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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 #
— baffling since they only host metadata, but not the actual files #
— an LED sundial with moving hour, minute, and second hands #
— The Onion built a dedicated website for the game, with an online Flash demo #
— Flash game in the form of weather infographics in a textbook; awful music, though via Indie Games+ #
April 7, 2009
— like Electroplankton meets the Tenori-on via Ze Frank #
— wait, what’s this “CD” they speak of? via danbruno.net #
— the nearly complete deck is a thing of beauty, but sadly out of stock #
— using Stamen’s EC2 image for an instant map stack; yet another reason to vote for them in Icon’s poll #
— Stamen’s Shawn Allen explains how it was made in the comments via Flickr #
— in case media companies are wondering, these align to the ethical guidelines for most people I know #
— like Halfbakery for the fully-baked #
— naturally, Hearst also owns Oprah Magazine; Gordon predicted this back in 2007 #
— she’s been actively trying to get dropped from her label #
April 6, 2009
— they thought they were watching a new reprint of Wrath of Khan, until Nimoy himself broke the news #
— the latest release added a new Mozilla-based browser, fixed Hulu streaming, and Pandora support #
— home video includes 20 minutes of Romero playing a pre-release version of Doom via @dbarefoot #
— Last.fm’s MapReduce in an 160-line Bash script via Delicious #
April 5, 2009
— living in the shadow of a famous brother; also: a day in the life of a Goomba via auntiepixelante.com #
April 3, 2009
— interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db #
— fortunately, there were no sharks nearby #
— inspired by Samberg, the unpunched guy is Dan Paladin via GameSetWatch #
— “how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?” #
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