Skip to content
August 31, 2011
— insanely huge leap from the previous UI #
— a very, very minimalist 2D Minecraft built with redstone circuits in Minecraft via MetaFilter #
— the new group is skipping the politics and hacking the entertainment industry for lulz #
— great thinkers as rock band t-shirts #
August 30, 2011
— more on their dev blog about how the feature came to be #
August 29, 2011
— from the creator of Not Tetris 2, Tetris with physics via Kottke #
— distributed chess AI in JS using Web Workers, written in 48 hours for node.js Knockout #
— “I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.” via twitter.com #
— a mind-bending puzzle game with alternate dimensions that modify weight and time #
— projection-mapped cube with an Arduino sensor #
August 26, 2011
— del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter’s new project #
— fascinating five-part series on America’s shift to overseas manufacturing via O'Reilly Radar #
— years later, very interesting to hear his story of getting sued out of existence #
— long out of print, Jason’s hosting a copy of the book in PDF form #
August 25, 2011
— “It’s called innovation.” #
— 14 years after cofounding the tech community #
— needs Flash; you don’t need to read Korean to appreciate it, but here’s the translation via MetaFilter #
August 24, 2011
— Rion Nakaya and her three-year-old curate inspiring, fun stuff via Kottke #
— excellent examples of understanding constraints and working within them #
— automatically targets who broke the codebase and fires foam missiles at them via jwz #
— like using ChatRoulette as an alarm clock via Boing Boing #
— shockingly good teaching tool; more here via Kottke #
— the Internet Archive’s 3,000 hours of TV news from September 11 #
— at 1:10, he places notes on the virtual piano roll; he also made a pig-powered slot machine and 5-channel sequencer #
August 23, 2011
— digital archivists and content curators are important, but great creators provide valuable context #
— Disney goes 8-bit in an upcoming feature about arcade characters’ secret lives via twitter.com #
— buy it immediately; Front also appeared on Mink Car Cover, a tribute to TMBG’s ill-timed album #
— reporting notable events from major online communities like Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter #
August 22, 2011
— expertly done, down to hiring Ellen McLain for the voice acting via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— anonymous public cross-domain key store via Pinboard #
— he streamed most of the development; see all 500+ entries #
— some context may be necessary #
— entertaining and educational, as always #
August 20, 2011
— made with the Lua extensions #
August 19, 2011
— brilliantly creative Flash minigolf by the creator of Icycle #
— it’s unclear whether they can sue for 18 years of wrongful imprisonment #
— short machinima/live-action film about fighting game culture from the creator of 9 Eyes #
August 18, 2011
— he never spills his wine #
— from Joni Korpi, who also offers this nice trick for subtly hiding Typekit font replacement #
— wrongly convicted with coerced false confessions, they’ve been stuck in jail since 1994 #
— and Skitch is now free in the App Store #
