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May 27, 2011
— trivia: this episode was written by Keyboard Cat’s own Brad O’Farrell #
— mapping every impact death creates a ghostly landscape #
— Facebook users who think stories from The Onion are real #
May 26, 2011
— Chinese officials denied the report, saying they disallow contact with the outside world #
— paper silhouettes of pop culture icons via John Martz #
— if devices passively broadcast song metadata, someone could actually build this #
— brilliant app shows your shared Twitter/Facebook friends from the people around you #
— chat rooms where anyone can drag MP3s into a shared, streaming playlist #
May 25, 2011
— the median life of a thread is under 4 minutes; read the whole paper #
— building on Flu Trends, upload your own time series and find correlations with search patterns #
May 24, 2011
— they’re deleting 16 years of messages on June 10, with nothing indexed by Archive.org #
— collaborative image collages via rhizome.org #
— web-based tool for cleaning up messy data, similar to Google Refine #
— game developer takes his five-year-old daughter to Toronto Game Jam, sheer joy ensues #
— 14 years after it was first announced in April 1997 #
May 23, 2011
— the art world really seems to be embracing net.art #
— music video steeped in gaming history via knowyourmeme.com #
— great commentary on NPR’s Planet Money podcast about whether his success is reproducible #
— how to be an ass with Javascript #
May 19, 2011
— an album made entirely from from Steely Dan’s discography; the timeline shows every sample #
— less than four years after the Kindle launched via Daring Fireball #
— excellent and silly interview about his Lucasarts, Psychonauts, and Double Fine’s new experimentation #
— I stumbled on Sayeg’s knitting team wrapping the Etsy ducts last month #
— “your technical redress remains unsatisfactory” #
May 18, 2011
— Nick Bilton and Mat Honan respond, with two very different approaches #
— sleep on them to learn by osmosis via FlowingData #
— fascinating reboot of the Terminal using WebKit and node.js via twitter.com #
May 17, 2011
— streaming’s easier than piracy #
— Fabrice Bellard’s stunning hack lets your browser run Linux #
— take that, Ebert! via MetaFilter #
— part of his brilliant Kill Math project; his ability to communicate math with design is amazing #
— quality type on a pay-what-you-like model #
— sound advice for anyone just getting started in their field; listen to it here #
— impressive mashup viz using HTML5 and CSS3 #
— with the generous help of John Carmack #
May 16, 2011
— he calls it “the most dangerous open-source project ever created”; value’s doubled in the last month, here’s a good primer #
— projecting a near-future where lawsuit bots are commonplace #
May 14, 2011
May 12, 2011
— dead simple videoconferencing for up to four people #
— very promising start to a new blog by Frank Chimero #
— while it loads, watch the short film about the project and the gallery of user creations #
May 11, 2011
— the most impressive HTML5 game I’ve seen; Nelson has more details via Nelson Minar #
— “Zynga has created a magical place in FarmVille where my fans can come play” via MetaFilter #
— play Monkey Island in your browser #
— 3D papercraft infographics via infosthetics.com #
May 10, 2011
— so far, 23,322 IP addresses have been identified by their ISPs #
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