July 6, 2011
Google may retire Blogger, Picasa names in rebranding
— in other news, Ev, Biz, and Jason relaunched Obvious Corp. #
Cinemagraphs of Dogfish Head's strawberry beer-making process
— craft beer and animated GIFs go well together (via) #
Chuck Klosterman interviews Al Yankovic
— insightful interview that veers wildly from the typical novelty angle #
GOOD on the shame of your first online handle
— my own history: finkployd, flypdoink, doink, waxpancake #
Myspace, originally bought for $580M, to be sold for $35M
— in other news, Friendster relaunched as a "social gaming platform" #
Google's Data Liberation Front launches Takeout
— get your Google data back out in one central place #
Google announces Google+, their next big social effort
— watch the demo; Steven Levy has the inside story #
Transformerer, shooting 32 Lou Reed sidewalk stencils with Everyday
— from Objective Scenes, a new photoblog on mobile phone photography #
Supreme Court rules videogames protected under First Amendment
— striking down California's law prohibiting violent game sales to minors (via) #
Darryl Cunningham takes on evolution skepticism
— continuing his comic series on controversial subjects #
Gene Yang and Thien Pham's Legends of the Joystick
— classic game characters get the "where are they now" treatment in ten comics (via) #
LulzSec calls it quits
— one last dump ends their 50-day reign; I suspect a spiritual successor isn't far behind #
Errol Morris' investigation into his brother's role in the invention of email
— and the birth of social computing, in the process (via) #
1982 NYT article on a NSF study on how society will be transformed by computer networks
— spot-on predictions about the transformations, as Gina points out; they only got the tech wrong #
Marco Arment on the FBI's incidental seizure of an Instapaper server
— how is this even legal? (via) #
Rave On Buddy Holly
— brilliant cover album with Florence & The Machine, Fiona Apple, Cee-Lo, Black Keys, and more (via) #
Knight News Challenge announces 16 grant winners
— some awesome projects including ScraperWiki, SwiftRiver, and Awesome Foundation #
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas comes out as an undocumented immigrant
— one of the most compelling case studies for immigration reform ever #
Indie Game: The Movie releases official trailer
— Jim Guthrie from Sword & Sworcery's doing the music; if you're as excited as I am, preorder it now on Kickstarter #
Everything Is A Remix Part 3
— continuing Kirby Ferguson's brilliant four-part series on copyright and remix culture #
Miss USA contestants on teaching evolution
— warning: watching this will make you dumber; related: teach the controversy! (via) #