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June 25, 2008
— in one example, one pixel represents 114 miles via Mike Migurski #
June 24, 2008
— a brilliant primer with some familiar names to Waxy readers, and plenty of new ones #
June 23, 2008
— incredible detail, including the Simpsons house, Moe’s, and much of Springfield via Delicious #
June 22, 2008
— the amount of planning in the how-to is staggering #
— media piracy of all kinds is pervasive and not stigmatized via GameSetWatch #
— hip-hop rivalries in the YouTube age via Fimoculous #
— exactly two years from his first video, Matt returns from a 14-month journey around the world #
— “the majority of respondents shrieked ‘NOOO!'” via jeffrubinjeffrubin.com #
June 21, 2008
— more discipline than sport, this seems truer to parkour values than the over-the-top highlight videos #
June 20, 2008
— one of the smartest guys I know, I’m keeping a close eye on this #
— story of the design process with several photos of prototypes via pvrblog.com #
— all the memes are found, thanks to help from ChopShop #
— this is a great format for interviewing musicians via jonathancoulton.com #
— unfortunately, the bottoms are flat so they don’t stack nicely via Simon Willison #
— wonderful story; I’m not the only one who was reminded of The Little House #
June 19, 2008
— I gave $20 towards the inevitable legal costs; preview it on Hype Machine, partial sample list on Wikipedia #
— MP3s for the entire vinyl LP; I love hearing digital through an analog medium #
— on an Ferranti Mark I in 1951, before Bell Labs and Daisy but after the CSIRAC #
— if you don’t want to be spoiled, just type “about:robots” in the location bar #
— “it costs half a day’s pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city” #
— a fun hack, equal parts terrifying and irritating #
— brilliantly funny rewrite of the screenplay #
— the NYT has the best coverage, cautioning that the other eight patients in the trial weren’t affected #
— great audio; I finished it #
June 18, 2008
— that Goatse monster is going to give me nightmares #
— from Optima to Eurostile via Matt Haughey #
— best resignation ever #
June 17, 2008
— “a blog website for idiots and assholes” via Fimoculous #
— TED talk from 2003 but just posted online; includes a very funny tour of engineer’s logbooks #
— there must be some modern application for this for the GTD crowd #
— following up on big dot-com busts like Kozmo, Boo, and Webvan #
— I adored Alex’s talk at SXSW; the video is great #
— there’s also an awkward, half-broken Flash site to vote on celebrity Spore creations #
— their Science! shirts are all great, too #
June 16, 2008
— the lead character’s very touchy-feely with strangers via b3ta #
— Derek Powazek’s new venture with HP Labs; upload a PDF and you pick the markup #
— the app was leaked and SomethingAwful’s been having fun with it; official trial’s out tomorrow #
— the app works perfectly, if you can get past the potential privacy issues #
June 15, 2008
— Myspace’s official policy requires girls to submit visual proof to remove impostors via Fimoculous #
— charting length of the top 50 films for each decade #
June 14, 2008
— his category was cut from the broadcast and he lost to Perez Hilton, who didn’t even show #
— see contributions to Python, Apache, Postgres, and Eclipse over time via Delicious #
— not only are they removing alt.* entirely, but they’re only keeping seven hierarchies #
— starring Mark Hicks himself; the first meme to become a full-length film? #
June 13, 2008
— clever mnemonic for remembering the US presidents with syllables for the number of terms #
— reload for more; related: complete dialogue of over 10,000 Garfield strips via MetaFilter #
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