Visual timeline of Crayola color changes from 1903-2010
— Crayola's Law: "The number of colors doubles every 28 years" #
Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough
— obscure NES gem I'd never heard of, the annotations are expertly done (via) #
Google Australia censors Encyclopedia Dramatica in search results
— offending someone is a really low bar #
Oink founder cleared of fraud charges
— still amazed he was pulling in over $200k in donations a year #
Gordon, an open-source Flash runtime in Javascript
— SWF v1 support only, with no sound or video naturally, but still (via) #
Google to stop censoring Chinese search results or close China office
— they imply the Chinese government intercepted Gmail accounts of activists #
John Kricfalusi's 1998 illustrated letter to a young cartoonist
— he's answering questions over on Reddit (via) #
The Kickstarter Awards: Best in Show
— fourth and final installment, highlighting the best of Kickstarter so far #
Maciej Ceglowski on six months of Pinboard
— by charging a small fee, he's earned enough to work on it full-time (via) #
Gumby creator Art Clokey dies
— don't miss Gumbasia, his pioneering Claymation film from 1953 that predated Gumby #
Python script takes a webcam snapshot when code commits fail
— and posts your frustrated face to Twitter #
Russell Davies on RIG's dataviz Christmas ornaments
— the more Twitter followers, the larger the snowman's head #
Newspaper Club announces prices for custom-printed papers
— UK-only for now, includes delivery; examples: Last.fm's newspaper charts and Rev. Dan Catt's photo paper #
Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books
— from the creator of temporary.cc, a book that burns itself when opened and another that can't be closed (via) #
The Third & The Seventh
— a nicely shot, but otherwise unexciting short film, until you realize it's 100% CGI #
Roger Ebert on losing the ability to eat, drink, and speak
— his journal's been consistently great lately #
Project 880, summary of James Cameron's original Avatar treatment
— more backstory, new characters, and more depth #
Vintage Ad Browser
— Philipp Lenssen collected and categorized over 120,000 images from online and offline sources #
The Kickstarter Awards, Part 1
— highlighting the most successful, popular, and prolific projects from our first eight months #
Volker Shreiner's Counter, short film from 2004
— found footage from classic films counts down from 266, mostly using door numbers (via) #
One Frame of Fame
— crowdsourced music video, judged by Mechanical Turk and rendered with new frames hourly #
Spam Assassin scores any email in 2010 as spammy
— they hardcoded a regex for 2010-2099 as "grossly in the future" #