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June 14, 2007
— insanely brilliant and deep programming contest in the form of an adventure game; read the solution to understand just how deep it goes #
— elegantly-designed multiplayer crossword puzzles #
June 13, 2007
— the photos of the trees drawing are as inspired as the artwork itself #
June 12, 2007
June 11, 2007
— he puts the T in I.T. via LiveJournal #
— by far the best coverage, with tons of pictures and readable updates #
June 8, 2007
— more on the official Flickr forum #
— Robert Rodriguez is a very talented man; see also: Cooking with Rockstars #
June 7, 2007
— beautiful infoviz graphs of Last.fm listening habits; examples here via rocketsurgeon.squarespace.com #
— comparing “useful” Wikipedia articles to their fanboy counterparts #
June 4, 2007
— Machine Project offering a beginner’s programming workshop using LOLCODE; and yes, I lied #
— just a joke, but here’s some serious Street View hacking from WhereCamp #
June 3, 2007
— it’s official: June 29 via Fimoculous #
— Twitter is getting prominent mentions throughout the pre-show broadcast #
June 1, 2007
— it’s refreshing to see this kind of blunt humility from an established rock star #
— the first, and last, Lolcats-related link I’m ever posting #
May 31, 2007
— my last remaining reason to own a dedicated Windows box is about to go away #
— insightful article explaining why the Facebook Platform represents a fundamental shift #
May 30, 2007
— still on vacation, catching up on big news #
— the $280M price seems low and the idea of CBS eventually running Last.fm scares me #
May 29, 2007
— also, while on vacation, I saw Dorkbot get front page coverage in a local newspaper via Delicious #
— very interesting and a surprisingly nice fit #
May 28, 2007
— he’s making six figures of ad revenue with only $130 in monthly expenses #
May 24, 2007
— been playing with this, and am floored how well-done it is; also: the growing list of apps #
— “the founders of that Google-beating start-up … are working right now at Google.” #
— cool, two of my favorite Jasons go head-to-head #
— using the effort answering captchas to help digitize scanned books #
— one of my favorite new interests is the natural overlap between gaming and the social web #
— read the last few awkward lines of this otherwise uneventful interview via 37signals.com #
— amazingly brilliant programming guide for kids and newbie adults; Windows-only, for now #
— herd of buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles; the baby buffalo survives #
May 23, 2007
— sexy infovis with hotspots for hotly revised articles #
— by settling and allowing a CC license for the dance, they wrongly concede a simple dance move can be copyrighted #
— possibly because of the changes in net radio royalties? #
— with a $1.1m grant; I hope it’s like Chicago Crime writ large #
— surreal teleplay from 1969, reminiscent of Cube and House of Stairs via Boing Boing #
May 22, 2007
— people love their American Idol and World of Warcraft #
— you know the kind via Fimoculous #
— thoughtful little comic #
— music fans writhing in the desert heat via howithappened.com #
— EMT’s tale of a cat found in a London building fire via Matthew Baldwin #
— clever outdoor art, soon to be appropriated by ad agencies via Matthew Baldwin #
— one of the more interesting Maker Faire hacks, read more on his site #
— like Desktop Tower Defense, but with insane combos #
— Thomas Hawk has been doing real-time Q&A for the last 14 hours while Zooomr’s been offline #
May 17, 2007
— more than simple bandwidth, they’re restricting major communication tools #
— Daily Show’s meme-laden take on the Army’s new restrictions #
— the film rights were sold in the early ’90s, but Eisner himself preferred the comics medium to film #
