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June 17, 2011
— playful HTML5 app to convert images to Commodore 64 art #
June 15, 2011
— someone make a game using the 1995 web next, kthxbye #
— Joseph Cornell’s 1936 montage of every Rose Hobart scene from East of Borneo via twitter.com #
— in other McSweeney’s news, they redesigned #
— Sunlight Labs project displays the 24,000 released emails in a Gmail-like view #
— Sebastian Deterding’s brilliant presentation on the present and future of gameful design #
— extending Google Goggles to the web, and the end of TinEye #
— browser add-on gives new keyboard navigation options to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox via Hacker News #
June 14, 2011
— supports save states and local ROMs, or load these as URLs; code’s on Github #
— pretty solid report card #
— a Google Street View explorer by James Bridle #
— one per frame, from the creator of the Unicode video #
— make ASCII art diagrams via O'Reilly Radar #
— no Javascript at all; Chrome and Safari only via O'Reilly Radar #
June 13, 2011
— the script was collaboratively written by fans of The Show #
— “information carries weight” #
— over the weekend, Twitter removed one of its first Twitter bots and removed its three-year archive #
— some amazing sleuthing that played out on Twitter #
June 12, 2011
— his new On the Network tumblelog documents historical examples #
June 9, 2011
— the keyboard works, here’s a solid cover of Here Comes the Sun #
June 8, 2011
— huge automatic mechanical computer that uses billiard balls instead of marbles #
— Archive Team project scraping and dumping uncooperative URL shorteners via twitter.com #
— interactive tool to measure actor/director careers using Rotten Tomatoes ratings via Kottke #
— browser add-on that checks for political contributions from Gmail senders #
June 7, 2011
— intense speech about faith, technology and activism, from the creator of NationBuilder, GovLuv, and Act.ly #
June 6, 2011
— courtesy of Wonder-Tonic #
— 67% of people with accounts at both Gawker and Sony reused their passwords via Nelson Minar #
— the whole thing’s worth watching, or read Gizmodo’s coverage of the major announcements #
— Usenet archive updated in real-time as it looked 30 years ago via twitter.com #
June 5, 2011
June 4, 2011
— parallels to the standard, miserable approach for teaching math #
— animated by Cyriak, Aaron Koblin nails it as “Minecraft meets Powers of Ten” via twitter.com #
June 3, 2011
— first mentioned by Judge John Hodgman at the two-minute mark here, now unearthed and ported to the web via Maximum Fun #
June 2, 2011
— way, way deeper than I originally thought; 25,000 virtual hosts to connect/hack/explore, with ghost users from the past via twitter.com #
— drag-and-drop 2D Flash gamemaker for PC and Mac #
June 1, 2011
— view it through a proxy; Bitcoins aren’t anonymous, so they’re laundering them via Nelson Minar #
— live-action, fan-made Portal epilogue via MetaFilter #
— Anna Anthropy’s safe-for-work analysis of Animal Crossing fan-made porn #
— every Chewbacca scene in A New Hope; also: Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi #
May 31, 2011
— clever Flash work; most interesting if you’re active on Facebook #
— what hath Lodwick wrought? #
— the site was slammed last week; side-by-side video from Super Mario World and other comparisons via rhizome.org #
— lightbulb over your head that lights on brainwave activity #
— playful video discovery from the Internet’s Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh #
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