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April 16, 2009
— time travel with Photoshop via Delicious #
— a must-read for any fan of the show #
— their @basementdad account, created yesterday, is gaining 700-900 followers per minute #
April 15, 2009
— the NSFW thread on /b/ (cache) is interesting, they’ve shared code for fake account creation #
— they did his taxes for free, because of the “unpleasantness“ #
— custom Windows apps, Perl scripts, and proxies to submit thousands of votes per minute #
— every entry on his site is magic, including his TIME tour, abandoned zoo, stealing books, and thoughts on scrappers via Kottke #
— which, really, they should’ve done in the first place via Daring Fireball #
— though the last photo looks Photoshopped; maybe they’re printing new booklets instead? #
— absolutely beautiful, based on Aldo Cortesi’s original visualizations #
— except that my crazy aunt never donated $10 million to Scientology #
— outrage has its own momentum, even when circumstances change #
April 14, 2009
— their meme database is like a safe for work alternative to Encyclopedia Dramatica via Fimoculous #
— they say it’s strictly internal, debunking Weev’s claims #
— he makes a suicidal game look easy #
April 13, 2009
— not content to just push Moot to the top, they rearranged the results to spell a message #
— for people who take Twitter way too seriously; don’t miss the intro video via Kottke #
— mind-blowing real-time terrain generation in 4,096 bytes; download it via @simonw #
— Joel Johnson’s Boing Boing Gadgets entry became its own site via Nelson Minar #
— remember him? this guy’s skeptical, but it still seems plausible to me #
— and they interviewed me about their #1 video #
— the results weren’t great, but inspired him to make it better #
— including Xzibit’s response to the meme on Twitter #
April 12, 2009
— including the loolol, a lol with 100 o’s via Delicious #
April 10, 2009
— from Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, a BBC show about the news media; full episodes here via MetaFilter #
— NSFW language; the jargon’s interesting, from HWP to DDF #
— accountability for reviewers and owners is good, but could lead to an all-out war #
— despite the false alarms, it’s now up on Steam #
— amazingly, it seems to have led to a minor revelation for him about his own ego #
— ongoing series of gadgets appearing in TV and film #
— they recently stopped D&D PDF sales to thwart piracy, always a bad plan #
— he analyzed data from MeeTimer, a lovely Firefox extension for self-tracking #
— “z” to jump; insanely masochistic gameplay, watch the full walkthrough via Indie Games+ #
— collages made exclusively from YouTube screengrabs, artifacts and all via Kottke #
— I’m simply amazed at the progress they’ve made #
— curious that it’s not on the Digg homepage yet, even with 600 1,100 diggs #
— “Twitter founders Bob Timpei and El Segundo have begun working in earnest with Germans” #
April 9, 2009
— in 2007, the CIA declassified 50-year-old documents about the OXCART program #
— here’s a video of it in action; Aaron makes cool stuff via Offworld #
— could be great or awful; the game’s about love, sacrifice, and 16 big-ass boss battles via Slashdot #
— like The Setup for illustrators via John Martz #
— Cat and Mouse in Project Gotham Racing sounds like a blast, too #
— he’s transformed another children’s classic via slashfilm.com #
April 8, 2009
— also, they announced their new Real Estate API two days ago #
— amazing videoblog of original VHS rips; the first post set the tone, recreating a VHS viral he’d seen in college #
— bans are losing support at a rate of 2 points yearly; by 2012, almost half would vote against it #
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