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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 #
— like Sword & Sworcery on the runway; related: Anrealage’s real-life pixel fashion and store #
— Anil’s annual post commemorating 9/11; related: Neven Mrgan’s Amerikanac #
September 11, 2011
— pretty much exactly what 1995-era Hollywood thought coding would look like in 2011 via Slashdot #
— written by Jim Munroe, who wrote an Inform 7 prequel for the film (walkthrough) via jwz #
September 9, 2011
— made with paper, tape, popsicle sticks, a soda straw, and Teagueduino #
September 8, 2011
— a true visionary, he pioneered the ebook and open access to the world’s knowledge #
— new meme-compliant video remixing toy by Harmonix for iOS #
September 7, 2011
— also: skin rendering demo, both were made with three.js #
— hard to watch; p.s. now might be a good time to call your oldest living relative via r/videos #
— TLC “celebrity” chef and frozen lasagna backfires badly; nice twist in the last graf via twitter.com #
— oral history from pro photographers at ground zero #
— his followup to Offworld, my favorite blog of 2009; the rewards are insane, with unreleased games by indie gaming’s all-stars #
— rank your favorite parts of the U.S. Constitution on Facebook via wondertonic.tumblr.com #
September 6, 2011
— one of the oldest active blogs, it ran for 13 years via Kottke #
— another brilliant animation by animation student Nelson Boles #
— the popular lists are usually offensive and entertaining #
— experimental procedural text toy for iPad from my favorite IF author #
September 5, 2011
— powerful talk highlighting their incredibly important digital preservation work #
— songs bundled with warez serial code generators #
September 2, 2011
— Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut’s story shapes in with amusing results via Kottke #
— random Markov-chain generated snippets from the King James Bible via jwz #
— made for the recently-cancelled Everything on Channel 101 via twitter.com #
— as if hundreds of mashups suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced #
September 1, 2011
— the Guardian published the password in a book, but they blame Wikileaks for lax security #
August 31, 2011
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