Fred Armisen shows off Weekend Update's new megapixel giant touch map
— art imitates life; the display was created by Perceptive Pixel (via) #
CNN's Anderson Cooper experiments with "virtual pie chart"
— extremely silly use of augmented reality gone mainstream (via) #
AC/DC releases ASCII music video in Microsoft Excel
— created by fans to "subvert the corporate firewalls"; Windows only, sadly #
Google Earth for the iPhone
— free download, adorable; also, Street View's coming any day now (via) #
Typeface.js, rendering Truetype fonts with Javascript, Canvas, and VML
— awesome hack lets you deliver custom fonts on the web without Flash; works on the iPhone, too (via) #
YouTube adds linking to video timecodes
— in YouTube comments, just list any time and it's automatically linked #
Tasha's Impossible Ransom of Rage
— silly little Flash game from Double Fine, creators of Psychonauts (via) #
Wikipedia DVD available for free by BitTorrent
— 2.4GB partial snapshot reviewed for offline use by schools (via) #
Geography of newspaper endorsements for the 2008 election
— beautiful work from the Infochimps guys (via) #
Visualizing bias on political blogs linking to the Ashley Todd hoax story
— left-leaning blogs only found it newsworthy when discredited #
Remote Impact, multiplayer distance shadowboxing
— the sensors recognize and give extra points for "intense brute force" (via) #
Wassup 2008
— reuniting the friends that created the short film that launched a nationwide catchphrase #
Little Boots' Tenori-On cover of Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor"
— the rest of her Tenori-On covers are great, too (via) #
Turn Your Name Into A Face
— generates a unique avatar from your name; Philipp Lennsen's entry in the 24-Hour Application Challenge #
Jason Scott on Blu-Ray's mandatory DRM for indie filmmakers
— exorbitant AACS fees make small runs impossible, doubling budgets for broken copy protection #
Trailer for "RiP: A Remix Manifesto," documentary on remix culture
— the film's finally done, and much of the raw footage is available for remixing #
Matt Haughey explains how to get the nerd vote
— some good suggestions in the comments, along with some idiotic strawmen #
Derek Powazek shuts down Pixish
— a promising startup killed, at least partly, by bowing to the no spec crowd #
Woman gets fastest time at Nike Women's Marathon, loses race
— also, why are four of the top five finishers at a women's marathon male? #
Macs vs. PCs, the Musical
— bonus points for gratuitous violence, points off for technical inaccuracy #
Penelope Trott's Best Baby Halloween Costume Ever
— one-year-olds make surprisingly good balding comedians #
Domai.nr, find domains with wac.ky TLDs beyond .com and .net
— you know, like del.icio.us and burri.to #
Interviewing the anonymous Twitterers behind FakeJohnMcCain, FakeSarahPalin and FakeJoeBiden
— the parodists love Twitter because it's quick, concise, and you can grow a network quicky #
LittleBigPlanet delayed because of Qur'an verses in background music
— I believe in religious tolerance, until it affects video game release schedules #
Mygazines shuts down after publisher lawsuits
— as fun as these sites are, trying to build a business on copyright infringement is just dumb #
Qwitter, get alerts when people unfollow you on Twitter
— software that enables hurt feelings and awkwardness (via) #
McCain and Obama do standup comedy at the Al Smith dinner
— both are very, very funny; Obama starts at 11:00 #
Vimeo launches paid option
— $60/year removes ads, increases limits, priority uploading, and limited HD embeds #
Slate Magazine on the rise of FAIL
— the writer asked me on Tuesday about the meme's origins, so I'm a little bummed I didn't get credit (via) #
Andrew Sullivan's "Why I Blog"
— "for all the intense gloom surrounding the newspaper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism" (via) #
Forumwarz Episode 2 is live!
— the intro's interminable, but it picks up from there; and if you never played the first one, get to it! #
Barack Obama meets Joe the Plumber
— I think it's worth watching the original encounter that inspired McCain's "spread the wealth" line of attack (via) #
First episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from January 1999
— amazing how fully-formed it launched, with the same voice that would make it so successful (via) #
Lexical analysis of the 2008 presidential and VP debates
— word usage statistics and clouds, with parts of speech and word pairs; Atom feeds available for the whole dataset (via) #
Tears for Fears' "Head Over Heels": Literal Video Version
— from the same people the Take On Me video #
Newzbin preparing for litigation
— if media companies attack Usenet indexing services that host no files, Usenet servers can't be far behind #
Bluegrass musician plays banjo during his brain surgery
— his ability to play was used as a measure of the surgery's success (via) #
Kongregate Labs tutorial for creating a side-scrolling shooter in Flash
— helping convert gamers to creators is good for everybody (via) #
Scraping Wikipedia data with Google Spreadsheets and Yahoo! Pipes
— solid tutorial; for this kind of thing, I'd also consider Freebase #
RjDj, reactive generative music app for the iPhone
— reacts to sensory input from the microphone and accelerometer #