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October 9, 2010
— fascinating audio demonstrates what it’s like to be blind and spotting constellations #
— mashing up Alice in Wonderland and the Tao Te Ching with Markov chaining via twitter.com #
— 1,000 miles autonomously, 140,000 miles with occasional human control #
October 8, 2010
— ask turkers to change paragraphs to past tense or fix your grammar #
— they weren’t monitoring and hit RAM limits, and Mongo’s hard to recover from failures #
— free CAD software, short-run 3D printing and injection-moulding, and Kickstarter to fund it all #
— upcoming game about being stood up for a date via Indie Games+ #
October 7, 2010
— with classic arcade games and custom-minted tokens #
— love the bass tablature at the 1:40 mark and Guitar Hero at 2:30 via Laughing Squid #
— the article seems to be gone from Digg #
— a new visualization from the creator of code_swarm via infosthetics.com #
— another fun Adam Mathes project #
October 6, 2010
— very similar to Gondry’s Kylie Minogue and Chemical Brothers videos #
— and they’re now saying domains under 4 characters are for Libyans only #
— Chrome/Safari extensions add simple game mechanics to Gmail via smarterware.org #
October 5, 2010
— the opposite of bubbling? #
— “Bwana Beast did not die in vain.” #
— stream of ten-second videos uploaded by users, by Ryan Trecartin and David Karp via twitter.com #
— touching article about a 48-year-old dishwasher’s life #
— GE and Seed Media’s new infoviz site, including a db of data sources #
— unintended effects triggered by a Kansas firm’s automated $4.1 billion sale #
— day two is over here via GameSetWatch #
October 4, 2010
— new monsters, craft a watch and jack-o-lanterns, catch fish, biomes, and more #
October 3, 2010
— Jason Scott drops some computer history knowledge at Defcon #
— exceptional remix mashes up classic Disney cartoons with Glenn Beck audio into a coherent narrative #
October 2, 2010
— experimental music sequencer in a Petri dish via twitter.com #
— learning from a startup failure #
September 30, 2010
— Adam Kempa needs help decrypting encoded audio on vinyl #
September 28, 2010
— lovely pixel art sculpture, coming soon to Etsy #
— framegrabs from Hackers, just in time for the 15th anniversary party #
— don’t miss the linked Tommy O’Riley cover #
— one-hour documentary featuring the all-stars of information visualization #
— reminds me of Nose Pilot via twitter.com #
September 27, 2010
— impressive mashup seamlessly splices new verses out of 16 pop songs via buzzfeed.com #
— on a long article, Hacker News and Boing Boing readers stick around, Reddit users bail quickly #
— terms that won’t work on Google Instant via Justin Mason #
— lonelysandwich has some new competition #
— he’s working with Tim Schafer on a secret new game #
— chocolate and peanut butter #
— better than most, they’re offering six months’ notice with WordPress migration and URL redirects #
— wonderful DIY Twitter/Facebook archiving, visualization, and analysis tool #
September 26, 2010
— Tom Armitage turns a funny tweet into a Twitter bot #
— applying photographic effects to paintings via MetaFilter #
September 25, 2010
— supports a print queue, clearing the build surface between prints; $1,225, cheap! #
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