November 20, 2011
Arrested Development returning as a Netflix exclusive in 2013
— reviving dearly-loved shows canceled by idiot TV execs sounds like a plan to me #
Minecraft 1.0 launched at MineCon
— in Minecraft style, a barebones iOS version came out Wednesday with future updates promised #
A History of the Sky
— time-lapse mosaic of 360 full days in chronological order; more on the project (via) #
Nintendo Preview Music Jam
— hour-long VHS tapes of NES gameplay with '80s dance music; Maniac Mansion and Janet Jackson, anyone? #
Vines, a flipbook love story from Paul to Anna
— related: Johnny Chung Lee on technology as a story #
Visualization of 11/11/11 11:11 activity on Twitter
— love the second wave isolated to countries that use 12-hour time #
Cave Story tool-assisted speedrun
— the annotations are fantastic, it took nearly 270,000 reloads to finish; uses Hourglass for recording #
The Awl profiles the creator of Is Anyone Up?
— posting identifying nude photos without permission; amazing the commenters aren't anonymous #
Olly, the web-connected smelly robot
— beats the vaporware Digiscents iSmell, which didn't give you control over which smells were emitted (via) #
Parallel Flickr
— Aaron's work-in-progress tool mirrors your Flickr photos, retaining permissions and URL structure #
Abobo's Big Adventure trailer released
— I'm excited about this platformer that remixes NES history #
Bil Keane's dysfunctional relationship with the Internet
— the Gettingit article from 1999 still holds up #
Novelist interviews reviewer who hated his book
— love the moment the critic talks about seeing the email arrive in his inboc (via) #
NYT Magazine on Internet satirists in China
— using carefully-veiled humor to work around the eye of government censorship #
What I Didn't Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook
— "But I had to come back. That's where all the people are." (via) #
PoleRiders
— new game by Bennett Foddy, the creator of GIRP and QWOP; meant for two players, but the training mode is fun #
Adobe ends development of mobile Flash player, refocuses on HTML5
— a good time to re-read Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash #
The Social Graph Is Neither
— "we have tasted of the blogroll and the lolcat and found that they were good" #
Meanwhile released for iPhone/iPad
— Jason Shiga's mind-expanding puzzle comic ported to iOS by interactive fiction legend Andrew Plotkin #
Chris Wetherell on dreams, discernment, and Google Reader
— thoughts from its founder; related: Mihai's history of social features in Reader #
Supercut.org
— I redesigned the site as a community-driven database; related: I did some analysis of the meme in my new Wired column #
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
— history of L.A. in film, made almost entirely from existing film footage (via) #
Codify, game editor for the iPad
— sadly, there's no way to share your games and it's unlikely Apple will approve one #
How Caitlin Curran lost her job over Occupy Wall Street
— you may have seen her very clever sign (via) #
Hyperbole and a Half's Adventures in Depression
— I guess that explains why she hasn't posted in five months #
Richard Stallman's list of requests when speaking
— includes preferences for room temperature, egg yolks, folk dances, and why not to buy him a parrot; I find this man fascinating #