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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 #
— great stuff; see also: the Whitburn Project, part one and two #
— sometimes, journalism is just picking up the phone #
September 28, 2008
— in-jokes galore, inspired by this logarithmic map of the universe #
September 26, 2008
— video was deleted, here’s my local copy on Waxy #
— based on candidate-related tweets, looks like only 2% of the Twitterverse is conservative #
September 25, 2008
— for sharing S3 buckets with the world; more from the creator #
— regex gone awry via Justin Mason #
— I’m surprised there aren’t invite-only Muxtape clones, flying under the RIAA’s radar via Kottke #
— I love the modded Aero City cabinet #
— the first real-time backchannel on live TV? #
— I’d love to see new comments appear as word balloons in Vimeo Land via leapfrog.nl #
— they claim it’s the first, but this Spanish adventure game came out in July via Kottke #
September 24, 2008
— leaked video, expect this one to disappear shortly; the live feed of him talking to Katie Couric is pretty damning #
— note the one column of blue trying to hold out via buzzfeed.com #
— a strange mix of heartbreak, support, and disgust via beingfamous.com #
— Karlheinz Brandenburg used the 1984 song to help debug the MP3 codec #
September 23, 2008
— in this very important presentation, he examines every single VP in history to see how she stacks up #
— needs more Doc Brown via b3ta #
— thanks for the update, CNN; also, Twitter, Facebook, and single-serving #
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