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August 11, 2006
— continuing his great series of Web 2.0 apps around the world #
August 10, 2006
— Aziz Ansari comedy with cameos by Tapes ‘n Tapes, Pitchfork Media, and Ted Leo via Delicious #
— “leveraging our inability to understand risk” via Simon Willison #
— very neat use of old tech via Delicious #
— like the Goggles flight simulator, why aren’t Flash developers making games with the Yahoo Maps Flash API? #
— uploaded by Charlie Rose! I like picturing him sitting on YouTube moderating the spam comments #
— Aaron releases his Python hack for syncing Upcoming events to Series 60 phones #
— “are we as a culture starting to construct toys that are too effective and end up hurting people?” via Delicious #
August 9, 2006
— it’s a good thing there’s no way to fake photographs on a computer via Delicious #
— updated yesterday; too bad it’s nearly impossible to short penny stocks #
— great bit on “hog-morse” and the origin of “hams” #
August 8, 2006
— my God, the search logs of anonymous user 711391 is an unbelievable epic; Philipp has many more via Delicious #
— I’m just catching up from a short vacation, and the AOL blunder is blowing my mind; I’d do some crunching if I had time #
— article about sudoku backlash from the crossword community via Delicious #
— I love this kind of thing; 86 out of the top 100 are user created via Delicious #
August 5, 2006
— major chains are plagiarizing designs from indie artists #
August 3, 2006
August 2, 2006
— Aaron Sorkin’s new show starts with an amazing Network-style rant by Judd Hirsch via tigerbeat.vox.com #
— for example, I had Samuel L. Jackson call Matt Haughey earlier today #
— I’d love to see Elektroplankton controlling other devices #
— safe-for-work proxy formats websites to look like Microsoft Word via Nelson Minar #
— he made edits and encouraged others in this episode; they locked the article #
— overly broad and completely unnecessary, it affects commercial sites with profiles and private messaging #
— top 10 users responsible for 30% of front page stories, while top 100 goes up to 55% via blogs.zdnet.com #
— if we roll, we roll big #
— mom finds the jerk kids with grocery store receipts, surveillance tapes, yearbooks and online databases; with video via museumofhoaxes.com #
August 1, 2006
— where’s Mahir, Star Wars Kid, and Numa Numa? #
— “Racing Pitch” controls cars by mimicking engine noise into your mic, “TattooFrenzy” draws tattoos with the PocketPC touch screen, and a free Guitar Hero clone #
— the typo domain in this Wired article now leads to a bizarro world mashup of Daily Kos in the Instapundit design #
July 31, 2006
— it turns cameraphone photos into a thing of beauty #
— some surprisingly good comments in the Digg thread; good to know I’m not alone here via Digg #
July 29, 2006
— Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all #
— highly addictive simple strategy game, but needs multiplayer badly; instructions via Delicious #
July 28, 2006
— other good stuff in the same vein #
— with new power lacing technology! #
— he was there to record a TV show when everything started falling apart #
— studio head blasts her for disrupting movie shoots with no-shows from heavy partying #
— all sorts of speculation fodder, “Google Guess” sounds interesting #
— Julien McArdle’s made his prerelease version free for viewing #
July 27, 2006
— insanely popular Korean MMO comes to the states #
— some badly needed competition for Sourceforge; an example project via Slashdot #
— her three hour OSCON tutorial for “everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren’t up to snuff” via Digg #
— a wonderful snapshot from November 1995 via Kottke #
— synchronized split-screen of both dance scenes from “Back to the Future” I and II via Andrew Chorney #
— build on Amazon’s web services, including spatial positioning based on sales and relevance via LiveJournal #
— Myspace safe for musicians again via Delicious #
July 26, 2006
— animated storyboards, but still cool via Delicious #
