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January 11, 2009
— they claim 1,000 Google searches produces as much CO2 as an average car driving 0.6 miles #
January 9, 2009
— one of my favorite multiplayer distractions drops the restrictions for free players #
— like 8% of all white males, I’m red-green colorblind and encounter these accessibility issues often #
— good luck getting even a single row #
— unfortunately, they only made the pilot #
— though it doesn’t tow you back to the start if you veer off the road, like the original #
— I like the student-submitted one much better #
— amazingly, it’s beatable; inspired by The Last Days of Dr. Wily? #
— the vintage video was the first home movie named to the National Film Registry #
— a great idea marred by a huge lapse of judgment by the dev team, who act in the promo video via Delicious #
January 8, 2009
— if you have a PC, you need to try this; it’s only a ten-minute time commitment, but so worth it via Indie Games+ #
— over 10,600 people have been unfriended so far via Andre Torrez #
— more on her site, including the story behind the work #
— somehow, I missed several of these; every link is worth reading #
— I really hope there’s a contingency plan to keep this amazing work online in case things go bad #
January 7, 2009
— I wonder if Thinkgeek has this problem with Customer Action Shots #
— how long will it take the Prince to roll up a room with random paths and an Arduino? #
— the screencast explains how the plugin subtly changes the pages you read via Boing Boing #
— the images are free for personal, non-commercial use, so I’m confused why Google agreed to restrict them in this way #
— the final trailer shows how far last year’s IGF grand prize winner has come; related: the iPhone version #
— Gary Hustwit’s followup to Helvetica via Daring Fireball #
— looking forward to Blueberry Garden and Night Game #
— looks like a job for the Archive Team #
— Brendan says it’s “both brilliant and insanely quirky,” which sounds about right #
— just like yesterday’s MacRumorsLive hack, a weak dictionary password was to blame #
January 6, 2009
— Matt Harding discovers hard drive-based camcorders don’t work in zero-gravity via Sippey #
— the 4chan thread shows how they found the admin interface, password hashes, and finally cracked a user’s password #
January 5, 2009
— even Liberia and Myanmar are mostly metric, compared to the U.S. #
— Dolores Labs uses Mechanical Turk to answer the Trolley Problem #
January 3, 2009
January 2, 2009
— like physical evictions, there need to be laws protecting community data in the event of closure #
— with only three days notice; here’s the response from Derek and the JPG community #
December 31, 2008
— loony hack serves summaries of Wikipedia articles; also available as JSON and JS #
— as strange as the Android bug that ran every keystroke as root #
— the Cartoon Network breathed new life into old cartoons, while constantly trying to find the next big thing #
December 30, 2008
— Twitter gave their blessing on sharing the 56-million records, which includes 10M tweets and 220k hashtags #
— the sequel to Just 2 Guyz #
— whoops, this was three years ago; here’s an updated version #
— an incredibly well-researched list, with related recommendations for every entry #
December 29, 2008
— mashing up the top 25 singles of the year into a single song and video #
— watch their collected activity here #
— note this doesn’t reflect Usenet popularity, but most likely the rise of huge Blu-Ray and HD rips #
December 28, 2008
— culled from the Starbucks Gossip blog #
December 27, 2008
— the Know Your Meme series is consistently well-researched and fun to watch #
— different cultures each localized their own versions of Chinese food around the world via Delicious #
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