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August 23, 2010
— and without breaking the tamper-evident seals via Boing Boing #
— the well-loved chain is owned by Germany’s Albrecht family #
— addictive new iPhone game, along with The Incident and the free Piczle Lines #
— Josh Millard slows down 24 popular songs, Justin Bieber-style #
— Adam Mathes’ new thing browses the web with images; I like the Infovis category #
— I also enjoyed Liferaft: Zero, though it’s much more difficult #
August 22, 2010
— documentary about the NYC chiptune scene; at $34, the DVD/t-shirt combo is a steal via GameSetWatch #
— Stamen and SimpleGeo’s JS library for gorgeous vector visualizations on map tiles via Nelson Minar #
— the heap sort sounds like a 1960s sci-fi sound effect via Nelson Minar #
August 18, 2010
— “At this point, I think he’s just fucking with us.” #
— children born just after the cutoff date are 25% less likely to be diagnosed as those born just before via @gnat #
— photos of stuff the same distance from the WTC as the “Ground Zero Mosque” via @mathowie #
August 14, 2010
August 13, 2010
— you really need to zoom in to appreciate the detail #
August 12, 2010
— translate obnoxious business jargon back to non-douchey English #
August 11, 2010
— the Flickr acquisition had a halo effect too, but it was ultimately short-lived #
— watch him build Springfield Elementary in the Kickstarter project video #
— a collaboration with Radiolab via Daring Fireball #
— with home video and interviews with the team; from a new documentary about the demoscene via twitter.com #
— I like to think they danced their way out via Slashdot #
— incredibly useful application recreates any photo using tiny, naked pixel men via creativeapplications.net #
— their publicist advised them to specifically target TechCrunch #
— a sound legal analysis without the handwringing #
August 10, 2010
— gamers are better equipped to understand the narrative structure than most #
— “until the day our world catches up with his, Royce will be out there on the virtual nexus, searching.” #
— also for superfans only, the interactive trailer via @aparrish #
— though it makes your checkin history public by default, you can change it with the lock icon #
— clever mix of social engineering and Windows exploit #
— also, I love the design for these Boing Boing features via GameSetWatch #
— I’ve been beta-testing it for months, pixel art by Neven Mrgan and chiptunes by Cabel Sasser via mrgan.tumblr.com #
— he was asked to explain rickrolling, newfags, and /b/tards to government prosecutors via @BuzzFeed #
— more data porn, including evidence that iPhone users have more sex #
August 9, 2010
— found on Devour, Uncrate’s iPad-friendly best-of-YouTube blog #
— proven with the help of 35 CPU-years donated by Google #
— net art by Daniel Leyva via todayandtomorrow.net #
— like Portal, an unreliable narrator #
August 7, 2010
— more at the JS1k contest #
August 6, 2010
— 4chan makes art from found CAPTCHAs via @mecredis #
— what will be of interest to future historians? you never know, so just keep everything #
— with help from Craigslist and the Brooklyn PD #
— specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture #
August 5, 2010
— a conservative group’s been effectively manipulating Digg stories for over a year #
— like Marble Madness in real-life #
— interviews with Kenyatta and Baratunde, and links to Antoine’s new blog, Twitter, and YouTube channel #
— Google maps without the map, by Damon Zucconi via infosthetics.com #
August 4, 2010
— at $3, this is a steal; one of the best PC games released last year #
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