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April 27, 2012
— why this is impressive; order a one here with optional box via MetaFilter #
April 26, 2012
— that’d make a great screensaver with this as the background audio #
— hour-long textural mix tapes designed for “prolonged periods of intense concentration” via MetaFilter #
— seems awkward to navigate and moderate to me, but interested to see how it plays out #
— they argue it frees up journalists for actual reporting, instead of routine grunt work #
— interesting prototype video #
— Ludum Dare game by a first-time game developer #
— making the classic music visualization real; incredible work, though it sounds very different in person #
April 25, 2012
— bookmarklet turns any page into a 3D object, with the DOM representing depth via html5watch.tumblr.com #
— camera wired to Mechanical Turk; reminds me of Image Search for the Blind #
April 24, 2012
— new blog surfaces the most interesting stuff from the community #
— 5 GB free, and Gmail goes up to 10GB free #
— I could’ve used that speech when I was 14, but I never went to gyms via alexisohanian.com #
April 23, 2012
— every level from the original SMB, recreated on a single screen each via freeindiegam.es #
— made for the Ludum Dare compo; over 1,100 games were entered! via freeindiegam.es #
— ingenious short tutorial on vim key controls #
— a passively-multiplayer game built on Twitter activity #
— I know the controls seem insane, but stick with it; the level design is devious #
April 22, 2012
— fun and interesting glimpse inside their crazy flat structure #
April 20, 2012
— try evolving the biggest head possible #
— Frogger cabinet modded to use real-time car traffic from NYC streets #
— very cute; I’m hoping some people make Playfic games #
April 19, 2012
— new game from the creator of Machinarium and Samorost; the bundle is a steal #
— countdown until someone writes a Twitter bot #
April 18, 2012
— ranking everything from sneakers to World of Warcraft classes #
— communication failure at every level in the chain of command #
— a capsule history of Kickstarter itself; the Pebble watch is up to $4.4M #
April 17, 2012
— agree with the issues, but defensive patents exist to ward off potential attackers with countersuits #
— “don’t negotiate with terrorists” #
— a contract that guarantees any filed patents will only be used defensively, even if sold #
— pioneered by Hatsune Miku #
April 16, 2012
— Flash games puts you in charge of editing a state-run newspaper, with a twist via Boing Boing #
— coder-centric search engine that searches punctuation #
— spotting Photoshop trickery with a few lines of Javascript #
— one of the demoscene’s legendary groups open-sources a decade of work #
April 14, 2012
— on Metafilter, Rhomboid breaks down how the video glitches work via MetaFilter #
April 13, 2012
— functional textmode interface to Google using termlib.js and the Google REST API via twitter.com #
— click as fast as you can; an experiment with the Svpply API by OK Focus #
— with DVD rentals, people were aspirational; with streaming, immediate gratification #
— Pixeljam takes on pinball #
April 12, 2012
— like Little Printer for hardware hackers #
— visions of an always-connected device from 1982, drawn by Glen Keane via Kottke #
— funny, that’s my strategy too #
April 11, 2012
— animated beatbox engine #
— hold down “j” to advance via jwz #
— the email version of Twitter’s Fame game #
— extremely frank discussion of why he left Microsoft to start a small indie studio #
— 376 daily drawings inspired by NES games via twitter.com #
— David Smith’s free Mac app to download all your Instagram photos #
— Pippin Barr’s 36 experiments with Pong #
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