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December 12, 2011
— 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 #
— download the preview release here; MoodAgent and SongKick are both brilliant #
November 29, 2011
— how awkward? watch his intro via r/videos #
— cleverly-written heist comedy, winner of IFComp 2011 #
— ridiculously adorable network-enabled thermal printer #
November 28, 2011
— burning objects creates virtual air pollution #
— from the surreal mind behind Please Say Something, and more via MetaFilter #
— all 226 songs synchronized so they end simultaneously; see how long you can take it #
November 27, 2011
— a video tribute to food in film #
— shot on cheap camcorders, it has the feel of 1980s home movies via MetaFilter #
November 24, 2011
— hacking Siri without jailbreak; watch the video demo #
— sheer madness, porting Notch’s pseudo-3D FPS Ludum Dare entry to redstone circuits #
November 23, 2011
— long, essential coverage of who’s against it and why #
November 22, 2011
— including 1,791 songs uploaded by the CEO himself #
— only linking to this for the comments, which slayed me #
— loading up my playlist with his Frisell and Evans collaborations in memory via MetaFilter #
— 110% unadulterated cute; odds are you’ve seen their 22M views video and Ellen appearance #
— try your hand at five of the hardest jigsaw puzzles ever #
— touching stop-motion animation story using Google Street View #
— the NYPD is refusing press passes to anyone covering Occupy, and no passes at all until January #
— posters from the #occupy movement #
— I want to try that gnarly ramen via pdx.eater.com #
— insanely comprehensive visualization of what things cost and where money goes #
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