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June 8, 2011
— 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 #
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” #
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