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March 10, 2011
— yay, crazy excited to work with Clay; also: I made a video intro to ThinkUp #
March 9, 2011
— if you’re not in Austin, you’re going to need this #
— Yipit, an aggregator of 335 daily deals sites, spawned 20 copycats itself #
— I’ve been playing with it for a while, and it’s great for surfacing interesting stuff #
— analyzing 45 million Facebook reactions to 100k+ articles from 45 news sites #
— “time vortexes are funny things”; the whole thing needs to go to print via twitter.com #
— surprisingly listenable via r/reddit.com #
— nice trend piece interviews the people behind Babycastles, Area/Code, and Osmos #
— used the essential Windows app in the mid ’90s? make it right by paying for it now #
— hey, that guy in the second screenshot looks familiar #
— an animated tale of high latency via r/gaming #
March 8, 2011
— Maciej’s entertaining postmortem of the mini-exodus from Delicious to Pinboard via Nelson Minar #
— not going to SXSW? you’re going to need this via twitter.com #
— experimental game played in the browser’s location bar via twitter.com #
— now with recommendations, an overhauled leaderboard, and new ways to explore #
— block all references to you-know-who #
— for Webkit browsers only; before and after via Hacker News #
— some of the examples are jaw-dropping #
— massive data dump from Echonest and Musicbrainz; this is begging for some large-scale infoviz #
— free book collects thought-provoking writing about interactive fiction via MetaFilter #
March 7, 2011
— last two links about him ever, honest: NYT gets meta and, importantly, his history of violence against women #
— ambient music meets LAPD police scanner via MetaFilter #
— Gamasutra has a post-GDC writeup of his Shenmue postmortem; also: the Another World, Marble Madness, Cave Story and Maniac Mansion postmortems #
— reminds me of SixthSense’s feature to snap photos by making a frame with your fingers via Hackaday #
— starts at the 9:20 mark #
— expertly done student project via devour.com #
— Captcha-like games help digitize Finland’s National Library archives as you play #
— “This is literally years of work you’re seeing. And hours and hours of work each day.” #
— hand-drawn by students from W.E.B. Du Bois’ sociology class, they look like modern infographics via informationisbeautiful.net #
— iPhone app by Benrik creates serendipitous encounters with strangers #
March 6, 2011
— with a sneak peek into what the computer thinks you’ll do next #
— the dad did the same thing last year; it’s like the Internet’s version of the Up series #
— related: the work of Theo Jansen #
— a quick dip into Jason’s psyche in six personal anecdotes #
March 4, 2011
— 7TB saved so far, they need geeks with bandwidth/storage and cash for hard drives ASAP #
— also: self-driving cars; this week, the future is in Long Beach #
March 3, 2011
— “I can’t go anywhere in public where there might be old people, like Hallmark stores or cemeteries.” #
— related: the controversy over making gender a text field in Diaspora #
— there should be a law forbidding sequels to universally-loved 30-year-old films #
— build a full feed for sites that only provide excerpts via Pinboard #
— is the chicken a particle or a wave? via r/Minecraft #
— achingly personal story of the breakup of a Black Keys’ marriage via twitter.com #
March 2, 2011
— surprisingly entertaining, window colors were retained from Windows 2.0 to Windows 2000 #
— no amount of money can make this right via Kottke #
— thinner than an iPhone 4, 9x faster, two cameras, cover, same battery life, same price #
— then the evil eggplant opened an ice cream store inside of the giant egg… #
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