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August 27, 2007
— building a tabletop multitouch display with a plastic bag, some blue dye, and an iSight #
August 23, 2007
— local news visits the Flickr office, complete with goofy news anchors and weatherman via Flickr #
— dig that mid-’90s web design and postage stamp video clips #
August 22, 2007
— Robot Co-op’s new baby, a very lightweight suggestion board for the world #
— NYU professor responds to idiotic anti-blogger op-ed citing strong examples of blogger journalism via Mike Migurski #
— incredible technique to identifying seams in images and modify only the boring parts via Cal Henderson #
August 20, 2007
— not a concept piece, but a “standalone, fully operational, social, digital radio” #
— Z-Machine interpreter for the iPhone; also: MAME! #
— this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful #
August 16, 2007
— see also: MIT’s Aspen Moviemap from 1979 #
August 14, 2007
— not sure how I missed this lovely programming learning environment and community #
— out of beta with native OpenID and memcached support, among other changes #
— appropriately answered by a former GA researcher, now answering on UClue #
— 1,700 vintage game manuals as watermark-free PDFs #
— several outstanding spin jobs were found and submitted by readers via Boing Boing #
August 13, 2007
— MySQL dump covering 2.6 million releases back to the ’80s; mixed quality, but could be fun for data mining via Delicious #
August 9, 2007
— they may be the new AOL, but their tech is undeniably cool #
August 7, 2007
— next stop, Doom! via tuaw.com #
August 6, 2007
August 5, 2007
August 3, 2007
— looks great, but no XML response? via Delicious #
August 1, 2007
— visualization of email as microbes; don’t miss the movies via Delicious #
July 31, 2007
— fascinating community built around collage of random images strewn around the web #
July 30, 2007
— some incredible entries cleverly using the “replay” theme #
— looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue via cynical-c.com #
July 27, 2007
— the national sport of Flickr, now with video tutorials and documentation #
July 26, 2007
July 25, 2007
— massively multiplayer word game, with one of the nicest graphs ever #
— pinball machine hacked into a first-person shooter; try the videos via subtraction.com #
— documentary about men living with Real Dolls via Delicious #
— Wesabe’s Firefox uploader and REST API quietly release your bank’s stranglehold on your data #
— if this doesn’t make sense, watch this first via Andre Torrez #
July 23, 2007
— Ed Anger is gonna be pissed via Delicious #
July 22, 2007
— maybe a typo in a case-insensitive regex? #
July 19, 2007
— legendary record engineer Steve Albini answers questions in a poker message board #
— Weinberger smacks down Keen’s inane argument that the social web is making us illiterate #
July 15, 2007
— looks like a playable version of Escher’s Relativity; see also: Portal #
July 11, 2007
— detailed instructions and fun photos; or, if you prefer, hook it up to your Mac #
— marketing video pitching the very early Web to businesses; tons of vintage screen capture goodness #
July 10, 2007
— Life Magazine asked comics artists to draw their iconic characters blindfolded via John Martz #
July 9, 2007
— they interviewed Rupert Murdoch, Art Spiegelman, Barry Diller, Brad Bird, Ricky Gervais, and others via The Morning News #
July 8, 2007
July 6, 2007
— remote desktop, streaming video, and application server, all running in iPhone’s Safari #
— play two videos at once; more entertaining than you’d think via Delicious #
— they’ve figured out a way to start arbitrary services and move files around #
— Jason Scott on the history of user-aggressive software, from BBS crippleware to P2P adware #
— given a large set of HTML documents, intelligently extracts the strings that change between them #
July 5, 2007
— fake or not, this is great commentary on the Universal Music pullout from iTunes via Simon Willison #
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