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July 12, 2010

Harvey Pekar, dead at 70

— illustrated by comic greats, American Splendor published for over 30 years #

Google's App Inventor for Android

— Scratch-like programming for non-programmers #
July 9, 2010

Blizzard backs down on real names in their forums

— Randy outlined some of the issues with losing anonymity #

Slate on the competitive eating industry

— Kobayashi couldn’t compete this year because he wouldn’t sign an exclusivity contract #

Multiuser Sketchpad

— how it was made, built with node.js and WebSockets #
July 8, 2010

Epic Win, to-do list game for the iPhone

— by the visual designer behind Little Big Planet via @kevmaguire #
July 7, 2010

Ask Metafilter on things you realized you were doing wrong

— related: This American Life’s A Little Bit of Knowledge via @revgeorge #

Super Mario Bros. speedrun visualized as one long projection

— composited into a long tracking shot of a wall, incredibly well done via MetaFilter #
July 6, 2010

Auto-Tune the News' Double Rainbow Song

— they all join in at the end #

Starcraft/World of Warcraft official forums to display real names

— Blizzard’s lifting anonymity to try to stem abusive behavior #

Andy Weir's "The Egg"

— related: Greg Knauss’s The Damnation of Richard Gillman #

Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life now available online for free

— highly recommended reading; you can still buy the book at Amazon via Rock Paper Shotgun #

Optical Illusion Illusions

— Reddit user photoshops the illusions into popular optical illusions #

Higgs particle simulated as sound

— I fully expect these to be sampled on the next Frontalot album #

Film the Blanks

— ongoing project to abstract classic movie posters #
July 4, 2010

Yosemitebear's Giant Double Rainbow

— I want to be in this guy’s head for just one day #
July 3, 2010

Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright

— hard to argue it’s lost income, since she almost certainly wouldn’t have bought the sheet music via @danbruno #
July 2, 2010

Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay

— this game looks amazing, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness and Out of This World #

Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes

— fun, but it’s hard to top Mr. Spastic’s “Lo-Fi Version” #

Chase Goose

— as Tom says, “You will hate this game.” via Tom Armitage #

Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle

— the company that manages death notices for many U.S. newspapers #

Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown

— very sad; just found out Robot Co-op’s shutting down 43 People, too #

Diaspora's first month progress report

— with screenshots and video; seems like the Facebook protests have passed, even if concerns remain #
July 1, 2010

Foursquare adds map view

— in an unfamiliar city, this should be incredibly useful #

8-bit Twilight: Eclipse

— an interactive YouTube game via ensignau.tumblr.com #

Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy

— following his earlier strip on the MMR vaccine controversy #

Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA

— faster and simpler, though would still need an accessible option for the blind #

Dan Telfer thinks your favorite dinosaur sucks

— don’t get him started on velociraptors via Laughing Squid #

Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art

— though his use of Jericho screenshots is like writing about art films with images from Scream 2 #
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