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January 22, 2011
— a 30-minute short film about IBM by Errol Morris with music by Philip Glass via Daring Fireball #
January 21, 2011
— this sounds like a reality show waiting to happen via smarterware.org #
— revenge of the Digiscent iSmell; finally, we’ll be able to smell 4chan via Slashdot #
January 20, 2011
— only four of last year’s top 50 are streaming on Netflix, but 25 films for rental on iTunes #
— meta-horoscope derived from 22,000 scraped horoscopes #
— all the tools used for two guys to take a physical product from idea to mass market in five months #
— Ian Bogost takes his parody of Facebook Games to the next logical level #
January 19, 2011
— mashing up Girl Talk with Girl Talk via MetaFilter #
— a five-minute interactive story; type the capitalized words to play via Indie Games+ #
January 18, 2011
— I interviewed Alan the month it launched; it now gets 8M pageviews monthly #
January 17, 2011
— playable ode to 8-bit and EGA-era gaming #
— get nostalgic with the 2001 press release; I love the Kurt Andersen quote via MetaFilter #
— using free tools to get structured data out of messy HTML, PDFs and Flash via FlowingData #
— he hid the transition glitches by incorporating them into every track via Tom Armitage #
— the full videos go deeper, with several more games #
January 15, 2011
— note blocks are new in beta 1.2 via Nelson Minar #
January 14, 2011
— it has its faults, but it’s still a collective wonder #
— self-managing communities are difficult to design; I hope they pull it off #
— setting the wheel friction to a negative number wreaks havoc with physics via b3ta #
— first-person account of manning a Wyoming nuclear missile silo via MetaFilter #
January 13, 2011
— with Watson’s answer certainty displayed in real-time #
— reminds me of Phillip Toledano’s portraits of gamers and phone sex workers #
— all 114 of them; added to the list via twitter.com #
January 12, 2011
— the Babel fish is near #
— an amazing community, the comment nominees are brilliant #
— everything is amazing #
— or: how technology can make even 22-year-olds feel old #
January 11, 2011
— interactive graphic tracks the lifecycle of popular tech adjusted for inflation via FlowingData #
— kind of baffling, considering Flash is built into their browser #
— as Wired said, “Twitter beta-tested a spine” via twitter.com #
January 10, 2011
— old, but new to me; brilliantly edited, winner of the Vimeo Awards Experimental category via MetaFilter #
— promo video made by a fan frustrated with the agency’s communication skills via thedailywh.at #
— kinetic typography of a dramatic reading of a dumb review of a silly game #
— more detail on the original site, which is getting hammered via notch.tumblr.com #
— stats from 2010, with the biggest projects, most prolific creators and backers, and more #
— another Rube Goldberg machine from the geeks at Syyn Labs #
January 7, 2011
— “Always. Be. Choking.” #
— aka hypnotic high-speed footage of stuff dropping on squishy stuff #
— at 2:35, playing with the “old CDs,” a DJ is born #
January 6, 2011
— Paul Ford on the Web as a customer service medium #
January 5, 2011
— Matt Haughey and Metafilter eulogize a talented, but troubled, programmer #
January 4, 2011
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