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October 31, 2010
— at 641 gigs, officially the largest torrent on The Pirate Bay #
— USB drives cemented into NYC walls for anonymous, public filesharing #
October 25, 2010
— the ethics of making it easy for non-techies to spoof Twitter/Facebook/etc accounts is being hotly debated #
October 23, 2010
— hard to beat the Google one, but plenty of great mechanical mishaps in the comments #
October 22, 2010
— one of Pixeljam’s best; I recommend taking the fiery door #
October 21, 2010
— tool to browse, track, and facilitate FOIA requests #
— with some preliminary data on the size of each #
— check out the sales boost after being bootlegged #
— quite possibly the most insane construction project I’ve seen so far #
— great talk covers the challenges facing both music startups and a dying music industry #
October 20, 2010
October 19, 2010
— unfortunately, the infoviz platform had less than 10 paying customers #
October 18, 2010
— related: Olly Moss shares his process behind a poster design #
— not surprisingly, his site’s still inaccessible #
— interview with the creator on how it was made via r/reddit.com #
October 15, 2010
— the potential applications for this are huge #
— in hindsight, this is unfair; I wish every SEO would quit their job and start making original content #
— hand-crafted by 1,600 Chinese artisans over two years #
October 14, 2010
— German researchers demo real-time object removal from live video #
— incredible video demo from this year’s SIGGRAPH Asia via twitter.com #
— gripping read, but Metafilter users are calling this one a troll; lots of questionable details via MetaFilter #
— don’t miss the elaborate setup at 17:05 #
— reminds me of Minecraft multiplayer meets MS Paint #
October 13, 2010
— his first live performance, with Michael Gregory on backup #
October 12, 2010
— when the game starts, the character’s running over 20 miles per hour in game scale #
— all the scenes will be on the Blu-Ray rerelease of the trilogy #
— debunking stereotypes about both orientations, and confirming some others #
October 11, 2010
— sped up 8x, it’s a half-hour minecart trip in real-time #
— HTML5 Line Rider with community-created levels #
— Basil Safwat ports a Processing script to cardboard, pen, and paper #
October 9, 2010
— fascinating audio demonstrates what it’s like to be blind and spotting constellations #
— mashing up Alice in Wonderland and the Tao Te Ching with Markov chaining via twitter.com #
— 1,000 miles autonomously, 140,000 miles with occasional human control #
October 8, 2010
— ask turkers to change paragraphs to past tense or fix your grammar #
— they weren’t monitoring and hit RAM limits, and Mongo’s hard to recover from failures #
— free CAD software, short-run 3D printing and injection-moulding, and Kickstarter to fund it all #
— upcoming game about being stood up for a date via Indie Games+ #
October 7, 2010
— with classic arcade games and custom-minted tokens #
— love the bass tablature at the 1:40 mark and Guitar Hero at 2:30 via Laughing Squid #
— the article seems to be gone from Digg #
— a new visualization from the creator of code_swarm via infosthetics.com #
— another fun Adam Mathes project #
October 6, 2010
— very similar to Gondry’s Kylie Minogue and Chemical Brothers videos #
— and they’re now saying domains under 4 characters are for Libyans only #
— Chrome/Safari extensions add simple game mechanics to Gmail via smarterware.org #
October 5, 2010
