Review of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud
— create and destroy a virtual server farm in seconds with an API call; Amazon is doing the most innovative work in the entire industry #
L.A. Weekly on the gentrification of Los Angeles
— also, five warning signs; most interesting are gelato and the flight patterns of visual artists (via) #
Nintendo Wii to limit wifi for third party titles
— no non-Nintendo launch titles will have online play? #
Stephen Colbert rips off Ze Frank joke?
— hard to believe it's a coincidence; maybe a staff writer watches The Show (via) #
Dev-Scene Nintendo DS homebrew portal
— outstanding index of available homebrew apps and games for the NDS (via) #
Long New Yorker article on the recent Poincare Conjecture battle
— a fascinating story of two very different mathematic personalities; more from Kottke (via) #
The Evolution of Speech Balloons
— from scroll-like "labels" in 12th century paintings to modern comic strips; also: the Early Comics Archive (via) #
Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song"
— "We Are the World"-style commentary on music piracy; "even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong" #
Video: The Party Party's "God Made Me Do It"
— video mashup of Bush singing "Imagine," with a nod to Lou Reed #
Parallels plans to offer full Windows gaming support by end of year
— full speed OpenGL/DirectX running natively on the Mac would mean I'd never buy a PC again (via) #
Turner Broadcasting removing smoking scenes from Hanna-Barbara cartoons after UK complaint
— removing positive portrayal of cigs in Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, and The Flintstones #
Video: MTV's Game Makers Roundtable
— bad UI, but great conversation with Will Wright, David Jaffe, Cliffy B, and Harvey Smith #
Video: PES' "Game Over"
— stop-motion animation of retro arcade games played out with household objects #
Interview with Mike Frumin from Eyebeam
— people like Mike inspire me; Fundrace, OGLE, Pizza Party, VGMap, and reBlog are all wonderful #
Wired News on Jason Scott's text adventure documentary
— even more than Arcade, I'm eagerly awaiting Get Lamp #
RU Sirius show on Gettingit.com reunion, part one
— I'm interviewed along with the rest of the staff; follow along on the archives #
Video: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
— hyperviolent fun with copyright violations circa 1986; cameos by Mickey Mouse, Blondie, Nazis, and Richard Simmons (via) #
Dreamhost gets some angry voicemails
— I love that company; how many other businesses would write a public expose on payola review sites? #
Bruce Schneier Facts
— "Bruce Schneier can straighten out an elliptic curve with nothing but his teeth" #
Microsoft to enable homebrew content on Xbox 360
— sharing the games will be challenging, but it's a great move that other consoles should try to top #
Internet Soul Portraits
— famous websites without identifying text or graphics; how many can you name? #
AOL's Weblogs, Inc. gaming Digg
— AOL employees digging Weblogs, Inc. stories in a coordinated effort to get to the frontpage #
Barry Diller buys majority stake in Connected Ventures
— College Humor, yes, but also Vimeo, Busted Tees, and others (via) #
Apple making huge social software push?
— the Teams feature is the most interesting; social networks will eventually be built into the OS (via) #
First Nintendo DS emulator to play commercial games released
— compatibility list with some screenshots; also, you'll need to dump your BIOS (via) #
MP3: Sprites, "I Started A Blog Nobody Read"
— "I started a blog and nobody came; no issues were raised, no comments were made" #
Video: Coca-Cola's Grand Theft Auto inspired commercial
— this could almost be Sims 2 machinima (via) #
Video: Telling It All, Part 1
— 78-year-old man vlogging on YouTube; watch his first video to see how quickly he's evolved in six days #
Beating two SNES games at the same time
— wiring a single controller into two SNES emulators, and recording the results #
Video: Clell Tickle, Indie Marketing Guru
— Aziz Ansari comedy with cameos by Tapes 'n Tapes, Pitchfork Media, and Ted Leo (via) #