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January 14, 2011
— 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 #
— first-person account of manning a Wyoming nuclear missile silo via MetaFilter #
January 13, 2011
— with Watson’s answer certainty displayed in real-time #
— reminds me of Phillip Toledano’s portraits of gamers and phone sex workers #
— all 114 of them; added to the list via twitter.com #
January 12, 2011
— the Babel fish is near #
— an amazing community, the comment nominees are brilliant #
— everything is amazing #
— or: how technology can make even 22-year-olds feel old #
January 11, 2011
— interactive graphic tracks the lifecycle of popular tech adjusted for inflation via FlowingData #
— kind of baffling, considering Flash is built into their browser #
— as Wired said, “Twitter beta-tested a spine” via twitter.com #
January 10, 2011
— old, but new to me; brilliantly edited, winner of the Vimeo Awards Experimental category via MetaFilter #
— promo video made by a fan frustrated with the agency’s communication skills via thedailywh.at #
— kinetic typography of a dramatic reading of a dumb review of a silly game #
— more detail on the original site, which is getting hammered via notch.tumblr.com #
— stats from 2010, with the biggest projects, most prolific creators and backers, and more #
— another Rube Goldberg machine from the geeks at Syyn Labs #
January 7, 2011
— “Always. Be. Choking.” #
— aka hypnotic high-speed footage of stuff dropping on squishy stuff #
— at 2:35, playing with the “old CDs,” a DJ is born #
January 6, 2011
— Paul Ford on the Web as a customer service medium #
January 5, 2011
— Matt Haughey and Metafilter eulogize a talented, but troubled, programmer #
January 4, 2011
— the first of his World Remix project #
January 3, 2011
— as always, a depressing read #
— via Fred Wilson, who has a good eye for this kind of thing via avc.com #
— the community wrote 86 million words last year, over 400 Moby Dicks via twitter.com #
January 2, 2011
— I love his work and this project sounds brilliant #
