May 19, 2008
Web Trigrams, visualizing three-word phrases from Google's corpus
— gorgeous infoviz; more of his work from the massive dataset (via) #
Drew Burrows' virtual girlfriend in bed, a lonely art installation
— reminds me of Daki Makura hug pillows and bedsheets (via) #
Webmonkey relaunches, again
— this must be the third or fourth time the site's come back from the dead #
Why We Twitter, academic paper from 2007 about microblogging
— nice network analysis and node graphs towards the end; Scoble's tying disparate groups together #
Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones
— decent speeds downloading music and it imports into your iPhone music library when done #
"Things Younger Than McCain" creator on the subject of ageism
— unlike sex and race, your age affects your ability to lead see my comments on this issue here #
Let's Write a Song with Rivers Cuomo
— the Weezer frontman's been vlogging on YouTube; the moustache is unnerving #
Joel Johnson's exhaustive roundup of 25 years of "exergaming"
— from the Atari Joyboard to the Wii Fit #
George Lucas wanted Indy IV to be "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars"
— the aborted draft by The Fugitive screenwriter made its way online in 2005 #
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
— systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period #
NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python
— for a more practical example, see Tufte-style charts in 11 lines of Nodebox code #
Cubescape, fun tool for building isometric pixel landscapes
— some nice 8-bit art in the popular section #
Games With A Purpose
— humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game (via) #
Android Scan, mobile barcode scanner and search utility
— a winner in Google's Android developer challenge, this looks very useful (via) #
Trailer for Mr. Bounce, an innovative riff on Breakout
— from the creators of the wonderful Understanding Games series (via) #
New Einstein letter elaborates on his views of religion
— he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism (via) #
Sightseeing in Liberty City
— Flickr photoset compared NYC locations to their GTA counterparts (via) #
WalletCards, clever idea to store membership cards on your iPhone
— I'd love a slim wallet too, but your mileage may vary (via) #
Christian Mac/PC parody on GodTube
— 394 comments debating the differences between "Christians" and "Christ-followers"; more here #
MUTO, an animation on public walls
— I love watching it replace graffiti as it walks through (via) #
Current.tv on Tron Guy at ROFLCon
— some of the user-contributed video on Current is great, as is the original programming #
BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme
— amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme #
Obsessing, a web-based editor for playing with Processing.js
— could Processing.js be the beginning of the end for the closed-source culture of rich media tech? #
Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world
— I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features #
Matt Haughey on how PR people should pitch bloggers
— most won't do this because it takes too much time, even though it's far more effective #
Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome
— they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them #
TinyDB, store tiny data in a tiny URL
— store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML (via) #
Ian Rogers on Reaper, Justin Frankel's current project
— the Winamp/Gnutella creator made a formidable ProTools competitor; amazing to see it go from this to this #
A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms
— I'm embarrassed to admit I found the Happy Days clip (in French) for Jeff #
Turning the New York Times into a beatbox
— an application for Lily turns DOM elements into audio (via) #