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November 1, 2008
— 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 #
— more photos of little food people, though Cascadian Farms is removing them on their packaging redesign #
— if the interface is this flaky, can you imagine what the data store and security look like? #
— the individual stories are just brilliant #
October 28, 2008
— the real game even reproduces NES flaws like flickering and framerate issues via Delicious #
— the first national newspaper to drop the “paper,” and not the last #
— this is masterfully done via Boing Boing #
— 22,000 reviews back to 1924; they’re on a tear lately #
— oddly, announced at the same time as the Whitewash tech demo in Unity #
— people swearing on Twitter via Daring Fireball #
— reading the terms, I still don’t think publishers should be able to stop people previewing their books; here’s their side via Nelson Minar #
October 27, 2008
— “because a lot of kids out there think this is actually the way you play guitar” via Hackaday #
— 22,000 videos, embeddable and streaming; someone should mash the API with the 120 Minutes Playlists archive via Fimoculous #
— it seems like all news is political these days #
— if you haven’t tried it, you’re really missing out #
— 140 participants, one take via electrolicious.com #
— I love the individual apartment listings; another great Rails Rumble entry #
— handy microsite, entry in the Rails Rumble 2008 #
— some great comments, though the reverse-chronological order drives me insane #
— if you’ve played the game, you’ll recognize the movements immediately; Jordan’s posting his old development diary online via Tom Armitage #
— rethinking the meanings of “friend,” “attending,” and “maybe” via serialconsign.com #
— taking advantage of Google Spreadsheets’ XML import methods; related: web service to normalize candidate names #
— Obama moves vertically, McCain horizontally, and Bush a mix of both via Boing Boing #
— Robert finds it flattering, but it’s bad form to turn this into this without credit #
— test it out on Suggestly #
— built on top of SwitchProxy #
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