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May 6, 2010
May 5, 2010
— and testing the uncanny valley, along with it #
— brilliantly simple and frustrating game mechanic, reminds me of Flywrench via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— ITP thesis exploring alternative firewalls via @atduskgreg #
— the making-of is as interesting as the finished product #
— related: Auntie Pixelante’s dissection of level 1-1 #
— a truly awful comedy from 1987; unofficial trailer and a clip (note the error at 3:00) #
— “Computer, load up Celery Man.” #
May 4, 2010
— he talks about the inspiration for each track on his blog #
— like Greasemonkey for movies, removing fan irritations like Rose in Titanic, Kirk in Star Trek Generations, and the plot of the Matrix sequels #
— fans made new edits of the film, pulling from the theatrical and extended releases #
— most popular colors unique to women, “dusty teal” and “blush pink”; for men, “penis” and “gay” #
— the theme will be announced on May 7, 3,400 people have already signed up #
— one of the most inspiring and thoughtful people I’ve ever met #
May 3, 2010
— the creators of Where the Hell Is Matt and Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat merge memes #
— web-based IDE using Processing.js and Bespin via @jeresig #
— like Fargo meets Professor Layton with art by Graham Annable, coming in June! #
— they complained about the ad removal and extra requests via @kathrynyu #
— it started with an anonymous tip about a curious Facebook comment #
May 1, 2010
— Usenet was started by two Duke students in 1979; the official announcement says Usenet was “made unnecessary” #
— the most fun you can possibly have with your bank #
April 29, 2010
— related: Molly Norris redacted her cartoon; paintings were pulled from the Met #
— they may try to demand money from MP3 blogs outside of Ireland, too #
— your video will be immediately viewable after submitting #
— a real-life watermark #
April 28, 2010
— tracking down a profanity that Tolstoy censored #
— 780,000 documents, 15GB compressed; sadly, Firefox is the last popular browser with Gopher support via twitter.com #
— great documentary about the food industry, 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes via twitter.com #
— one year old! also, Neil Gaiman and Scott McCloud said nice things #
— tracking the volume and video movement of 20 reaction videos; don’t miss the collage via Brandon Boyer #
— this story made me tear up at SXSW #
— loving tribute to NES history, play SMB as Link, Samus, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, or the Contra guy #
— a journalist, a staff librarian, and Facebook rewrote his entire life via MetaFilter #
April 27, 2010
— Jason Nelson’s infinitely zoomable poem; related: his Rubik’s cube poem #
— not available in the U.S. yet, so very jealous via Daring Fireball #
— too-short mix of chiptune versions of reggae/dub riddims #
— everything’s a particle; don’t miss the video if you can’t run the real-time demo via GameSetWatch #
— their interactive feature guide is very slick #
— developing photosensitive paper exposed to a digital negative on a laptop screen #
April 26, 2010
— beiliebers begging to be followed by him on Twitter #
— “make any web page look like it was made by 13-year-old in 1996” via Google Blogoscoped #
— everyone’s favorite tweeting cat makes a cameo at 1:46 in the video via Make #
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