November 30, 2009
Internal disputes kill the CrunchPad
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Arrington claims Fusion Garage decided to sell it without them; I'd like to hear their story
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Automatic Mario cover of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now"
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the amount of work here just hurts my brain
(via)
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Roger Avary taken off work furlough, back in prison after Twitter notoriety
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too bad, it was shaping up to be a great read
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David McCandless visualizes the safety/efficacy of the H1N1 vaccine
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a ton of research boiled down into simple charts; see also: Kottke's explanation of how it's made
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A Life Well Wasted episode 5: "Help"
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the best gaming podcast interviews Desert Bus for Hope, plus a lovely Olly Moss poster
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Waze turns crowdsourced mapping into a game
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agree with the commenter, it's unfortunate they're not contributing to OpenStreetMap
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Wikileaks releases 573,000 private pager messages from 9/11
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a massive privacy breach, Declan McCullagh's trying to find the source; Reddit users are discussing the interesting ones
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Neven Mrgan's Pie Guy, impressive web game for the iPhone
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installed from a webpage, swipe controls, and works offline; 3GS only, older iPhones are too slow
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An academic history of chiptunes
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related: 8bitcollective visits CSIRAC, a digital computer that made music in 1951
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Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young singing the Fresh Prince theme
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was hoping for Neil himself, but this is a great impression
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Director/screenwriter Roger Avary's tweeting his experience of life in jail
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he's on a work furlough, tweeting during the day and serving his sentence at night
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Bioshock cosplay at the Georgia Aquarium
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the drill actually works, and the costume's for sale on eBay; how it was built
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Back to the Future DeLorean mod for Crysis
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including support for time travel and flaming tire tracks
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Regretsy gets a book deal
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the anonymous author turned out to be April Winchell, collector of audio oddities
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Google Chrome OS Demo
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a world without a local filesystem and apps; also, the Chrome UI concept video
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Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"
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Keith Schofield's surreal video and insane treatment were inspired by FFFFOUND and Reddit, but maybe too explicitly
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YouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions
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starting with some partner channels, but auto-timing is available to everyone today
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Web-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy
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he's the last of the original Ludicorp team to go
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Interview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E
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from last February, but new to me; I didn't know the Axiom had three passenger classes
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NSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight"
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warning: very offensive and sexist, but the attention to 16-bit detail by director Jérémie Perin is incredible
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NY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project
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Expert Labs debuted at Web 2.0 today, funded with a $500k grant from the MacArthur Foundation
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Google's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days
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this gets second-place for quirkiest Android bug
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Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns
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his style of comedy usually makes me uncomfortable, but this made me laugh
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How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago
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Brooke was part of the early UK blog scene
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ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory
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the developer also posted videos of Paradroid and Boulder Dash
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Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games"
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his SAP prototype looks like great ambient fun
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NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement
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nothing new here, but good overview with a wonderful closing anecdote from Cactus
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Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web
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"more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform"
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Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files
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along with a torrent with 51,000 MIDIs rescued by Archive Team
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Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response
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there were about 1,000 #mathowielove tweets in 24 hours
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Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity
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only six people in the world knew, she only told her parents yesterday
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Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd
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great discussion, and it's hard not to see where both are coming from
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Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy
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I'm with Marco, the only fix is allowing external apps, but it's unlikely
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Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank
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hard to say if life-threatening situations are funnier than public humiliation
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301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data
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the shorteners will provide regular backups and hand over data on closure, though TinyURL's conspicuously missing
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Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames
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sounds like the English analogue of Amusement I was hoping for
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Auto-Tune the News on Kanye, Charlie Bit Me, and Balloon Boy
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if you're in NYC next week, go see them perform live
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