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September 17, 2010

Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year

— they’re making $70k/day; don’t miss the creator’s essay on how piracy works #

Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30

— the flipside; directly inspired by Reddit’s campaign #
September 16, 2010

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011

— two of my favorite games ever #

Increpare's Cascode

— figure out the rules to win the game #

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster

— every performer’s depicted as a generic corporate logo #

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box

— a locked box that can only be opened in a specific location; watch the video interview via Delicious #

Alex Payne on the new Twitter

— he internally argued, unsuccessfully, for decentralization #
September 15, 2010

Diaspora releases first source code

— by the end of summer, as promised in their original project; power geeks, try it here #

SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen

— the writer is a trained chef who’s worked at Gramercy Tavern and Jean Gorges via givemesomethingtoread.com #

Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962

— from Lost World’s Fairs, experiments in type on the web via @veen #

Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs

— this year, they were featured in the main show #

Hyperbole and a Half's The Party

— related: an interview with Allie Brosh #

10k Apart contest winners announced

— impressive design in Matchuppps, with CSS3 animations, Typekit fonts, and images from the Dribbble API via @peter_nitsch #
September 14, 2010

The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter

— don’t miss the author’s explanation on how it was planned and written #

Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean

— he’s taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand #

jsTerm

— ANSI-capable HTML5 telnet terminal emulator by Peter Nitsch #

Twitter announces new design

— inline images and video from 16 partners, including Kickstarter; they released a growth chart #

Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism

— many more newsgame examples in his Watercooler Games archive #

BERG's light painting with the iPad

— cross-sections of 3D models shot with long exposures #

SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed

— for you geezers still using a “feed reader” on a “computer” #
September 13, 2010

Everything is a Remix, Part 1

— new four-part series on remix culture by Kirby Ferguson #

Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free

— they’re raising money to hire an orchestra to record public domain symphonies #

Burnbit

— free service creates a torrent from any web-accessible file #

New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg

— by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas via Anil Dash #

Digital Comic Museum

— growing archive of Golden Age comics with expired copyright status #

Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr

— a familiar post-acquisition story; they stated they “will not develop it further at this stage.” #

YouTube Time Machine

— with a lovely design by Kickstarter’s own Andrew Cornett #

Graph Your Inbox

— clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail #

Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews

— awesomem worth the price vs. crashing useless waste of money via @marcoarment #

FFFFUUU statue

— aka Rage Guy; please make this 3D rendering real #
September 12, 2010

xkcd on password reuse and evil plans

— “it’ll be hilarious the first few times this happens” #
September 10, 2010

Rob O'Hare's playable review of GET LAMP

— interactive fiction reviewing an interactive documentary about interactive fiction via @textfiles #

Anil Dash on the cultural implications of forking

— and Sippey forked his article via @busterbenson #

YouTube Instant

— Stanford student’s great take on Google Instant lands him a job offer from Chad Hurley #

Bloglines to shut down on October 1

— replaced by Google Reader, and made moot by Twitter and Facebook #

Pixar's Up gets BLAM'd

— cutting parody of Disney’s awful remixing of classic cartoons #
September 9, 2010

Inside the Soviet arcade museum

— great little trip report; reminds me of the North Korean arcade #

James Bridle's 12-volume set of edits to the Wikipedia Iraq War page

— 12,000 changes spanning nearly 7,000 pages #

Monstrous Discrepancies

— a comic by Winston Rowntree #

The Room: The Game

— based on the truly horrible film #
September 8, 2010

Cache Rules Everything Around Me

— Evan Roth sets his animated GIF collection to music #

Google Scribe, autocomplete any text

— for fun, try typing any word and hit enter repeatedly via berglondon.com #

OK Trends crunches the data to find what white people really like

— as always, funny, insightful, and controversial; don’t miss the religion and writing proficiency charts #
September 7, 2010

George and Jonathan's "The Best Music"

— free superhappy chiptune album created with Cave Story creator Pixel’s Piston Collage via bytejacker.com #

MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song

— with lead vocals by the very talented Ken Flagg #
September 6, 2010

Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness

— the followup to Braid was at an unmarked table #
September 3, 2010

Craigslist shuts down adult services section

— 17 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down #

Health Month

— like Epic Win, Buster Benson’s trying to turn self-improvement into a game #

There is a Horse in the Apple Store

— Frank Chimero is not hallucinating #

Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox

— everyone’s favorite vaporware is playable on the PAX show floor, 13 years in the making #
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