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August 19, 2009
— he treated his online presence like a temporary sand mandala; don’t miss the song #
— still no clues why he killed his blog, Twitter, Hackety Hack, Why’s Poignant Guide, Shoes, Try Ruby, and more #
— live jazz improvisation using classic SNES sample sounds #
— staggering amount of love put into an online store #
August 18, 2009
— if websites were cartoon characters via r/pics #
— I’ve wondered this myself, the effects of a microcelebrity culture aging #
August 17, 2009
— Nilsson tribute with songs by Martha Wainwright, Andrew Bird, DeVotchKa, and Nada Surf #
— Bygone Bureau wrote a great behind-the-scenes feature about the album #
— wow, congrats to the team #
August 16, 2009
— 21GB dump of 873,671 torrents on the site, packaged by a user concerned about the sale #
August 15, 2009
— from 17 million withdrawn domains in June 2008 to only 58k last month via Boing Boing #
August 14, 2009
— from Y2K to swine flu #
— imagining the real-life locations where Tetris’s blocks and Sonic’s gold rings were made #
— a travelogue in comic format with video via MetaFilter #
— with a quiet three weeks’ notice to developers via O'Reilly Radar #
— asked about Associated Repress, the AP’s lawyer said that I’m “wonderful” #
— drag to rotate the objects #
— Processing competition with submissions limited to only 200 characters #
— if you’ve ever dealt with PACER, you’ll know how vital this is #
August 13, 2009
— don’t miss TempBot and Tetra Vaal; District 9 is 95% positive so far #
— more of his captures on his site #
— 87 points on the first try via @bpm140 #
August 12, 2009
— timelapse of the photography, Photoshop, and magazine design via Daring Fireball #
— great discussion of the difficulties and appeal of rhythm games via Fimoculous #
— looks great, only available free until the end of tomorrow via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— yes, a cloud service that backs up your cloud services via @ginatrapani #
— game that plays with text and words as side-scrolling platforms #
— simple explanation of a practical use of computer vision #
— including gossip about his foibles with the New York Times during Mister Wonderful via Adam Kempa #
August 11, 2009
— 208 lines of Python on Google App Engine #
— try it out; seems speedy and seems to rank real-time results higher #
— 8 out of 42 endings were favorable #
August 10, 2009
— will it get sucked into the black hole, or help Facebook open up? Techcrunch says it’s a talent acquisition #
— used for years, it’s accelerated since the Wall Street crisis #
August 9, 2009
— we were warned; someone should call Archive Team #
— needs more crowbar via Delicious #
August 8, 2009
— the YouTube comments are a nice blend of racists and PC/Mac wars #
— includes his Google search history, revealed by exploiting his webmail account via Delicious #
August 7, 2009
— curated by Braid’s Jonathan Blow and World of Goo’s Ron Carmel via braid-game.com #
— a brief mention of YouTube Poop, which deserves its own video #
— client-side Python interpreter via Hacker News #
— Japanese-English translations until reaching equilibrium; more examples: don’t panic and don’t covet via MetaFilter #
— John Hughes’s short story that kicked off his long and wonderful film career #
August 6, 2009
— touching story of his long relationship with a teenage fan turned pen pal #
— delightful look at how the news was made; the Star Tribune filed for bankruptcy in January #
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