February 16, 2008
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 #
Jason Scott's final words on The King of Kong
— very long, absolutely essential reading; gives tremendous insight into the repercussions of documentary filmmaking #
Wired founder Louis Rossetto responds to Rex's Wired 1.1 tribute
— some fascinating history; I totally agree with him about the innovative design #
Derek Powazek launches Pixish
— instead of commissioning art or buying stock photos, allows anyone to run a Threadless-like design contest for cash #
Rewind Kindly, contest to create 5-minute-long no-budget film remakes
— in the spirit of Be Kind Rewind's sweding method #
Political contributions from tech companies
— Google loves Obama, Microsoft loves Hillary, and Yahoo! employees hang on to their money (via) #
The Aimee Mann Christmas Trilogy
— "you should do that one song you have about being really depressed" (via) #
TorrentFreedom to offer completely anonymous and unrestricted BitTorrent
— built on top of OpenVPN, the pay service bypasses any firewall and keeps no identifying logs, including billing #
Randy Newman, San Francisco 1972 bootleg MP3s
— what an odd site; Singapore e-zine posts rare bootlegs weekly #
Niall's technique for sniffing browser history to customize pages
— I'd only seen this used for evil before #
Mike Dailly's concept art from the design of Lemmings
— including the original animation that inspired the game; there's much more FROM DMA, too (via) #
Smugmug addresses some privacy issues
— all new galleries get keys appended to the incremented URLs #
Yahoo! Live, multi-user video chat
— server's getting slammed right now, but I'm surprised to say, it's pretty fun to use with friends #
Yngwie Malmsteen shreds with the New Japan Philharmonic
— the video that got Yngwie so pissed, he had Santori's YouTube account shut down #
Video: The making of Brent Spiner's second album, Dreamland
— I just found out the followup to his 1991 debut was announced right before my entry; nice timing! #
Details about a cancelled Naked Gun adventure game from 1997
— they hired and paid Leslie Neilsen to voice act, but political issues derailed the game #
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation
— holy cow, that's some mighty big guns #
The Evolution of Tech Company Logos
— the designer of the first Apple logo gave up 10% of the company for an $800 payout (via) #
Trailer for Blip Festival, the chiptune documentary
— debuting at SXSW Film with a huge chiptune concert? count me in #
Bully for the 360 adds achievement for kissing 20 boys
— very surprising, considering the rampant homophobia on Xbox Live (via) #
Matt Webb on Snap, the syndicated next action pattern
— watch the screencast of Dentrassi, their to-do list that runs entirely in a feed reader #
YouTube removes St. Sanders' "Shreds" account
— word on the street is Yngwie Malmsteen complained about being mocked; parody is protected speech! #
Twitter stats from Superbowl Sunday
— I want a magic CNN-style "Breaking News" on Twitter determined by algorithm; related: Twitterverse #
Groundhog Day screenwriter on the "how long?" question
— he mentions a deleted plot device that would've cleared it up; also: no mention of jwz's post #
7 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Staged
— I'm impressed by the research; Cracked is dominated by Digg-bait, but it's adapted well to the current web #
Peter Hirschberg opens the doors to his insane new home arcade
— over a year in the making, he moved it from his basement to a 2,400 square foot building #