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May 9, 2008
— random sampling of 150 people’s clipboards, categorized #
May 8, 2008
— one of the most amazing hacks I’ve ever seen; don’t miss the demos further down the page #
— time-bending Flash game, reminiscent of P.B. Winterbottom #
— a multi-instrumentalist’s reality meets fiction via Ze Frank #
May 6, 2008
— named after Piet Mondrian, here’s how it works; also, a Javascript IDE via roesler-ac.de #
— new RPG madness from the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden #
— he just released a mega-sampler of 17 of his games; highly recommended #
May 5, 2008
— surprisingly deep multiplayer 8-bit Flash game #
— on the contrary, Yahoo! gained $7B in value while Microsoft lost $33B #
— members of the Soyuz capsule were greeted by confused locals in a Kazakhstan field via Anil Dash #
— like R2D2 with a floppy drive and 20MB hard drive #
— not there yet, but a fun first pass at getting Ruby code running Google App Engine #
— last December, Unicode beat out ASCII and Western European encodings for the first time #
May 4, 2008
— glad I wasn’t the only one skeptical of “pixie dust” made of pig bladders via Delicious #
— funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics via Delicious #
May 3, 2008
— generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm #
May 2, 2008
— from the creators of Kdice, even more fast-paced than iSketch #
— Jim Coudal knows how to pick ’em #
— their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network #
— hop around on the giant keyboard and it’ll post here via MetaFilter #
May 1, 2008
— live feed with thousands of chatters, and they’re posting new videos all night #
— if you like that, try these popular 1k intros from the demoscene #
— taking typewriter art to the next level; from the same creator, a portrait of Bush #
— take that, Bee Gees; NSFW lyrics, for the sensitive folks via Maximum Fun #
— including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble; spoof the iPhone user-agent and it’s free from your laptop too #
— what if first-gen bloggers were vlogging in 1994? this is amazing, I want to see Kottke next #
April 30, 2008
— most are now online and it looks like Web 2.0 was much better this year #
— there’s a parallel-world Internet in the game with hundreds of pages, including parodies like Craplist #
— comic built from photos of a 3D miniature office building #
— the battling dynamic reminds me of the rare Panic Park gameplay #
— no, really, the first one’s in West Texas via LiveJournal #
— the history of online memes, back to the late 1800s; and yes, I’m a huge Jason Scott fanboy via Fimoculous #
— he goatse’d 704,000 people last year, which must be some kind of record #
— edited by Dooce, a book of essays with several good friends (and excellent writers) contributing #
April 29, 2008
— behind the scenes, 180 hours to build the contraption, 98 takes, 30 minutes to restore to initial state via Delicious #
— beats a tinny speaker playing the Dora the Explorer theme for 30 seconds via Adam Kempa #
— some clever tips in the video, like checking for toll roads and parking signs #
— it uses a camera to seek out its missing parts via blog.pmarca.com #
April 28, 2008
— streaming their desktop in real-time via Delicious #
— Cabel Sasser’s great story of fan noise on older Mac dev hardware #
— a former reporter is scooping other brewers and the trade publications, and both are angry #
— using remote CAPTCHA solvers run by the spammers via Slashdot #
— fake palindromes, updated daily via beingfamous.com #
— scanlation of a wistful Croation comic about a bookstore with every book in the world, except one via Delicious #
— transcript of Clay Shirky’s excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead via Leonard Lin #
— also, John wrote about another project porting the Ruby virtual machine to JS #
— the best explanation I’ve seen via Battelle Media #
April 27, 2008
— everyone’s identified in the Boing Boing comments #
April 26, 2008
— he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too #
April 25, 2008
— hear the stories behind popular memes from their creators; see the Tweetscan for more #
