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January 4, 2011
— the first of his World Remix project #
January 3, 2011
— as always, a depressing read #
— via Fred Wilson, who has a good eye for this kind of thing via avc.com #
— the community wrote 86 million words last year, over 400 Moby Dicks via twitter.com #
January 2, 2011
— I love his work and this project sounds brilliant #
December 31, 2010
— a brief look back at the 2000s #
— even Shirky’s “half-formed” thoughts are essential reading #
December 30, 2010
— the game engine’s free under MIT license, art and sound copyrighted #
— the BSOD is a nice touch via twitter.com #
December 29, 2010
December 28, 2010
— featuring Neil Gaiman as David Bowie With A Mullet #
— made with Impromptu, a Scheme-based language for live coding performances; more examples via creativeapplications.net #
— not exactly scientific, but still a fun read via MetaFilter #
December 27, 2010
— devastating critique of Yahoo from a digital archivist’s perspective via Paul Bausch #
— for fans of funny, wordy autobiographical comics, a la Hyperbole and a Half #
December 23, 2010
— great list with some obscure picks #
— don’t miss the long comment by Yoz about the remarkable secret role-playing community, still alive after 13 years via MetaFilter #
— how Zoz recovered his stolen Mac, across the country two years later via buzzfeed.com #
December 22, 2010
— long, brilliant via Boing Boing #
— stunning open standards demo with real-time Twitter/Flickr integration to show off beta 8, released today; video explanation #
December 21, 2010
— Noah Kalina and Adam Lisagor, locked in battle via Laughing Squid #
— don’t miss the scanned interview with his brother #
— his Nintendo sound file player is now available on the App Store #
— awesome app for tracking lost or stolen Macs, free until January #
— I haven’t been a fan of his grumpy essays lately, but this was a thoughtful counterpoint #
— a supercut of laughter in the movies via Ze Frank #
December 17, 2010
— painful to read; short version: if you taunt 4chan, prepare for the worst #
— you’d think Amazon would use MTurk to identify and remove spammy tasks via apps.ycombinator.com #
— they also released all the aggregate data for you to play with #
— don’t miss the jaw-dropping demo, text recognition and in-place replacement in real-time #
December 16, 2010
— I’ll write more about this soon, I think #
— great update to an already great app #
— “kottke.org used Blogospheric Pressure! boingboing.net took 3 damage” #
— added to the supercuts list #
December 15, 2010
— seven months in solitary via Daring Fireball #
— I’m red/green colorblind, and it works shockingly well #
— inspired by my link, topherchris annexed the name and made a best-of-Tumblr tumblelog #
— the DHS ordered Verisign to switch nameservers, which makes all .com domains vulnerable; related: F.A.T.’s Seizure Solidarity #
December 14, 2010