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September 23, 2010

Gourmet Magazine relaunched as an iPad app

— the rewards are interesting; first magazine to give you achievements for reading? #

Evercookie, proof-of-concept undeletable tracking cookie

— Ars interviewed the creator, whose name might sound familiar via Boing Boing #

Recreating Shazam in Java

— very readable, visual explanation of an audio recognition algorithm #

M.I.A.'s Story to Be Told

— CAPTCHA and vintage net.art as music video, created by dump.fm via n0wak.tumblr.com #

Aaron Meyers maps the moon's topography to frames of a Paul Robertson animated GIF

— with suitably insane results; the original GIF, a detail view, and the entire thing animated #
September 22, 2010

Mena's farewell to Six Apart

— thanks for everything #

Last.fm plots listening preferences by gender and age

— Cali Lewis is the only charting female that mostly men like #
September 21, 2010

12×5 pixel LED display built in Minecraft

— by the way, the official site’s back up today and the game for sale #

VideoEgg to acquire Six Apart, rename to Say Media

— end of an era #

Never Mind the Bullets

— an HTML comic created to promote IE9 via Daring Fireball #
September 20, 2010

Starring the Computer

— tracking computer appearances in film and TV, like the Burroughs B205 and IBM AN/FSQ-7 #

Chinese employees get creative with holiday work schedules

— interesting that in the Inception version, holidays are reality and work is the dream state #

White Knuckles by OK Go

— from the director of “Here It Goes Again” via Laughing Squid #

First homebrew game and emulator released for the PS3

— every time a new Sony DRM scheme is cracked, an angel gets its wings #

The Visual 6502

— impressive Javascript emulator visualizes chip operations at a transistor level via bunniestudios.com #
September 18, 2010

Misspelled Food

— from 4chan, naturally #

Looxcie, always-on POV video recorder

— the personal panopticon is coming #
September 17, 2010

Austin Seraphin's first week on the iPhone

— a blind user’s emotional response to Apple; also, he switched from Linux to Mac last week #

Steven Frank compiles Newton emulator for the iPad

— What is Newton? #

Jim Henson making Muppets in 1969

— 15 minutes of raw creativity, along with the great Don Sahlin #

Derek Yu's guide to finishing a game

— several apply to non-game development, too via mrgan.tumblr.com #

Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year

— they’re making $70k/day; don’t miss the creator’s essay on how piracy works #

Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30

— the flipside; directly inspired by Reddit’s campaign #
September 16, 2010

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011

— two of my favorite games ever #

Increpare's Cascode

— figure out the rules to win the game #

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster

— every performer’s depicted as a generic corporate logo #

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box

— a locked box that can only be opened in a specific location; watch the video interview via Delicious #

Alex Payne on the new Twitter

— he internally argued, unsuccessfully, for decentralization #
September 15, 2010

Diaspora releases first source code

— by the end of summer, as promised in their original project; power geeks, try it here #

SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen

— the writer is a trained chef who’s worked at Gramercy Tavern and Jean Gorges via givemesomethingtoread.com #

Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962

— from Lost World’s Fairs, experiments in type on the web via @veen #

Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs

— this year, they were featured in the main show #

Hyperbole and a Half's The Party

— related: an interview with Allie Brosh #

10k Apart contest winners announced

— impressive design in Matchuppps, with CSS3 animations, Typekit fonts, and images from the Dribbble API via @peter_nitsch #
September 14, 2010

The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter

— don’t miss the author’s explanation on how it was planned and written #

Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean

— he’s taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand #

jsTerm

— ANSI-capable HTML5 telnet terminal emulator by Peter Nitsch #

Twitter announces new design

— inline images and video from 16 partners, including Kickstarter; they released a growth chart #

Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism

— many more newsgame examples in his Watercooler Games archive #

BERG's light painting with the iPad

— cross-sections of 3D models shot with long exposures #

SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed

— for you geezers still using a “feed reader” on a “computer” #
September 13, 2010

Everything is a Remix, Part 1

— new four-part series on remix culture by Kirby Ferguson #

Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free

— they’re raising money to hire an orchestra to record public domain symphonies #

Burnbit

— free service creates a torrent from any web-accessible file #

New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg

— by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas via Anil Dash #

Digital Comic Museum

— growing archive of Golden Age comics with expired copyright status #

Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr

— a familiar post-acquisition story; they stated they “will not develop it further at this stage.” #

YouTube Time Machine

— with a lovely design by Kickstarter’s own Andrew Cornett #

Graph Your Inbox

— clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail #

Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews

— awesomem worth the price vs. crashing useless waste of money via @marcoarment #
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