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December 3, 2010
— don’t comb your hair, you’re not going to be in the picture #
— brilliant hack built on Last.fm and Billboard data; I got my invite within an hour of applying #
December 2, 2010
— designer Everett Hiller has fun with his holiday party photos via MetaFilter #
— apparently legal under 400 feet for non-commercial use via Matt Haughey #
— serious inside baseball; Nick Denton explains the redesign, Anil says they’re still blogs, play with it here #
December 1, 2010
— incredible fan-made kinetic typography for a Jonathan Coulton song #
— a Wikipedia deep dive #
— negative user reviews now affect results #
— time to release another data dump so I can update my stats #
November 30, 2010
— creating a .p2p TLD, with free domains administered by OpenNIC #
— an alternate world in a Hawaiian recording studio via Kottke #
— or play all five at once for a chaotic remix #
November 29, 2010
— with the first video of the XBLA version #
— great picks from Robin Sloan, Brandon Boyer, and more #
November 28, 2010
— the diabolical dreamer archetype #
November 27, 2010
— it would’ve been nice if they’d used rel=”nofollow” on links to his site; update: they removed the links #
— early live streaming experiment featuring Carl Malamud and Brewster Kahle via Boing Boing #
November 24, 2010
— “an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists” #
— they’re trying to stop a lawyer who sold self-help forms for $10 each #
November 23, 2010
— no offense, but I honestly hate to tell you this via sippey.com #
— “Alexa” referred sex workers to sleep with the man behind the blog #
— great long-form essays culled from Instapaper users #
— a better Girl Talk visualizer with three sources of sample metadata #
— added to the supercuts list via twitter.com #
November 22, 2010
— Panic’s retro Atari covers inspired an actual Atari 2600 game #
— boilerplate text removal and fulltext extraction, open source or as a free API #
— NYT crunches the results from their interactive budget puzzle #
— built with Cinder, a new framework for creative coding via twitter.com #
November 21, 2010
— Pac-Man, Spy vs. Spy, Cthulhu, Lego, and more #
— ten kinds of madness; don’t miss the faces of the giants #
— end of civilization, news at 11 #
November 19, 2010
— tools: a telephone, video footage, Google, linked DNA databases, and obsession #
November 18, 2010
— people may claim to feel safer, but it creates a culture of fear that impacts willingness to fly #
— Peter Weller sends a photo to Detroit’s newest crime fighter #
— gorgeous HTML5 book by Google and Christoph Niemann #
— another gem from Hyperbole and a Half #
November 17, 2010
— using data culled by Wikipedia users via twitter.com #
— the first programmable CPU with embedded livestock #
— or are they dilettantes? NY Mag published a great postmortem by n+1 #
— taking on Willow Smith’s unavoidable hit via twitter.com #
November 16, 2010
— I linked to Jon Rafman’s work last year, but he’s been busy #
— levitating the camera was a nice touch #
— a personal photo and appeal was far more effective than alternatives #
— awesome open-source desktop app for cleaning and filtering big datasets via FlowingData #
November 15, 2010
— a detailed Turing test including in-person observation via Delicious #
— real-time, less structured, and much more social #
— questionably licensed under Creative Commons; sample list, and mirrors at Sendspace and Mediafire #
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