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April 12, 2009

Boing Boing tracks "lololol" variations on Google

— including the loolol, a lol with 100 o’s via Delicious #
April 10, 2009

Adam Curtis on the modern rise of "Oh Dear"-ism in TV news

— from Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, a BBC show about the news media; full episodes here via MetaFilter #

Comparing word frequency in TV/movie scripts to Craigslist's M4M personal ads

— NSFW language; the jargon’s interesting, from HWP to DDF #

Yelp to allow businesses to respond to negative reviews

— accountability for reviewers and owners is good, but could lead to an all-out war #

Braid released on PC today

— despite the false alarms, it’s now up on Steam #

Kanye West responds to South Park parody

— amazingly, it seems to have led to a minor revelation for him about his own ego #

Engadget's Screen Grabs

— ongoing series of gadgets appearing in TV and film #

Chris Ainsworth's advice for Wizards of the Coast

— they recently stopped D&D PDF sales to thwart piracy, always a bad plan #

Roo Reynolds visualizes his web browsing history

— he analyzed data from MeeTimer, a lovely Firefox extension for self-tracking #

Super 耳男 Bros.

— “z” to jump; insanely masochistic gameplay, watch the full walkthrough via Indie Games+ #

Josh Poehlein's Modern History

— collages made exclusively from YouTube screengrabs, artifacts and all via Kottke #

Techcrunch releases new photos of their prototype tablet

— I’m simply amazed at the progress they’ve made #

John Gruber's guide to blocking the DiggBar

— curious that it’s not on the Digg homepage yet, even with 600 1,100 diggs #

McSweeney's guide to understanding Twitter

— “Twitter founders Bob Timpei and El Segundo have begun working in earnest with Germans” #
April 9, 2009

LA Times talks to former Area 51 workers to debunk UFO myths

— in 2007, the CIA declassified 50-year-old documents about the OXCART program #

Aaron Meyers' Spore Skeletons in augmented reality

— here’s a video of it in action; Aaron makes cool stuff via Offworld #

Shadow of the Colossus being developed for feature film

— could be great or awful; the game’s about love, sacrifice, and 16 big-ass boss battles via Slashdot #

The Tools Artists Use

— like The Setup for illustrators via John Martz #

Pong in Street Fighter IV and other consensual play modes

— Cat and Mouse in Project Gotham Racing sounds like a blast, too #

Spike Jonze's "Everyone Poops"

— he’s transformed another children’s classic via slashfilm.com #

Dustin Glick's The Browsy

— a cautionary tale heavily inspired by Dr. Seuss via cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com #
April 8, 2009

NYT blog posts added to the Times Newswire API

— also, they announced their new Real Estate API two days ago #

Everything Is Terrible's compilation of bad introductions

— amazing videoblog of original VHS rips; the first post set the tone, recreating a VHS viral he’d seen in college #

Nate Silver's prediction model for gay marriage bans, state-by-state

— bans are losing support at a rate of 2 points yearly; by 2012, almost half would vote against it #

MPA to challenge Newzbin in court

— baffling since they only host metadata, but not the actual files #

Reddit interviews Mythbusters' Adam Savage

— also: Digg interviews Trent Reznor #

Mad Scientist Labs builds Ironic Sans' concept Bulbdial Clock

— an LED sundial with moving hour, minute, and second hands #

Hand-crafted miniature sets from classic TV shows

— my favorites are Family Ties, Three’s Company, Price Is Right and Pyramid via Delicious #

Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face

— The Onion built a dedicated website for the game, with an online Flash demo #

Effing Hail

— Flash game in the form of weather infographics in a textbook; awful music, though via Indie Games+ #
April 7, 2009

Perry Russerts, Umbrella Theif

— a wonderful yarn #

Andre Michelle's ToneMatrix

— like Electroplankton meets the Tenori-on via Ze Frank #

The Beatles entire catalogue remastered, to be released alongside Rock Band

— wait, what’s this “CD” they speak of? via danbruno.net #

8-Bit Tarot Cards

— the nearly complete deck is a thing of beauty, but sadly out of stock #

Flickr's Aaron Cope walks through building maps from scratch

— using Stamen’s EC2 image for an instant map stack; yet another reason to vote for them in Icon’s poll #

Visualizing SF Trees, Crimes, and Cabs with subtractive blending

— Stamen’s Shawn Allen explains how it was made in the comments via Flickr #

Gizmodo's Pirate Code of Conduct for BitTorrent

— in case media companies are wondering, these align to the ethical guidelines for most people I know #

highDEAS

— like Halfbakery for the fully-baked #

NYT on Hearst's RealAge "test" marketing 27 million medical histories to drug companies

— naturally, Hearst also owns Oprah Magazine; Gordon predicted this back in 2007 #

Amanda Palmer on how Twitter is changing her relationship with fans

— she’s been actively trying to get dropped from her label #
April 6, 2009

Paramount surprises hardcore fans by debuting new Trek film in Austin

— they thought they were watching a new reprint of Wrath of Khan, until Nimoy himself broke the news #

Boxee officially releases new API

— the latest release added a new Mozilla-based browser, fixed Hulu streaming, and Pandora support #

A Visit to id Software in 1993

— home video includes 20 minutes of Romero playing a pre-release version of Doom via @dbarefoot #

BashReduce

— Last.fm’s MapReduce in an 160-line Bash script via Delicious #
April 5, 2009

DeepLeap, the word game

— a John Resig experiment on the old Deepleap dev domain via buzzfeed.com #

Super Luigi Bros.

— living in the shadow of a famous brother; also: a day in the life of a Goomba via auntiepixelante.com #
April 3, 2009

Joshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners

— interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db #

How xkcd's Randall broke his laptop trying to turn off Google's SafeSearch

— fortunately, there were no sharks nearby #

IF YOU'RE NOT INDIE, F**K YOU

— inspired by Samberg, the unpunched guy is Dan Paladin via GameSetWatch #

UK village mob blocks Google Street View car

— “how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?” #
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