Google release chart image generator
— 50,000 images a day? I'd definitely use this for smaller projects #
Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet
— doesn't explain who paid to send the spams, but a great glimpse into how spambots operate (via) #
Kristin Hersh's thoughts on sustainability
— "You don't have to suck in order to work here, but it helps." #
Kleptones releases "Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be"
— a nonstop mix of greatest hits from a concert earlier this year, with some new songs too! #
Emerging Tech 2008 program announced
— definitely a welcome move away from NowTech and back to its roots (via) #
n+1 Magazine's long profile of Gawker
— the essay that kicked off the editorial shakeup there, but didn't cause it (via) #
Flickr adds photo editing tools
— partnered with Picnik, it's seamless and handles 90% of what I use Photoshop for #
Kristin Hersh on CASH Music
— with subscription and patronage benefits, artists like Kristin can stay independent forever, as long as they have dedicated fans #
IRSeek IRC search engine shuts down after user backlash
— using non-obvious bot names and using Tor to hide the IP addresses was very dumb (via) #
Said the Gramaphone on Brooklyn band Vampire Weekend
— refreshing sound, Sean nails it as Spoon meets Paul Simon's "Graceland" #
Six Apart sells Livejournal to Russian media company
— I guess that answers the question about how Vox fits with Livejournal (via) #
Google bans ads for paid link sellers
— finally! taking money from spammers while banning them from the index was hypocritical #
Square America's The Party
— some photos are NSFW; don't miss the other exhibitions and the wonderful blog (via) #
Airball, an unreleased NES game, now available for sale
— new games for dead systems make me happy; see the detailed review with video (via) #
Tay Zonday promotes Dr. Pepper with "Cherry Chocolate Rain"
— strangely depressing, but I guess it's better than William Hung's commercial (via) #
Google tests thumbs-up voting on search results
— no social feedback, but retains your setting across searches for the same terms (via) #
PayPerPost's bloggers ask if the marketplace is dying
— the PPP forums are fascinating right now, seeing how the community responds as the business collapses around them #
Technical overview of how the Facebook Beacon works
— this could have been fun and useful, if it was only opt-in on a site-by-site basis (via) #
Gamespot reviews Deal or No Deal for the Nintendo DS
— problems with the randomizer make this the worst game released this year #
What the Google Intranet Looks Like
— to compare, I found recent intranet screenshots for Yahoo! and Microsoft #
Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein compares real bands to Rock Band
— she continues the discussion on her own blog (via) #
Video: Gay bashing in Halo 3
— warning, offensive audio; very upsetting to hear, but not at all surprising (via) #
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock
— the same group responsible for the secret cinema and bar built in a cavern under Paris #
Desert Bus for Hope hits $20,000 raised for Child's Play
— they've been playing the world's most tedious game on live cameras for four days straight #
So You Want to be An Arcade Champion?
— one man's quest to play all 4,000 games in the Twin Galaxies world records book alphabetically #
Managing RSS feeds with better groups
— funny, this is almost exactly the way I organize my feeds in Google Reader #
ROFLCon's Guest List status report
— shaping up to be one of the strangest conventions of all time #
Fray relaunches as a quarterly printed book
— the original community for personal storytelling comes back after two years of hiatus #
Ze Frank on feeling uninspired
— "let's not wait for inspiration, but let's be ready for it when it comes" #
Gameplay footage from The Act, cancelled coin-op game
— the unusual game used cel-style animation and a knob to control the character's mood from serious to silly (via) #
LucasArts game engine ported to iPhone
— all their classic adventure games running full-speed with multitouch control #
Desert Bus for Hope hits $11,000 and 98 hours
— now in its 66th hour of gameplay, Penn & Teller donated $1,500 and bought them sandwiches; more on the game #
Video: Music Animation Machine plays Gradius, Dr. Mario, Donkey Kong, and more
— images from classic video games play their own themes using MIDI visualization; more background (via) #
Food Pairing
— tool to inspire creative cooking using the flavor components of 250 different ingredients (via) #
PickyPirate, a Metacritic-BitTorrent mashup
— finding the best-rated media on popular torrent sites (via) #
Video: Grickle's Closet
— I don't know why I find Graham Annable's animations so funny, but I do; see also: The Last Duet on Earth #
Flickr's second billion took three months
— absolutely insane growth, though slightly skewed by the one-time Yahoo Photos user migration? (via) #
Flickr launches Places and redesigned map views
— big congrats to Rev. Dan, Kellan, and the rest of the flickr crüe #
Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading
— I wish they'd modeled the Kindle after their excellent MP3 store instead of bowing to paranoid publishers #