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December 26, 2011
— song-by-song breakdown with supporting videos; watch Down from the Mountain on YouTube #
December 24, 2011
— a pixelized fireplace for PC/Mac #
December 23, 2011
— “Don’t cry, Disney owns the rights to that emotion.” via twitter.com #
December 22, 2011
— great feature on the all-volunteer preservation effort via nickm.com #
— brief open letters to unnamed inventors via twitter.com #
— tons of inspiring stuff in here; related: their top 10 iOS projects #
— six-minute pixelized animated short using transcripts from the Manning/Lamo chats via Boing Boing #
— the copyright notice is a nice touch via twitter.com #
— NYT highlights stories of lost loved ones from its readers #
December 20, 2011
— still, one of my favorite games about games #
— related: David Carr’s interview with Louie on his web experiment #
— fascinating to see how different industries have been affected, from board games to comics #
December 19, 2011
— love the comment from Amazon’s Jeff Barr #
December 16, 2011
— his final essay reconsidered “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” via twitter.com #
— Giles Turnbull takes @replies, RTs, and favs offline #
December 13, 2011
— $200k in profit in the first three days, $500k sales so far #
— loving his series for Boing Boing #
— new project by Aaron Koblin #
— Googlers should know how to use a proxy by now #
— some of the year’s best long-form journalism #
— I’m guessing pilots won’t be forced to turn them off during take-off and landing #
December 12, 2011
— I don’t particularly trust Megaupload, but this is clearly an abuse of the DMCA #
— safe for work, estimates what percentage of Google Images results for a phrase are NSFW via r/geek #
— Street View as a first-person shooter via Kottke #
— $5 DRM-free, money goes directly to him; he did a great IAmA #
December 11, 2011
— he argues that they’ll never be profitable, as a result #
— Tumblelog tracking visions of technology’s future #
December 10, 2011
— search public BitTorrent downloads by IP address; TorrentFreak interviewed the creators #
December 9, 2011
— Disney employees vent with memes #
— very cool Kickstarter project for building wireless sensors connected to web services #
— they buried the lede here; Megaupload built a tool for their users to bypass DNS blacklists #
— highly recommended book about consuming information healthier; go buy it #
— worth it just to see Gameview’s CEO squirm #
— reading her tweets in real-time was devastating and took tremendous bravery #
— they were accepted into Sundance, one of 14 films funded on Kickstarter to do so; Kevin responds #
— “Everyone knew their lines.” #
— Facebook, Google+ and YouTube remade 1997-style, best viewed with Netscape 4.03 #
— excellent case study of how SOPA would be abused #
December 8, 2011
— sickening treatment at the hands of the LAPD; there’s absolutely no excuse for this #
— collaborative storytelling platform from Jonathan Harris #
— available now in new iPhone and Android apps, rolling out to web soon #
December 6, 2011
— if you love a service, demand that they find a business model or clone them yourself #
December 4, 2011
— he sabotaged the Nazi’s IBM punchcard census, saving countless lives in the process #
— they concluded it leads to more sales for music, movies, games, and concert tickets via Boing Boing #
December 1, 2011
— solid Pandora-ish radio for Spotify, powered by the Echonest #
— my new project at Expert Labs, a dashboard tracking 125 federal agencies on Twitter #
November 30, 2011
— my big take-away: don’t sell #
— who needs SOPA? truly horrible ruling #
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