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February 28, 2011
— love the hand-wringing in the comments #
— also, how indie successes are shifting the culture of openness #
— experimental gameplay navigating a 3D world turned 2D #
— an amazing community working on an amazing project #
— first Kickstarter project officially endorsed by RoboCop #
February 25, 2011
— recursive game by Passage/Sleep Is Death creator Jason Rohrer #
— mining popular services, language parsing, and dataviz in one handy bundle via Pinboard #
— “the copycats may be cheaper but they barely even sound like real turtles” #
February 20, 2011
February 17, 2011
— a young German DJ hacked hundreds of accounts before getting caught; you can still hear the shoutouts here via twitter.com #
— when in doubt, respond with “What is Australia?” #
February 16, 2011
— first time I’d ever heard of an arcade game with live animals #
— like viewing the web on an Apple II #
February 15, 2011
— “stammer time!” via b3ta #
— also: step-by-step details on how Anonymous hacked HBGary #
— distilling years of work into 17 syllables #
— the goal was to write a bot that would convince 500 unsuspecting Twitter users to follow it via twitter.com #
— a look at different strategies used by chatbots and confederates to appear human #
— watch day 1 and day 2; here’s a statistical breakdown of the first match #
— 150 films available today, more added monthly #
— someone forked it on Github and patched some bugs #
— his first game, an experiment in algorithmic music; Rich performed on Kind of Bloop via GameSetWatch #
February 14, 2011
— added to the list of Oscilloscope hacks #
— like Ze Frank and Erik Kastner’s Young Me/Now Me with better production values #
February 12, 2011
— it’s been around since 2009, but the corpus is so huge now, conversations can be uncanny #
February 11, 2011
— I totally forgot he designed the logo #
— “you need to shave the USB ports every couple days” #
— shouldn’t that be “craigthlithp”? via buzzfeed.com #
February 10, 2011
— the fingerprints left on an iPad display after each app via Brandon Boyer #
— “How big is our island?” #
— Toccata and Fugue in D minor performed on four floppy drives via twitter.com #
— free songs from 792 showcasing artists #
— trivia: he says the Huffington Post never paid for MT, which they still use today #
— the torrent holds 172 websites set for closure #
February 9, 2011
— Joel Holmberg mixes the background music from different browser tabs #
— Mechanical Turk workers copying each other’s drawings in a visual game of Telephone #
— a lower-tech version of the scone-buying robot, for $500 instead of $15,000 #
— the happiest Twitter visualization ever via interconnected.org #
February 8, 2011
— sold 125k copies in the first month, by far the fastest selling by both units and revenue #
— more analysis in the article via FlowingData #
— the Babelfish is near, just need a version that translates constantly #
— as always, some incredibly entertaining correlations #
February 7, 2011
— this time, a report on his father’s life reconstructed from artifacts via Kottke #
— trivia: Community creator Dan Harmon also co-created Channel 101 and Heat Vision and Jack #
— it caters to superfans at the cost of pageviews, quite possibly a good thing; my money’s on Rex #
