Gizmodo on one MMO's attempt at crowdsourced justice
— self-managing communities are difficult to design; I hope they pull it off #
Grand Theft Auto Frictionless
— setting the wheel friction to a negative number wreaks havoc with physics (via) #
Jeopardy practice match with IBM's Watson supercomputer
— with Watson's answer certainty displayed in real-time #
Gabriela Herman's Blogger Portraits
— reminds me of Phillip Toledano's portraits of gamers and phone sex workers #
Nominees for Reddit's Best of 2010 Awards
— an amazing community, the comment nominees are brilliant #
What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
— or: how technology can make even 22-year-olds feel old #
A gadget's life
— interactive graphic tracks the lifecycle of popular tech adjusted for inflation (via) #
Google Chrome to drop support for H.264 video
— kind of baffling, considering Flash is built into their browser #
Why Twitter challenged the secret Wikileaks subpoenas
— as Wired said, "Twitter beta-tested a spine" (via) #
oops, found video of camera drops
— old, but new to me; brilliantly edited, winner of the Vimeo Awards Experimental category (via) #
NASA, The Frontier Is Everywhere
— promo video made by a fan frustrated with the agency's communication skills (via) #
Kinect 3D statues in Minecraft
— more detail on the original site, which is getting hammered (via) #
The Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers
— stats from 2010, with the biggest projects, most prolific creators and backers, and more #
Works that would been public domain this year under pre-1978 copyright law
— as always, a depressing read #
JWT's 100 Things to Watch in 2011
— via Fred Wilson, who has a good eye for this kind of thing (via) #
Metafilter's Year in 2010 Infographic
— the community wrote 86 million words last year, over 400 Moby Dicks (via) #