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February 7, 2011

New Yorker's long Scientology expose

— incredible reporting, centered on screenwriter Paul Haggis’ departure from the “Church” #
February 5, 2011

Darryl Cunningham's comic on climate change

— previously: Homeopathy, Moon Hoax, and MMR vaccinations #

Ze Frank's Star.me launches private beta

— Techcrunch has an interview with Ze and more screenshots #
February 4, 2011

When Should I Visit?

— uses Foursquare to learn how to avoid Foursquare users #

xkcd on trochee fixation

— don’t miss the trochee chart, made with this Search Matrix tool #

Island Survival

— Friday Flash fun; also: Cactus’ very weird Hot Throttle #
February 3, 2011

Penny Arcade responds to the "Dickwolves" debacle

— in case you missed it, here’s a good timeline #

The Making of "The Social Network"

— 93-minute behind-the-scenes film, available free on IMDB via twitter.com #
February 2, 2011

Nick Montfort releases Curveship, new interactive fiction framework

— Python framework for world modeling with the ability to interactively change narrative style #

Match.com acquires OkCupid

— seriously hoping Christian Rudder continues updating OkTrends; they deleted a critical post from last April #

Robert Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril"

— 1958 short story that predated The Running Man and predicted reality TV via tvtropes.org #
February 1, 2011

Everything is a Remix, Part 2

— worth it just for the wall of sequel title frames; I want that as a screensaver #

New York Observer on the "end of blogging"

— more like evolution than an end; Clive Thompson nailed it, it’s the rise of the long take #

Wired on a Toronto statistician who cracked a lottery ticket system

— finding flaws in pseudo-random interactive games designed for print via givemesomethingtoread.com #

NYMag feature on the changing landscape of online porn

— “we’re living in a grand age of micro-smut, a burgeoning empire of lemonade-stand porn” #

Final IPv4 blocks allocated

— some context from Jonathan Zittrain #

Google engineers set up sting operation, discover Bing copying results

— I can’t decide if Bing’s move is smart or just sad #
January 31, 2011

Readability launches as subscription service

— gorgeous design; 70% of fees go to publisher you’re reading #

Al Jazeera English streaming live on YouTube

— without question, the best coverage of the Egypt uprising #

Canvas launches first public release

— if you’re waiting for an invite, Techcrunch posted screenshots #

Speak to Tweet

— Google and SayNow’s free service to tweet voice messages by phone from Egypt #

Keanu Reeves on the "Sad Keanu" meme

— found on Know Your Meme’s monthly review via knowyourmeme.com #

10 Google Commandments

— more at Commissioning via todayandtomorrow.net #

Axe Cop: The Movie

— based on the brilliant webcomic written by a five-year-old boy #

Conductor

— Alexander Chen turns the NYC subway system into an HTML5 string instrument #

Sarien.net gets Activision's official approval to simulate Sierra games

— browser versions of each initial game in the series are fine; sequels and iPad port are not #
January 28, 2011

Al Jazeera's live stream of the Egypt protests

— good context at Reddit and Metafilter, and Xeni has a great roundup; liveblogging at the NYT and Guardian #

Nate Silver on approval ratings and re-election odds

— modeling a president’s chances based on historical approval ratings #
January 27, 2011

Egypt government shuts down all Internet access

— “an action unprecedented in Internet history” via twitter.com #

Traps

via google.com #

Making a BoingBoing API with FluidDB in an evening

— dumping 64,000 posts into their public shared database; read ntoll’s intro to FluidDB #
January 26, 2011

BBC Radio's Secret History of Social Networking

— the first episode covers BBSes and the first web-based social networks via twitter.com #

Zero Punctuation on Minecraft

— it hit one million copies sold two weeks ago #

Live-action LittleBigPlanet adventure in one take

— love the a cappella music and effects via Cal Henderson #

Ivan Guerrero premakes Pixar's "Up" as a 1960s film

— he also made a shot-by-shot breakdown via buzzfeed.com #

Print Stuff

— Guido Tamino wants the world to send things to his inkjet printer via creativeapplications.net #

Kevin Smith's screening experiment for Red State

— skipping all existing middlemen to show his film city-by-city at $70 a ticket #
January 25, 2011

White House's interactive State of the Union 2011

— the speech is basically a geek call-to-arms #

Boing Boing releases complete dump of every post

— time for me to update my Boing Boing stats #
January 24, 2011

Cathode, vintage terminal emulator for OS X

— looks great in full screen #

Wolfenstein 1-D

— the legendary FPS converted to a single-pixel line #

MIT researchers demonstrate 15 fps holographic display with Kinect

— one guess what film they referenced for their tests #

Foursquare's 2010 activity visualized

— useless fact: 224 Wendys checked in at a Wendy’s last year, but only one’s a mayor #
January 23, 2011

Nancy Duarte visualizes MLK's I Have A Dream speech

— categorizing each phrase by present vs. future tense and subject matter on a timeline via twitter.com #
January 22, 2011

Security guard's photos from the Back to the Future set

— posted in 2007, but somehow, I’ve never seen these before today via buzzfeed.com #

They Were There

— a 30-minute short film about IBM by Errol Morris with music by Philip Glass via Daring Fireball #
January 21, 2011

The Dow Piano

— a bit more upbeat: Music of Currency Exchange Rates via FlowingData #

CNN sportswriter tracks down his online haters

— this sounds like a reality show waiting to happen via smarterware.org #

ScentScape to add smells to games and videos

— revenge of the Digiscent iSmell; finally, we’ll be able to smell 4chan via Slashdot #

Infocom acquires Movable Type and the Six Apart brand

— no, not that Infocom #
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