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April 28, 2008
— also, John wrote about another project porting the Ruby virtual machine to JS #
— the best explanation I’ve seen via Battelle Media #
April 27, 2008
— everyone’s identified in the Boing Boing comments #
April 26, 2008
— he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too #
April 25, 2008
— hear the stories behind popular memes from their creators; see the Tweetscan for more #
April 24, 2008
— I had no idea Shiver Metimbers unmasked himself last year #
— I average about 90 wpm, even with my crazy nontraditional typing style via twitter.com #
— coming in October, Sierra’s Prototype will also attempt to model NYC in exacting detail via Delicious #
— like Muxtape, totally illegal fun; the embeddable players are great #
— saw this a couple days ago, but now it’s been tagged and removed via Matthew Baldwin #
— he churned out at least 120,000 words in 100 days, most likely their biggest earner #
— the percentage of seeders is rising, despite Comcast’s efforts #
April 23, 2008
— lovely art piece fashions a laptop out of an old book via tumbl.us #
— anything’s possible! via robhuebel.com #
— with detailed photos of every character’s desk, among other details via incidentalthinking.com #
— I’m so impressed with the games they’ve invented using existing web services #
— it seems to have spawned a catchphrase via topherchris.com #
— the Nostrasaurus knows all #
— a silly little mashup from Why built in haXe #
— shows aggregate spending info culled from their user data #
April 22, 2008
— Gay French Mario Bros. was a great game via topherchris.com #
— sounds about right, but will they need TV, or will TV need them? via beingfamous.com #
— hide your kids! at the five-minute mark, it carries a goat back to its nest #
— RPS nailed it as “whack-a-mole with Katamari Damacy’s aesthetics” via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— brilliant bit of found video courtesy of Josh Marshall #
— nice exclusive, stream the full album for free via Nelson Minar #
— a legendary haul via Slashdot #
— great tracker, but risks drawing too much attention to the site #
— he shares his earnings and the implications of depending heavily on a small core base #
April 21, 2008
— Steve is not happy via Fimoculous #
— my brother-in-law’s been recording and posting a song a week since January; reminds me of Shel Silverstein meets XTC’s Apple Venus #
— reminds me of the the Star Wars arcade game from 1983 via Michael Heilemann #
— look for the shirt icon on the homepage; also, it’s fun to manipulate via Fimoculous #
April 20, 2008
— completely sane message, but it’s not being told enough #
— great single-serving site listing search result counts for each permutation via Delicious #
April 19, 2008
— thoughtful piece addresses the seeming insignificance of lifestyle changes #
— nicely extracting quotes from articles with proper attribution, similar to Daylife via Simon Willison #
April 18, 2008
— insane, you can telnet to Firefox and control it with any scripting language #
— removes all dialogue from a 1938 film; also, I just updated the list of supercuts #
April 17, 2008
— the Internet is a giant Linksys router in the desert via Eliot Phillips #
— in 1995, I thought VR would be huge and Apple was in a death spiral via Boing Boing #
— expertly-written history of the subject, from Eliza to Inform 7 #
April 16, 2008
— after Ollie retired, Brad took his desk the following Monday #
— it is pitch black via MetaFilter #
— some more great stories in this thread, like this story about a 5am walk in Vancouver #
— it’s like technology from a parallel world via Delicious #
— dead-simple meme tracker for popular links on Twitter via louisgray.com #
— they claim copyright on the typesetting and numbering of the documents, not the text of the statutes themselves #
— no real evidence supporting hoax theory, but undermines credibility of the seller via Fimoculous #
— though I’m pretty sure the New York Times doesn’t killfile people who correct them via emptyage.com #
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