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March 26, 2008
— great journalism, completely debunks last week’s Puffy/Tupac expose #
— this Gawker article captured all the photos before they were pulled #
— some clever twists on Tetris gameplay, too #
— from the creator of 8088 Corruption, the first tracker for the original IBM PC speaker via ascii.textfiles.com #
— finally! I tried for six weeks to get a quote, but I’m not the LA Times #
March 25, 2008
— a programming solution to a human problem #
— S3-hosted service for 12-song virtual mix tapes, like this one via Daring Fireball #
— don’t miss the followup; take that, Will.i.am #
— a random sampling via Matt Haughey #
— works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive via blog.persistent.info #
— crazy mashup of retro gaming graphics and gameplay into a new game #
— I’d love to hear more about Japanese search spam #
March 24, 2008
— I’m surprised the writer doesn’t mention Colony Collapse Disorder #
— like Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight, an epic hand-drawn animation in the style of 16-bit brawlers via Eliot Phillips #
— returning after a three-year hiatus via MetaFilter #
— the treatment and symptom charts are incredibly empowering #
— they’ve already sold 6 million songs in three months through the clunky Xbox Live Marketplace #
— each unique referral is a new inhabitant; compare Barbelith to GoonTown via Tom Coates #
March 22, 2008
— fakes a local directory for your friends with the files they’ve uploaded in each #
— a little weekend dose of insane for you via GameSetWatch #
— uses the Echonest audio API for beat matching to blend mixes automatically via variogram.com #
— demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API #
March 21, 2008
— Andrew Keen is the new Stoll, getting press for contrarian, but short-sighted, views via elearnspace.org #
— big companies and junk food both scale, but they’re unhealthy in similar ways #
— that’s incredibly awesome; take that, Urban Outfitters via the-inbetween.com #
— the first person to be fired because of tweets? #
March 20, 2008
— Alf is my co-pilot; I love that Mena’s back via @anildash #
— free filmic album and book, both interesting and worth experiencing via MetaFilter #
— organ is spackle for the music world via twitter.com #
— the most powerful and important document I’ve read in a very long time via O'Reilly Radar #
— more complicated than I thought via Matt Jacobs #
— as suspected, games are currently being worked on around it #
— now let’s go camping! via Delicious #
March 19, 2008
— with Ze Frank leading, picking teams marked the start of Twitter’s first potential MMO #
— fiction written and designed for Google Maps, from the creators of Perplex City via GameSetWatch #
March 18, 2008
— the opposite of RickrollDB, great for pranks via Delicious #
— help with his wish at Once Upon a School #
— and 40% comes from a single source; good luck shutting it down, though via Nelson Minar #
— telenapping with your loved one #
— like a drunken goat-bot funded by DARPA via Cal Henderson #
— impressive shots taken at night; full set on Flickr via Laughing Squid #
— from Dolores Labs, a Turk consultancy; also, their wonderful chart of race on Sports Illustrated covers via Magnetbox #
March 17, 2008
— from the Czech studio that made Samorost, a lovely game for kids commissioned by the BBC; walkthrough #
— don’t miss the rest of NPR’s coverage, too via Delicious #
— a massive outpouring of creativity; AdBlock users will need to whitelist the page #
March 16, 2008
March 14, 2008
— finally, blowing in the cart will actually do something #
— not an April 1 joke, as suspected; any idea how to enable cliply? #
— don’t miss the Victorian hate mail at the end #
