June 9, 2010
Glee and copyright
— everything the actors do on the show would be illegal in real-life, like every cover on YouTube (via) #
Slate reveals the story behind the recycled newspaper prop
— aside from newspapers, I love their fake product packaging and magazines #
Dr. Demento ends 40 years of radio
— switching to online-only after this weekend's broadcast (via) #
U.S. Army intelligence analyst arrested for leaking Wikileaks helicopter video
— he outed himself to "homeless hacker" Adrian Lamo, who called the Army #
gdgt's live coverage of the Apple keynote and the new iPhone and iOS 4
— major changes: huge battery upgrade, HD camera, iMovie app, new display, gyroscope, and big OS changes #
Every actor reads the same newspaper
— must be a standard newspaper prop; more examples here (via) #
David McCandless visualizes musician revenues online
— not surprising that streaming royalties are significantly less than direct sales (via) #
California college student suspended for Twitter messages
— breaking news from the student newsroom where my mom teaches #
A letter from "Leroy Stick," the person behind @BPGlobalPR
— "the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand." (via) #
Motherboard.tv's short doc on ROFLCon
— best coverage I've seen, includes interviews with several meme legends #
Robot Unicorn Attack released for the iPhone
— complete with Erasure soundtrack; play the original #
Danny Sullivan on misattribution and lazy reporting in the mainstream press
— interesting to see which outlets added the citation after being called out (via) #
moot's TED talk about 4chan culture and online anonymity
— the Dusty story shows how even when anonymous, you can still be found #
Ars Technica digs up the details of the P2P indie film lawsuits
— at least 14.5k users so far this year, netting an easy $20M in a horrible new revenue model #
LOST reimagined as a Lucasarts adventure game
— if this existed, it'd be 120 hours of gameplay where 95% of the puzzles had no solution (via) #
Exit Path
— addictive runner inspired by Portal and Canabalt, from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; try the multiplayer mode #
Kevin Kelly's 1997 list of quotes from the first five years of Wired
— "predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present" #
Smokescreen, a Flash player in Javascript
— don't miss the Strongbad demos; Simon breaks down how it works, with reformatted source #
Ken Jennings' anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax
— in fact, the founder of Orange Julius never invented an inflatable shrimp trap or pigeon shower #
Super Mario Bros. Crossover creator commentary
— he announced this week he's adding Ryu from Ninja Gaiden #
Nifflas releases FiNCK
— devious free platform puzzles inspired by SMB 2, from the genius behind Knytt and Saira #
1983 Naked Eyes Song Was A Burt Bacharach Remake?
— strangely disorienting and anachronistic, like hearing Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" as '60s soul #
Jeff Rubin's Unanswered Lost Questions
— all the answers are in the mystery box, and you can't have it (via) #
Sean Bonner on the near-death of Metblogs
— people are pledging to keep it alive, and they may be saved #
Short film on the making of 48HR Magazine
— "The most powerful thing in the universe is a whole bunch of people paying attention to the same thing at the same time." (via) #
The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
— 15-page comic about the discredited link between autism and the MMR vaccine #
Hurt Locker producer calls downloaders morons who belong in jail
— "I hope your family and your kids end up in jail" #
Superbien's video projection onto mapped blocks
— when I first saw this, I thought it was CGI (via) #
Ask Metafilter saves two Russian students from NYC sex traffickers
— Internet heroes save the day in real-life #