November 11, 2008

where the things in Cloverfield happen — "this is where things in Cloverfield happen okay" (via) #

Google.org tracking flu spread using search queries — brilliant use of search data; get a flu shot before it gets to your state! (via) #

Google Groups expands to search web-based message boards — if "Sort by Date" appears to be missing, check your ad blocker #

"Dark Days" director explains how the Pentagon cancelled his followup film on the Iraq war — after two years of filming, he sold all his equipment on the same forum #

Dark Days, 2000 documentary about NYC homeless living in abandoned train tunnels — classic documentary with music by DJ Shadow #

Interview with the NASA writer behind the MarsPhoenix Twitter account — written in the first person, more than 38,000 people have followed its adventure (via) #

November 10, 2008

Touching story of Eugene Allen, a butler who served 34 years in the White House — a must-read with a sad ending (via) #

Super Mario for Busy People — You Have to Find the Princess (via) #

Google Reader adds automatic feed translation — I'm testing it out by throwing some Japanese blogs into a special non-English group #

Worst. Bug. Ever. — the Android phone executes all typed text, so don't text "rm -rf /" to a friend #

CaptionX, multiplayer photo captioning game — built on App Engine with CC-licensed photos on Flickr, with clever YouTube interstitials (via) #

WikiDashboard, Wikipedia mirror with real-time infoviz of edit history — for example, see Barack Obama or Star Wars Kid; I need a Greasemonkey script to pull this into Wikipedia proper #

November 8, 2008

How many guys in Spider-Man suits can fit inside Jamba Juice? — one customer in the store recorded the madness (via) #

Tetris recreated in LittleBigPlanet — a jetpack-powered sackboy readjusts all the falling pieces (via) #

November 7, 2008

The irRegularGame of Life — includes a history of Conway's Game of Life (via) #

Sugar Cubes — lovely Flash animation by the creator of Cursor*10 (via) #

MS Paint Adventures — interactive games where the artist acts as parser, drawing the results of the community's actions (via) #

Girl Talk's "I'm A PC" testimonial for Microsoft — no mention of Apple, but still a refreshing approach (via) #

Photoshop in Real-Life — this behind-the-scenes photo gives you a sense of the scale (via) #

Get Your War On: New World Order — the earnestness of this comment made me giggle (via) #

2009 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest — science grad students do interpretive dances on their obscure thesis topics #

Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app — also, the Zelda theme; surprisingly deep for a $1 app #

Spit DNA evidence leads to arrest in Craigslist/inner-tube robbery — the story keeps getting stranger #

November 6, 2008

Investigative report into the "Single?" lawn signs across America — completely OCD net research, tracing them all back to a huge Texas dating franchise (via) #

Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 With Love — help repair the damage from the election cycle with a small gesture #

Howard Stern rants on blogs, Facebook, and Myspace — Gary V. responds to the King of All Dead Media #

Factory Balls 2 — I promise to stop posting about politics soon, really (via) #

Salon rounds up the worst election predictions from political pundits — also, Nate Silver's electoral predictions were dead-on across the board; go math! #

Colbert and Stewart talk about Twitter — some people use Twitter like Colbert's SimulTube #

Jim Ray's collection of election night homepages — automated screengrabs every half-hour from 3pm-10pm Tuesday night (via) #

Channel 101's Sony commercials — unfortunately, Sony didn't bite; more product ads here (via) #

United Features' website goes free, including every Peanuts strip — and, finally, full comics in RSS feeds #

Mark Newman's 2008 election maps and cartograms — weighted by population, fun to compare to the 2004 election #

South Park's "About Last Night…" — absurd reimagining of the election as an Ocean's Eleven-like diamond heist #

November 5, 2008

Tim Schafer releases Grim Fandango's 70-page design document — tons of unreleased information; character sketches, layout, cutscenes, and every puzzle #

Newsweek's exclusive Election 2008 report, embargoed behind-the-scenes story from both campaigns — they were given major access on the condition nothing would be released until today #

Giraffes! — rare cameo by Akiva from the Lonely Island #

The Onion: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress — this feels the 2008 counterpart to their unbelievably prescient 2001 article #

Sean Tevis, the xkcd candidate for Kansas state rep, discusses last night's loss — his opponent used deceptive robocalls and direct mail borrowing photos from Sean's Facebook and Flickr accounts #

November 4, 2008

Kottke's collection of election maps — interesting to see how each designer tackled the same problem so differently #

xkcd on the end of the election — don't miss the alt-text #

Yes We Did

Posted November 4, 2008 by Andy Baio

(Credit: Michael Buchino, also available as a shirt)

Video of CNN's first hologram interview — a bit glitchy, definitely different from Cisco's Telepresence #

99 Bricks, like Tetris meets World of Goo — build the tallest stable structure with 99 Tetris bricks (via) #

Voting machines elect voting machine as President — DRE 700 IS LEADER (via) #

CNN to interview 3D hologram guests on tonight's election coverage — guests will be interviewed from remote locations, Star Wars-style #

ABC News streaming raw video feed on Ustream.tv — including reporters applying their own makeup and chatting with cameramen #

Philipp rounds up every YouTube video I've ever linked to — about 20% are no longer online, proving linkrot is alive and well in YouTube #

How Nate Phelps escaped the Most Hated Family in America — inside story of living with the Phelps family, with comments from Shirley Phelps-Roper herself #

Nate Silver's guide to what to watch for on election night — a handy guide to tonight's events #