December 9, 2011
Major label stars endorse Megaupload in video
— they buried the lede here; Megaupload built a tool for their users to bypass DNS blacklists #
First chapter of Clay Johnson's The Information Diet
— highly recommended book about consuming information healthier; go buy it #
The Daily Show on predatory "free" iOS games for kids
— worth it just to see Gameview's CEO squirm #
Xeni Jardin on her breast cancer diagnosis
— reading her tweets in real-time was devastating and took tremendous bravery #
Indie Game: The Movie on meeting Kevin Smith and following dreams
— they were accepted into Sundance, one of 14 films funded on Kickstarter to do so; Kevin responds #
ICE releases popular hip-hop blog's domain after year of deception
— excellent case study of how SOPA would be abused #
Family Guy writer's first-person account of his Occupy LA arrest
— sickening treatment at the hands of the LAPD; there's absolutely no excuse for this #
Twitter launches major redesign
— available now in new iPhone and Android apps, rolling out to web soon #
Maciej Ceglowski on the dangers of free web services
— if you love a service, demand that they find a business model or clone them yourself #
Interregnum, an animated short on French proto-hacker René Carmille
— he sabotaged the Nazi's IBM punchcard census, saving countless lives in the process #
Swiss government keeps downloading legal after piracy study
— they concluded it leads to more sales for music, movies, games, and concert tickets (via) #
Introducing the Federal Social Media Index
— my new project at Expert Labs, a dashboard tracking 125 federal agencies on Twitter #
US judge orders hundreds of domains "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook, Twitter
— who needs SOPA? truly horrible ruling #
Gregg Gethard recounts the story of his painfully awkward Carmen Sandiego appearance
— how awkward? watch his intro (via) #
David OReilly's The External World
— from the surreal mind behind Please Say Something, and more (via) #
Every Beatles song, played at once
— all 226 songs synchronized so they end simultaneously; see how long you can take it #
The Karate Kid Rehearsal Movie
— shot on cheap camcorders, it has the feel of 1980s home movies (via) #
Prelude of the Chambered in Minecraft
— sheer madness, porting Notch's pseudo-3D FPS Ludum Dare entry to redstone circuits #
Alex Howard's comprehensive overview of SOPA and PROTECT IP
— long, essential coverage of who's against it and why #
UMG sues Grooveshark for 100,000 uploaded songs
— including 1,791 songs uploaded by the CEO himself #
Gawker on Megyn Kelly downplaying pepper spray as a "food product"
— only linking to this for the comments, which slayed me #
Paul Motian, dead at 80
— loading up my playlist with his Frisell and Evans collaborations in memory (via) #
Sophia Grace and Rosie interview celebs at the AMAs
— 110% unadulterated cute; odds are you've seen their 22M views video and Ellen appearance #
NYT on NYPD's mistreatment of reporters covering Occupy
— the NYPD is refusing press passes to anyone covering Occupy, and no passes at all until January #
GQ takes Aziz Ansari, David Chang, and James Murphy to Tokyo
— I want to try that gnarly ramen (via) #
xkcd's Money chart
— insanely comprehensive visualization of what things cost and where money goes #
Desert Bus ported to iOS
— Penn & Teller gave permission for anyone to port it at the Comic-Con 2010 #
Idea Lab on the web's political movement against SOPA
— making some progress, Tumblr sent an average of 3.6 calls per second to Congress (via) #
Facebook shows 4.74 average distance between users
— updating Migram's six degrees experiment, down from 5.28 hops in 2008 #
The Atlantic's online ad revenue exceeds print
— proof that innovative, experimental reporting done lean can be sustainable (via) #