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July 12, 2012
— six years after Arrested Development, networks still don’t know how to handle fan favorites #
— the end result of their disastrous redesign and not listening to their users; patents and team sold separately for more #
— the promise of Kozmo, but for everything? #
— you might remember his project, setting up software on Apple Store computers via @atduskgreg #
— apparently Associated Content, the content farm they acquired in 2010, stored passwords in plaintext #
— Democrats appear to have more diverse tastes via @mattcutts #
— “I think it’s simultaneously the best and worst idea I’ve ever had.” #
July 10, 2012
— music video as a Robotron-inspired game #
— answering ridiculous hypothetical questions with physics via @delfuego #
July 9, 2012
— using Kellan’s oldtweets, a searchable archive of Twitter’s first year #
— reminds me of this classic Reddit thread #
July 8, 2012
— 7,000-word breakdown of the nine-minute period after the Supreme Court’s announcement via @kellymcb #
— written in 2009 about the free PC version, every word of this applies to the brilliant new XBLA release #
— apparently, a direct reaction to my recent article #
July 6, 2012
— interesting to hear the community’s trying to buy it #
— from the same guy, a heated debate between Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie #
July 5, 2012
— sometimes, failure is more fun than success #
July 3, 2012
— out tomorrow on XBLA, really excited to play this #
— a temporary end to an epic flameout #
July 2, 2012
— this guy rivals Calvin’s dad #
— surreal black comedy set in post-apocalypse London; love the bicycle-powered Tube #
July 1, 2012
— crazy that a comment on Reddit is the best explanation I’ve seen so far of the ACA #
June 29, 2012
— I have an archive of every pre-2005 post, just in case #
— it’s like Internet comments by phone! #
June 28, 2012
— trying to track down and reconstruct the mythic tape that inspired Paul Simon #
— full disclosure: I’m bidding on several shares in the public auction #
— love this idea, something I spent lots of time on at Expert Labs #
— tweets mentioning colors plotted on Stamen’s lovely watercolor maps #
— like EC2, access to the virtual machines instead of App Engine alone #
— likely only using Apple’s rendering engine, so not as significant as it seems #
— before sending in a correction, note the date and time #
June 27, 2012
— live skydiving onto Moscone; attendees can preorder for $1500, ships next year #
— Valve is releasing their incredible animated filmmaking tool, should be huge #
— between Off Book and Idea Channel, PBS is doing interesting online work lately #
June 26, 2012
— high-speed vision analyzes your move and responds before you finish throwing #
— it took six months and the help of 15 star illustrators and designers #
— a joke about empathy turns into something more #
— incredibly well-researched and edited supercut #
June 25, 2012
— no ticket agencies, flat rate, no sales tax #
— like Chartwell, a clever use of OpenType ligatures to turn words into icons #
— idiotic, especially since all emails from non-friends end up in the Other black hole #
— ferrofluid mixed with water colors via @golan #
— brilliant cruft-free view of Reddit’s top AMA threads via Hacker News #
— try turning on “transcribe audio” for robots gone awry #
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