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March 12, 2009
— they have the same laugh #
— after six years in prison, the mastermind told Joshua Davis his story for the first time #
— 23,000 followers in 12 hours; pretty geeky for network TV, featuring Engadget on Monday and Diggnation last night #
March 11, 2009
— they’re using speech-to-text to automatically transcribe voicemail #
— built with Processing using the new Spore API via Offworld #
— he broadcasted the ordeal on Ustream and Twitter via buzzfeed.com #
— for some, prosthetics are no longer a disability; she can change her speed and height with augmentation #
— see the pen demo, and “pencasts” shared by the community #
— Aaron Koblin asks 2,088 Mechanical Turk workers to sing parts of “Daisy Bell” without hearing the whole song #
— reminds me of the dessert taxonomy #
March 10, 2009
— also debuting at Etech: Lensley Automatic, the photobooth that Flickrs and tweets #
— like an iPhone with a projector, dangling around your neck and providing context for everyday activities #
— from the creator of the Trilogy Meter #
— use Enter to drop quickly; the result is abstract art via Indie Games+ #
— the Data Store uses Google Spreadsheets for data access #
— filmmaker James Otis tried to call it off after Indian protests and death threats #
March 9, 2009
— 125-page transcription of a week-long brainstorming session with Spielberg, Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan #
— user-editable, including performances from late night talk shows #
— elaborating on his findings discussed in The Economist #
— city officials said last month’s Pillow Fight cost over $40,000 to clean up #
— surprising they went with a Windows plugin, instead of Flash ARToolkit via techmeme.com #
March 7, 2009
— unlike Twitter Search, this dereferences links from URL shorteners like TinyURL #
March 6, 2009
— the official site resolved their earlier bandwidth issues via twitter.com #
— related: Mike Davidson’s great piece on saving newspaper journalism, while letting print die via Fimoculous #
— if you don’t have something nice to say #
March 5, 2009
— like an augmented reality SketchUp via kk.org #
March 4, 2009
— great comic in a crummy, Flash-only format #
— about as horrible as you’d imagine, every song is on his profile page #
— I had no idea they’d gotten so far; as of last week, it also supports WADs #
— the best of the demoscene, merging algorithmic art and music #
— serious YouTube crate digging; the acapella track used on Just A Lady only has 198 views via @ohhaveyouseenthis #
March 3, 2009
— a tale told in miniature #
— three different pandas, each with their own taste in Flickr photos #
— mapping the cultural shorthand for confusing languages via Kottke #
— old, but new to me; I love the more recent photo of the Napa Valley site #
— great research, finds that individual editors at blog portals make a huge difference #
— bookmarklet converts any page to an Instapaper-like readable layout #
March 2, 2009
— when Internet-to-TV memes collide #
— Britney, Green Day, and Nickelback cheated; Metallica, Weezer, and Led Zeppelin kept it real #
— retro computing geeks open-source a cleaning formula to turn yellowing plastics white again via @textfiles #
— the NYT asked me to rewrite my entry for today’s paper; my first byline in a national newspaper! #
— other links in their navigation go straight to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook #
March 1, 2009
— the Barack impersonator is YouTube’s own Alphacat #
February 28, 2009
— one complaint, and they’ve killed six years of work via timemachinego.com #
— Parry Gripp is a genius; take that, Monteiro #
