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March 8, 2010
— Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with “all of our future games” #
— fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information #
March 7, 2010
— watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead #
— “Maybe I’ll learn something.” #
— I love how expressive they are #
— very nicely done, uses Echo Nest’s recommendation engine #
— scans, since it’s not on GameInformer’s site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen #
March 5, 2010
— he’s collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts #
March 4, 2010
— looks like the regex was a bit greedy #
— very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year #
— a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now #
— Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles #
— $4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1 #
March 2, 2010
— nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories #
— radio transmissions convert into Morse code and images pointing to a telnet BBS with ASCII screenshots #
— even Pictures for Sad Children’s guest comics are great #
March 1, 2010
— hear the women’s 1,000-meter speedskating gold medalist win by .02 of a second via FlowingData #
— even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license via Slashdot #
— don’t miss his companion article about Doom as Robotron #
February 26, 2010
— Level End via Brandon Boyer #
— 121 different versions of the story, but only 13 did any original reporting #
February 25, 2010
— so horrible I hesitate linking to it, but I will, if only for Google justice #
February 24, 2010
— includes demographics, vernacular, and how men and women are treated differently #
— groundbreaking fuel cell tech used by Google, eBay, others; Mashable liveblogged the launch #
— I maintain that business owners are confused over both sponsorship and the algorithm; a former Yelp account exec debunks the claims #
— a NSFW font by designer Alex Merto #
— update: it’s back, Google says it was a mistake #
— real-time holographic projection synced to turntables and drums via aaronmeyers.tumblr.com #
— short fiction about an alternate-reality Internet gone amok, using words and phrases created by Kickstarter backers via Snarkmarket #
— astonishingly terrible decision, here’s Google’s response #
— digging into the tech behind the high school webcam spying scandal #
February 23, 2010
— damn you, Cal via Cal Henderson #
— you thought Dooce’s mention was surreal? now your grandma knows about /b/ #
— thoughtful look at the top issues facing Apple, with an eye to their past via mrgan.tumblr.com #
— a return to form after autotuning ads for Kotaku (great) and Sony (awful) #
— from the creator of You Only Live Once; some context #
— 50 million tweets per day; compare to Kottke’s cumulative estimates from 2007 #
February 22, 2010
— the numbers are relatively small compared to the amount of spam, I wonder where the rest’s coming from #
February 21, 2010
— by some estimates, over 10,000 Americans were killed drinking tainted alcohol #
— superstition stemming from the song’s popularity in karaoke bars via hearye.org #
February 19, 2010
February 18, 2010
— listen to your favorite website, the “About” explains the methodology via Delicious #
February 17, 2010
— incredible demo, simply tying existing pieces of Google tech together #
— the problem isn’t Google, but the DMCA and litigious media organizations #
— as always, some incredible dataporn mined from their community via Delicious #
— amusing, but only dangerous if someone knows where you live #
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