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October 6, 2011
— 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 #
September 24, 2011
— for additional obfuscation, when someone asks for the time, show them this #
September 23, 2011
— Kunal Anand’s Processing visualization of Twitter users as single-celled creatures #
— today’s the last day to agree to the new TOS, or all your bookmarks will be deleted! #
— pixel-ish animal paintings via MetaFilter #
September 22, 2011
— this is the only TV show I watch regularly; if you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out via MetaFilter #
— pieced together from 18 million seconds of random YouTube clips, this is epic jetpack science via urbanhonking.com #
— make your own psychedelic YouTube mashups with WebGL luma key compositing via Laughing Squid #
September 21, 2011
— shooting with a camera instead of a gun #
— I regret not going this year, but won’t miss it next year #
September 19, 2011
— I could totally imagine this used in video chat for anonymity via twitter.com #
— incredible Gameboy-style demake of Super Smash Brothers #
— Foldit software leads to breakthroughs; the full paper via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— epic nine-year thread of learning to paint by making and posting something new every day; before and after via twitter.com #
— YouTube commenters choose the songs they want played when they die via twitter.com #
September 16, 2011
— Pulitzer-winning NYT writer enrolls his three American kids in a Russian school; don’t miss the video via Kottke #
September 15, 2011
— if you want a better place in line, start playing before MOMA opens at 10:30am EST via Indie Games+ #
— devastatingly sad story of mining Gmail for memories #
September 13, 2011
— like a minimalist Yahoo Pipes for mortals; check out all the popular recipes #
— two hours after launch, it was pulled for violating multiple App Store guidelines #
— ranking the 499 entries from the 48-hour game competition #
September 12, 2011
— “It’s 9/11 and people are seeing ghosts”; here’s the AP version #
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