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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 #
— is Jonatan the most prolific game developer alive? #
December 26, 2008
— hosted on Bandcamp, and now with the solo piano track used in each song #
— love the idea, but too clunky for everyday use via Delicious #
December 24, 2008
— also: Gamasutra’s top 5 indie games #
— lo-fi zombie shooter in 4k of Java via Delicious #
— they just passed through Kazakhstan; also tracking on Google Maps and in 3D on Google Earth #
December 22, 2008
— I didn’t realize they expanded into non-Scumm engines last year, including the Sierra AGI games #
December 20, 2008
— they’ve been adding rare concept art and unseen videos daily #
— meta-game where unlocking achievements is the goal via Delicious #
December 19, 2008
— incredible work, from FlowingData’s best infoviz of 2008 via FlowingData #
— lovely visualization using Venn diagrams for keyword relationships #
— “by the year 2100, Santa will be a genetically-engineered cyborg half-Yeti who can transform himself into a pure datastream” #
— one company registered Class of 2013 groups for 250+ colleges; the CEO responded in the comments #
— from the Universal Record Database, an open alternative to Guinness for stupid human tricks #
— their blog and Hall of Fame shows off the power of the apps #
— the consensus is it’s the best, most fully-realized game released so far #
— they talk about music, their new album, and their creative process at SNL #
— allowing community contributions and expanding this to the whole country would be brilliant #
— here’s video of it in action, and the development blog from conception to its Monday premiere via ascii.textfiles.com #
December 18, 2008
— structured data from Yahoo! Search, Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming, and more using a SQL-like syntax #
— print the puzzles out, solve them, and scan it with your webcam via Delicious #
— he argues that a free market’s focus on performance eventually makes degrees irrelevant via givemesomethingtoread.com #
— I spoke to him earlier today; this is why his Infocom article for Wired was postponed #
— it’s unfortunate that Google Map Maker is competing with OSM, rather than contributing to an open web #
December 17, 2008
— plus, a much larger player for HD videos #
— I’ll leave it to you to figure out how to use both #
— first court papers ever served on a social networking site? via Delicious #
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