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August 11, 2010
— the Flickr acquisition had a halo effect too, but it was ultimately short-lived #
— watch him build Springfield Elementary in the Kickstarter project video #
— a collaboration with Radiolab via Daring Fireball #
— with home video and interviews with the team; from a new documentary about the demoscene via twitter.com #
— I like to think they danced their way out via Slashdot #
— incredibly useful application recreates any photo using tiny, naked pixel men via creativeapplications.net #
— their publicist advised them to specifically target TechCrunch #
— a sound legal analysis without the handwringing #
August 10, 2010
— gamers are better equipped to understand the narrative structure than most #
— “until the day our world catches up with his, Royce will be out there on the virtual nexus, searching.” #
— also for superfans only, the interactive trailer via @aparrish #
— though it makes your checkin history public by default, you can change it with the lock icon #
— clever mix of social engineering and Windows exploit #
— also, I love the design for these Boing Boing features via GameSetWatch #
— I’ve been beta-testing it for months, pixel art by Neven Mrgan and chiptunes by Cabel Sasser via mrgan.tumblr.com #
— he was asked to explain rickrolling, newfags, and /b/tards to government prosecutors via @BuzzFeed #
— more data porn, including evidence that iPhone users have more sex #
August 9, 2010
— found on Devour, Uncrate’s iPad-friendly best-of-YouTube blog #
— proven with the help of 35 CPU-years donated by Google #
— net art by Daniel Leyva via todayandtomorrow.net #
— like Portal, an unreliable narrator #
August 7, 2010
— more at the JS1k contest #
August 6, 2010
— 4chan makes art from found CAPTCHAs via @mecredis #
— what will be of interest to future historians? you never know, so just keep everything #
— with help from Craigslist and the Brooklyn PD #
— specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture #
August 5, 2010
— a conservative group’s been effectively manipulating Digg stories for over a year #
— like Marble Madness in real-life #
— interviews with Kenyatta and Baratunde, and links to Antoine’s new blog, Twitter, and YouTube channel #
— Google maps without the map, by Damon Zucconi via infosthetics.com #
August 4, 2010
— at $3, this is a steal; one of the best PC games released last year #
— worth re-reading: Anil Dash on the Web way vs. the Wave way #
— multi-perspective street panoramas from street view imagery via FlowingData #
— remote-control car in a cardboard track streaming to a sit-down arcade game via Delicious #
August 3, 2010
— like the original, but even more stupidly addictive #
— in short, he argues achievements only work well for motivating dull tasks #
— like Spotify for the US, highly recommended #
August 2, 2010
— geek rap uses all 151 original Pokemon names as sexual innuendo; the lyrics #
August 1, 2010
— modern games turned retro; look at the filenames if you need hints via @mossmouth #
