July 2008 - Page 2 of 3

July 23, 2008

Jeffrey McManus runs the numbers on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog — Joss Whedon himself confirmed the estimates were close (via) #

QA Deathmatch — bug reporting as a multiplayer game (via) #

Fox News affiliate tries product placement with fake McDonald's iced coffees — even if it's a morning show, this is a huge credibility hit and creates new conflicts of interest (via) #

GameBridge, Jabber/XMPP bot for Z-Machine, MUSH, and other text games — nice list of text adventures on the Jabber bot #

I-Fluid, PC game pilots a water droplet through a kitchen — with a nice be-bop soundtrack #

July 22, 2008

43 Folders on iPhone security — is the time saved for convenience worth the potential hassles of identity theft? #

Baby's First Internet — "It doesn't matter what you say, just publish it twelve times per day." (via) #

July 21, 2008

Something Awful tries the 5-minute microwave chocolate cake recipe — don't miss the handy microwaved huevos rancheros recipe (via) #

July 20, 2008

Multiplayer Minesweeper — brilliant collaborative game, but only takes one jackass to ruin everyone's fun (via) #

Cliche Watch: Pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa — many more in Pisa Pushers on Flickr #

July 18, 2008

The Quirkbook — Rands polls Twitter for everyone's odd quirks and mildly OCD mannerisms #

Jane McGonigal on Werewolf at Foo Camp 2008 — ideal strategies, a sneaky all-villager variation, and the impact of the werewolf metaphor #

Google interviews the creators of WarGames — great trivia about the making of the film and its impact on tech culture #

July 17, 2008

Logan Aube's Hockey Night theme — Something Awful goons tweak an online contest with funny results (via) #

July 16, 2008

Sean Tevis is running for Kansas State Representative, XKCD-style — help a computer geek defeat the incumbent, a hard-right, anti-privacy Creationist; he's trying to get 3,000 to donate $9 each #

How to Fake Being a Wine Snob — there might be supertasters out there, but most people are just faking it #

The Economist responds to Freakonomics co-author's pasty/pastry mixup — tasty response to this original post (via) #

Mike Arrington interviews Evan Williams at Foo Camp — great interview; thoughtful questions and brimming with information, without the sensationalism #

Rick Trooper — The Empire rolls you. #

Mocha VNC Lite, free VNC client for the iPhone — link opens in iTunes; like others, I'm hoping an SSH client is next #

Annalee Newitz on Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog — exceeds the hype; the site's been down all day, so I just bought the season in iTunes for $3.99 #

July 15, 2008

The Sound of Young America Live interviews Ze Frank — strange interview, but talks about the end of The Show and current projects; see also: Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine (via) #

Defender of the favicon — staggering hack puts a playable Defender clone in your browser's 16x16 favicon; Firefox and Opera only #

Twitter officially acquires Summize — search.twitter.com is now live #

July 14, 2008

Deep Note, the Guitar Hero bot — it got 820k points and 98% playing Through the Fire and Flames; amazingly, some humans can still beat it, for now (via) #

Unofficial RSS feed of newly-added App Store applications — until Apple adds their own, I've been keeping tabs using this #

Daily Mail tries to unmask Banksy's secret identity — unconfirmed, but definitely seems likely #

Trailer for August, indie drama about the dot-com bubble — the fictional dot-com is called Land Shark, but they never explain what they do (via) #

Lee Byron maps walkability in San Francisco — built using Walkscore, Google Maps, and Processing #

Radiohead releases dataset for House of Cards video — 370MB of CSV point data, Processing code, and a 3D viewer of Thom Yorke's face (via) #

July 11, 2008

Preview video of Last.fm's iPhone app — no scrobbling from your iPod, but an outstanding streaming player (via) #

Wall-E Down to Earth — fan film takes a Wall-E toy on a tour of real life #

Ask the Pilot covers his recent experiences with the TSA — they wouldn't allow a pilot to carry a butter knife used for in-flight meals #

Techcrunch runs the numbers on App Store's first day pre-sales — sadly, Apple removed the download counts this evening #

Patton Oswalt's commencement speech at his old high school — "There Is No Them." (via) #

July 10, 2008

I Eat Beats — drum sequencer built with webcam, Processing, and a bag of Skittles #

Journalist examines America's rail system on an 85-hour trip from NYC to Oakland — nobody cares about the railroads anymore (via) #

Bush jokes about America's pollution record to G8 world leaders — "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!" #

iPhone 3G or Millionaire — the choice is easy #

Flickr user hit by lightning while recording a rainstorm — "because you insisted, here's the unedited screaming version." #

Wall Street Journal on 4chan and YTMND — coming soon: The Financial Times on Something Awful and Encyclopedia Dramatica (via) #

Snarkmarket on John Culberson, the Twittering Congressman — agreed, it's inspiring; don't miss the Qik videos #

iTunes 7.7 and iPhone 2.0 software released with App Store update — browse the App Store after installing iTunes with this link, and download the iPhone 2.0 firmware manually to use them #

Tapulous' Mike Lee on launching three of App Store's biggest releases — Jobs told the NYT 500 apps will launch tomorrow; 25% are free and one-third are games #

July 9, 2008

Schrödinger's Cat Was Probably Nicer Than Mine — comic with five random endings #

All You Need Is epMotion — biotech equipment manufacturer tries viral video; amazingly, they're not the first (via) #

Google Image Search in real life — SafeSearch is off (via) #

Fractal Robots, robots building robots — recursive fun built with Processing; see also: Screamy Guy's other sketches #

Western Spaghetti, new stop-motion short by PES — deliciously weird (via) #

July 8, 2008

Warren Ellis on the post-curation years — "The world does not need another linkblog." (via) #