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April 3, 2009
— explains each recommendation and lets you steer suggestions by shifting tag weights or popularity via musicmachinery.com #
April 2, 2009
— clever way to instantly diagnose PCs for the virus, unless they’re on a proxy #
— resolves 13 different URL shortening services, so no more mystery links from Twitter #
— instant Hadoop cluster, pay only what you use #
— more on tilting and the crooked cartridge trick; hundreds of variations on YouTube, mostly from Nico Nico Douga via Delicious #
— “It was our Manhattan Project” via rc3.org #
— unfortunate timing, the community’s still suspicious via @textfiles #
April 1, 2009
— a more flexible, cross-platform SelfControl; can block Google Reader but allow Google #
— not a joke, though the early reviews are pretty bad via MetaFilter #
— simulates a Pitchfork music critic, and the demo actually works #
— what Google would look like if run by SEO jerks; add or remove any result #
— amazingly, it actually works with real anaglyph red-blue glasses #
— warning: not safe for anyone #
— poking fun at the criticism they received for Best Gig Ever #
— add “flip=1” to any YouTube URL #
— Internet Jackass Day in effect #
March 31, 2009
— the first movement’s free, the other two are a steal for $0.99 each via LiveJournal #
— don’t miss the attention to detail in the signage #
— action, dialogue, and each character’s thoughts in separate columns via Boing Boing #
— glimpse into the increasingly sophisticated iPhone warez scene #
— this is like Matt’s dream realized #
— just spotted this myself, the spam equivalent of ANSI art #
— don’t read how it works until you’ve played a little via MetaFilter #
March 30, 2009
— inexplicable clip from the alternative monster movie, Big Man Japan via @youtubereviewed #
— click each image to see the before and after photos #
— the Achron gameplay videos are hurting my brain #
— he also highlighted his favorite meta films, songs, and TV series #
— the new book came out Wednesday; his Fox News appearance was bizarre #
— 64,410 photos visualized in Processing #
— a social experiment populated by lolkidz, trolls, and confused people like you via buzzfeed.com #
March 28, 2009
— in the past, Twitter’s renamed fakesters like Cliffy_B, Richard Dawkins, and Henry Rollins #
March 27, 2009
— decision trees, informed by machine learning and user contributions #
March 26, 2009
— worth the loading time via Delicious #
— John Gruber, Merlin Mann, and Jonathan Coulton on writing for a living #
— don’t miss his other snake studies via flight404.com #
— once set, it can’t be undone by the app or restarting the computer via fffff.at #
— in chronological order, she’s up to Ulysses S. Grant spanking her; Rule 34, anyone? #
— he’d been trying to get them to patch it since last October via Delicious #
— Jason Scott notes it’s 48 terabytes of user-contributed data, gone #
— Clive Thompson said the technique was invented by Disqus, but it dates back to the BBS era #
— on the surface, it seems impossible without huge sacrifices to quality and responsiveness #
March 25, 2009
— a port of Winamp’s classic MilkDrop visualizer with support for its presets #
— related: WikiChanges, which charts edit activity over time #
