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January 21, 2009
— covers for imaginary film-to-book adaptations, inspired by Mossy’s movie poster remakes #
— It’s A Wonderful Lifehacker, the Fark Knight, Face/Book/Off, and many more #
— a similar dip happened on Flickr and Last.fm, but Twitter exploded during his oath #
January 20, 2009
— funny, I was with Mat when he twittered from Greens and the mentioned awkwardness ensued #
— short side-scroller built with YouTube annotations #
— instead of Secret Service, the Mall is patrolled by enemy super-mutants #
— some insight into the creative process of my favorite game of 2008; the free soundtrack was just released #
— a fitting finale for their series of news briefs #
— Ill Doctrine on the work ahead #
— five times the normal traffic with only slight delays via Delicious #
— all third-party content’s licensed under Creative Commons and there’s a Twitter account, too via Kottke #
— it pulls data from Google Calendar, iCal, BBC Weather, and Dopplr daily #
January 19, 2009
— the original version of the game inspired the movie 1980s screwball comedy Midnight Madness via snout.org #
— well-written story of how one girl inadvertently launched a 4chan civil war; yesterday, her channel was hacked and videos deleted via Fimoculous #
— Belkin’s CEO responded, saying it was a rogue employee #
— an essential read, she interviewed and observed hundreds of teens across 16 states, tracking the rise of Myspace and Facebook in the process #
January 18, 2009
— this also gives me a chance to point to Kottke’s new redesign; older designs here #
— brilliant, SXSW should replace their official list with this immediately #
January 17, 2009
— update: turns out this is actually pretty expensive #
— hold up, Google has a Data Liberation team!? #
January 16, 2009
— high-quality MP4 files, starting with all Change.gov videos; for everything else, there’s KeepVid #
— used toys are now exempted, but Etsy sellers are rightfully panicking; some endangered toys via businessweek.com #
— naturally, the staff reporters covered the announcement of the paper’s sale in detail #
— the community saw right through it, in their own unique way; does editorial integrity apply to LOLCats? via Delicious #
January 15, 2009
— found on Urban Prankster, edited by Improv Anywhere’s Charlie Todd via urbanprankster.com #
— as game hardware increases from the NES to Wii, Mario’s gravity is getting closer to reality via Tom Armitage #
— Justin obsessively researches a family recipe back to the 1940s via Andre Torrez #
— they’re also generating these annual reports for every Dopplr user via Kottke #
— the site’s original cofounder vows to build a replacement after it’s closed for good via Fimoculous #
— though nothing really beats the powers of Section 8 #
January 14, 2009
— and they’re ending development on Jaiku and open-sourcing the code #
— hell, I didn’t even know five of them via geekologie.com #
— the Zork franchise is being revived as a browser-based MMO from the creator of Trukz #
— he estimates about 23% of the userbase is active and connected, about 1.2M people via O'Reilly Radar #
— they’re doing some interesting community stuff, mixing wikis with traditional game journalism via Andre Torrez #
— they printed 1,000 copies of a newspaper filled with tweets, blog posts, and miscellaneous writing from last year #
— much more chaotic with nearly twice the memes, including Badger Badger and Leeroy Jenkins cameos #
January 13, 2009
— one of the harder songs has a 29/16 time signature #
— the lengths they went to avoid detection were pretty incredible #
— now that the whole thing’s up, well worth checking out; all 50 top albums are streamable #
— “strange, this site never finishes loading” via theflashblog.com #
January 12, 2009
— the NYT seems like the only paper that’s innovating like a high-tech startup #
— like the New Numa and Hamsterdance 2, you can’t recapture the magic #
— since the strangeness last year, they’ve started moving to a broader Most Popular algorithm #
January 11, 2009
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