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September 10, 2012
— 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 #
— this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter’s the social network graph that matters most to me #
August 20, 2012
— replacing identity on Twitter with a color #
August 18, 2012
— a Flash game about failure and regret; after you play, watch this playthrough #
— opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control #
August 17, 2012
— he got his baby photos back, fortunately #
August 16, 2012
August 15, 2012
— if you make a free app, make it really, really easy to give you money #
August 14, 2012
— created by John Resig, who wrote about the project #
August 13, 2012
— a horrific new low for an insurance company, an impressive feat #
August 12, 2012
— inspired by Kutiman’s Thru-You, Gotye’s remix of YouTube covers of “Somebody That Used to Know” #
August 11, 2012
— Gerald Scarfe’s pre-Wall 1973 animation, largely unseen because of music clearance #
August 10, 2012
— nice distillation of the core ideas behind Everything Is A Remix #
— one of the only iOS apps to allow public remix, shutting down way too soon #
— a collaboration with McSweeney’s #
August 8, 2012
— the physics of silliness #
— now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org #
— five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA via @xor #
August 7, 2012
— it’s quickly moving from simple reality show parody to dystopic scifi #
— old but new to me; more background #
— love the auralization at the end #
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