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November 6, 2008
— also, Nate Silver’s electoral predictions were dead-on across the board; go math! #
— some people use Twitter like Colbert’s SimulTube #
— automated screengrabs every half-hour from 3pm-10pm Tuesday night via Daring Fireball #
— and, finally, full comics in RSS feeds #
— weighted by population, fun to compare to the 2004 election #
— absurd reimagining of the election as an Ocean’s Eleven-like diamond heist #
November 5, 2008
— tons of unreleased information; character sketches, layout, cutscenes, and every puzzle #
— they were given major access on the condition nothing would be released until today #
— rare cameo by Akiva from the Lonely Island #
— this feels the 2008 counterpart to their unbelievably prescient 2001 article #
— his opponent used deceptive robocalls and direct mail borrowing photos from Sean’s Facebook and Flickr accounts #
November 4, 2008
— interesting to see how each designer tackled the same problem so differently #
— don’t miss the alt-text #
— a bit glitchy, definitely different from Cisco’s Telepresence #
— build the tallest stable structure with 99 Tetris bricks via auntiepixelante.com #
— DRE 700 IS LEADER via Laughing Squid #
— guests will be interviewed from remote locations, Star Wars-style #
— including reporters applying their own makeup and chatting with cameramen #
— about 20% are no longer online, proving linkrot is alive and well in YouTube #
— inside story of living with the Phelps family, with comments from Shirley Phelps-Roper herself #
— a handy guide to tonight’s events #
— concise video sums it up #
November 3, 2008
— or: why 2009 will be the year of social, user-generated gaming via Tom Armitage #
— illustrated Internet memes in the style of vintage I-Spy children’s books #
— pay journalists to dig deeper into stories; their blog’s doing original reporting funded with the site #
November 1, 2008
— glad to know I’m not the only person in the world to find this Samberg sketch funny #
— Jason Scott reflects on the anniversary of one of the digital age’s most important and vital archives #
October 31, 2008
— the Bible rewritten by Mechanical Turk workers #
— could be old news, and only recently noticed with the launch of MTV Music #
— a mess of interesting links, just start from the first class and work forward #
— these are all great, but I think I like Moonwalk best via digitalmediatree.com #
— three MIT grads used custom C++ code to remix the closed captioning in real-time #
— exploratory learning with levels, items, inventory, quests, and scores #
— let your fingers do the grinding #
— User-agent: zombies; Disallow: /brains via Google Blogoscoped #
— musicians filmed live in Australia, inspired by La Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows #
October 30, 2008
— easy, I’ll just whip one of these up in Ponoko via Delicious #
— Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton/Biden, and even Obama/McCain slashfic via Delicious #
— very creepy NYC storefront with animatronic hot dogs, squirming chicken nuggets, and monkey porn #
— also, new user-created OpenStreetMap tiles for Baghdad and Kabul #
— even more remixes here, including meeting Tourist Guy #
— there should be one kid in the back singing about Ron Paul via buzzfeed.com #
— like Greene, I find this really refreshing #
— I highly recommend the first two collections, and the third’s out next month via John Martz #
— double-click a game to run it via Tom Armitage #
October 29, 2008
— defend marriage by voting no, please #
— the McCain campaign also used this approach in their Joe the Plumber testimonials #
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