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July 29, 2011
— academic paper proposes SQL queries backed by a Mechanical Turk engine via O'Reilly Radar #
— don’t miss James Bridle’s thinking behind it #
— Roombas, recommenders, and financial algorithms terraforming the Earth via FlowingData #
July 28, 2011
— from the always-excellent What Things Do #
July 27, 2011
— his last tweet: “you cannot arrest an idea” #
— companies are trying to clone Kickstarter and the iPhone without understanding why they work #
July 26, 2011
— deep in the uncanny valley, dolls that looks exactly like you #
— related: Street Show, a dead drop for art in NYC via todayandtomorrow.net #
— love the Owen Pallett, Frankie Rose, and Real Estate covers #
— Mike Guppy replaces classic art with marching ants selections #
July 25, 2011
— meant to be listened to, not read #
— the chart that should accompany every article on this topic via twitter.com #
— gender-swapped episode featuring Neil Patrick Harris as Prince Gumball #
July 23, 2011
— don’t miss the ridiculous reveal of the redstone circuits at the 2:10 mark via r/Minecraft #
July 22, 2011
— even if you’ve never seen the original, watch this now; I want this treatment for every meme via twitter.com #
— obsessively-compiled, he concludes it was deliberate; that Duke Nukem map is neat, but I prefer the N64 version #
— Letters of Note reposts Bill Gates’ 1995 memo about the future of networking via lettersofnote.com #
— unscientific, but interesting; like Clay, my Google+ followers are rapidly catching up with Twitter #
— awesome to see roguelikes get some mainstream attention #
July 21, 2011
— torrent of 18k pre-1923 scientific papers released by an Aaron Swartz supporter via twitter.com #
July 20, 2011
— even the employees think they’re working for Apple via Kottke #
July 19, 2011
— possibly my favorite episode from The Show #
— or watch him perform it live with a Novation Launchpad controlling Ableton Live #
— another interesting data dump; love the video of every project #
— famous book covers abstracted to the edge of recognition #
— Derek Sivers’ call for Internet civility; short version: don’t be a jerk, we’re all humans here via Laughing Squid #
— hmm, this reminds me of something… #
— unlike his PACER work, JSTOR is all from academic journals; here’s the indictment, which includes details of the physical break-in #
July 18, 2011
— finding the math behind the otherwise mundane via Hacker News #
— shaming sites that store passwords in plaintext via Pinboard #
— impossible game tasks you with reverse-engineering a Tetris playthrough via Indie Games+ #
— the expansion into films and gaming started over 20 years ago #
— clever mechanic, two-player game pits a character against itself via Indie Games+ #
July 16, 2011
— guess the final scene from classic films #
— long, gripping read via hypertext.net #
— “This blog is based on my actual journal kept in 1976.” via MetaFilter #
July 14, 2011
— only companies can survive attacks from rampant patent and copyright trolls via Daring Fireball #
— Matt bought the first site ever linked on Mefi and collected touching tributes from members #
— 25-minute film following a man who loves hugging almost as much as Hawaiian shirts #
July 13, 2011
— Alexis Madrigal pieced together a new profile of Manning via twitter.com #
— reports say 8am EST, open to all preregistered users #
— with a nice Waxy.org shout-out; love the deep recursion in the comments #
— includes discussion on the legality of fanfic via MetaFilter #
July 11, 2011
— the Internet’s native art form #
July 9, 2011
— another must-read missive on the current state of journalism #
