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January 26, 2012
— now with 10 years of data; I’ll republish the article here tomorrow #
— a national treasure; part two #
January 25, 2012
— lovely design via elspethjane.com #
— with cameos from Limbo and Super Meat Boy #
— here’s the awesome preview, with responsive design, new plugins, and tons of new components #
January 24, 2012
— love the colorblind mode #
— visualizing the incredible rate of YouTube uploads #
— Google will be in trouble if their strategy succeeds, or if it doesn’t #
January 23, 2012
— new Auto-Tune the News starring Joseph Gordon-Lewitt and Vermin Supreme #
— finally listened to this stunning This American Life episode; it led to this response from Apple #
— hack by Twitter, Facebook and Myspace devs shows how Google sacrifices relevance for Google+ promotion via twitter.com #
January 22, 2012
— sad to hear they’re ending development, it showed potential #
January 20, 2012
— essential reading, along with Tim O’Reilly’s post from earlier this week #
— related: Marco Arment on stopping the next SOPA #
— a long decline since the mid-1990s via @mrdoob #
— the final edit of the amazing, crowdsourced Star Wars remake that won an Emmy #
— I’m sure top men are working on returning those files via twitter.com #
January 19, 2012
— simple nerd test: do you laugh harder at the photos or the code output? via twitter.com #
— until it’s integrated into Twitter, try Percolate, which I use daily #
— man, I wish Kutiman would do a Thru-You followup #
— using word lists from Wikipedia; some great responses so far via jwz #
January 18, 2012
— updated constantly; more Republicans now oppose it, but Democrats still support it 40-34 #
— essential Lessig lecture on “striking at the root” to fix government via codinghorror.com #
— hands down, the fairest and clearest explanation of the goals and risks I’ve seen for the layperson #
— and saved future lives, thanks to the international donor drives #
— including cropping out credits #
— or why SOPA is a bad idea #
— hoping some of them channel their anger into picking up the phone #
— the root cause of SOPA/PIPA is the corrupting influence of money on Congress #
— “to solve this particular problem, Congress merely has to do what it does best: nothing” #
— “our web means more that lawyers, lobbies, and lies” via Laughing Squid #
— the video says it all #
— great video from Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian on stopping SOPA/PIPA, and a handy tool to make calls #
— love that he says he’s pirated constantly, but that this is the wrong way to address it #
— awesome research and charts from Horace Dediu #
— nice graph work by Fred Benenson using Slurp 140, Google Refine, R, and Cytoscape #
— well played, BuzzFeed #
January 17, 2012
— an automated supercut machine, it uses a locally-hosted film collection and caption transcripts via thecreatorsproject.com #
— Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, and others are all going dark tomorrow in protest; join them #
— tongue-in-cheek guide to measuring hipster cities based on used bike listings via twitter.com #
— smoothest game I’ve seen so far, how it was made; related: Command and Conquer via twitter.com #
— Bootstrap 2.0 is shaping up nicely #
— I always liked Jerry, I hope he starts something new #
— Joshua Schachter’s repurposed his lifehack site into a daily email #
— delightfully surreal co-op elevator simulator; watch the gameplay video #
January 16, 2012
— Lionel Ritchie recreated with film clips #
