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July 29, 2009
— he’s already done NYC, London, and Amsterdam; I also loved his ice type via decontextualize.com #
— Yoz Graham interviewed the lead hNews guy, and there seems to be a gap between reality and the AP #
— the press site is the worst of both worlds; what’s the fate of Delicious, BOSS, Search Monkey and their other search projects? #
July 28, 2009
— reminds me of Motion Theory’s Google Chrome ad #
— absolutely brilliant, don’t miss the MP3 and his methodology via Kottke #
— not safe for anyone; Internet, you never let me down #
July 27, 2009
— unedited stories collected from the turker community #
— any bets on what the mystery news is, coming later this week? #
— extended thoughts on Inform 7 and why existing languages don’t work well for IF via nickm.com #
— it supports offline music listening, a first for streaming apps; Spotify’s coming to the US later this year via Delicious #
— time-lapse of every section of the park with wonderful narration via Boing Boing #
July 26, 2009
— possible explanation: AT&T working around the ongoing DDOS against 4chan #
July 24, 2009
— related: Associated rePress, a tumblelog I just created in five minutes using the AP’s own RSS feeds via Daring Fireball #
— not very rigorous in its methodology, but still funny via The Morning News #
— directed by the guy who did iSpec; I like the little viral site, with imaginary Space Paranoids machine #
— it’s vital Internet history, but are there privacy concerns when most everyone’s anonymous? update: not so fast #
— 94% of projects that hit the 25% mark ultimately hit their goal #
— the best articulation of the current real-time web trend I’ve seen #
July 23, 2009
— and offered up lovely high-quality scans; related: his awesome About page #
— Nick Denton as Severus Snape: “Is he evil? Is he good? What does he have up his sleeve?” #
— the encryption key’s distributed to multiple nodes and dissolves over time via Delicious #
— it’s okay to love cartoons, as long as you don’t love cartoons via tokyomango.com #
— Renee French, R. Stevens, Jeffrey Brown, Dan Clowes, James Kochalka, Jim Woodring, and more #
— playing Rock Band’s guitar, bass, drums, and vocals at the the same time #
July 22, 2009
— $7.99 and 350MB of space #
— tiny, adorable freeware Windows game #
— I keep waiting for someone to replace eBay, since fraud made it completely useless #
— two hours of the protagonist grinding to level 60 via @juliandibbell #
— see also: Newspaper Club and the upcoming McSweeney’s newspaper project #
— Letterman gets about 3.5M viewers nightly, about 425% more than Spacey’s followers #
— like Typekit for free, legal typefaces #
July 21, 2009
— as Adam points out, now someone could overlay MapQuest routes on Google Maps via blog.programmableweb.com #
— the meme mashup earned the highest score and most votes ever via Delicious #
— they offset the winnings with a slightly lower interest rate via techdirt.com #
— the approaches include crowdsourcing from Zappos and Dolores Labs, but the current leader is using 4 Nvidia GPUs #
— you can optionally use your Guitar Hero controller to play #
— hand-typed from original scans by the Virtual AGS project; in the comments, numero mysterioso and hope hope hope #
July 20, 2009
— also, James Alliban’s talking augmented card #
— the Tugboat, PDF Format, and OxygenStar tracks are all great via GameSetWatch #
— created entirely with the Echonest Remix API, no audio editor required #
— 40 years to the second, starting at 1:10pm PST #
— over 7 million views, gone with no clear explanation why; they’re being added back here #
July 19, 2009
— the virtual version of this non-scientific test via buzzfeed.com #
July 18, 2009
— too many amazing ones to list, reminiscent of I Am 8-Bit #
