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September 8, 2011
— a true visionary, he pioneered the ebook and open access to the world’s knowledge #
— new meme-compliant video remixing toy by Harmonix for iOS #
September 7, 2011
— also: skin rendering demo, both were made with three.js #
— hard to watch; p.s. now might be a good time to call your oldest living relative via r/videos #
— TLC “celebrity” chef and frozen lasagna backfires badly; nice twist in the last graf via twitter.com #
— oral history from pro photographers at ground zero #
— his followup to Offworld, my favorite blog of 2009; the rewards are insane, with unreleased games by indie gaming’s all-stars #
— rank your favorite parts of the U.S. Constitution on Facebook via wondertonic.tumblr.com #
September 6, 2011
— one of the oldest active blogs, it ran for 13 years via Kottke #
— another brilliant animation by animation student Nelson Boles #
— the popular lists are usually offensive and entertaining #
— experimental procedural text toy for iPad from my favorite IF author #
September 5, 2011
— powerful talk highlighting their incredibly important digital preservation work #
— songs bundled with warez serial code generators #
September 2, 2011
— Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut’s story shapes in with amusing results via Kottke #
— random Markov-chain generated snippets from the King James Bible via jwz #
— made for the recently-cancelled Everything on Channel 101 via twitter.com #
— as if hundreds of mashups suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced #
September 1, 2011
— the Guardian published the password in a book, but they blame Wikileaks for lax security #
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 #
