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June 28, 2010
— “I want the one with the bigger GBs”; see the counterpoint #
— Quinn Norton interviews Famulus, creator of the Kickstarter-funded fusion reactor in Brooklyn #
— the creator added more background in the video description #
— obsessive, note-for-note recreation #
— rendered with Mandelbulber; don’t get lost #
— very impressive; also, iPhone’s World Clock in CSS #
— Derek Powazek on death, chaos, and gardening #
— the Swiss art duo made 605 framed drawings; see their other YouTube art or buy the shirt #
June 27, 2010
— multiplayer HTML5 Asteroids with Node.js, JQuery, and audio; source here #
— details on his quorum-sensing project, a more neutral take than the Fast Company profile #
— I’d like to see an interview with all his targets #
— two of my favorite studios team up on original IP for the DS and PS3; some scans #
June 21, 2010
— “We had a good run Bros.” #
— love the tributes from the staff, including Steven Johnson, Stefanie Syman, Clay Shirky, and Julian Dibbell via Kottke #
June 20, 2010
— anachronistic product concepts from people who definitely aren’t time travelers #
June 18, 2010
— in short, it really works; even more frictionless than Steam, this feels like the future #
— Russ DeMuth built a machine from scratch to play the obsolete audio format, recorded on 35mm film #
— my new favorite Pixar short, the 3D was used to great effect #
— insane videogame mashup based on a real dream #
June 17, 2010
— some great archival footage from the last eight presidents #
— adorable animated short about the Zodiac Killer, with a detailed look at how it was made via Laughing Squid #
— they also gave a grant to Cartoonist, Ian Bogost’s editorial cartoon game/authoring system #
— Twitter avatars compete as two armies of tiny soldiers via Indie Games+ #
June 16, 2010
— from Guitar Hero champ Freddie Wong #
— Ken Jennings, you’re our only hope #
— very short and serious “notgame” #
— Flash game with a clever game mechanic, folding the world #
— a real strat that lets you play Rock Band 3 and through an amp simultaneously #
— incredibly creative; love the fluid dynamics with the repulsion/propulsion gels #
— in Pro mode, you’re effectively playing the real instruments; Pro guitar looks insane via @codinghorror #
— single-panel illustrations from a Barcelona artist via blog.krisatomic.com #
— made with hand-painted plywood rods #
June 15, 2010
— sealed off in the late 1950s and kept perfectly intact #
— learning tools from the creators of Flixel and Flashpunk via bytejacker.com #
— limited offer, so sign up quick #
June 12, 2010
— “The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World” #
June 11, 2010
— search public wall posts using Facebook’s API; lots of people seem unaware of their settings #
— part of the Seven on Seven event pairing artists with geeks #
— Charlie Brown grown up #
— Henson explains them in 1980, Jack Parr shows them to Letterman in 1984, and Frank Oz visits them this week via MetaFilter #
June 10, 2010
— I found this very touching #
June 9, 2010
— this wasn’t an isolated problem #
— everything the actors do on the show would be illegal in real-life, like every cover on YouTube via @plamere #
June 8, 2010
— from Britney to Cobain #
June 7, 2010
— switching to online-only after this weekend’s broadcast via @lmorchard #
— he outed himself to “homeless hacker” Adrian Lamo, who called the Army #
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