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June 22, 2009
— this is way awesome, the mashup possibilities are endless #
June 19, 2009
— “all of blogging is hip hop” #
— prepare to weep via Daring Fireball #
June 18, 2009
— brilliantly using readers to dig through 700,000 documents to aid their investigation #
— he looks at the number of plays per listener for a simple metric #
— cliche supercut of TV/film characters suddenly hit by moving vehicles #
June 17, 2009
— not as flawless as I thought; it disables Visual Voicemail, but you can check manually until the new hack’s out tomorrow #
— drawn freehand in Photoshop, they contain no photos or scanned material #
— related: Clay’s TED talk from last month at the State Department #
— PHP/MySQL app, it recommends stories in your feeds based on link popularity #
— he still makes me giggle #
— tarnished Chrome, boring Safari, and old Firefox; “get rid of it, or get lost” #
— start from the beginning and keep reading; his writing is outstanding via Alice Taylor #
June 16, 2009
— also known as “trespassing” #
— sending all traffic through Opera’s proxies creates more centralization instead of less #
— only about 8% knew; Rocketboom got very different answers on the NYU campus in 2005 #
— Internet meme plus chiptunes equals Waxy love #
— “It’s official: Andrew W.K., world’s best babysitter.” #
— everything sounds better autotuned; see also: Winston Churchill and MLK #
— web server hosted in the browser using Opera’s proxy servers for a simple URL; file sharing seems the most useful #
— Super Mario Bros. in a blender #
— he’s publishing his notebook of “someday” ideas, and they’re all winners #
June 15, 2009
— Doors style parody featuring Ray Manzarek on keyboards, directed by Liam Lynch via Maximum Fun #
— a Twitter client for the Commodore 64/128 via Delicious #
— new candidate for best error ever #
— I want to see this on the Wii with head tracking via Indie Games+ #
— what happens after the fairy tale’s over? #
— more accurate stats since they removed the irritating double-click behavior in October #
June 14, 2009
— unobtrusively visualizes popularity on Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, Hacker News, etc via infosthetics.com #
— using an avatar creates a barrier to real-life interaction #
June 13, 2009
— the 2005 conversation is making the rounds again on Digg, Reddit, and Fark, without the followups #
— he also notes that they’re not doing an HTTP redirect, instead relying on JS via Anil Dash #
— runs on a prototype Nvidia Tegra dev kit; “orange Skittles act like proximity bombs” via Indie Games+ #
June 12, 2009
— Twitter uses it for spam detection, which caused Ian’s account to be suspended via Delicious #
— Mat Honan’s collecting more examples #
— he argues that free access to music history creates better musicians #
— great talk from Maker Faire on how his failures have changed him via Hacker News #
— hand-editing out the main characters, frame by frame #
— and it only represents less than 1/1000th of the total articles via aaronmeyers.tumblr.com #
— our grandkids might find space exploration boring compared to next-gen virtual worlds and networks via Delicious #
— feels like an in-depth, HD version of Electroplankton via GameSetWatch #
— the first half of the game from the creator of Vector Park via Delicious #
June 11, 2009
— a completely open-source clone of Wikirank built on Hadoop and EC2 via O'Reilly Radar #
— I don’t think they deserved this treatment; the NYT preemptively responded via Fimoculous #
— must-read short fiction on data visualization, Google book scanning, and immortality #
— Gavin Purcell says the bright red suits weren’t for edge detection, but just being silly #
— people who post once to Twitter and never return via Boing Boing #
