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January 31, 2011
— gorgeous design; 70% of fees go to publisher you’re reading #
— without question, the best coverage of the Egypt uprising #
— if you’re waiting for an invite, Techcrunch posted screenshots #
— Google and SayNow’s free service to tweet voice messages by phone from Egypt #
— found on Know Your Meme’s monthly review via knowyourmeme.com #
— based on the brilliant webcomic written by a five-year-old boy #
— Alexander Chen turns the NYC subway system into an HTML5 string instrument #
— browser versions of each initial game in the series are fine; sequels and iPad port are not #
January 28, 2011
— good context at Reddit and Metafilter, and Xeni has a great roundup; liveblogging at the NYT and Guardian #
— modeling a president’s chances based on historical approval ratings #
January 27, 2011
— “an action unprecedented in Internet history” via twitter.com #
— dumping 64,000 posts into their public shared database; read ntoll’s intro to FluidDB #
January 26, 2011
— the first episode covers BBSes and the first web-based social networks via twitter.com #
— it hit one million copies sold two weeks ago #
— love the a cappella music and effects via Cal Henderson #
— Guido Tamino wants the world to send things to his inkjet printer via creativeapplications.net #
— skipping all existing middlemen to show his film city-by-city at $70 a ticket #
January 25, 2011
— the speech is basically a geek call-to-arms #
— time for me to update my Boing Boing stats #
January 24, 2011
— looks great in full screen #
— the legendary FPS converted to a single-pixel line #
— one guess what film they referenced for their tests #
— useless fact: 224 Wendys checked in at a Wendy’s last year, but only one’s a mayor #
January 23, 2011
— categorizing each phrase by present vs. future tense and subject matter on a timeline via twitter.com #
January 22, 2011
— posted in 2007, but somehow, I’ve never seen these before today via buzzfeed.com #
— a 30-minute short film about IBM by Errol Morris with music by Philip Glass via Daring Fireball #
January 21, 2011
— this sounds like a reality show waiting to happen via smarterware.org #
— revenge of the Digiscent iSmell; finally, we’ll be able to smell 4chan via Slashdot #
January 20, 2011
— only four of last year’s top 50 are streaming on Netflix, but 25 films for rental on iTunes #
— meta-horoscope derived from 22,000 scraped horoscopes #
— all the tools used for two guys to take a physical product from idea to mass market in five months #
— Ian Bogost takes his parody of Facebook Games to the next logical level #
January 19, 2011
— mashing up Girl Talk with Girl Talk via MetaFilter #
— a five-minute interactive story; type the capitalized words to play via Indie Games+ #
January 18, 2011
— I interviewed Alan the month it launched; it now gets 8M pageviews monthly #
January 17, 2011
— playable ode to 8-bit and EGA-era gaming #
— get nostalgic with the 2001 press release; I love the Kurt Andersen quote via MetaFilter #
— using free tools to get structured data out of messy HTML, PDFs and Flash via FlowingData #
— he hid the transition glitches by incorporating them into every track via Tom Armitage #
— the full videos go deeper, with several more games #
January 15, 2011
— note blocks are new in beta 1.2 via Nelson Minar #
January 14, 2011
— it has its faults, but it’s still a collective wonder #
— self-managing communities are difficult to design; I hope they pull it off #
— setting the wheel friction to a negative number wreaks havoc with physics via b3ta #
