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May 10, 2011
— my personal favorite, courtesy of the FBI #
May 9, 2011
— love the John McClane one #
— “Counter-Terrorists Win.” via Alice Taylor #
— make your own using Sparkblocks #
— I wonder if this is why so few people seem to care about preserving their digital past #
— Keith Urbahn’s original tweet had 300 replies/retweets in the first three minutes via geekosystem.com #
— great list; I’ve used 11 of these and they changed the way I work via Pinboard #
May 6, 2011
— UK charity making complete PCs the size of a USB thumbdrive for $25 each via O'Reilly Radar #
May 5, 2011
— one procedural poem a day via twitter.com #
May 4, 2011
— clever one-button game, playing as a spike trap in love #
— he died yesterday of cancer, way too young #
— NYT commenters were asked to mark sentiment on a grid via FlowingData #
— both spread quickly after bin Laden’s death, with interesting origins #
May 3, 2011
— a 12 GB dump of 490,000 rescued files via twitter.com #
— anonymous riffing on one photo per day using Google Images searches #
May 2, 2011
May 1, 2011
— maybe Beatles 3000 isn’t too far-fetched #
April 30, 2011
— an experiment with anonymous, communal Twitter accounts anyone can post to via @cshirky #
— parsed phrases from a subtitle file, then strung them together with Popcorn.js #
— MIT can’t sell the shares or participate in management, but will receive dividends #
April 28, 2011
— nearly 600k people pledged over $53M so far, 85% goes to successful projects #
April 27, 2011
— good news is they’re keeping it alive; bad news is they’re deleting all data from people who don’t migrate #
April 26, 2011
— loving the new album, stream it here #
— that explains the week-long downtime; passwords, billing info, and probably credit cards were taken via Make #
— or use Cave to hide all their activity, a technique I used on Upcoming to great effect #
— at its peak, they were saving 5 TB/day before Google backed down; a generalized LOIC for archiving would be huge #
— Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and OK Go’s Damian Kulash produced eight songs in eight hours #
— one month’s notice for a site most people haven’t visited in years via twitter.com #
April 25, 2011
— the entire Eisner-nominated short story comic #
— an animated GIF mashup by Evan Roth via Laughing Squid #
— Merlin Mann on the difficult balance between work and family via twitter.com #
— a tale of two pricing algorithms gone awry #
— a huge success for protecting user-contributed data; huge kudos to Archive Team for organizing a response via twitter.com #
— eloquent take on differing community norms and where Adams went wrong #
April 23, 2011
— more spare animated GIF work, reminiscent of IWDRM via Matt Haughey #
April 20, 2011
— including a critical piece missing from Business Insider: Odeo investors were offered Twitter stock #
— quickly share localhost over the web; related: localtunnel, a geekier free alternative #
— update: Gaga’s manager takes the blame, and she loves the song #
— your minute-by-minute movements are recorded and synced to your PC, but it makes pretty charts! #
April 19, 2011
— crazy hack uses Bit.ly as a document store for larger texts #
— by Everynone, who previously made Words and RE:Words #
— fun correlations, including Twitter/masturbation, vegetarians/oral sex, and wealth/sex drive #
April 18, 2011
— try to beat my high score of 73 hours and 46 minutes #
— slash and burn, with two weeks’ notice; why was migrating to YouTube not an option? #
— a Coudal mini-doc about the collectors behind very niche online museums #
— 2100’s going to be a rough year, but at least we’ll be clean-shaven #
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