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October 18, 2011
— audience tries to solve puzzles with real actors in a scene; related: Action Castle via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— see also: their analysis of how trending topics work, using OWS as an example via twitter.com #
— “Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone.” via twitter.com #
— takes an argument and synthesizes 30 seconds of audio in only 138 bytes via twitter.com #
— “Google and Facebook would have you believe that you’re a mirror … but we’re more like diamonds.” via ReadWriteWeb #
October 17, 2011
— neat visualization built on the community-powered Whitburn project #
— 467 people don’t understand regular expressions #
October 12, 2011
— related: charts explain why they have reason to be angry #
October 11, 2011
— grading the nonsense written on mostly safe-for-work classroom scenery #
— the same power struggle fueling the Occupy protests #
— pitch perfect parody, I’m not sure most listeners would notice until the 4-minute mark #
— must-read piece on interactive infovis, with a playful header #
— “I cannot think of a worse fate: hearing something worse than John Mayer when you have to click on a link that says John Mayer.” #
— emotional, thoughtful look at the failure of PMOG and The Nethernet, his browser-based MMO #
— Ben Brown and Katie Spence’s awesome new pixel editor with built-in sharing #
— a year old, but new to me via r/videos #
— at a current rate of $100M pledged per year; by comparison, the NEA’s budget is $154M #
October 10, 2011
— “the waves of grain on the stolen land, theft is as American as a Cola can” #
October 9, 2011
— instant dubstep remixes, just add Echo Nest #
October 8, 2011
— see also: ToneCraft, by the same creator #
October 7, 2011
— if you’re of South Asian descent, please get swabbed; Seth Godin’s giving $10k to whoever donates #
October 6, 2011
— I also liked this simple musical tribute #
— the volunteer-run open-source project is the definitive source for global tz info #
— amazingly, I’d never heard this version #
— on the former Gizmodo editor’s contentious and regretful relationship with Steve Jobs #
October 5, 2011
— here’s to the crazy ones #
— clever hyperlinked interactive fiction built with the Undum framework #
October 4, 2011
— a biting satire of Facebook games became frustratingly popular for its creator #
— browser add-on auto-blocks sketchy ad trackers, web bugs, and other includes #
— inspired use of custom textures and pistons in part two; see the rest of his recreations #
October 3, 2011
— laser-cutting records and taping pieces together to create new music #
— almost all of them playable online #
September 30, 2011
— the active fanfic community on Delicious abandoned it for Pinboard in the wake of the relaunch #
— “a crapload of irrelevant data put together in a big vertical image” via FlowingData #
September 29, 2011
September 28, 2011
— an Everything Is Terrible supercut #
September 27, 2011
— don’t miss his followup #
— amused at how furious people are in the comments via twitter.com #
— some new stuff and tons still broken or missing, so I’m reserving judgment for now #
— adorable MMO from the creators of Flickr, Game Neverending, and Katamari Damacy #
— love the syringe-driven keyboard and liquid display, works without electricity via plus.google.com #
September 26, 2011
— correction: he was never trying to do Star Wars moves; that was an assumption by people who first spread the video #
— spatial Geocities visualization with MIDI pulled from neighboring pages, built with Archive Team’s backup via twitter.com #
September 25, 2011
— trivia: a Twin Peaks game for the NES was planned but never released #
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