Adam Mathes compares "new entry" UIs on blogging services
— only Wordpress and Twitter have inline posting tools on the homepage #
O'Reilly ends Etech conference
— very sad to see it go; I heard the last one was great though sparsely attended #
C64 emulator for the iPhone approved by Apple
— as far as I know, the first official emulator in the App Store #
Gawker crowdsources Russian translation of GQ's Putin article
— Conde Nast's gone to great lengths to keep the article hidden (via) #
MC Frontalot releases "Diseases of Yore" single featuring Jonathan Coulton
— how could I not link this? a song about medieval medicine (via) #
Japanese programmers' hidden gossip in 8-bit Famicom games
— one message wasn't discovered until 2007 (via) #
Ben Fry visualizes changes to Darwin's Origin of Species over time
— changes across six editions and 13 years; more on the project #
Ben Lee, Lou Barlow release new Noise Addict album for free
— using Bandcamp, their first new album in 13 years (via) #
Derek Yu's Spelunky hits 1.0
— free procedurally-generated platformer for Windows, highly recommended (via) #
AT&T dumps Kevin Mitnick as a customer
— rather than fix their security issues, they asked him to leave #
Robin Sloan's Google Adwords experiment for naming fictional characters
— testing to see which names are most compelling to random Google users #
Verizon the latest ISP to close free Usenet access
— joining AT&T, Time Warner, and Sprint; only a handful of paid feeds will be left, which will be easy for the RIAA/MPAA to attack #
Media outlets paying sources in Dugard
— one source claimed her Facebook page was hacked by reporters (via) #
Sunlight Labs
— opening government through code and design; check out the projects and vote for ideas (via) #