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8-Bit Austin

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:54:13 -0800

I think I'll use this map to get to Datapop 2010

Spritely, jQuery plugin for sprite and background animation

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:50:04 -0800

Trololololololo Shreds

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:53:42 -0800

some context [via]

Preview of Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPhone

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:50:33 -0800

looks unlike anything I've ever seen

Kickstarter at SXSW 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:23 -0800

Yancey rounded up our SXSW appearances over at the Kickstarter blog, but I thought I should mention it here...

On Saturday night, Kickstarter, Tumblr, and SoundCloud welcome you to F*CK YEAH! SXSW, a party with music/visuals by Eclectic Method sponsored by the nice folks at ThePlanet. It's at Emo's on Saturday night, from 6:30pm until late.

On Sunday 11am, I'm doing a solo talk about a mish-mash of my interests, focused around metagames — both games about games, and games built on games. Quite possibly the only talk at SXSW to mention Mechanical Turk, Desert Bus, Barack Obama, VVVVVV, and Metafilter.

Also in amazing panels, Kickstarter's own Perry Chen (Monday w/Robin Sloan), Yancey Strickler (Wednesday w/Allison Weiss), and Fred Benenson. You should go to every one. More details here.

See you in Austin!

Sitby.us

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:14:44 -0800

essential iPhone-optimized site for SXSWi session planning

Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:45:14 -0800

turning Microsoft Office into a game, with competition against your friends [via]

"Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:14:16 -0800

avatars as Russian nested dolls [via]

Chatroulette Map

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:40 -0800

I think I'd rather not know, thanks [via]

Steamshovel Harry

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:17:50 -0800

not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks

El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:40:57 -0800

there's so much I love about this, I can't quantify it all [via]

Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:16:55 -0800

also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books

Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:26 -0800

related: McSweeney's categories for the meta-awards [via]

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:23:02 -0800

for the first time, backed by The Roots

Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:11:40 -0800

related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton

The Panic Status Board

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:38:42 -0800

the instant feedback made work more game-like

Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:18:23 -0800

Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games"

Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:13:35 -0800

fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information

8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:13:52 -0800

he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide

Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:06:20 -0800

watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead

Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:16:52 -0800

"Maybe I'll learn something."

PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:44:04 -0800

I love how expressive they are

Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:20:14 -0800

very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine

GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:15:41 -0800

scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen

Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:26:38 -0800

he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts

LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:47:55 -0800

looks like the regex was a bit greedy

NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines"

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:25:19 -0800

very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year

YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:57:41 -0800

a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now

OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:09:38 -0800

Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles

Roger Ebert starts subscription service

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:44:43 -0800

$4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1

Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:05:06 -0800

nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories

Valve updates Portal with mysterious achievement and ARG trailhead

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:09:33 -0800

radio transmissions convert into Morse code and images pointing to a telnet BBS with ASCII screenshots

Unit Testing Achievements

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:04:45 -0800

I'm still waiting for a ticket tracker with game mechanics [via]

The Skull of Regret

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:53:41 -0800

even Pictures for Sad Children's guest comics are great

NYT's auralization of crossing the Olympic finish line

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:28:55 -0800

hear the women's 1,000-meter speedskating gold medalist win by .02 of a second [via]

Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:22:54 -0800

even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license [via]

Bioshock's lead level designer remakes Arcadia in Doom 2

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:07:25 -0800

don't miss his companion article about Doom as Robotron

Pictures for Sad Children, "Play Play Play"

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:07:57 -0800

Level End [via]

Nieman Labs tallies original reporting vs. rewrites for the Google/China hacking story

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:46:10 -0800

121 different versions of the story, but only 13 did any original reporting

Joel Johnson's extremely painful, personal story of sexual abuse

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:36:31 -0800

so horrible I hesitate linking to it, but I will, if only for Google justice

Casey Neistat's excellent short film about Chat Roulette

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:08:08 -0800

includes demographics, vernacular, and how men and women are treated differently

NYT on Bloom Energy's public debut

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:19:28 -0800

groundbreaking fuel cell tech used by Google, eBay, others; Mashable liveblogged the launch

Yelp accused of extortion in class-action lawsuit

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:15:48 -0800

I maintain that business owners are confused over both sponsorship and the algorithm; a former Yelp account exec debunks the claims

The Effing Typeface

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:38:40 -0800

a NSFW font by designer Alex Merto

YouTube removes most popular, fan-uploaded Rickroll

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:03:28 -0800

update: it's back, Google says it was a mistake

Neurosonics Live

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:07:15 -0800

real-time holographic projection synced to turntables and drums [via]

Andrew vs. the Collective's "Search Engine Optimization"

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:34:18 -0800

short fiction about an alternate-reality Internet gone amok, using words and phrases created by Kickstarter backers [via]

Italian court finds Google Video guilty of privacy violation for uploaded video

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:15:20 -0800

astonishingly terrible decision, here's Google's response

danah boyd on ChatRoulette as a throwback to the early web

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:54:34 -0800

I've been thinking the same thing; related: Hearts, Hugs, and Kisses on ChatRoulette

The Spy at Harrington High

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:06:35 -0800

digging into the tech behind the high school webcam spying scandal