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September 25, 2012
— the detail is staggering; see Alan Wolfson’s other miniature urban sculptures #
September 24, 2012
— Google, Yahoo, Apple, FB, eBay, and EA’s parallel transit system #
September 23, 2012
September 21, 2012
— over 100 feet in length, 600 hours of construction #
— this kind of experimentation is why we invited her to speak/perform at XOXO #
— fundamental policy changes to hardware and product design projects #
September 20, 2012
— this should be the contractual contingency plan for every failed acquisition #
— organized collection of tweets from the 400+ attendees #
— really, really not happy about this; also: the death of animated GIF avatars #
— or: why global maps are really hard to do well via @ironicsans #
— new Linden Lab game, like Minecraft meets Second Life #
— collaborative music experiment from Ze Frank with averaged video frames #
September 19, 2012
— Ryan Gantz’s debut on The Verge is a lovely feature on XOXO #
— first video off their new album, funded by fans on Pledge #
— Super Hexagon as a text adventure, now playable online #
— and a new retail location in Manhattan #
— ridiculously massive comic, roughly 46 feet wide at 300 dpi via Kottke #
— new tools to help video creators make money, including tip jars and pay-to-view #
— for the first time, accepting money for services; $20/year to bypass CAPTCHAs #
September 18, 2012
— 350,000 broadcasts since 2009, loanable on DVD; more from the NYT #
— staggering tale by Maciej about his girlfriend’s battle with cancer, and an unusual friendship #
September 10, 2012
— with all the old Offworld posts, too! just in time for XOXO Arcade, which Brandon curated #
— I could listen to a whole album like this #
— crazy impressive for a first remix, especially how many weak attempts there were first #
September 9, 2012
— just as much of a rip-off as video slots, the claw has a weakness variable setting via Kottke #
— nothing at all scary about DARPA funding a robot that runs faster than Usain Bolt via @procrastineering #
September 8, 2012
— oh, did I mention we’re running a big arts and tech festival next week? #
September 7, 2012
— “these technologies do an end run around fair use” #
September 6, 2012
— one billion posts later; more from Moot about the changes #
— Andrew Hussie’s project to turn his webcomic epic into an adventure game raised $700k in two days #
September 4, 2012
— they claim it was found on an FBI agent’s laptop via Daring Fireball #
September 3, 2012
— one of my favorite games of the year, absurdly silly point-and-click minigames #
— come try the game at XOXO Arcade #
— didn’t realize Ustream had its own version of ContentID #
September 1, 2012
— an artifact of the early web, preserved #
— it boggles my mind how anyone could be against affordable health care #
August 31, 2012
— three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I’ve ever heard #
— including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app #
August 30, 2012
— proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter’s new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform #
August 29, 2012
— Reddit’s under severe load now #
— a time-wasting simulator #
— classic ’90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework via CreativeJS #
— they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players #
August 24, 2012
— Cypress Hill visualized in color-changing squid cells via Kottke #
— artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers #
— most of the heavy lifting from Onsemiro’s blog post #
August 22, 2012
— really impressive fan conversion #
