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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 #
— worth re-reading: Anil Dash on the Web way vs. the Wave way #
— multi-perspective street panoramas from street view imagery via FlowingData #
— remote-control car in a cardboard track streaming to a sit-down arcade game via Delicious #
August 3, 2010
— like the original, but even more stupidly addictive #
— in short, he argues achievements only work well for motivating dull tasks #
— like Spotify for the US, highly recommended #
August 2, 2010
— geek rap uses all 151 original Pokemon names as sexual innuendo; the lyrics #
August 1, 2010
— modern games turned retro; look at the filenames if you need hints via @mossmouth #
July 31, 2010
— here’s the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it #
July 29, 2010
— gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data #
— five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here #
— a bit CPU-intensive, but it works! #
— build a web app in less than 10k, though you can use jQuery/Prototype and Typekit #
— insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing #
July 28, 2010
— audio alerts when your personal info’s sent to Google servers #
— Dan Wineman’s App Store review fanfic #
July 27, 2010
— they’re retroactively changing him in all versions of the game #
— the iPhone and iPad is the Internet’s equivalent of a hip flask #
— this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community? via Indie Games+ #
July 26, 2010
— based on Mike Wilks’ insane picture book from 1986; here’s the gameplay #
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