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April 21, 2008

CNN started selling t-shirts with their headlines on it

— look for the shirt icon on the homepage; also, it’s fun to manipulate via Fimoculous #
April 20, 2008

David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups

— completely sane message, but it’s not being told enough #

Ohshiit

— great single-serving site listing search result counts for each permutation via Delicious #
April 19, 2008

Michael Pollan on climate change and carbon footprints

— thoughtful piece addresses the seeming insignificance of lifestyle changes #

Google News adds quotation search

— nicely extracting quotes from articles with proper attribution, similar to Daylife via Simon Willison #
April 18, 2008

Automating Firefox for Web App Integration

— insane, you can telnet to Firefox and control it with any scripting language #

Talking Picture (The Road to Ruin)

— removes all dialogue from a 1938 film; also, I just updated the list of supercuts #
April 17, 2008

South Park's new episode parodies our Internet dependence

— the Internet is a giant Linksys router in the desert via Eliot Phillips #

Kevin Kelly lists his worst predictions

— in 1995, I thought VR would be huge and Apple was in a death spiral via Boing Boing #

Let's Tell a Story Together: A History of Interactive Fiction

— expertly-written history of the subject, from Eliza to Inform 7 #
April 16, 2008

Brad Bird's tribute to Ollie Johnston

— after Ollie retired, Brad took his desk the following Monday #

LOLGRUES

— it is pitch black via MetaFilter #

Metafilter comment relays a conversation about the origins of man with a 5-year-old

— some more great stories in this thread, like this story about a 5am walk in Vancouver #

Ben Heck's custom-made Apple IIgs laptop

— it’s like technology from a parallel world via Delicious #

Alpha Twitter

— dead-simple meme tracker for popular links on Twitter via louisgray.com #

Oregon state sends cease-and-desists for republishing statutes

— they claim copyright on the typesetting and numbering of the documents, not the text of the statutes themselves #

Defamer investigates the Marilyn Monroe sex tape, claims hoax

— no real evidence supporting hoax theory, but undermines credibility of the seller via Fimoculous #

Michael Arrington loves the Twitter "block" button

— though I’m pretty sure the New York Times doesn’t killfile people who correct them via emptyage.com #

Youngme/Nowme

— people reproduce their childhood photos and tagging each photo on Flickr #

Twilight of the Area Code Master

— add it to the list of obsolete skills #

Heroes & Villains

— portraits of artists in the graffiti, alt-comic, and underground art worlds via Andre Torrez #
April 15, 2008

Photorealistic 3D buildings in the new Google Earth

— very impressive, includes sunlight and shading #

Django-MMO, open-source clone of Game Neverending

— is this the first open-source web-based MMO? via Cal Henderson #

Winners of the Color Wars rap battle

— judged by Jonathan Coulton and Doc Popular via jonathancoulton.com #

Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney's Nine Old Men, passes away at 95

— loving tributes in the updates and comments via MetaFilter #

Fring, a simple Skype/IM/Twitter client for the iPhone

— Skype support appears to be wifi-only via techcrunch.com #

Time-lapse security cam of Nick White, a man trapped 41 hours in a NYC elevator

— from brilliant New Yorker article about the lives of elevators; the ordeal changed him forever via Delicious #

RC car plays Super Mario theme on long line of filled bottles

— a thing of beauty #
April 14, 2008

I Hate Drake

— animated rendition of an 11-year-old’s diary; see also: 500 Miles to Hollywood via MetaFilter #

Jason Scott analyzes how an Atari Age thread devolves

— for anyone interested in online group dynamics and/or the current Atari 2600 scene #

Excelsior 1968

— John Martz drew cartoon versions of every student from his mom’s 1968 yearbook; see also: The Liner via MetaFilter #

Amazon adds persistent storage to EC2

— a massive upgrade, allowing snapshots with a single API call #

Disney shutting down its Virtual Magic Kingdom MMO

— read the comments to see players and parents absolutely devastated by its closure via Rock Paper Shotgun #
April 13, 2008

Numbers Station Bingo

— clever idea, builds a game using the mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts #

Download YouTube videos as MP4 files

— higher quality and better sound than the FLV versions via techmeme.com #

Hands Free 3D

— Mitch Kapor shows how to navigate Second Life with your full body via Alice Taylor #

Cartoon Brew on the aborted Yoshifumi Kondo pilot for Little Nemo

— Brad Bird responds in the comments! see also: longer version of the pilot and the 1992 feature film for comparison via Simon Carless #

Eric Schwartz' animated Amiga tribute

— created on an Amiga 4000T to the tune of “Still Alive,” it’s very faithful to Amiga history #

The Droste Effect in Packaging

— self-referential products via Andre Torrez #
April 12, 2008

Martijn Hendriks' "Give Us Today Our Daily Terror"

— Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” with every bird digitally removed via MetaFilter #

Ironic Sans' idea for tactile feedback while driving

— Rumble Pak on the steering wheel to sense cars in your blind spot #

Celebrity Heights

— determined by taking a photograph next to a person of known height via LiveJournal #
April 11, 2008

Chuck Jones' Isolation Studies

— brilliant supercuts created by a Chicago artist; the Loveline montages are amazing #

TDD Rickroll

— total abuse of the TRS, but still very funny #

Jerry Yang and David Filo play Faceball

— spoiler: Filo wins! #

Sourcing the 1980s TV bumpers from Justice's DVNO video

— the original video, if you missed it #

Yahoo! Pipes feed of YouTube channel subscriptions for a user

— YouTube doesn’t provide any subscription feeds, but this works perfectly via @googlesystem #

Freakonomics guys on the Metafilter vs. YouTube commenters

— it’s worth noting that the NYT is cultivating a high level of discourse in their own blog comments via Matt Haughey #

Winners of Jay Is Games' Casual Gameplay Comp 5

— like always, incredible quality from the vibrant community via GameSetWatch #

Defective Yeti researches the LOST screenplay profanity

— I thought this was a joke, but I verified it; JJ Abrams has a potty mouth #
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