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January 16, 2008

Theinfo.org

— community for people who love to process and visualize large data sets via Delicious #

Sad, Sweet One-Act Play, Told Entirely By a Burger King Receipt I Found

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Lasagna Cat

— extremely odd real-life reenactments of Garfield comics, from the creator of Ducktales and Infinite Solutions #

Ron the Music Maker, the all-star Scientology album

— let’s hope Tom lays down a track along with Chick Corea, John Travolta, Leif Garrett, and Sylvester Stallone’s dad #

Nick Denton digs up Tom Cruise's Scientology video

— wisely hosted on Gawker’s servers instead of Youtube, so won’t be easily taken offline #
January 15, 2008

xkcd's Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat

— a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that’ve never been spoken before via interconnected.org #
January 9, 2008

Urban Mapping opens up neighborhood database

— hallelujah, this kind of geo data is so valuable and hard to build on your own; update: Zillow followed suit #
January 8, 2008

Erica Sadun's song recognition software for the iPhone

— let it listen to music and it’ll try to identify the song #

Superelectronic

— like a seizure-inducing Flash version of Superbad or Jodi.org via Jay Is Games #

Stupidfilter's random stupid comments

— from a project to programmatically identify stupid web comments using Bayesian filtering via beebo.org #
January 6, 2008

Music Thing on the "Compendium of Physical Activities"

— playing the accordion is better exercise than “vigorous sexual activity”? #

How Techmeme Changes Over Time

— 50 hours of Techmeme screengrabs in 50 seconds via Battelle Media #

Elyse Sewell blogs her violent fight with Shins' keyboardist Martin Crandall

— former America’s Top Model heads to jail after battle with ex-boyfriend; update: switched to Google cache after she locked the entry #
January 5, 2008

Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post

— blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 via MetaFilter #

Adam "Everyware" Greenfield self-publishing his new book

— three cheers for cutting out middlemen; pre-orders are now available via Paypal #

How to Read Wired Magazine, Revisited

— Derek Powazek returns to Suck.com’s original guide #
January 4, 2008

Video: Excuse Me, Princess

— see also: (almost) every Knight Rider turbo boost via Andre Torrez #

Game Innovation Database

— like Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music, a tremendous resource in an awkward Flash interface via Delicious #

Video: Kirby Ferguson on shrinking attention spans

— tl;dw #
January 3, 2008

Flash: Cursor*10

— ingenious game trains you to solve puzzles with multiple versions of yourself via Jay Is Games #

Scanlation of Shintaro Kago's "Labyrinth"

— NSFW comic about mazes, his work is often grotesque but some of the best comics I’ve seen via comics212.net #

DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop"

— mashing up the Billboard top 25 for 2007 via MetaFilter #
January 2, 2008

Alison Jackson's Confidential photo art exhibit

— using celebrity doubles to recreate paparazzi shots that never existed #

Yahoo! Picks of the Week closes after 12 years

— they’ve maintained the same inoffensive tone since 1995, but it seemed to get better in the last year #

Valve now selling gorgeous Portal shirts

— game-related t-shirts that don’t make you look nerdy via Rock Paper Shotgun #

Branscome International's cringe-inducing Pixar knockoffs

— don’t miss the trailers for Ratatoing and The Little Cars via John Martz #

Kottke posts his Best Links for 2007

— still the best link blogger around #

Best freeware games of 2007

— quirky independent games, though almost entirely PC only via Delicious #
January 1, 2008

Fret Killer, the mysterious YouTube acoustic guitarist

— in every video, the commenters repeatedly try to identify this relentlessly anonymous performer via MetaFilter #

Christmas wishbook catalogs on Flickr

— you’ll shoot your eye out! happy new year, everyone #

David Cross on accepting the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" role

— I love Patton Oswalt too, but aren’t we past accusing people of selling out yet? via Fimoculous #
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