February 22, 2012
10 Seconds from Every Top 100 Song Ever
— grabbing the loudest point is surprisingly useful for spotting choruses #
Dutch scientists to create first lab-grown hamburger this fall
— $316,000, cheap; take that, Fleur de Lys #
Eternal copyright: a modest proposal
— Adrian Hon plays with the absurdities of copyright law (via) #
Twitter Friends Map
— simple app that I've wanted for ages, spawned from Paul Irish's Lazyweb issue tracker #
Unmanned, a game by MolleIndustria and Jim Munroe
— shave, pilot a UAV, play videogames, sing One Vision, and contemplate your actions #
Gawker digs up Facebook's internal content moderation guidelines
— they use oDesk contractors to moderate flagged material #
John Gruber gets a one-on-one demo of Apple's Mountain Lion
— moving much further in the direction of iOS #
Everything Is A Remix, Part 4: System Failure
— final episode of the absolutely essential film series; go support Kirby's new project #
The Verge's analysis on apps that upload your contact list
— finally, the data journalism article that everyone wanted after the Path debacle #
Paul Ford's 100 Ways to Say I Love You
— "60. Yell it over your shoulder as you are pushed into the squad car." #
A Ship Adrift
— an imaginary airship piloted by an AI autopilot based on real weather patterns; follow it on Twitter #
Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle
— amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app #
Eclectic Method recreates 99 Problems with film clips
— like a frenetic take on Matthijs Vlot's Hello #
Raiding the Lost Ark
— incredible fan-made compilation of archival commentary on Raiders of the Lost Ark #
MG Siegler on VEVO employees pirating a football game
— "Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally." (via) #
GQ on Terry Thompson and last year's exotic animal massacre in Ohio
— Ohio's lax laws on personal zoos leads to tragic results (via) #
Game developers react to Double Fine's $1M fundraising success
— "did you hear? the death-rattle of a million middle men" #
DataEast's Movie Opinion Meter
— using the awesome dataset from Information Is Beautiful's Hollywood budgets design challenge #
Kickstarter's craziest 24 hours
— a minute-by-minute breakdown of the most insane day in Kickstarter history #
The Puzzlejuice Emails
— in-depth look at the evolution of the visual design of one of my favorite iOS games #
Double Fine's Kickstarter project to make a new point-and-click adventure
— best project video ever; I backed it so hard #
What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You
— ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!? #
Path apologizes, deletes user address books
— they never should've done it in the first place, but this is the right way to handle it #
BBC tracks down an Internet troll
— as the Daily Dot points out, he's more of a racist asshole than a troll (via) #
How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist
— gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence (via) #