Posterous closing on April 30, one year after Twitter acquisition
— migrate your stuff to Tumblr; of course, Archive Team is on it #
Analysis of 10,000 porn stars and their careers
— scraping the Internet Adult Film Database for data #
Interactive map of Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree
— awesome hip-hop history comic syndicated on Boing Boing #
Fader's explainer on the Harlem Shake
— first time I've seen the sample source cited; YouTube's Content ID is paying off nicely for Baauer #
Tesla rebuts NYT story with log data
— the writer's rebuttal; I suspect the truth's somewhere in between #
Techdirt's story of engaging an attribution troll on Twitter
— if only his tongue was made of glass #
Leonard Cooper's win at the Jeopardy Teen Tournament
— a major turnaround and a silly moment of joy #
SlowPal, quick search and filtering of Paypal transactions
— Paypal's transaction history isn't real-time, they email you when searches are finished #
Mat Honan on the return of Flickr
— Facebook is "the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you're trying to poop" #
The Pirate Bay documentary released
— buy the CC-licensed film for $10, watch it on YouTube, or download it where you'd expect #
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
— auto-generated Geocities screenshots viewed in Netscape 4.51, pulled from the Archive Team archive (via) #
NBC closes Everyblock with no notice
— the hidden text easter egg on the announcement makes me sad #
WebRTC demo
— cross-browser real-time videochat between Firefox/Chrome without Flash, and it just works #
UCLA's 3D reconstruction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
— after reading Devil in the White City, I really want to play a game set there #
Serious Eats' food scientist goes vegan for a month
— an omnivore foodie transitions to veganism, rejecting faux foods along the way #
Tracing the etymology of "Big Data"
— great comments, one from John Mashey and another pointing to this history of the concept #
Occupy Conan
— fans recreate an entire episode posted online, submissions stitched together and broadcast #