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August 12, 2009
— looks great, only available free until the end of tomorrow via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— yes, a cloud service that backs up your cloud services via @ginatrapani #
— game that plays with text and words as side-scrolling platforms #
— simple explanation of a practical use of computer vision #
— including gossip about his foibles with the New York Times during Mister Wonderful via Adam Kempa #
August 11, 2009
— 208 lines of Python on Google App Engine #
— try it out; seems speedy and seems to rank real-time results higher #
— 8 out of 42 endings were favorable #
August 10, 2009
— will it get sucked into the black hole, or help Facebook open up? Techcrunch says it’s a talent acquisition #
— used for years, it’s accelerated since the Wall Street crisis #
August 9, 2009
— we were warned; someone should call Archive Team #
— needs more crowbar via Delicious #
August 8, 2009
— the YouTube comments are a nice blend of racists and PC/Mac wars #
— includes his Google search history, revealed by exploiting his webmail account via Delicious #
August 7, 2009
— curated by Braid’s Jonathan Blow and World of Goo’s Ron Carmel via braid-game.com #
— a brief mention of YouTube Poop, which deserves its own video #
— client-side Python interpreter via Hacker News #
— Japanese-English translations until reaching equilibrium; more examples: don’t panic and don’t covet via MetaFilter #
— John Hughes’s short story that kicked off his long and wonderful film career #
August 6, 2009
— touching story of his long relationship with a teenage fan turned pen pal #
— delightful look at how the news was made; the Star Tribune filed for bankruptcy in January #
— don’t miss Phil Schiller’s response which, while thoughtful, doesn’t address the App Store’s larger issues #
August 5, 2009
— infinite canvas for collaborative, real-time text; scroll around, explore, and add something via decontextualize.com #
August 4, 2009
— built on a modified version of Infinite Mario Bros. via waffle.wootest.net #
— lulz all around via Daring Fireball #
— talks about the ethics of abandonware, why she gave it up, and the current revival via tigsource.com #
— someone needs to commercialize this, it looks like a wonderful toy via GameSetWatch #
— they interview both Langdell and Mobigames, quoting emails between the two via Daring Fireball #
— if you don’t like the new freshness, the old Fresh page is still around #
August 3, 2009
— some incredible work, though a few would give Tufte a seizure #
— even without any visible axes, it’s still understandable; from this op-ed on the rise of streaming #
August 1, 2009
— making government more transparent; check out the leaderboard #
July 31, 2009
— 8-bit commentary on the recession, and explains where those pits go via Offworld #
— if you still haven’t bought Windosill, we have nothing to talk about #
— Arrington made the same move today, both fed up by idiotic recent App Store decisions #
July 30, 2009
— “piece of cake” via Daring Fireball #
— losing your mind? try the walkthrough video #
— just add tragic words to your signature via Delicious #
— from IMDB in 1992 to Bing earlier this year via ma.tt #
— BOSS and Searchmonkey up in the air, everything else unaffected (directly) via @rabble #
July 29, 2009
— fantastically bizarre, and the biggest Cory Doctorow bait I’ve ever seen #
— online for the first time, with a wonderful backstory #
— lessons learned from two OS projects with female majorities; related: this contentious comments thread via O'Reilly Radar #
— they generated a skeleton of Rome in 21 hours using 500 compute cores and 150,000 photos via Delicious #
