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September 23, 2009
— I feel mixed emotions with acquisitions lately; thrilled for the team, sad for the community #
— from the company that brought you the Microsoft Songsmith commercial #
September 22, 2009
— I mentioned it when it was just a mind-bending screencast #
— is there life on Mars? #
— don’t miss Paul’s research paper, which explains even innocuous movie ratings can reveal your political, religious, and sexual leanings via Boing Boing #
September 21, 2009
— Flash game with gorgeous art direction #
September 19, 2009
— using Kickstarter to hire Mechanical Turkers to translate Moby Dick to a CC-licensed book of emoji icons #
September 18, 2009
— hasn’t been updated since April 2008, but these all look great #
September 17, 2009
— very quirky lo-fi platformer by Edmund McMillen #
— don’t miss the augmented reality pool at the 2 minute mark via Brett O'Connor #
— and the developer says it’s not even a complete list #
September 16, 2009
— exciting news, since I’m red-green colorblind, along with 8% of all white males #
— Dooce publishes her hate mail; for the full effect, read the backstory and turn off AdBlock via Daring Fireball #
— supercut of every superlative via waffle.wootest.net #
— very funny painted infographics from Abstract City, his illustrated blog #
September 15, 2009
— also: Craigslist redesign from SXSW 2006 #
— updated list of ten games, a perfect primer to the genre #
— hand-drawn subpixel renderings of favicons; see also: his teeny, tiny typeface #
— just launched today, amazing tool makes crowdsourcing tasks dead simple #
— self-effacing terms made men’s messages more appealing, but didn’t affect women’s via Delicious #
September 14, 2009
— don’t miss the slo-mo video of the mouse-controlled AI as it analyzes every possible path in real-time via Hacker News #
September 13, 2009
— discovered via the Internet Archive’s new blog via Matt Haughey #
— I’m late on this, but it’s still hilarious #
— “If someone can’t figure out what to do in the first five minutes… you are hosed.” via caterina.net #
September 11, 2009
— the result of a petition from 31k British citizens, including Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry #
— feels like E3 circa 1986 #
September 10, 2009
September 9, 2009
— death to Acrobat Reader! #
September 8, 2009
— transcribed from nature via Laughing Squid #
— with examples from Hacker News, Reddit, del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon via O'Reilly Radar #
— only WordPress and Twitter have inline posting tools on the homepage #
— phone call trumps text message trumps Twitter #
September 7, 2009
— very sad to see it go; I heard the last one was great though sparsely attended #
September 5, 2009
— as far as I know, the first official emulator in the App Store #
— Conde Nast’s gone to great lengths to keep the article hidden via niemanlab.org #
September 4, 2009
— how could I not link this? a song about medieval medicine via Boing Boing #
— apparently via myself #
— one message wasn’t discovered until 2007 via Make #
— exploiting the old CSS :visited trick #
— changes across six editions and 13 years; more on the project #
September 3, 2009
— using Bandcamp, their first new album in 13 years via MetaFilter #
— free procedurally-generated platformer for Windows, highly recommended via Offworld #
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