May 2008 - Page 3 of 3

May 12, 2008

New Google Reader for the iPhone — huge improvement #

MUTO, an animation on public walls — I love watching it replace graffiti as it walks through (via) #

Current.tv on Tron Guy at ROFLCon — some of the user-contributed video on Current is great, as is the original programming #

BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme — amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme #

Obsessing, a web-based editor for playing with Processing.js — could Processing.js be the beginning of the end for the closed-source culture of rich media tech? #

Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world — I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features #

Things Younger Than John McCain — I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever (via) #

PMOG comes out of beta — Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's game built on passive web surfing (via) #

Matt Haughey on how PR people should pitch bloggers — most won't do this because it takes too much time, even though it's far more effective #

Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome — they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them #

First-person video of the China 7.7 earthquake — some original coverage on Flickr, too #

May 10, 2008

TinyDB, store tiny data in a tiny URL — store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML (via) #

May 9, 2008

Ian Rogers on Reaper, Justin Frankel's current project — the Winamp/Gnutella creator made a formidable ProTools competitor; amazing to see it go from this to this #

A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms — I'm embarrassed to admit I found the Happy Days clip (in French) for Jeff #

Turning the New York Times into a beatbox — an application for Lily turns DOM elements into audio (via) #

Antville Quarterly, their favorite music videos so far this year — high quality videos in three torrents from the music video community #

Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock film — I loved Bioshock's story but not the gameplay, so this should be a fun ride (via) #

Anil Dash's Paste to Win — random sampling of 150 people's clipboards, categorized #

May 8, 2008

John Resig ported Processing to Javascript, using the Canvas element — one of the most amazing hacks I've ever seen; don't miss the demos further down the page #

Chronotron — time-bending Flash game, reminiscent of P.B. Winterbottom #

Rock Band hates me — a multi-instrumentalist's reality meets fiction (via) #

May 6, 2008

Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art — named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE (via) #

The Sewer Goblet, The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby — new RPG madness from the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden #

Interview with indie game creator Cactus — he just released a mega-sampler of 17 of his games; highly recommended #

May 5, 2008

Dino Run — surprisingly deep multiplayer 8-bit Flash game #

Kottke on the Yahoo! stock "plunge" — on the contrary, Yahoo! gained $7B in value while Microsoft lost $33B #

Interview with astronaut Peggy Whitson about her return to Earth — members of the Soyuz capsule were greeted by confused locals in a Kazakhstan field (via) #

SynPet's Newton, 1989 promo video for a personal robot — like R2D2 with a floppy drive and 20MB hard drive #

Why the Lucky Stiff's Unholy attempt to convert Ruby into Python — not there yet, but a fun first pass at getting Ruby code running Google App Engine #

Google's chart of character encoding adoption on the web — last December, Unicode beat out ASCII and Western European encodings for the first time #

May 4, 2008

Ben Goldacre debunks the recent "regrown finger" story — glad I wasn't the only one skeptical of "pixie dust" made of pig bladders (via) #

San Diego GOP chairman co-founded warez group Fairlight — funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics (via) #

May 3, 2008

Soundamus — generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm #

May 2, 2008

XSketch, multiplayer Pictionary game — from the creators of Kdice, even more fast-paced than iSketch #

Ze Frank, Textism, Chip Kidd, and Aviary join The Deck — Jim Coudal knows how to pick 'em #

Schulze & Webb show off the Olinda prototype — their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network #

Twitter typewriter in Second Life — hop around on the giant keyboard and it'll post here (via) #

May 1, 2008

College Humor's All-Nighter — live feed with thousands of chatters, and they're posting new videos all night #

Winners of Boing Boing Gadget's 1k contest — if you like that, try these popular 1k intros from the demoscene #

Homer Simpson in CSS, animated — taking typewriter art to the next level; from the same creator, a portrait of Bush #

Jonathan Coulton performs "First of May" — take that, Bee Gees; NSFW lyrics, for the sensitive folks (via) #

AT&T wi-fi hotspots now free for iPhone users — including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble; spoof the iPhone user-agent and it's free from your laptop too #

Mena Trott's Wasted on the Young — what if first-gen bloggers were vlogging in 1994? this is amazing, I want to see Kottke next #