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November 30, 2008

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 Make #

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 Matt Haughey #
November 29, 2008

Rogue ported to iPhone

— get your 1980s dungeon crawling on #
November 28, 2008

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 benfry.com #
November 27, 2008

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 #
November 26, 2008

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 buzzfeed.com #

Zoetrope, search and visualize the historical web

— in-development tool creates a window into past versions of a page via @datamining #

Vinylscrobbler

— packet sniffing Shazam to update Last.fm from analog sources via blog.last.fm #
November 25, 2008

William Shatner responds to the new Star Trek film

— funny, I thought it’d be more like this #

Fimoculous' List of Lists 2008

— as always, check back often; last year’s had over 600 lists #

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 #

Processing hits 1.0

— seven years in the making, the artsy programming language leaves beta via hackety.org #

Bad Hacks, a repository of vulgar ROM hacks

— including Super Nazi Bros., Naked Metroid, and Zelda as erotic fanfic via auntiepixelante.com #
November 24, 2008

Kottke on Shaq's first week on Twitter

— I like that Shaq is following Not Shaq #

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 gamesniped.com #

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 Offworld #
November 23, 2008

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 #
November 22, 2008

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 #
November 21, 2008

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 #

Perspectives, video interviews with all dialogue removed

— um, uh, hmm #

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 anyall.org #

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 Delicious #

Pixel typography from the 16th century

— from an Italian embroidery guide via Daring Fireball #

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 #
November 20, 2008

"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 #

Star Trek theme played on a homebrew Wii theremin

— here’s how it works via @procrastineering #

Chicken Head Tracking

— strangely hypnotic, other birds have the same ability via @procrastineering #

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 #
November 19, 2008

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 #

Jack Handey's The Plan

— it’s foolproof via groovymother.com #

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 Cal Henderson #

Very lucky kid on The Price is Right

— still, nothing beats Daniel #

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 GameSetWatch #
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