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January 29, 2006
— witty and moving profile of a kids’ entertainer; don’t miss the followup with the writer via Simon Carless #
January 28, 2006
— by being openly gay, Blizzard claims they’d incite harassment by other users #
— illustrated by Gordon McAlpin, who recounts comic-related events in comic form via Delicious #
— what, no driving directions? via Nelson Minar #
January 27, 2006
— playable version of this visualization; requires Firefox 1.5 #
— it’s one thing to censor to comply with local laws, just be open and honest about it #
— a good time to revisit Jed’s Other Poem #
January 26, 2006
— overlaying 15 game runs of Gradius into a single video; I want Pac-Man next! via Kottke #
January 25, 2006
— nicely designed web-based feedreader goes out of private beta #
— aggregation and analysis of 75 “Best Albums of 2005” lists #
— fast and addictive Flickr multiplayer game via Flickr #
— one of Y Combinator’s eight startups is still growing #
— a great visualization of all 362k possible permutations via Reddit #
— music video about the true story of E.T. for the Atari 2600; also, a great interview with the game designer #
— popular elements and attributes across a billion webpage sample set via Delicious #
January 24, 2006
— full-motion video and audio running on the first IBM-PC via trixter.wordpress.com #
— grab 3D models from games or apps for reuse, mashup, or 3D printing; badass! via Delicious #
January 23, 2006
— unofficial, created by Jon Aquino by scraping the official Konfabulator gallery via Nelson Minar #
— some theories on the Gizmodo thread #
— DDR with 50,000 of your closest friends #
January 22, 2006
— Waxy Links tag cloud visualized using Ajax, the PHP5 XML DOM, and Yahoo TermExtraction API #
— still popular; I’ve served 215 GB of the House of Cosbys pilot this month #
— aerial city photos that very much resemble scale models #
January 21, 2006
— Nick’s response was “I’m exploding inside” #
January 20, 2006
— Steve Jobs would sit on the board and be a major shareholder #
— tech predictions from the October 1989 issue of Compute! magazine via Digg #
— web-based Commodore 64 emulator via Delicious #
— sly commentary on the US Government asking search engines for private search queries #
— remember kids, nobody likes a snitch #
January 18, 2006
— with Mumbai, they’re up to 40 local blogs #
— outstanding annotated list #
January 17, 2006
— won’t somebody think of the children? #
— Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers via Digg #
— directed by Gerald Casale of DEVO for Disney Records via Andre Torrez #
— Zork meets the Washington Post #
— videogame parody of working at a Kinko’s store, sounds like Root Beer Tapper #
January 12, 2006
— Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg’s influence grows #
January 11, 2006
— not great, but I’ve been humming the Punch Out theme since I saw this last week #
— silly fun with Google wildcards #
January 10, 2006
— cute coincidence via Airbag Industries #
— MacBook 4-5x faster than Powerbook G4; new iMacs 2-3x faster #
— for some context, see the popular web meme #
— not even Ron Jeremy could handle it #
— an uncharacteristic rant posted to the Slashdot homepage; some users want /. to be more Digg-like #
— live coverage of the Macworld keynote, now with Ajax! #
January 9, 2006
— wow, incredible analysis of UNC’s freshman class Facebook usage, including demographics and information sharing #
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