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December 14, 2009
— former Disney Imagineer wires his house to play “Cliffs of Dover,” with a Wii and 21,268 lights via Make #
— strangely, the writer quotes a Gmail error as an official response via @juliandibbell #
December 11, 2009
— otherworldly hand-drawn animation; mood feels like Kevin Huizenga meets Grickle #
— “30 years after VisiCalc shipped: Another app from me that starts out on Apple hardware” #
— 180,000 RSS subscribers, no reserve! #
— elegantly-designed to-do list by Swiss Miss and Fictive Kin via Delicious #
December 10, 2009
— fanmade megamontage of ten years of web memes #
— an unbelievable deal, the text adventure documentary will be released on two DVDs in March #
— skewing heavily towards the innovative, quirky, and otherwise underappreciated #
— Kickstarter made the cut! #
— she’s addicted to grinding through terrible games for the ranking #
— ASCII art in 140 characters via @textfiles #
— a dystopic take, but there’s some truth in here, especially related to attention #
December 9, 2009
— very funny mashup of tech digerati quotes out of context #
— expect a large-scale userbase freakout and real-world repercussions #
— it’s like an angry, bearded pachinko for the Atari 2600 #
December 8, 2009
— I never knew his illustrations were drawn from staged photos via kungfugrippe.com #
— funny, these look older than 1998 to me #
— the art project frightened some residents, reminiscent of Boston and Ohio #
— incredible retro artwork and game boxes; I’ve seen these in person and they’re ridiculously accurate #
— cashiers have informal speed contests and sometimes cheat using a “suspend” function via Kottke #
— chippy music and sound effects without samples, uses MML for describing music; try it out here via Indie Games+ #
December 7, 2009
— $200,000, cheap! don’t miss Branson’s introductory video via Daring Fireball #
— Fusion Garage claims no contract with Arrington existed at all; note that TechCrunch isn’t covering the news at all #
— a peek into the dark and needy side of social media; I just wish he’d left the archives online #
— 400 CPU cluster runs a network capture through 135 million words in 20 minutes via @moxie__ #
— try it here; it’s like a live, expanded version of this Greasemonkey script I love via @mat #
— reminds me of Idiocracy’s Time Masheen (amazingly, not on YouTube) #
December 6, 2009
— good discussion on Zeldman’s entry #
— web-based toolkit for making and sharing hosted JS games; see the platformer tutorial for an example #
December 4, 2009
— directed by Vincent Moon in Paris #
December 3, 2009
— a gaming urban legend confirmed; here’s some audio samples #
— culled entirely from quotes from her published work, interviews, and marginalia #
— great list, wonderful writing, and a 315MB download #
— also, the NYT’s Article Skimmer is a more practical experimental UI for online news #
— lookups are permanently logged but not shared inside Google; 8.8.8.8 is a great IP #
December 2, 2009
— other games I’ve enjoyed recently: The Next Floor, Saut, and Continuity #
— is the lack of transparent accounting due to malice, stupidity, or both? via MetaFilter #
— feels more like he shifted his own priorities, from foreign policy to science #
December 1, 2009
— Pipes makes it hard for them to stop commercial use of the feeds, but this is excessive via Hacker News #
— I liked his comments on designing the Bourne Identity UIs #
— Paranormal Activity was the fastest-rising U.S. query this quarter!? #
— I love seeing his design process #
