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August 4, 2010
— 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 #
— they call it the “biggest leak in intelligence history”; more from the NYT #
— anti-patterns for game design #
— not an extension, the download is a Firefox build #
— 8-bit synth in an electronic organ, don’t miss the video via Hackaday #
July 22, 2010
— culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews #
— Ian Bogost’s Facebook game about Facebook games #
July 21, 2010
— a screenwriter deals with a very unusual break-in at his office, and how he might pitch it as a show via jwz #
— free iPad app creates a personalized magazine of your friends’ FB/Twitter links #
July 20, 2010
— in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them #
— Washington Post’s two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11 #
— how it was developed and how they work via Slashdot #
— see Folklore.org’s evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history #
— Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation #
July 17, 2010
— from Tom Taylor, who ships; journalist Bobbie Johnson’s response and Tom’s followup #
July 16, 2010
— as he grows, he eventually becomes completely immobile #
— rendering sound effects from physics simulations, from this year’s SIGGRAPH #
— F. Scott Fitzgerald writes like H.P. Lovecraft, who writes like Edgar Allen Poe #
— top 100 free books summarized by Microsoft Word into 10 sentences #
— very happy they won’t be shutting down Freebase via Hacker News #
July 15, 2010
— for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags via darrenbarefoot.tumblr.com #
— he found several blocks of WordPress code #
— but will it be better than The First $20 Million? #
— the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court #
July 14, 2010
— brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself via buzzfeed.com #
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