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March 16, 2012
— they devoted their whole new episode to the correction, here’s Mike Daisey’s statement via twitter.com #
— perspective from a software developer trying to access tech blogs and other resources #
March 15, 2012
— story behind the epic 24-hour long supercut #
— funny TED talk on copyright math #
— relieved to see he’s alive and well, but some think she went too far in publicizing his identity #
— iPhone game played by guessing the frequency of Twitter search terms via twitter.com #
March 14, 2012
— awesome seven-minute talk #
— limited phoneme support, but still! via twitter.com #
— $1.66M pledged to projects in a single day #
— a thoughtful piece about the changes under Larry Page #
— live mashup with 20 musicians and 38 songs with no samples #
— explore the world through Google Satellite imagery, share shapshots of your own discoveries #
March 13, 2012
— Greg Borenstein tests face-tracking software on inanimate objects; go buy his book! #
— a Bed-Stuy whistleblower persecuted for reporting systematic manipulation of crime statistics #
March 12, 2012
— playlist of websites that auto-play music #
March 9, 2012
— brilliant work, and I’m so happy to see the project blowing up #
March 8, 2012
— Gina Trapani’s open data mashup demonstrates the deeply unfair gender pay gap #
— from Under Construction to cinemagraphs #
— free iPad app visualizes your social network as cells #
March 6, 2012
— from the creator of Nonstop Nyan Cat, a community for sharing Japanese-style text emoticons #
— a taste of On the Bro’d #
March 5, 2012
— inspired Toy Story/Shining mashup created on the iPad #
— hour-long playlist of textmode performances “designed to make you fall asleep” #
— entire feature films split into animated GIFs; also: as Powerpoint decks and starfield screensavers #
— story of an imaginary graphical text adventure #
— deeply disruptive to the POS industry; also, anyone in the U.S. can sign up for a free Square reader #
— open-source Super Mario meets Portal mashup, out now for PC/Mac/Linux #
— surreal photos of die-hards sleeping in Main Street Cinema #
March 2, 2012
— insane to see them map and navigate new spaces using the Kinect #
— awesome talk from one of the giants of infoviz #
— a huge amount of information displayed in a concise, understandable way #
— when analog and digital nostalgia combine via trenchant.org #
— interesting to see how much thought and effort went into the pitch #
— pay-what-you-like chiptune soundtrack to a nonexistent film #
March 1, 2012
— related: Minecraft 1.2 is out with iron golems, cat, ocelots, and smarter zombies #
February 29, 2012
— or: why cable is the new landline #
— one of the most addictive games I’ve ever played, a brilliant one-button rhythm game #
— they play pretty well for mindless killing machines #
February 28, 2012
— Tom Armitage’s physical book of Pinboard bookmarks and the code to make your own #
— the source is on Github; I loved his making-of photos #
February 27, 2012
— some solid advice from inspiring, independent people #
— yay! all my Kickstarter dreams are coming true #
February 26, 2012
— editing this year’s nine Best Picture nominees to eight minutes of profanity #
— written in Entropy, a programming language that decays variables as it runs #
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