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August 24, 2006
— a fascinating story of two very different mathematic personalities; more from Kottke via Kottke #
— this basically summed up my day #
August 23, 2006
— obscure Nintendo DS references on t-shirts make me happy #
— from scroll-like “labels” in 12th century paintings to modern comic strips; also: the Early Comics Archive via Adam Kempa #
August 22, 2006
— reviewers avoid 7.7 and 7.8 scores #
— “We Are the World”-style commentary on music piracy; “even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong” #
— video mashup of Bush singing “Imagine,” with a nod to Lou Reed #
August 21, 2006
— full speed OpenGL/DirectX running natively on the Mac would mean I’d never buy a PC again via Digg #
— removing positive portrayal of cigs in Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, and The Flintstones #
August 20, 2006
— bad UI, but great conversation with Will Wright, David Jaffe, Cliffy B, and Harvey Smith #
— which restaurants are open in your area, right now? #
August 19, 2006
— stop-motion animation of retro arcade games played out with household objects #
— people like Mike inspire me; Fundrace, OGLE, Pizza Party, VGMap, and reBlog are all wonderful #
August 17, 2006
— visual tool for screen scraping websites into XML and doing neat things with it #
— even more than Arcade, I’m eagerly awaiting Get Lamp #
— I’m interviewed along with the rest of the staff; follow along on the archives #
August 16, 2006
— hyperviolent fun with copyright violations circa 1986; cameos by Mickey Mouse, Blondie, Nazis, and Richard Simmons via Delicious #
— I love that company; how many other businesses would write a public expose on payola review sites? #
— also: ColecoDS now has sound and saving #
— “Bruce Schneier can straighten out an elliptic curve with nothing but his teeth” #
August 15, 2006
— sharing the games will be challenging, but it’s a great move that other consoles should try to top #
— famous websites without identifying text or graphics; how many can you name? #
— AOL employees digging Weblogs, Inc. stories in a coordinated effort to get to the frontpage #
— College Humor, yes, but also Vimeo, Busted Tees, and others via cheesedip.com #
— there’s a fine line between eccentric and insane via stereogum.com #
— the Teams feature is the most interesting; social networks will eventually be built into the OS via feeds.feedburner.com #
August 14, 2006
— compatibility list with some screenshots; also, you’ll need to dump your BIOS via Nelson Minar #
— don’t miss the soccer video; estimated to cost $200-500 per square foot #
— “I started a blog and nobody came; no issues were raised, no comments were made” #
August 13, 2006
— this could almost be Sims 2 machinima via Delicious #
— a truly awful move that will damage the community via Digg #
August 11, 2006
— instantly makes the service seamless and invaluable #
— reminding myself that I need to do this someday, too #
— so obnoxious; I’d love to hear a version using only the original samples via Boing Boing #
— 78-year-old man vlogging on YouTube; watch his first video to see how quickly he’s evolved in six days #
— wiring a single controller into two SNES emulators, and recording the results #
— continuing his great series of Web 2.0 apps around the world #
August 10, 2006
— Aziz Ansari comedy with cameos by Tapes ‘n Tapes, Pitchfork Media, and Ted Leo via Delicious #
— “leveraging our inability to understand risk” via Simon Willison #
— very neat use of old tech via Delicious #
— like the Goggles flight simulator, why aren’t Flash developers making games with the Yahoo Maps Flash API? #
— uploaded by Charlie Rose! I like picturing him sitting on YouTube moderating the spam comments #
— Aaron releases his Python hack for syncing Upcoming events to Series 60 phones #
— “are we as a culture starting to construct toys that are too effective and end up hurting people?” via Delicious #
August 9, 2006
— it’s a good thing there’s no way to fake photographs on a computer via Delicious #
— updated yesterday; too bad it’s nearly impossible to short penny stocks #
— great bit on “hog-morse” and the origin of “hams” #
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