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January 31, 2010
— 38% of my favorite songs are in C via musicmachinery.com #
January 30, 2010
— the search_tracks method sounds amazing #
— even if the policy’s dumb, this isn’t the way to handle it #
January 29, 2010
— from Charlie Brooker’s News Wipe via Laughing Squid #
— way more fun than it should be via Google Blogoscoped #
— true to the spirit of the original, though more polished #
— 155 people carried him 9.4 miles in below freezing temperatures via Boing Boing #
January 28, 2010
— the single smartest essay I’ve read about the iPad yet #
— new music apps, cocktail-style gaming, and more complex game genres #
— “Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.” #
— I’m concerned it’ll shift creation to consumption; even the iPhone was better on that count #
January 27, 2010
— gauging altruism and how priming changes behavior #
— starts at $499, unlimited AT&T 3G for $30/month; see Gizmodo’s roundup and hands-on #
January 26, 2010
— uses some best guesses from the NYT as an example, though 60% seems insanely optimistic #
— thoughtful and cleverly designed via Marco Arment #
— cliche watch from editorial cartoons and the funny pages #
— the first recommendations service worth using #
— the iPhone app blog I’ve been waiting for, carefully curating underrated gems from the App Store #
— new-to-me 1991 pilot starring Adam West, created by Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel #
— no ownership over music, just recouping costs and splitting profits with the artists #
— the inmate was serving time for killing a man with a sledgehammer; a new trend? #
— a voracious reader, each book takes him at least 5 hours to scan, OCR, and proofread #
January 25, 2010
— he’s writing and directing in the live-action movie, but will only cameo via jeffrubinjeffrubin.com #
— control the ball via Boing Boing #
— riffing off the Google Search Stories ads #
— I’m waiting for real-time music visualizations like this via Snarkmarket #
January 23, 2010
— Terry Cavanagh’s brilliant new platformer built around a single game mechanic #
— don’t miss the second and third videos via Kottke #
January 22, 2010
— Pandora-style playlists based around an artist #
January 21, 2010
— more amazing data diving #
— maybe a nonprofit focused on archiving individual authors? Archive.org’s wonderful, but it’s darkweb #
— “I’ve acquired 99 predicaments, but a wench is not one of them” via Delicious #
— that’s a celebrity couple I can get behind #
— compare with the old version; some beautiful, risky decisions #
January 20, 2010
— Wu Tang vocals with beats built from Beatles samples #
— from the artist behind the Panic Atari 2600 boxes #
— subscribers get unlimited access, everyone else can view a set number of articles per month #
January 19, 2010
— gorgeous work visualizing collaboration, song keys, work schedule by month, and more via informationisbeautiful.net #
— I can’t get this out of my head, so you’ll suffer too; the General was a crusader in the Atlanta civil rights movement #
— a rebuttal to Jaron Lanier’s paranoid WSJ op-ed #
— if you have a PC that can handle it, watch it real-time instead of the videos #
January 18, 2010
— a microcosm of the current state of the music industry via Hacker News #
— the story’s being updated in real-time on Facebook #
— “I just became mayor of The Albany Jail on @foursquare!” #
— the block mode is my favorite #
