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July 23, 2009
— it’s okay to love cartoons, as long as you don’t love cartoons via tokyomango.com #
— Renee French, R. Stevens, Jeffrey Brown, Dan Clowes, James Kochalka, Jim Woodring, and more #
— playing Rock Band’s guitar, bass, drums, and vocals at the the same time #
July 22, 2009
— $7.99 and 350MB of space #
— tiny, adorable freeware Windows game #
— I keep waiting for someone to replace eBay, since fraud made it completely useless #
— two hours of the protagonist grinding to level 60 via @juliandibbell #
— see also: Newspaper Club and the upcoming McSweeney’s newspaper project #
— Letterman gets about 3.5M viewers nightly, about 425% more than Spacey’s followers #
— like Typekit for free, legal typefaces #
July 21, 2009
— as Adam points out, now someone could overlay MapQuest routes on Google Maps via blog.programmableweb.com #
— the meme mashup earned the highest score and most votes ever via Delicious #
— they offset the winnings with a slightly lower interest rate via techdirt.com #
— the approaches include crowdsourcing from Zappos and Dolores Labs, but the current leader is using 4 Nvidia GPUs #
— you can optionally use your Guitar Hero controller to play #
— hand-typed from original scans by the Virtual AGS project; in the comments, numero mysterioso and hope hope hope #
July 20, 2009
— also, James Alliban’s talking augmented card #
— the Tugboat, PDF Format, and OxygenStar tracks are all great via GameSetWatch #
— created entirely with the Echonest Remix API, no audio editor required #
— 40 years to the second, starting at 1:10pm PST #
— over 7 million views, gone with no clear explanation why; they’re being added back here #
July 19, 2009
— the virtual version of this non-scientific test via buzzfeed.com #
July 18, 2009
— too many amazing ones to list, reminiscent of I Am 8-Bit #
— staggering amount of research into name etymology #
July 17, 2009
— “does our game make players happy when they play, or just make them sad when they stop?” #
— phone phreaking conference held, appropriately, on a five-hour conference call via ascii.textfiles.com #
— they should remove Fahrenheit 451 next; related: Amazon’s Final Message to Its Creation #
— like Desert Bus meets Track & Field; send me a screenshot if you win via MetaFilter #
July 16, 2009
— “the magazine for people who try to have conversations about science news” via Delicious #
— the artist has been hiding a triforce in the logo illustrations #
— “If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it.” #
— best streaming service ever, the celestial jukebox done right #
— publishing trade secrets and receiving stolen property are both illegal under California law #
July 15, 2009
— from the creators of Nearest Tube #
— 473 fans remaking Star Wars in 15-second chunks via Boing Boing #
— happy birthday, blue; see you on Saturday! #
— and the site’s still invite-only for project creators; related: the five best updates so far #
— insane patent application from Internet crackpot/Pepperdine professor Dr. Elliot McGucken #
— a live, physical visualization of Twitter on ticker-tape #
— he was expecting 200 people for the rumored appearance, which spread quickly through Twitter #
— turn any photo sharing site into a torrent hub via torrentfreak.com #
July 14, 2009
— he posted a deleted scene and other notes on his weblog via Boing Boing #
— unfortunately, most IE6 users simply can’t upgrade #
— insert into {table} (status, username, password) values (“new tweet from YQL”, “twitterusername”, “twitterpassword”) via O'Reilly Radar #
— on his blog, he seems impossibly tone-deaf to community norms #
— familiar tale of lost dreams in Adventureland, animated by Divya Srinivasan #
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