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April 18, 2011
— Archive.org donated 100TB for storage; join the Archive Team effort here #
— like Tenori-on meets Conway’s Game of Life #
April 15, 2011
— 796,025 ghosts eaten so far; naturally, they added “Report Maze” for flagging obscene boards via Kottke #
April 14, 2011
April 13, 2011
— including a long interview with Noah Glass, Twitter’s lost cofounder via twitter.com #
— analyzing 49 infographics; related: Phil Gyford, Dave Fields’, and Buzzfeed’s pseudo-meta-infographics #
— finally, a bubble sort you can dance to via MetaFilter #
April 12, 2011
— great talk from CodeConf #
— I hope “CRAPR” catches on #
— amusing Markov-generated tweets from your own Twitter history #
April 11, 2011
— lessons learned by the creator of Newspaper Blackout via Kottke #
— a Tumblr of fake GUIs in film #
— 33 minute video of every displayable Unicode character, one per frame #
April 7, 2011
— finally, a music documentary focused on accuracy; the insanely-cast short’s written/directed by MCA #
— “Which shape wants to hurt you?” #
April 5, 2011
— Joshua Benton tracks the number of shared stories on Twitter #
April 4, 2011
— from Christine Love, creator of the brilliant Digital: A Love Story via Indie Games+ #
April 1, 2011
— amazing performance; the original “Funky Drummer” is taking an innovative approach to sampling #
— inspired song choices, especially for Cathy #
— a machine-vision algo splits each comic into layers #
— a worthy April 1 contender, the slow-loading images are a nice touch #
March 31, 2011
— Sunlight Foundation gives some ways to help #
— rolling up 8-bit classics #
— like Firesheep and Please Rob Me, making stalking user-friendly only makes the world worse #
March 30, 2011
— relentless multiplayer Tetris game, made with JS and Tornado #
— piloted by two computers, tracked by overhead motion capture via twitter.com #
— Mad Men titles redone with jQuery/CSS3 #
March 29, 2011
— destroy famous artwork with a rocket launcher #
— “risk of harm is a function of both dose and dose rate” #
— how they moved from client work to projects like Field Notes, Jewelboxing, and The Deck #
— removing the fourth panel reveals the despair in the Peanuts universe #
— a headline I never expected to see #
March 28, 2011
— apparently, some mods at Hacker News have no sense of humor #
— from the creator of QWOP #
— don’t miss Stewart Brand’s 2001 interview with him for Wired via twitter.com #
March 26, 2011
— one of the nastiest websites ever goes under #
— agree with everything in here; related, Gruber’s similar conclusions #
March 25, 2011
— handy collection of web services, bundled as a self-contained VM or Amazon AMI #
— narrated by William Shatner; project this on the walls at your next geek event #
— rollback Facebook/Twitter activity after a night of oversharing via Laughing Squid #
— he made the lo-fi “Mad World” remix by tweaking a MIDI file in Reason #
March 24, 2011
— “Friday” interpreted by a bad lip reader via johnbiggs.posterous.com #
— Hipopotam’s playable simulations of classic handheld electronic games #
March 23, 2011
— if you have an iPad, you really, really want to buy this immediately; here’s a review #
— incredibly passionate talk, every game he mentioned is worth seeking out #
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