The Male Programmer Privilege Checklist
— "Having your desk near the entrance to your office without visitors assuming you're the receptionist." (via) #
Techcrunch reports CBS secretly gave Last.fm data to RIAA
— Arrington says CBS lied to Last.fm and gave it to the RIAA without their knowledge; Last.fm is vehemently denying it, implying a personal vendetta #
The Deck Readership Survey
— best survey ever; an excellent example of why I love The Deck so much (via) #
Davario's Draw Yourself As A Teen meme on Livejournal
— over 500 submissions in a year, some highlights #
Scott Schiller's forensics on a nasty piece of JS malware
— the most bizarre Javascript obfuscation I've ever seen #
Buzzfeed's top video reactions to American Idol's finale
— some very upset Adam Lambert fans, #9 is my personal favorite #
John Gruber on the next-gen iPhone's specs
— he has the best sources of anyone in the industry, I'll bet this is dead-on accurate #
Sorry I'm Late, a stop-motion short film
— I loved seeing how it was made, from the first test animations to the final shoot (via) #
U.S. government launches Data.gov, national data repository
— not much there yet, but centralized data is good #
Project Gutenberg iPhone app blocked by Apple because of the Kama Sutra
— note that Stanza, eReader, and Amazon's Kindle app all allow the same book (via) #
Tiny Art Director, little kids are difficult clients
— I'm finding this very, very late, but every entry made me laugh (via) #
Mozilla Jetpack, extend Firefox with HTML, CSS, and jQuery
— don't bother trying to grok it from the text, just watch the screencast #
Yahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content
— also, Yahoo released the huge GeoPlanet/WOE placename database under a CC license #
Axono.me, isometric pixel art grid library for jQuery
— check out the demos, including these racing cubes #
LEGO announces Frank Lloyd Wright sets
— the Guggenheim and Fallingwater are first, continuing the LEGO Architecture series of landmarks #
Evan Roth's Intellectual Property Asshole Competition
— he painted the HOPE poster and the AP photo it was based on; whoever C&Ds him first wins (via) #
Fast Company on Taipei's innovative "zero landfill, total recycling" program
— here's a first-person account of the system and video of the garbage trucks playing Fur Elise (via) #
Leaked video from Trico, new game by ICO/Shadow of the Colossus creators
— their games seem to be weaving a larger narrative arc in the same fictional world #
Joel Johnson on the divide between Wired Magazine vs. Wired.com
— great comments from Wired employees past and present, including Chris Anderson, Leander Kahney, Steve Silberman, and Brian Lam #
Auto Tune The News #3
— last month, the New York Observer interviewed Michael Gregory about the series (via) #
Which of our beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by?
— Phil Dhingra highlights the best from a massive Reddit thread #
NYT's Maureen Dowd steals paragraph from Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall
— it would've been more fitting if she'd plagiarized from Twitter instead #
All Your Base dialogue, properly translated from Japanese to English
— amazingly, I've never read the correct translation before #
Japanese trailer for "Muscle March" for WiiWare
— defies description, the most intensely weird game I've ever seen #
Google's index of Wolfram|Alpha search results
— they have no robots.txt at all; Google isn't parsing their Javascript, so Google can only see what's served statically from their results #
danah boyd's answers questions on Twitter about teen practices
— I find this kind of thing absolutely fascinating #
WolframAlpha rendering text as images to prevent indexing
— though they claim it's for "consistency," which is absurd; on second thought, I think Paul Ford's right, it's just Wolfram culture #
Danger Mouse to release blank CD-ROM after legal fight with EMI
— selling the packaging without the music; also, NPR's streaming the album (via) #
Updating the Web 2.0 logo collage for 2009
— tracking how many of the original sites are dead or acquired; or, in the case of WebJay, both (via) #
Wired's walkthrough of the May issue's hidden puzzles
— reminds me of the golden era of Games Magazine (via) #
Stephen Wolfram demonstrates Wolfram|Alpha in detail
— after watching the screencast, I'm much more excited about tonight's launch #
Ian Bogost's Guru Meditation
— Zen game released in two versions: the Atari 2600/Amiga Joyboard and the iPhone #
Vulture crunches the numbers on this season's SNL
— charting cast member frequency, average appearances, and celebrity cameos (via) #
The Sound of Young America's Pledge Drive
— a short film by Lonely Sandwich; donate to the best interview show around and get a Mustache TV #
F.A.T.'s KANYEFY bookmarklet, turn any site into Kanye West's blog
— also on Kanye week: see the web through Kanye's eyes, Quotable Kanye (with API), and the Kanye rant detector #
Giant net-enabled Etch-A-Sketch hacked out of a 52" HD TV
— related: giant collaborative Etch-A-Sketch from Siggraph 2006, projected on a giant screen (via) #