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June 21, 2011
— Mat Honan on Mike Arrington’s bizarre attack on Caterina Fake yesterday #
— supplemental jam for Everything is a Remix #
June 20, 2011
— continuing Kirby Ferguson’s brilliant four-part series on copyright and remix culture #
— warning: watching this will make you dumber; related: teach the controversy! via alexisohanian.com #
— clever parody of Adam Curtis’ documentary style via Tom Armitage #
— clownpenis.fart may soon be a reality #
— released after the Gaga saga and apology #
— conspiratorial, but fun, three-part BBC documentary by Adam Curtis via urbanhonking.com #
June 19, 2011
— curious to see how her publishing contract pans out; video Q&A up on her blog via twitter.com #
— one-day game openFrameworks hack built with a thermal receipt printer and PS3 controller via GameSetWatch #
— 36 covers songs on YouTube spliced into a single collage remix via twitter.com #
June 18, 2011
— you may laugh, but I’ve actually crowd-surfed at a chiptune show via twitter.com #
— the creator won’t fight the takedown order #
June 17, 2011
— in other meme news: Boxxy parodies herself and YouTube added a Nyan Cat scrubber #
— this interesting academic paper goes into much more detail #
— stealing wallets is much faster than mining via O'Reilly Radar #
— some interesting charts; related: Calacanis’ long, great interview with Yancey Strickler #
— insane art project from the digerati #
— read the whole thing; “We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it.” #
— adds MP3 playback for Firefox, who won’t support it; here’s how it works via Hacker News #
— automatically pulls random Flickr photos and republishes glitchy versions via memoryofawesomeness.com #
— love the comments; more sad stories on Hacker News #
— 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 #
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