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June 2, 2011
— way, way deeper than I originally thought; 25,000 virtual hosts to connect/hack/explore, with ghost users from the past via twitter.com #
— drag-and-drop 2D Flash gamemaker for PC and Mac #
June 1, 2011
— view it through a proxy; Bitcoins aren’t anonymous, so they’re laundering them via Nelson Minar #
— live-action, fan-made Portal epilogue via MetaFilter #
— Anna Anthropy’s safe-for-work analysis of Animal Crossing fan-made porn #
— every Chewbacca scene in A New Hope; also: Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi #
May 31, 2011
— clever Flash work; most interesting if you’re active on Facebook #
— what hath Lodwick wrought? #
— the site was slammed last week; side-by-side video from Super Mario World and other comparisons via rhizome.org #
— lightbulb over your head that lights on brainwave activity #
— playful video discovery from the Internet’s Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh #
May 27, 2011
— trivia: this episode was written by Keyboard Cat’s own Brad O’Farrell #
— mapping every impact death creates a ghostly landscape #
— Facebook users who think stories from The Onion are real #
May 26, 2011
— Chinese officials denied the report, saying they disallow contact with the outside world #
— paper silhouettes of pop culture icons via John Martz #
— if devices passively broadcast song metadata, someone could actually build this #
— brilliant app shows your shared Twitter/Facebook friends from the people around you #
— chat rooms where anyone can drag MP3s into a shared, streaming playlist #
May 25, 2011
— the median life of a thread is under 4 minutes; read the whole paper #
— building on Flu Trends, upload your own time series and find correlations with search patterns #
May 24, 2011
— they’re deleting 16 years of messages on June 10, with nothing indexed by Archive.org #
— collaborative image collages via rhizome.org #
— web-based tool for cleaning up messy data, similar to Google Refine #
— game developer takes his five-year-old daughter to Toronto Game Jam, sheer joy ensues #
— 14 years after it was first announced in April 1997 #
May 23, 2011
— the art world really seems to be embracing net.art #
— music video steeped in gaming history via knowyourmeme.com #
— great commentary on NPR’s Planet Money podcast about whether his success is reproducible #
— how to be an ass with Javascript #
May 19, 2011
— an album made entirely from from Steely Dan’s discography; the timeline shows every sample #
— less than four years after the Kindle launched via Daring Fireball #
— excellent and silly interview about his Lucasarts, Psychonauts, and Double Fine’s new experimentation #
— I stumbled on Sayeg’s knitting team wrapping the Etsy ducts last month #
— “your technical redress remains unsatisfactory” #
May 18, 2011
— Nick Bilton and Mat Honan respond, with two very different approaches #
— sleep on them to learn by osmosis via FlowingData #
— fascinating reboot of the Terminal using WebKit and node.js via twitter.com #
May 17, 2011
— streaming’s easier than piracy #
— Fabrice Bellard’s stunning hack lets your browser run Linux #
— take that, Ebert! via MetaFilter #
— part of his brilliant Kill Math project; his ability to communicate math with design is amazing #
— quality type on a pay-what-you-like model #
— sound advice for anyone just getting started in their field; listen to it here #
— impressive mashup viz using HTML5 and CSS3 #
— with the generous help of John Carmack #
May 16, 2011
— he calls it “the most dangerous open-source project ever created”; value’s doubled in the last month, here’s a good primer #
