Google Maps adds collaborative map editing
— fix address and Street View locations while retaining original locations via aaronland.info #Harry Potter and the Order of Typography
— Jon Hicks highlights the typeface selection in a lovely slideshow via Simon Willison #Katamari creator previews new game, Noby Noby Boy
— the gameplay video shows off the stretching dynamic, combined with eating and expelling barnyard animals; whee! #Jonathan Coulton performs "Portal" live
— better than other shakycam versions, but the guy with the cake is scaring me #Video: Twitter helps solve a murder on CSI
— both usernames were registered shortly after it aired #World of Datecraft
— travel the world, meet interesting people, and steal their loot via Alice Taylor #Half-Life 2 Episode 2 statistics
— this kind of communal feedback is fascinating for players, but invaluable for developers via infosthetics.com #You gonna light that pipe?
— Jim Treacher takes on a three-panel comic from a “write this comic” contest #Interactive Fiction Comp '08 results announced
— download them all; read Emily Short’s review of Lost Pig, the winner #Catching Up with an Aqua Teen Terrorist
— R.U. Sirius interviews Peter Berdovsky about hairstyles from the 1970s #GameSetWatch on the extremely meta Game Center CX
— a Nintendo DS game about playing retro games, based on a Japanese TV show about playing retro games via GameSetWatch #Ian Rogers' 1994 zine about Sly and the Family Stone
— a loving tribute from a man who really loves his music #Peter Rojas' RCRD LBL goes live
— exclusive DRM-free music from their own new label and partnering with like-minded labels on a daily MP3 blog #ASCII rave in Haskell
— creating music by typing text into a “broken” speech synthesizer; another video via Mike Migurski #Prince sends DMCA notices to b3ta users for Photoshopping contest
— this is just idiotic (sorry, Anil!) #Prince of Persia butchered in "Life" TV show
— laughably bad portrayal of technology, including Excel spreadsheets hidden in the 10th level of the game via the-inbetween.com #Announcement: I'm leaving Upcoming to work on Waxy.org full-time!
— a friend said I should cross-post this to Waxy Links since they didn’t see the main blog post #Outgoing
Five years ago this January, I wanted to solve a personal problem: finding events I cared about and sharing them with my friends. Nine months later, Upcoming.org popped out and changed my life forever.
After five years of working on Upcoming and two years after its acquisition, I’m moving on. This Friday is my last official day as a Yahoo!, after which I’ll go back to being a lowercase yahoo.