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March 22, 2008
— fakes a local directory for your friends with the files they’ve uploaded in each #
— a little weekend dose of insane for you via GameSetWatch #
— uses the Echonest audio API for beat matching to blend mixes automatically via variogram.com #
— demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API #
March 21, 2008
— Andrew Keen is the new Stoll, getting press for contrarian, but short-sighted, views via elearnspace.org #
— big companies and junk food both scale, but they’re unhealthy in similar ways #
— that’s incredibly awesome; take that, Urban Outfitters via the-inbetween.com #
— the first person to be fired because of tweets? #
March 20, 2008
— Alf is my co-pilot; I love that Mena’s back via @anildash #
— free filmic album and book, both interesting and worth experiencing via MetaFilter #
— organ is spackle for the music world via twitter.com #
— the most powerful and important document I’ve read in a very long time via O'Reilly Radar #
— more complicated than I thought via Matt Jacobs #
— as suspected, games are currently being worked on around it #
— now let’s go camping! via Delicious #
March 19, 2008
— with Ze Frank leading, picking teams marked the start of Twitter’s first potential MMO #
— fiction written and designed for Google Maps, from the creators of Perplex City via GameSetWatch #
March 18, 2008
— the opposite of RickrollDB, great for pranks via Delicious #
— help with his wish at Once Upon a School #
— and 40% comes from a single source; good luck shutting it down, though via Nelson Minar #
— telenapping with your loved one #
— like a drunken goat-bot funded by DARPA via Cal Henderson #
— impressive shots taken at night; full set on Flickr via Laughing Squid #
— from Dolores Labs, a Turk consultancy; also, their wonderful chart of race on Sports Illustrated covers via Magnetbox #
March 17, 2008
— from the Czech studio that made Samorost, a lovely game for kids commissioned by the BBC; walkthrough #
— don’t miss the rest of NPR’s coverage, too via Delicious #
— a massive outpouring of creativity; AdBlock users will need to whitelist the page #
March 16, 2008
March 14, 2008
— finally, blowing in the cart will actually do something #
— not an April 1 joke, as suspected; any idea how to enable cliply? #
— don’t miss the Victorian hate mail at the end #
— keep this in mind during the 2008 election via @dangurewitch #
— consolidation’s been happening for two years, but the result is impressive and sad via Boing Boing #
— the author of Passage and Gravitation‘s new Escapist column, prototyping a new game monthly via braid-game.com #
— possible smoking gun, because IRS forbids tax-exempt organizations from campaigning #
— I never get tired of the 2D-to-3D trick #
— silly and strange parodies of retro games; I just finished Tetris meets 2001 via Jay Is Games #
— they should’ve let it die, it’s like responding to the world’s biggest troll; account disabled, but mirrored by Gawker via Boing Boing #
— I beat the game on my flight home from SXSW; here’s a good review via GameSetWatch #
— best explanation of the oddball freeware RPG I’ve seen via GameSetWatch #
— with a look back at every old design #
— ambitious and sprawling 15-year project used VRML, Digicash, MOOs, and 25,000 hyperlinks; watch the 1995 demo via Nelson Minar #
— in 53 days, 1,000 true fans in action #
— as Nelson points out in the comments, this is Xanadu’s transclusion in widget form #
March 13, 2008
— nice little glimpse into the subculture and the scene #
— hard to explain, so just watch; if it works, this will become every mashup artist’s new best friend via MetaFilter #
— he passed away on March 5 #
— coded by an intern in three months #
— including some academic projects I hadn’t seen via Magnetbox #
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