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November 7, 2010
— eight-part series on JS emulation #
— in short, even homemade burgers will dry out and retain its appearance #
— clever mashup, performed live with no cuts via Cal Henderson #
— the biggest, oldest, most seeded, most files, and most data transferred via Hacker News #
November 6, 2010
— a geeky, anti-snark hit cartoon show that breaks cliches #
— great presentation on social network design by Paul Adams, a senior UX researcher at Google #
— yet another reason to love Neil #
— inspired by Pogo and Jack Conte’s VideoSongs #
— my favorite since Alice, and his first Disney mix since his year-long contract ended #
November 5, 2010
— with help from Ira Glass in a motion capture bodysuit via Laughing Squid #
— it’s become a vital visualization tool #
November 1, 2010
— Arduino typewriter that plays interactive fiction games via Laughing Squid #
— a SQL-like interface for Twitter #
— Paul Lamere didn’t intend to make history #
— teleport to a random Street View location #
— power searching with slashtag filters #
October 31, 2010
— at 641 gigs, officially the largest torrent on The Pirate Bay #
— USB drives cemented into NYC walls for anonymous, public filesharing #
October 25, 2010
— the ethics of making it easy for non-techies to spoof Twitter/Facebook/etc accounts is being hotly debated #
October 23, 2010
— hard to beat the Google one, but plenty of great mechanical mishaps in the comments #
October 22, 2010
— one of Pixeljam’s best; I recommend taking the fiery door #
October 21, 2010
— tool to browse, track, and facilitate FOIA requests #
— with some preliminary data on the size of each #
— check out the sales boost after being bootlegged #
— quite possibly the most insane construction project I’ve seen so far #
— great talk covers the challenges facing both music startups and a dying music industry #
October 20, 2010
October 19, 2010
— unfortunately, the infoviz platform had less than 10 paying customers #
October 18, 2010
— related: Olly Moss shares his process behind a poster design #
— not surprisingly, his site’s still inaccessible #
— interview with the creator on how it was made via r/reddit.com #
October 15, 2010
— the potential applications for this are huge #
— in hindsight, this is unfair; I wish every SEO would quit their job and start making original content #
— hand-crafted by 1,600 Chinese artisans over two years #
October 14, 2010
— German researchers demo real-time object removal from live video #
— incredible video demo from this year’s SIGGRAPH Asia via twitter.com #
— gripping read, but Metafilter users are calling this one a troll; lots of questionable details via MetaFilter #
— don’t miss the elaborate setup at 17:05 #
— reminds me of Minecraft multiplayer meets MS Paint #
October 13, 2010
— his first live performance, with Michael Gregory on backup #
October 12, 2010
— when the game starts, the character’s running over 20 miles per hour in game scale #
— all the scenes will be on the Blu-Ray rerelease of the trilogy #
— debunking stereotypes about both orientations, and confirming some others #
October 11, 2010
— sped up 8x, it’s a half-hour minecart trip in real-time #
— HTML5 Line Rider with community-created levels #
— Basil Safwat ports a Processing script to cardboard, pen, and paper #
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