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January 24, 2008
— I’m afraid I’m guilty of this one; here’s the original book via Delicious #
— unfiltered concerts with great bands on the Paris streets; my favorite music series #
— distributes links to pirated copies through an unofficial blog #
— more info on the project homepage via Digg #
January 23, 2008
— I found myself playing reverse karaoke, humming the guitar parts via Fimoculous #
— an insane 17GB of photos grabbed before they plugged the security hole #
— wonderful local data/news in a gorgeous design; if you live in SF, Chicago, or NYC, pop in your address and dig around via MetaFilter #
— 115,000 fans on Myspace, but only 35,000 first-week sales #
January 22, 2008
— first-world problems; e.g. “$20 to upgrade my iPod touch? screw you, Apple!” via Delicious #
— Jake and Amir make me laugh, and if that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right #
— the guy’s like the Zelig of the web #
— 100 hours of tape in 80 interviews; I’ve watched some early footage and it’s thrilling #
January 21, 2008
— Portishead, Jack Johnson, and Roger Waters get top billing? strange mix #
— OSX screenshot app makes blogging images much, much faster; watch the demo via @factoryjoe #
— remix of B-Down Brothers’ tribute to MLK from 1986, with a Czech Hall & Oates cover tossed in #
— if you haven’t seen either of those talks, watch them immediately #
— the interview ends abruptly towards the end of the clip #
— only 97 results for “microjournalism,” but the domain’s been taken since 1996 via Nelson Minar #
— puzzle/racing/rhythm game generates 3D playfields from your own music; compare Space Oddity, Mr. Blue Sky, Feist’s Inside and Out #
— I recommend watching the two side-by-side via jasoncosper.com #
January 18, 2008
— pretty rad, allows for free-text searching of their entire place name database #
January 17, 2008
— coded in Assembler with audio from a C-64 SID chip; here’s the source via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— making other laptops feel bad about their physique via Cal Henderson #
— featuring Richard Stallman, holding the laptop in the back via Valleywag #
— downloadable sticker kits for self-righteous designers #
January 16, 2008
— interesting thoughts from a Vampires player in the comments via GameSetWatch #
— Nick Denton has balls, and so does his attorney via Fimoculous #
— some older versions in the comments #
— Jeff Atwood has scans of the original article from MAD #33 in 1957 #
— the creator of Zefrank.org shut the invite-only community down on January 1, exactly one year after it opened #
— like previous years, designer Nicholas Felton presents his life as a corporate report via Boing Boing #
— community for people who love to process and visualize large data sets via Delicious #
— extremely odd real-life reenactments of Garfield comics, from the creator of Ducktales and Infinite Solutions #
— let’s hope Tom lays down a track along with Chick Corea, John Travolta, Leif Garrett, and Sylvester Stallone’s dad #
— wisely hosted on Gawker’s servers instead of Youtube, so won’t be easily taken offline #
January 15, 2008
— a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that’ve never been spoken before via interconnected.org #
January 9, 2008
— hallelujah, this kind of geo data is so valuable and hard to build on your own; update: Zillow followed suit #
January 8, 2008
— let it listen to music and it’ll try to identify the song #
— like a seizure-inducing Flash version of Superbad or Jodi.org via Jay Is Games #
— from a project to programmatically identify stupid web comments using Bayesian filtering via beebo.org #
January 6, 2008
— playing the accordion is better exercise than “vigorous sexual activity”? #
— 50 hours of Techmeme screengrabs in 50 seconds via Battelle Media #
— former America’s Top Model heads to jail after battle with ex-boyfriend; update: switched to Google cache after she locked the entry #
January 5, 2008
— blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 via MetaFilter #
— three cheers for cutting out middlemen; pre-orders are now available via Paypal #
— Derek Powazek returns to Suck.com’s original guide #
January 4, 2008
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