Birdhouse, a Twitter notepad for the iPhone
— for people who take Twitter way too seriously; don't miss the intro video (via) #
Elevated, winning 4k PC intro at Breakpoint 2009
— mind-blowing real-time terrain generation in 4,096 bytes; download it (via) #
Valleywag on Weev taking credit for #amazonfail controversy
— remember him? this guy's skeptical, but it still seems plausible to me #
Michael Buffington asks Mechanical Turk to write his personal bio
— the results weren't great, but inspired him to make it better #
Know Your Meme on the Yo Dawg/Sup Dawg image macro
— including Xzibit's response to the meme on Twitter #
Boing Boing tracks "lololol" variations on Google
— including the loolol, a lol with 100 o's (via) #
Adam Curtis on the modern rise of "Oh Dear"-ism in TV news
— from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, a BBC show about the news media; full episodes here (via) #
Comparing word frequency in TV/movie scripts to Craigslist's M4M personal ads
— NSFW language; the jargon's interesting, from HWP to DDF #
Yelp to allow businesses to respond to negative reviews
— accountability for reviewers and owners is good, but could lead to an all-out war #
Kanye West responds to South Park parody
— amazingly, it seems to have led to a minor revelation for him about his own ego #
Chris Ainsworth's advice for Wizards of the Coast
— they recently stopped D&D PDF sales to thwart piracy, always a bad plan #
Roo Reynolds visualizes his web browsing history
— he analyzed data from MeeTimer, a lovely Firefox extension for self-tracking #
Josh Poehlein's Modern History
— collages made exclusively from YouTube screengrabs, artifacts and all (via) #
Techcrunch releases new photos of their prototype tablet
— I'm simply amazed at the progress they've made #
John Gruber's guide to blocking the DiggBar
— curious that it's not on the Digg homepage yet, even with 600 1,100 diggs #
McSweeney's guide to understanding Twitter
— "Twitter founders Bob Timpei and El Segundo have begun working in earnest with Germans" #
LA Times talks to former Area 51 workers to debunk UFO myths
— in 2007, the CIA declassified 50-year-old documents about the OXCART program #
Aaron Meyers' Spore Skeletons in augmented reality
— here's a video of it in action; Aaron makes cool stuff (via) #
Shadow of the Colossus being developed for feature film
— could be great or awful; the game's about love, sacrifice, and 16 big-ass boss battles (via) #
Pong in Street Fighter IV and other consensual play modes
— Cat and Mouse in Project Gotham Racing sounds like a blast, too #
NYT blog posts added to the Times Newswire API
— also, they announced their new Real Estate API two days ago #
Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital
Getting linked from a high-profile website is almost always a huge compliment, well-received by any blogger. But Monday morning, I saw two friends taken by surprise when they were featured on the front page of AllThingsD, the Dow Jones-owned news site edited by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal. I talked to Kara, as well as several other writers and bloggers, to understand why.
Background
After Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter’s article about URL shorteners was posted on AllThingsD, he asked on Twitter, “What the hell is this?” Danny Sullivan replied, “It’s a compliment. AllThingsD liked your shortener article enough to feature you on their home page.” Joshua responded, “It’s just very unclear to me where that came from, who wrote it, why they are showing ads on it, etc.”
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Everything Is Terrible's compilation of bad introductions
— amazing videoblog of original VHS rips; the first post set the tone, recreating a VHS viral he'd seen in college #
Nate Silver's prediction model for gay marriage bans, state-by-state
— bans are losing support at a rate of 2 points yearly; by 2012, almost half would vote against it #
MPA to challenge Newzbin in court
— baffling since they only host metadata, but not the actual files #
Mad Scientist Labs builds Ironic Sans' concept Bulbdial Clock
— an LED sundial with moving hour, minute, and second hands #
Hand-crafted miniature sets from classic TV shows
— my favorites are Family Ties, Three's Company, Price Is Right and Pyramid (via) #
Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face
— The Onion built a dedicated website for the game, with an online Flash demo #
Effing Hail
— Flash game in the form of weather infographics in a textbook; awful music, though (via) #
The Beatles entire catalogue remastered, to be released alongside Rock Band
— wait, what's this "CD" they speak of? (via) #
Flickr's Aaron Cope walks through building maps from scratch
— using Stamen's EC2 image for an instant map stack; yet another reason to vote for them in Icon's poll #
Visualizing SF Trees, Crimes, and Cabs with subtractive blending
— Stamen's Shawn Allen explains how it was made in the comments (via) #
Gizmodo's Pirate Code of Conduct for BitTorrent
— in case media companies are wondering, these align to the ethical guidelines for most people I know #
NYT on Hearst's RealAge "test" marketing 27 million medical histories to drug companies
— naturally, Hearst also owns Oprah Magazine; Gordon predicted this back in 2007 #
Amanda Palmer on how Twitter is changing her relationship with fans
— she's been actively trying to get dropped from her label #
Paramount surprises hardcore fans by debuting new Trek film in Austin
— they thought they were watching a new reprint of Wrath of Khan, until Nimoy himself broke the news #