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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 #
— major changes: huge battery upgrade, HD camera, iMovie app, new display, gyroscope, and big OS changes #
June 6, 2010
— papercut Mario with a great and terrible secret via youtube.com #
June 4, 2010
— must be a standard newspaper prop; more examples here via @bartitos #
— not surprising that streaming royalties are significantly less than direct sales via FlowingData #
June 3, 2010
— breaking news from the student newsroom where my mom teaches #
— “the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.” via Daring Fireball #
— best coverage I’ve seen, includes interviews with several meme legends #
— complete with Erasure soundtrack; play the original #
— interesting to see which outlets added the citation after being called out via Nelson Minar #
June 2, 2010
— a general-purpose artificial intelligence by Maciej Ceglowski via @flipzagging #
— the Dusty story shows how even when anonymous, you can still be found #
— help him make the last two episodes #
— at least 14.5k users so far this year, netting an easy $20M in a horrible new revenue model #
June 1, 2010
— Firefox extension turns webpages into a playable shoot ’em up #
May 31, 2010
— if this existed, it’d be 120 hours of gameplay where 95% of the puzzles had no solution via 4colorrebellion.com #
May 30, 2010
— Chris Onstad ate your balls via Mike Migurski #
May 29, 2010
— addictive runner inspired by Portal and Canabalt, from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; try the multiplayer mode #
— “predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present” #
— don’t miss the Strongbad demos; Simon breaks down how it works, with reformatted source #
May 28, 2010
— in fact, the founder of Orange Julius never invented an inflatable shrimp trap or pigeon shower #
— he announced this week he’s adding Ryu from Ninja Gaiden #
May 27, 2010
— she tweeted the reporter’s phone number; summary of the story via MetaFilter #
May 26, 2010
— devious free platform puzzles inspired by SMB 2, from the genius behind Knytt and Saira #
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