Pitchfork.tv goes live
— still beta and an awkward UI, but some great exclusive video including the full-length Pixies reunion documentary (via) #
Ten Thousand Cents
— Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing (via) #
Imageshack launches free BitTorrent downloading service
— for people who can't run BT or limited by their ISP, this sounds great #
The Making of the Flagpole Sitta lip dub
— Jakob made it look effortless, with quite a bit of planning #
Infochimps, insane collection of open datasets
— subscribe to their blog, which tracks new data as its added #
Charles Manson's 2005 album released under Creative Commons license
— how does a 73-year-old man who's never used a computer hear about CC? (via) #
Adrian Holovaty's jazz acoustic remix of Radiohead's "Nude"
— current ranked #35 out of 423 remixes #
South Park meets the Internet Stars
— takes on Tay Zonday, Tron guy, Chris Crocker, Afro-Ninja, SWK, Dramatic Chipmunk, Numa Numa, and more #
Metafilter roundup of Paul Green's School of Rock videos
— these videos of kids rocking out brings joy into my heart #
Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes
— even their joke typefaces get them paid (via) #
Guncho, a multiplayer IF system based on Inform 7
— upload Inform code to create realms browsable by multiple people at once #
Dropclock, Mac/Windows screensaver
— lovely slow-motion Helvetica dunking; also: animate movement based on wind activity in your town (via) #
NYT's interactive tribute to the Mad Magazine fold-in
— the full article details Al Jaffee's illustration process #
home.mcom.com is back!
— a perfect snapshot of the Mosaic homepage from October 1994, thanks to JWZ #
YouTube adds metrics for video uploaders
— one note: they're all relative instead of absolute numbers #
TED just posted Clifford Stoll's hypermanic 2006 talk
— amazing that he can stand still long enough to blow glass #
Smoking Gun reveals LA Times duped by federal inmate's forged FBI documents
— great journalism, completely debunks last week's Puffy/Tupac expose #
Google removes alleged Chicago drug deal photos from Google Maps
— this Gawker article captured all the photos before they were pulled #
Tetroid 2012, electronic album of 21 musicians packaged as a Tetris clone
— some clever twists on Tetris gameplay, too #
First demo of Jim Leonard's Monotone
— from the creator of 8088 Corruption, the first tracker for the original IBM PC speaker (via) #
LA Times interviews Rick Astley about the rickroll phenomenon
— finally! I tried for six weeks to get a quote, but I'm not the LA Times #
Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization
— works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive (via) #
Search terms replacing URLs in Japanese advertising
— I'd love to hear more about Japanese search spam #
Bat population dying from mysterious "White Nose Syndrome"
— I'm surprised the writer doesn't mention Colony Collapse Disorder #
Paul Robertson releases new film, Kings of Power 4 Billion %
— like Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight, an epic hand-drawn animation in the style of 16-bit brawlers (via) #
NYT Mag on PatientsLikeMe, community and research guide for the sick
— the treatment and symptom charts are incredibly empowering #
Rock Band for Xbox 360 now selling new songs in-game
— they've already sold 6 million songs in three months through the clunky Xbox Live Marketplace #
MyMiniCity, SimCity-ish game that grows with passive referral traffic
— each unique referral is a new inhabitant; compare Barbelith to GoonTown (via) #
Kotaku's Brian Crescente reviews Super Smash Bros. Brawl
— a little weekend dose of insane for you (via) #
Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location
— demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API #