NYT on Mark Allen and Machine Project at LACMA
— one of the most interesting people I know gets a writeup of his most recent project #
MIDI Hero, Guitar Hero hack with a drum kit
— the author later wired up his Roland V-Drums kit (via) #
Danah Boyd on Lori Drew's conviction in the Megan Meier suicide case
— the lawsuit centered on technology, when the fact it happened online was incidental (via) #
New York Times' visualization of one year of NYC parking tickets
— they had to file a FOIA request to get the data for the 9.9 million tickets #
Helvetireader, minimal Google Reader redesign with Greasemonkey
— very sexy, though maybe a bit too minimal #
The L.A. Times data desk
— all their research projects collected in one place, though some raw data dumps would be nice too (via) #
Rick Astley rickrolls the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
— quite possibly the widest instant exposure of an Internet meme ever #
Barack Obama's weekly address on YouTube
— stylistic notes: his team's using the new widescreen format and comments are enabled #
Ed Piskor's Wizzywig #2 released
— the perfect blend of autobiographical comics and geek subject matter; I bought both books, highly recommended #
The Time Machine, an interactive YouTube adventure
— see also: Tube Adventures and its sequel, Samsung's Follow Your Instinct, and A Car's Life (via) #
Zoetrope, search and visualize the historical web
— in-development tool creates a window into past versions of a page (via) #
StateStats, find correlations between search queries and U.S. state characteristics
— Myspace users are violent illiterates in warm climates, Gmail users are skinny and rich #
Fleet Foxes on La Blogotheque's Take-Away Shows
— directed by Vincent Moon in an abandoned wing of the Grand Palais #
Bad Hacks, a repository of vulgar ROM hacks
— including Super Nazi Bros., Naked Metroid, and Zelda as erotic fanfic (via) #
John Gruber on the iPhone's deprecation of "http://"
— I'm a little surprised they didn't merge the search and location bar into a single field #
Twitter acquires Rael Dornfest
— along with Values of n, which will be shutting down Sandy and Stikkit next month #
Autographed Zork first edition manual sells for $2,300 on eBay
— from Brian Moriarty's personal collection, less than 100 copies were sold for the PDP-11 (via) #
Disney World's Haunted Mansion map in Counter-Strike Source
— from the creator of the Van Gogh Starry Night map #
Doom ported to Flash 10
— built with Alchemy, which could bring a flood of PC emulators and ports (via) #
Feedback Army, cheap and quick usability testing built on Mechanical Turk
— get 10 random people's feedback for $7 #
Esquire profile of Passage creator Jason Rohrer
— touches on games-as-art and the lack of popular auteurs in gaming #
YouTube Live's archived highlights
— some online were overthinking this, but I thought it was good fun; personal highlights: Julia Nunes, Bo Burnham, Mythbusters, Charlie the Unicorn, and DJ Mike Relm remixing memes #
Freddie Wong responds to the Bike Hero controversy
— "What's up, viral marketing douchebags? I'm gonna show you punks how a real man plays Bike Hero on Expert!" #
Google's collaborative pixel art in Google Spreadsheets
— they're even sharing the template and tips on making your own #
Robbie Cooper's Immersion, heads-on video of kids playing video games
— from the guy who made Alter Ego, the book of people with their online avatars #
Clive Thompson's long NYT feature on the the Netflix Prize and singular value decomposition
— the same technique we used on Memeorandum Colors (via) #
Boston College to stop offering email accounts to new students
— students come in with fully-formed online identities, so they'll just redirect to their existing email addresses (via) #
19-year-old commits suicide live on Justin.tv
— it should surprise nobody that he was egged on by 4chan, who always adore an hero #
"Bike Hero" video was Activision's viral marketing, as suspected
— I still think it's great, but Derek disagrees; then again, I always assumed it was faked to some degree #
Kottke on Brian Battjer's I Keep A Diary
— no joke, I just spent the last hour reading his photojournals of South Korea, Japan, Dubai, and NYC #
Torben Sko's experiments with camera-tracked head gestures in first-person games
— he uses a simple webcam, FaceAPI, and the Half-Life 2 engine #
Cover Browser's collection of every TV Guide magazine cover
— trivia: Macrovision sold TV Guide to an equity firm for $1.00 last month, less than the cost of a single issue #
Dr. Awesome game for iPhone lets you perform surgery on your friends
— perfectly nailed as Qix meets Trauma Center, it imports names from your address book #
Metafilter on John Ziegler vs. Nate Silver (and David Foster Wallace)
— great writeup of a perfectly terrible person's recent misadventures #
Google to shut down Lively next month
— the most baffling of all Google products, this one is closing after less than six months #
Snaptell, product lookup for the iPhone
— like Shazam for product packaging, price comparison's coming soon #
Interactive augmented reality demo in Flash with Papervision
— very quick with my iSight, I get much higher FPS than in the video (via) #
Space Invaders anime video produced for 30th anniversary
— "All this time we've been... and all they wanted to do was... We're horrible people!" (via) #