9 days ago
Andy Baio : Chatroulette Map - I think I'd rather not know, thanks [via]
nelson : Chatroulette Map - The illusion of privacy disintegrates
# copy19 days ago
nelson : Lessons from Doom - Interesting re-analysis of Doom in the context of contemporary FPS. Lots of things to learn.
cobra libre : Lessons from Doom - "Back then, the idea of a first person shooter was barely established, and [the] closest models... were from 2D shooters like Robotron, Berserk and Tempest." [via] #
# copy24 days ago
Rod Begbie : Sushi Cat - Cute fun flashgame. Sort of Peggle meets Plinko, with a sushi-eating cat. [via] #
Andy Baio : Sushi Cat - damn you, Cal [via]
nelson : Sushi cat - Silly pachinko-like game featuring sushi-eating longcat
# copy2 month ago
Andy Baio : Zeldman on posthumous hosting and the fragility of the creative web - maybe a nonprofit focused on archiving individual authors? Archive.org's wonderful, but it's darkweb
philgyford : Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report - I've been pondering the same things, wondering about some kind of foundation you pay who will archive a static copy of your sites after your death. (via Waxy)
cobra libre : Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture - "But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes. We are not clairvoyants, so we cannot say which fledgling, presently little-read web publications will matter to future historians #
# copy2 month ago
Andy Baio : Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough - obscure NES gem I'd never heard of, the annotations are expertly done [via]
nelson : NES Mr. Gimmick - Great annotated playthrough of an obscure Nintendo game. Sort of Kirby aesthetics
# copy3 month ago
Andy Baio : Browser Pong - only works in modern browsers, uses HTML5 audio
nelson : Browser Pong - Ridiculously awesome javascript hack
Rod Begbie : Browser Pong - Play Pong with browser windows. Neat hack. [via] #
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Facebook demographics - Great analysis by the company of the race of their users
Andy Baio : Facebook Data team releases study on user ethnicity - they compare it to the demographics of the Internet and United States
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Javascript game library - Looks interesting
Andy Baio : Effect Games - web-based toolkit for making and sharing hosted JS games; see the platformer tutorial for an example
# copy4 month ago
Andy Baio : Automatic Mario cover of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" - the amount of work here just hurts my brain [via]
nelson : Mario vs. Queen - 4 simultaneous specially crafted Mario levels play along with "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. It's unfathomable.
# copy5 month ago
nelson : HTML history: IMG tag - Great little trip down 16 year old mailing list discussions
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element - told through annotated conversations from 1993 [via]
Milo Vermeulen : Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] [via]
philgyford : Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] - The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)
# copy5 month ago
Andy Baio : iPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app - vaguely related: World of Goo's pay-what-you-like sale results
nelson : iPhone app piracy - 95% of people playing a specific game stole it. And it's only $2!
# copy6 month ago
nelson : Time Fcuk - Flash game, with amazing aesthetics as if Mother/Earthbound were made to be a giant bummer
Andy Baio : Time Fcuk - very quirky lo-fi platformer by Edmund McMillen
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Codepad - Share code via a website; unlike pastebin, this one runs the code too
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Kind of Bloop commentary - Nice background on how the project happened
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Kind of Bloop - Andy's chiptune project covering Miles Davis is released! Samples online now, available to the public soon
Andy Baio : Kind of Bloop released! - Bygone Bureau wrote a great behind-the-scenes feature about the album
# copy7 month ago
nelson : Choose your own Adventure analysis - Great flowchart of one of the old kid's books. Worth viewing the PDF. The structure is quite complex and rewards multiple visits.
Andy Baio : Visualization of a Choose Your Own Adventure book's outcomes - 8 out of 42 endings were favorable
Rod Begbie : Choose Your Own Adventure - Most Likely You'll Die - Mapping out the paths of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Chance of death: Nearly 50%! [via] #
# copy8 month ago
wearehugh : how to avoid ads in gmail - "you need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words"
nelson : Avoiding gmail ads - Simply make sure tragic words are in every mail
Andy Baio : How to Avoid Ads in Gmail - just add tragic words to your signature [via]
Simon Willison : How to avoid ads in gmail - How to avoid ads in gmail. “After extensive testing I’ve discovered you need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words in the rest of the email.”
# copy8 month ago
Andy Baio : Kickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans - 94% of projects that hit the 25% mark ultimately hit their goal
deusx : The Kickstarter Blog - Kickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans - "From the beginning, we’ve encouraged creators to tap into their networks as much as possible: there’s clearly a desire from audiences for greater interaction, more access, a more intimate relationship. Twitter has demonstrated that. And so what
# copy8 month ago
nelson : SHA collision finder - Engineers from Zappos code up some Javascript to help find SHA collisions for a contest.
# copy8 month ago
nelson : Waxy to Kickstarter - Congratulations, Andy!
Andy Baio : Joining Kickstarter - Some news: I'm proud to announce that I've taken the CTO role at Kickstarter, the Brooklyn-based crowdfunding startup I've mentioned here before. Yay! I've acted a board member for over a year, helping find the development team and providing some guid
# copy8 month ago
nelson : Hidden Triforce - Google logs have had a hidden Zelda figure embedded
Andy Baio : The Google Doodle Triforce Conspiracy - the artist has been hiding a triforce in the logo illustrations
# copy8 month ago
nelson : Instapoll pundits! - Great Onion video. See also: Max Headroom's take on instant democracy
Andy Baio : The Onion: New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time - I'm waiting for a talk show to start a real-time Twitter sentiment tracker [via]
# copy8 month ago
Andy Baio : Evan Roth's letterform studies of Paris graffiti - see the interactive site to see all 2,400 tags
nelson : Paris graffiti taxonomy - Photographic study of tagging styles in Paris. Not to be confused with Paris street art.
# copy9 month ago
Rod Begbie : Flip Flop Fly Ball - "A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball." Lots of great stuff, the comparison of ballpark ticket prices being my favourite. [via] #
nelson : Flip Flop Fly Ball - Great collection of sports infographics
Andy Baio : Flip Flop Fly Ball, Craig Robinson's baseball infoviz - Ballpark Orientation, Major League Fields, Ball Size Comparison and the Wu-Tang vs. E Street Band [via]
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