S.F. may crack down on urban prank events
— city officials said last month's Pillow Fight cost over $40,000 to clean up #
Topps brings augmented reality to baseball cards
— surprising they went with a Windows plugin, instead of Flash ARToolkit (via) #
BackTweets, search for links on Twitter
— unlike Twitter Search, this dereferences links from URL shorteners like TinyURL #
Unofficial mirror of Kutiman's Thru-You
— the official site resolved their earlier bandwidth issues (via) #
Seattle P-I to become first daily metro newspaper to go web-only
— related: Mike Davidson's great piece on saving newspaper journalism, while letting print die (via) #
Pun-Colle, Japanese anime voice actresses cover punk classics
— about as horrible as you'd imagine, every song is on his profile page #
Dolphin emulator boots the Wii OS
— I had no idea they'd gotten so far; as of last week, it also supports WADs #
Thru You, Kutiman's album of YouTube video remixes
— serious YouTube crate digging; the acapella track used on Just A Lady only has 198 views (via) #
Flickr launches new Panda API methods
— three different pandas, each with their own taste in Flickr photos #
Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension
— mapping the cultural shorthand for confusing languages (via) #
Origins of the Windows XP "Bliss" desktop wallpaper
— old, but new to me; I love the more recent photo of the Napa Valley site #
Rebecca MacKinnon on how Chinese blog services censor bloggers
— great research, finds that individual editors at blog portals make a huge difference #
Recording a trip around the sushi conveyor belt
— the translated dialogue; videos by others here, here, and here (via) #
Detecting click tracks in popular music using the Echo Nest API
— Britney, Green Day, and Nickelback cheated; Metallica, Weezer, and Led Zeppelin kept it real #
The Retr0brite Project
— retro computing geeks open-source a cleaning formula to turn yellowing plastics white again (via) #
Volunteers Put the Economist Into Chinese
— the NYT asked me to rewrite my entry for today's paper; my first byline in a national newspaper! #
Skittles changes product homepage to Twitter search
— other links in their navigation go straight to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook #
Newsweek's The District, the Obama presidency as an MTV reality show
— the Barack impersonator is YouTube's own Alphacat #