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April 30, 2008
— 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 #
April 24, 2008
— I had no idea Shiver Metimbers unmasked himself last year #
— I average about 90 wpm, even with my crazy nontraditional typing style via twitter.com #
— coming in October, Sierra’s Prototype will also attempt to model NYC in exacting detail via Delicious #
— like Muxtape, totally illegal fun; the embeddable players are great #
— saw this a couple days ago, but now it’s been tagged and removed via Matthew Baldwin #
— he churned out at least 120,000 words in 100 days, most likely their biggest earner #
— the percentage of seeders is rising, despite Comcast’s efforts #
April 23, 2008
— lovely art piece fashions a laptop out of an old book via tumbl.us #
— anything’s possible! via robhuebel.com #
— with detailed photos of every character’s desk, among other details via incidentalthinking.com #
— I’m so impressed with the games they’ve invented using existing web services #
— it seems to have spawned a catchphrase via topherchris.com #
— the Nostrasaurus knows all #
— a silly little mashup from Why built in haXe #
— shows aggregate spending info culled from their user data #
April 22, 2008
— Gay French Mario Bros. was a great game via topherchris.com #
— sounds about right, but will they need TV, or will TV need them? via beingfamous.com #
— hide your kids! at the five-minute mark, it carries a goat back to its nest #
— RPS nailed it as “whack-a-mole with Katamari Damacy’s aesthetics” via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— brilliant bit of found video courtesy of Josh Marshall #
— nice exclusive, stream the full album for free via Nelson Minar #
— a legendary haul via Slashdot #
— great tracker, but risks drawing too much attention to the site #
— he shares his earnings and the implications of depending heavily on a small core base #
April 21, 2008
— Steve is not happy via Fimoculous #
— my brother-in-law’s been recording and posting a song a week since January; reminds me of Shel Silverstein meets XTC’s Apple Venus #
— reminds me of the the Star Wars arcade game from 1983 via Michael Heilemann #
