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March 7, 2011
— 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… #
March 1, 2011
— your source for placeholder images of kittens #
— “sorry.? I like farts a lot. I’m from the fart generation.” via b3ta #
— I’m putting on Worst Website Ever again this year with an amazing lineup #
February 28, 2011
— he has tiger blood running through his veins via twitter.com #
— love the hand-wringing in the comments #
— also, how indie successes are shifting the culture of openness #
— experimental gameplay navigating a 3D world turned 2D #
— an amazing community working on an amazing project #
— first Kickstarter project officially endorsed by RoboCop #
February 25, 2011
— recursive game by Passage/Sleep Is Death creator Jason Rohrer #
— mining popular services, language parsing, and dataviz in one handy bundle via Pinboard #
— “the copycats may be cheaper but they barely even sound like real turtles” #
February 20, 2011
February 17, 2011
— a young German DJ hacked hundreds of accounts before getting caught; you can still hear the shoutouts here via twitter.com #
— when in doubt, respond with “What is Australia?” #
February 16, 2011
— first time I’d ever heard of an arcade game with live animals #
— like viewing the web on an Apple II #
February 15, 2011
— “stammer time!” via b3ta #
— also: step-by-step details on how Anonymous hacked HBGary #
— distilling years of work into 17 syllables #
— the goal was to write a bot that would convince 500 unsuspecting Twitter users to follow it via twitter.com #
— a look at different strategies used by chatbots and confederates to appear human #
— watch day 1 and day 2; here’s a statistical breakdown of the first match #
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