Interview with developer of Trism, lovely new iPhone game
— buit in only 10 days, it uses the accelerometer to determine how pieces fall #
Interview with Susan Bradley, Pixar graphic designer
— among other things, she designed the hand-drawn type in the Ratatouille titles (via) #
Jason Reitman's "In God We Trust"
— great little short film about the afterlife from Juno's director #
Dead Word, the Word.com archive
— just stumbled on this 1997-era snapshot of Word, apparently captured by net Yoshi Sodeoka #
Carl Steadman's Two Solitudes
— love in the early digital age, originally delivered to subscribers as a series of emails in real time #
His Aim Is Truer, bootleg of historic concert reuniting Elvis Costello with Clover
— BigO removed the files, but you can download the MP3s or FLACs here #
Rocketboom's Know Your Meme series
— surprisingly good, tries to identify running themes in Internet memes #
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
— "we at Diebold will see to it that we properly safeguard the illusion of democracy" (via) #
Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band
— backed by Merlin Mann, Leo Laporte, and Veronica Belmont; it's a geekgasm #
Vice Magazine's cover feature on Shintaro Kago
— weak interview, but interesting he's getting more attention; don't miss the Labyrinth scanlation #
Talking Points Memo becames first blogger to win Polk Award
— too bad the Pulitzer excludes independent journalism outside of newspapers, online or off #
Map of social network popularity around the world
— Asia loves Friendster, Russia loves LiveJournal, and Orkut still dominates Latin America (via) #
Jake and Amir getting MTV show?
— if true, College Humor secured digital rights, so good news all around #
Hot Topic selling design pirated from popular Threadless shirt
— and a low quality ripoff, too; Jess Fink has a right to be irritated (via) #
Fan creates 3.5GB torrent of SXSW 2008 free MP3s
— SXSW won't release a torrent this year, so Greg made one himself #
Boom Blox to include Wiimote head tracking
— the inventor of the technique didn't get credit or money for it, but he doesn't mind #
Interview with Tay Zonday on "selling out"
— he's eloquent, grounded, and philosophical about his fame (via) #
ForumWarz
— supremely brilliant browser-based RPG parodying Internet culture; more about the creators #
I Wanna Be The Guy!
— viciously hard Windows platformer with a pastiche of retro games; here's one attempt (via) #
Microsoft announces Xbox Live Community
— anyone who pays $99/year for the development kit can submit games for review #
Perry Bible Fellowship creator retiring weekly comic strip
— switching to periodic updates, which makes more sense for a cartoon like his #
BME interviews man who deliberately amputated his right hand
— he felt it was a birth defect, so staged an accident with a power tool (via) #
Torontoist on Obay, mysterious billboard campaign
— good research into this cleverly-designed viral campaign #
Lawyers representing gold farmers threaten MMO blogger
— nice summary; here's one archive of the original post, now removed #
Video: Jammin' the Blues, 1944
— historic jazz session with sublime performances and gorgeous direction (via) #
Yahoo! filters The Pirate Bay from search results?
— a strange move, since people are looking for it constantly #
File Destructor 2.0
— create a corrupted file to send in when you're missing deadline; old, but new to me (via) #
California judge forces Wikileaks.org DNS entries removed
— a tactic I've never seen before, the site is still accessible by IP address or multiple mirrors (via) #
POV-Ray Short Code Contest #5 Winners
— creating a ray-traced animation in only 512 characters; see the other rounds (via) #
Rex Sorgatz interviews Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock
— excellent interview addresses a bunch of questions I had about the site #
Quake II ported to the Nintendo DS
— impressive feat; from the same guy who ported the first Quake (via) #
Rejected valentines from Shoebox Greetings
— "I love everything about you... except the things we've already discussed" (via) #
Love blossoms in the lab
— it shouldn't be a surprise that romantic love is chemically similar to OCD #
4 Color Rebellion's video game valentines
— their Tetris valentine from 2006 became a cult favorite #
The Cernettes' "Surfin' on the Web" from 1992
— the band formed at CERN next door to Tim Berners-Lee's office #