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January 12, 2010
— fourth and final installment, highlighting the best of Kickstarter so far #
January 11, 2010
— the VP has an eye for type usability via @ironicsans #
January 10, 2010
— the answers match up nicely via Hacker News #
January 8, 2010
— by charging a small fee, he’s earned enough to work on it full-time via ratafia.info #
— here they all are in one image via MetaFilter #
— don’t miss Gumbasia, his pioneering Claymation film from 1953 that predated Gumby #
— and posts your frustrated face to Twitter #
— the more Twitter followers, the larger the snowman’s head #
— UK-only for now, includes delivery; examples: Last.fm’s newspaper charts and Rev. Dan Catt’s photo paper #
January 7, 2010
— from the creator of temporary.cc, a book that burns itself when opened and another that can’t be closed via Brandon Boyer #
— Wherefore the nihilist weeps and cries for ‘fair’? #
— a nicely shot, but otherwise unexciting short film, until you realize it’s 100% CGI #
— his journal’s been consistently great lately #
January 6, 2010
— “call it a space cam” #
— videos and descriptions for all 20 #
— more backstory, new characters, and more depth #
January 5, 2010
— Philipp Lenssen collected and categorized over 120,000 images from online and offline sources #
— highlighting the most successful, popular, and prolific projects from our first eight months #
— I still can’t believe he’s gone #
January 4, 2010
— thoughtful list following some interesting trends #
— found footage from classic films counts down from 266, mostly using door numbers via waxy.org #
— crowdsourced music video, judged by Mechanical Turk and rendered with new frames hourly #
January 3, 2010
— gurus, ninjas, and experts via jwz #
January 2, 2010
— an unusually great list via Delicious #
— they hardcoded a regex for 2010-2099 as “grossly in the future” #
December 30, 2009
— a bot that can make up bad puns #
— most new users aren’t active or engaged, so clickthroughs and replies don’t change with the influx #
December 29, 2009
— the only thing that makes me jealous of the Pre via waffle.wootest.net #
— mashing up Billboard’s Top 25 of 2009 into a completely new song #
— Matt Haughey gets some help from web superstars for his last post before the transition #
December 28, 2009
— Mario meets Tetris mashup, with a challenging ending #
December 27, 2009
— brilliant novella about quantum computing and the digital occult #
— in 1997, over half the country watched the animated special, first aired in 1958 via Delicious #
December 23, 2009
— find popular links across all your feeds, and surface a new feed of the results #
— someone do DJ Shadow and the Avalanches next! #
— haunting short film by a Pixar animator, only viewable for a short time via MetaFilter #
— I fully expect Anonymous to show up #
December 22, 2009
— great talk on crowdsourcing and the fine line between volunteering and exploitation #
December 21, 2009
— horrible shutdown procedure: ten days’ notice during the holidays to save everything manually #
— like the Phantom Menace, the lack of constraints can lead to disaster #
— in their official response, they blame “insufficient foreground lighting” via MetaFilter #
— think outside the box via Indie Games+ #
— fictional comic history about the hacking/phreaking scene; I bought both and am anxiously awaiting Volume 3 via Boing Boing #
December 20, 2009
— great followup to Paul Kedrosky’s original post about trouble in the Google ecosystem #
December 19, 2009
— even a simple basketball game becomes compelling with multiple realtime players #
— an archive of artist/coder _why the lucky stiff’s known works via Hacker News #
December 18, 2009
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