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October 21, 2008
— also, why are four of the top five finishers at a women’s marathon male? #
— my sister found tiny people living in her broccoli #
— bonus points for gratuitous violence, points off for technical inaccuracy #
— one-year-olds make surprisingly good balding comedians #
October 19, 2008
— you know, like del.icio.us and burri.to #
October 17, 2008
— the parodists love Twitter because it’s quick, concise, and you can grow a network quicky #
— I believe in religious tolerance, until it affects video game release schedules #
— as fun as these sites are, trying to build a business on copyright infringement is just dumb #
— software that enables hurt feelings and awkwardness via Delicious #
— both are very, very funny; Obama starts at 11:00 #
October 16, 2008
— $60/year removes ads, increases limits, priority uploading, and limited HD embeds #
— the writer asked me on Tuesday about the meme’s origins, so I’m a little bummed I didn’t get credit via buzzfeed.com #
— “for all the intense gloom surrounding the newspaper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism” via Sippey #
— Randall Munroe wins handily via MetaFilter #
— the intro’s interminable, but it picks up from there; and if you never played the first one, get to it! #
— I think it’s worth watching the original encounter that inspired McCain’s “spread the wealth” line of attack via oblomovka.com #
October 15, 2008
— amazing how fully-formed it launched, with the same voice that would make it so successful via blog.topherchris.com #
— word usage statistics and clouds, with parts of speech and word pairs; Atom feeds available for the whole dataset via Delicious #
— no mudslinging in this campaign #
— from the same people the Take On Me video #
— if media companies attack Usenet indexing services that host no files, Usenet servers can’t be far behind #
— his ability to play was used as a measure of the surgery’s success via MetaFilter #
— helping convert gamers to creators is good for everybody via tigsource.com #
— solid tutorial; for this kind of thing, I’d also consider Freebase #
— reacts to sensory input from the microphone and accelerometer #
— if you think that plant’s really blogging, then I have a bridge to sell you #
— the Z-Machine object tree as musical instrument; don’t miss the MP3 of him playing Zork via crummy.com #
— if you haven’t, spend a little time reading about his methodology to understand how he’s totally changed the game #
October 14, 2008
— totals for each candidate by state or ZIP code and lookup by donor name, with JSON, XML, or serialized PHP output via Mike Migurski #
— the NYT digs into their archives to find some striking parallels to today’s credit crisis #
— uncensored images from James Cauty’s show are now online and prints are for sale via blog.topherchris.com #
— draw a line to explore the news, branch lines to see related stories and excerpts via FlowingData #
October 13, 2008
— best entry I’ve tried so far from the competition; hit enter a couple times to start playing #
— culmination of three-year project trying to find a toy giraffe from her childhood #
— requires Flash 10 beta, or you can watch the sample videos instead #
— the site’s changed radically in the last year, from casual flirting to almost pure gaming #
— and I’m fairly sure that’s still a fraction of them via Laughing Squid #
— the best game I’ve played this year; coming to Steam and WiiWare later today #
— it’s almost, almost worth buying a PS3 for #
— the community’s split between answer people and discussion people, and the categories can be clustered accordingly #
October 12, 2008
— Lord British spending 10 days on the International Space Station for a cool $30 million #
— Brendan O’Connor’s blog is one of my new favorites; he works at Dolores Labs #
— for use with piping from sort|uniq -c and the like #
October 11, 2008
— every object has physical properties, so trash can be crushed, burned, or toppled #
October 10, 2008
— see also: Woot’s Google ads via superpoop.com #
— don’t miss the part where he queries his UStream followers in real-time #
October 9, 2008
— from SIGGRAPH demo to product in a year via Sippey #
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