scorsese Siri commercial ("I can find a picture of a stallion for you")
Bahi JD, Iranian animated GIF artist turned Japanese pro animator (a uniquely Internetian story)
Slender (very unnerving five-minute game for Mac/PC; I got 5/8 pages, and was scared silly)
The Twitter Political Index (running sentiment analysis on tweets that mention the candidates; it tracks nicely to Gallup polls)
Headliner (using face detection on news photos from The Guardian)
Digg relaunches (editorial curation, no comments, and built from scratch in six weeks) [via]