November 7, 2011
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 #
Class-action Yelp lawsuits dismissed
— as suspected, another judge found that the claims of extortion were unfounded #
Oakland police throw flash grenade into crowd helping injured protestor
— the protestor, an Iraq veteran, is in critical condition with a skull fracture #
PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet
— produced by Kirby Ferguson from Everything Is A Remix; please write to Congress to stop this awful bill #
Siri Meets Eliza
— Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner brings two eras of natural-language processing together #
RIP John McCarthy, AI pioneer
— he coined "artificial intelligence," and invented Lisp and garbage collection; The Robot and The Baby from 2001 is worth reading #
Analysis of the Steve Jobs tribute messages
— some stats pulled from the 10,975 messages from fans and friends (via) #
Teaser for Next Restaurant's Childhood menu
— Grant Achatz was interviewed about the concept and creative menu (via) #
Mourning the death of Google Reader's social features
— and again, only a week's notice to save everything? really? #
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at Wembley Empire Pool, 1974
— immaculate fan-remastered BBC broadcast, download the album #
Google redesigning Reader, removing existing social features next week
— are shared linkblogs and all shared/starred posts really getting deleted with only a week's notice? #
Adobe's official post on the Photoshop deblur tech demo
— much clearer images than the bootleg video of the live demo #
2012 IGF Pirate Kart
— bundling together 300+ indie games too small to warrant the $95 IGF entry fee (via) #
Google Books' WebGL Bookcase
— Aaron Koblin wrote about it; try hitting "H" for the control panel (via) #
Take This Lollipop
— incredibly creepy use of the Facebook API; Jenna Wortham interviews the creator #
German theater group stages live-action, point-and-click adventure games
— audience tries to solve puzzles with real actors in a scene; related: Action Castle (via) #
SocialFlow's analysis of the spread of the #OccupyWallStreet hashtag
— see also: their analysis of how trending topics work, using OWS as an example (via) #
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
— "Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone." (via) #
140bytes Music SoftSynth
— takes an argument and synthesizes 30 seconds of audio in only 138 bytes (via) #
Void Gaze, Nullsleep's interactive fiction meets animated GIFs
— also worth trying: maybe make some change, Aaron Reed's IF based on the sport killings of Afghan civilians (via) #
Chris Poole's talk on online identity and self-expression
— "Google and Facebook would have you believe that you're a mirror ... but we're more like diamonds." (via) #
The Billboard Wayback Machine
— neat visualization built on the community-powered Whitburn project #
Adrian Holovaty's YouTube-powered insult generator
— 467 people don't understand regular expressions #