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May 14, 2008
— all the Pink Floyd ones made me laugh via subtraction.com #
— humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game via Magnetbox #
— the very blasphemous Mac app from 1992 was ported to OS X with new features #
— John Campbell’s been trying to live off patronage from custom comics and shirts #
— I’ve tried several Twitter meme-trackers, and this is the best #
— Bishop’s knife trick turned into a harmless game #
May 13, 2008
— the original is on GameFAQs via Fimoculous #
— a winner in Google’s Android developer challenge, this looks very useful via Andre Torrez #
— from the creators of the wonderful Understanding Games series via Indie Games+ #
— read more about the announcement, with some fun examples via Delicious #
— he rejects it as “childish superstition,” but also disliked the hubris of atheism via Digg #
— Flickr photoset compared NYC locations to their GTA counterparts via Fimoculous #
— I’d love a slim wallet too, but your mileage may vary via blog.bradgrier.com #
— 394 comments debating the differences between “Christians” and “Christ-followers”; more here #
May 12, 2008
— I love watching it replace graffiti as it walks through via Chris Glass #
— some of the user-contributed video on Current is great, as is the original programming #
— amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme #
— could Processing.js be the beginning of the end for the closed-source culture of rich media tech? #
— I’m stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming’s geo features #
— I didn’t realize he’d be the oldest US President ever via Fimoculous #
— Justin Hall and Merci Hammon’s game built on passive web surfing via Boing Boing #
— most won’t do this because it takes too much time, even though it’s far more effective #
— they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them #
— some original coverage on Flickr, too #
May 10, 2008
— store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML via Delicious #
May 9, 2008
— the Winamp/Gnutella creator made a formidable ProTools competitor; amazing to see it go from this to this #
— I’m embarrassed to admit I found the Happy Days clip (in French) for Jeff #
— an application for Lily turns DOM elements into audio via createdigitalmotion.com #
— high quality videos in three torrents from the music video community #
— I loved Bioshock’s story but not the gameplay, so this should be a fun ride via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— random sampling of 150 people’s clipboards, categorized #
May 8, 2008
— one of the most amazing hacks I’ve ever seen; don’t miss the demos further down the page #
— time-bending Flash game, reminiscent of P.B. Winterbottom #
— a multi-instrumentalist’s reality meets fiction via Ze Frank #
May 6, 2008
— named after Piet Mondrian, here’s how it works; also, a Javascript IDE via roesler-ac.de #
— new RPG madness from the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden #
— he just released a mega-sampler of 17 of his games; highly recommended #
May 5, 2008
— surprisingly deep multiplayer 8-bit Flash game #
— on the contrary, Yahoo! gained $7B in value while Microsoft lost $33B #
— members of the Soyuz capsule were greeted by confused locals in a Kazakhstan field via Anil Dash #
— like R2D2 with a floppy drive and 20MB hard drive #
— not there yet, but a fun first pass at getting Ruby code running Google App Engine #
— last December, Unicode beat out ASCII and Western European encodings for the first time #
May 4, 2008
— glad I wasn’t the only one skeptical of “pixie dust” made of pig bladders via Delicious #
— funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics via Delicious #
May 3, 2008
— generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm #
May 2, 2008
— from the creators of Kdice, even more fast-paced than iSketch #
— Jim Coudal knows how to pick ’em #
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