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June 9, 2008

Live streaming audio of the WWDC keynote

— holding up surprisingly well, better than refreshing MacRumors or Engadget #
June 6, 2008

Age of Conan griefing fun and games

— some good comments about the ethics of griefing in the comments #

Case study of redesigning the new Wells Fargo ATM user experience

— Pentagram did nice work, though the buttons seem a bit too low contrast via Delicious #

McDonald's Line Rider commercial

— hard to believe it’s real, but multiple confirmations that it’s aired on TV via GameSetWatch #
June 5, 2008

Every brand and company mentioned in the Sex and the City film

— impossible to tell which were paid placement, but this is an impressive list #

What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web

— great post about the Washington Post being held back by their print editions and mindset via Matt Haughey #

Radiohead's "Nude" performed by a ZX Spectrum, dot matrix printer, scanner, and hard disk array

— starts at about 1:10; best remix ever #

RepRap prototyping machine achieves self-replication

— it built a child, and the child built a grandchild; more on the project via Boing Boing #

Nielsen chart of American video game console usage

— 360 users are most hardcore, playing an average 2.7 hours daily, but everyone else is close #

Video tour of Disney World 3D in Google Earth

— the most elaborate models available so far #
June 4, 2008

Wired interviews You've Been Left Behind creator

— he insists the post-Rapture email service is real, and their blog backs up the claim #

Washington Post profiles one superdelegate's experience in the Democratic primaries

— for everyone wondering why many wait to commit, this is some great context #

Gal-Moji, l33t speak for Japanese teen girls

— they use Roman, Arabic, Greek, or Cyrillic letters resembling the Japanese characters #

Kottke on TBS's annoying interstitial promo ads

— smells like desperation #

Vanity Fair's nine-page oral history of the web

— some great quotes from big names, but only scratches the surface; also, I hope they fix the broken MP3 links #
June 3, 2008

YouTube adds annotations

— for creators only, not commenters; they also upped the video limit to 1024MB, but still only ten minutes #

[k]okogiak announces Boston.com's The Big Picture

— a photo blog featuring huge imagery from the news wire #

"Pork and Beans" acoustic with Tay Zonday

— they’re getting quite a bit of mileage out of this shoot #

EveryBlock's "special report" on Operation Crooked Code

— taking Chicago Crime to the next level #
June 2, 2008

NYT's ombudsman on their controversial op-ed stating Obama's Christianity was apostasy

— also, wouldn’t it be great if every major tech company had a blogging ombudsman? via MetaFilter #

Scaring people with Flash's fullScreen

— distracting from the “hit escape” text is surprisingly effective #

Read at Work

— classic novels in Powerpoint form, courtesy of the NZ Book Council via Delicious #

NYT interviews Jim Davis about Garfield Minus Garfield

— great article, but no link to the site? #

UK police arrest six former OiNK users

— they’re accused of uploading pre-release albums #
June 1, 2008

Coco Wang's Earthquake Strips

— true, heartbreaking stories from the China quake in comic form via MetaFilter #

Back to the Future courthouse square destroyed in Universal Studios fire

— this is heavy #
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