Redrawing the Obama/McCain tax plan chart to scale
— the original chart doesn’t visualize the extent of the disparity #The Big Picture on the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games
— NBC’s waiting until October to air the coverage, but they’re posting highlights daily online #Adam Kimmel's Claremont HD, downhill skateboard speedrun
— absolutely insane, just watched it for the second time; Sippey has the route #PleaseDressMe, the t-shirt search engine
— been playing around with Gary Vaynerchuk’s new startup and it’s great; also, Gary’s broadcasting live on UStream #The Mountain Goats and Kaki King's "Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle"
— wistful song sung from the perspective of Toad #When Algorithms Attack
— how Googlebot, the Chicago Tribune’s CMS, and a careless Bloomberg analyst killed United Airlines’ stock #Dopplr open-sources their "find and invite" feature
— Rails plugin for locating your friends on other social networks #Bioshock creator Ken Levine talks about growing up nerdy in the '70s
— finding his tribe, losing it in Hollywood, and finding again in game design via MetaFilter #EepyBird's Sticky Note Experiment
— from the Mentos/Diet Coke guys, soon to be seen everywhere via bg5000.tumblr.com #Seth MacFarlane's AdSense Cartoons Now Available
— new videos weekly, subscribe on Burger King’s YouTube channel #Hands-on demo video of the Plastic Logic Reader
— cool stuff, but someone needs to take lessons from Apple #OiNK admin charged with "conspiracy to defraud"
— his bail date was extended five times; related: Elite Torrents admin sentenced to 18 months in jail #TIGSource's brilliant Bootleg Demakes game dev competition
— the entries remade famous games for retro systems; my other favorites are parodies of GTA, Burn the Rope, American McGee’s Alice, Silent Hill, Bioshock, Legend of Zelda, and Shadow of the Colossus #Super 3D Portals 6, remaking Portal for the Atari 2600
— and yes, it actually runs on 2600 emulators #Why do people participate in Mechanical Turk?
— he asked the Turker community, by creating a HIT paying ten cents per answer #Sasha Frere-Jones on the use of laptops in live music
— Gregg Gillis covers his laptop with saran wrap and reconstructs his mix nightly via sciencevsromance.net #Being a List of Songs Related to the Switching-On of the LHC
— and, just to be sure, no and nope via haddock.org #Simon Carless announces FingerGaming, new iPhone gaming blog
— promising site from the same group that runs GameSetWatch, Indiegames, and Gamasutra #Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals"
Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals is one of my favorite albums this year, a hyperactive mish-mash sampling hundreds of songs from the last 45 years of popular music. Gregg Gillis created a beautiful, illegal mess of copyright clearance hell, which you should download immediately. (It’s free, but I kicked in $20 for Gregg’s legal fund and a copy of the CD.)
Last month, Rex Sorgatz asked about collecting metadata on the album for data crunching. After spelunking through Billboard’s chart history, that sounded like my idea of a good time.
So I compiled all the data into spreadsheets, used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to collect some additional information, and pulled out a few charts. As always, I’ve provided CSV downloads for all the data along with the original output from Mechanical Turk, for those interested in experimenting with the platform.
Update (October 30): Here’s the official sample list.