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October 8, 2008
— like Tamagotchi meets Levelhead #
— he also touches on his own recent encounter with U.S. customs #
— Gamespy loved it, but warns that it’s very hard #
— this works nicely for quick speech synthesis with simple URL hacking #
— I remember when their 2000 redesign blew away everyone with impressive DHTML features #
— funny, I keep all my priceless artifacts in cardboard boxes in the basement #
October 7, 2008
— ten years in the making #
— like Kottke said, there’s too much in here to like; related: Phone Sex AI via Fimoculous #
— after it buffers, try clicking “Restart” to get it in sync via Delicious #
— see also: Mechanical 5-bit Calculator in the Half-Life engine #
October 6, 2008
— this could also be used to keep you from answering personal email during work hours #
— very listenable pastiche of rock and hip-hop from Pink Floyd to Saul Williams with a strong political undercurrent #
— followup to The Giant Pool of Money episode from May #
— if songs sang what was happening in the music video via Andre Torrez #
— best game competition ever #
— “In Alaska, we have mosquitoes.” #
— with convenient Google Maps links for each #
October 4, 2008
— reminds me of an ant colony via Delicious #
— it’s got a beat and you can dance to it via Matt Haughey #
October 3, 2008
— finally, some innovation in the photo sharing space via Delicious #
— Truphone was the first VoIP app, but didn’t support Skype calling via Daring Fireball #
— very useful, though it’d require servers to enter the number in each group #
— there are several other good stories in that thread; related: a Hole in the Wall camp counselor’s tribute #
— he talks about how digital distribution makes topical parodies much easier via MetaFilter #
— looks like they bought Aaron’s Election ’08 app and rebranded it via benfry.com #
— searchable and scrollable with checkpoints and speaker coloring; it’s only missing permalinks and plaintext #
October 2, 2008
— looks like Ray has gone bye-bye; related: his UFO “documentary” via buzzfeed.com #
— like last year, the brilliant IF luminary Emily Short will be reviewing games as she plays them #
— if you’ve never played the freeware masterpiece, it’s available for PC, Mac, and Linux #
— flawlessly designed, focused heavily on participation; grouping your address book by state is surprisingly useful via Daring Fireball #
— here’s video of it in action #
— potentially devastating hack and relatively easy to pull off, affecting every browser #
October 1, 2008
— some very good links I haven’t seen before via MetaFilter #
— funny, I thought they’d abandoned the site entirely; here’s the announcement #
— clever campaign, though the typefaces are slightly off throughout; the New Yorker cover was drawn by regular Edward Sorel #
— in other words: everything is going to be okay via buzzfeed.com #
— applying knowledge learned from baseball analytics to electoral projections #
— Furbo released some source to celebrate #
— as Kellan points out, it comes with OAuth, a developer blog, and an API explorer via laughingmeme.org #
— scroll your way through the UK via Kottke #
September 30, 2008
— conveniently hackable URLs, too #
— extremely surreal flashback only available for one month; predates 9/11, YouTube, Sarah Palin, or this blog via Google Blogoscoped #
— clean and minimalist approach to feedreading for newbies via topherchris.com #
September 29, 2008
— you can reconstruct the entire debate this way #
— experimental gameplay with four endings, part of Daniel Benmergui’s Moon Stories mini-trilogy #
— virtually nobody can understand the job’s difficulty or the impact her work has on Flickr’s culture #
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