September 25, 2011
Twin Peaks: Escape from Black Lodge for the Atari 2600
— trivia: a Twin Peaks game for the NES was planned but never released #
Last call to migrate your Del.icio.us bookmarks
— today's the last day to agree to the new TOS, or all your bookmarks will be deleted! #
Louis C.K. walks the AV Club through Louie's second season
— this is the only TV show I watch regularly; if you haven't seen it, you're missing out (via) #
Scientists reconstruct video from monitored brain activity
— pieced together from 18 million seconds of random YouTube clips, this is epic jetpack science (via) #
Matthew Baldwin writes up his PAX experience for the Morning News
— I regret not going this year, but won't miss it next year #
Something Awful's 50 Greatest Video Game Characters of All Time
— don't miss the debate on Metafilter (via) #
Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists
— Foldit software leads to breakthroughs; the full paper (via) #
Jonathan Hardesty's Journey of an Absolute Rookie
— epic nine-year thread of learning to paint by making and posting something new every day; before and after (via) #
My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling
— Pulitzer-winning NYT writer enrolls his three American kids in a Russian school; don't miss the video (via) #
The Artist Is Present, real-time Marina Abramovic performance art simulation
— if you want a better place in line, start playing before MOMA opens at 10:30am EST (via) #
Phone Story, an anti-iPhone serious game for the iPhone
— two hours after launch, it was pulled for violating multiple App Store guidelines #
Shoshana Hebshi handcuffed, jailed, strip-searched for flying while brown yesterday
— "It's 9/11 and people are seeing ghosts"; here's the AP version #
8-bit Fashion
— like Sword & Sworcery on the runway; related: Anrealage's real-life pixel fashion and store #
Ten is Love and Everything After
— Anil's annual post commemorating 9/11; related: Neven Mrgan's Amerikanac #
Code Hero, learning game with a gun that shoots and edits Javascript
— pretty much exactly what 1995-era Hollywood thought coding would look like in 2011 (via) #
Ghosts with Shit Jobs, sci-fi documentary on crappy Western jobs in the year 2040
— written by Jim Munroe, who wrote an Inform 7 prequel for the film (walkthrough) (via) #
DIY side-scroller game in a box
— made with paper, tape, popsicle sticks, a soda straw, and Teagueduino #
RIP Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg founder
— a true visionary, he pioneered the ebook and open access to the world's knowledge #
Jimmy Kimmel's touching tribute to his Uncle Frank
— hard to watch; p.s. now might be a good time to call your oldest living relative (via) #
Food bloggers revolt after ConAgra hidden camera PR stunt
— TLC "celebrity" chef and frozen lasagna backfires badly; nice twist in the last graf (via) #
Venus Patrol, Brandon Boyer's new indie gaming blog, on Kickstarter
— his followup to Offworld, my favorite blog of 2009; the rewards are insane, with unreleased games by indie gaming's all-stars #
Jim Romenesko shuts down the Obscure Store
— one of the oldest active blogs, it ran for 13 years (via) #
Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout
— experimental procedural text toy for iPad from my favorite IF author #
Jason Scott's DEFCON talk on Archive Team
— powerful talk highlighting their incredibly important digital preservation work #
Google Correlate searches trends by drawing
— Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut's story shapes in with amusing results (via) #
Yahoo retiring Maps API on September 13
— as if hundreds of mashups suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced #