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October 3, 2008

Weird Al to release songs on iTunes as soon as he's recorded them

— he talks about how digital distribution makes topical parodies much easier via MetaFilter #

Slate releases Poll Tracker app for the iPhone

— looks like they bought Aaron’s Election ’08 app and rebranded it via benfry.com #

NYT's interactive VP debate transcript

— searchable and scrollable with checkpoints and speaker coloring; it’s only missing permalinks and plaintext #
October 2, 2008

Dan Aykroyd pimps vodka in a crystal skull

— looks like Ray has gone bye-bye; related: his UFO “documentary” via buzzfeed.com #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2008 entries released!

— like last year, the brilliant IF luminary Emily Short will be reviewing games as she plays them #

Cave Story coming to WiiWare with exclusive new content

— if you’ve never played the freeware masterpiece, it’s available for PC, Mac, and Linux #

Laser Portraits

— or make your own via Brett O'Connor #

Obama campaign releases official iPhone app

— flawlessly designed, focused heavily on participation; grouping your address book by state is surprisingly useful via Daring Fireball #

Nintendo announces new DSi with camera, web browser, downloadable games

— here’s video of it in action #

Dabbleboard, social whiteboard drawing tool

— you can draw and share anonymously, too #

Webmonkey on the clickjacking IFRAME exploit

— potentially devastating hack and relatively easy to pull off, affecting every browser #
October 1, 2008

The Money Meltdown, excellent primer to the current mess

— some very good links I haven’t seen before via MetaFilter #

Google Blog Search launches new Techmeme-like homepage

— funny, I thought they’d abandoned the site entirely; here’s the announcement #

Dexter ad campaign spoofs Wired, Esquire, New Yorker magazine covers

— clever campaign, though the typefaces are slightly off throughout; the New Yorker cover was drawn by regular Edward Sorel #

Visual History of Recessions since 1949

— in other words: everything is going to be okay via buzzfeed.com #

Dan Rather interviews FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver

— applying knowledge learned from baseball analytics to electoral projections #

Apple lifts iPhone NDA, developers rejoice

— Furbo released some source to celebrate #

Netflix launches public Javascript, Atom, REST APIs

— as Kellan points out, it comes with OAuth, a developer blog, and an API explorer via laughingmeme.org #

Routefinder, analog mapping wristwatch from the 1920s

— scroll your way through the UK via Kottke #

Sarah Palin plays the flute in Miss Alaska pageant

— see also: Nixon on piano, Clinton on sax #
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