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October 15, 2008
— the Z-Machine object tree as musical instrument; don’t miss the MP3 of him playing Zork via crummy.com #
— if you haven’t, spend a little time reading about his methodology to understand how he’s totally changed the game #
October 14, 2008
— totals for each candidate by state or ZIP code and lookup by donor name, with JSON, XML, or serialized PHP output via Mike Migurski #
— the NYT digs into their archives to find some striking parallels to today’s credit crisis #
— uncensored images from James Cauty’s show are now online and prints are for sale via blog.topherchris.com #
— draw a line to explore the news, branch lines to see related stories and excerpts via FlowingData #
October 13, 2008
— best entry I’ve tried so far from the competition; hit enter a couple times to start playing #
— culmination of three-year project trying to find a toy giraffe from her childhood #
— requires Flash 10 beta, or you can watch the sample videos instead #
— the site’s changed radically in the last year, from casual flirting to almost pure gaming #
— and I’m fairly sure that’s still a fraction of them via Laughing Squid #
— the best game I’ve played this year; coming to Steam and WiiWare later today #
— it’s almost, almost worth buying a PS3 for #
— the community’s split between answer people and discussion people, and the categories can be clustered accordingly #
October 12, 2008
— Lord British spending 10 days on the International Space Station for a cool $30 million #
— Brendan O’Connor’s blog is one of my new favorites; he works at Dolores Labs #
— for use with piping from sort|uniq -c and the like #
October 11, 2008
— every object has physical properties, so trash can be crushed, burned, or toppled #
October 10, 2008
— see also: Woot’s Google ads via superpoop.com #
— don’t miss the part where he queries his UStream followers in real-time #
October 9, 2008
— from SIGGRAPH demo to product in a year via Sippey #
October 8, 2008
— like Tamagotchi meets Levelhead #
— he also touches on his own recent encounter with U.S. customs #
— Gamespy loved it, but warns that it’s very hard #
— this works nicely for quick speech synthesis with simple URL hacking #
— I remember when their 2000 redesign blew away everyone with impressive DHTML features #
— funny, I keep all my priceless artifacts in cardboard boxes in the basement #
October 7, 2008
— ten years in the making #
— like Kottke said, there’s too much in here to like; related: Phone Sex AI via Fimoculous #
— after it buffers, try clicking “Restart” to get it in sync via Delicious #
— see also: Mechanical 5-bit Calculator in the Half-Life engine #
October 6, 2008
— this could also be used to keep you from answering personal email during work hours #
— very listenable pastiche of rock and hip-hop from Pink Floyd to Saul Williams with a strong political undercurrent #
— followup to The Giant Pool of Money episode from May #
— if songs sang what was happening in the music video via Andre Torrez #
— best game competition ever #
— “In Alaska, we have mosquitoes.” #
— with convenient Google Maps links for each #
October 4, 2008
— reminds me of an ant colony via Delicious #
— it’s got a beat and you can dance to it via Matt Haughey #
October 3, 2008
— finally, some innovation in the photo sharing space via Delicious #
— Truphone was the first VoIP app, but didn’t support Skype calling via Daring Fireball #
— very useful, though it’d require servers to enter the number in each group #
— there are several other good stories in that thread; related: a Hole in the Wall camp counselor’s tribute #
— he talks about how digital distribution makes topical parodies much easier via MetaFilter #
— looks like they bought Aaron’s Election ’08 app and rebranded it via benfry.com #
