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September 13, 2009
— “If someone can’t figure out what to do in the first five minutes… you are hosed.” via caterina.net #
September 11, 2009
— the result of a petition from 31k British citizens, including Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry #
— feels like E3 circa 1986 #
September 10, 2009
September 9, 2009
— death to Acrobat Reader! #
September 8, 2009
— transcribed from nature via Laughing Squid #
— with examples from Hacker News, Reddit, del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon via O'Reilly Radar #
— only WordPress and Twitter have inline posting tools on the homepage #
— phone call trumps text message trumps Twitter #
September 7, 2009
— very sad to see it go; I heard the last one was great though sparsely attended #
September 5, 2009
— as far as I know, the first official emulator in the App Store #
— Conde Nast’s gone to great lengths to keep the article hidden via niemanlab.org #
September 4, 2009
— how could I not link this? a song about medieval medicine via Boing Boing #
— apparently via myself #
— one message wasn’t discovered until 2007 via Make #
— exploiting the old CSS :visited trick #
— changes across six editions and 13 years; more on the project #
September 3, 2009
— using Bandcamp, their first new album in 13 years via MetaFilter #
— free procedurally-generated platformer for Windows, highly recommended via Offworld #
September 2, 2009
— featuring T-Pain; yes, really #
— rather than fix their security issues, they asked him to leave #
— a year old, but new to me #
— testing to see which names are most compelling to random Google users #
— joining AT&T, Time Warner, and Sprint; only a handful of paid feeds will be left, which will be easy for the RIAA/MPAA to attack #
— one source claimed her Facebook page was hacked by reporters via Nelson Minar #
September 1, 2009
— opening government through code and design; check out the projects and vote for ideas via @al3x #
— atmospheric, one-button platformer; just needs checkpoints and more story #
— using data from the Guardian Datastore #
August 31, 2009
— after a 26 year run, thanks Levar #
— virtual stock exchange for Twitter trends via Indie Games+ #
— headphone jack and light sensor makes a portable musical instrument #
August 28, 2009
— less about the power of Twitter, more the failure of customer service #
— automatic language detection and translation, with community editing tools #
— real-time ASCII art Javascript demo #
— and it’s actually text, too #
August 27, 2009
August 26, 2009
— her father’s blog is simultaneously heartbreaking and terrifying via MetaFilter #
— the source data’s in the Google Spreadsheet #
— drop-dead easy way to run your own OpenStreetMap install on EC2 with custom styles #
— the debate is archived here; Jason’s predictions are slowly coming true #
August 24, 2009
— they’ve moved ISPs, but it’s still down for me #
— created by an all-star team; long look into the logo design and great use of Flickr machine tags #
— his solution is deep local coverage, the only area newspapers weren’t made redundant by the web via Mike Migurski #
August 23, 2009
— so true; the only thing holding newbies back is the fear of making it worse #
