6 days ago
nelson : Google's browser - Google pushing browser UI in interesting directions. Based on Webkit?!
Linkorama : Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Yet Another Browser
Andy Baio : Google leaks details on Google Chrome, new open-source browser - with a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud; but really, do we need another new browser?
Rod Begbie : Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Technical details from Google (in comic-book form) for their upcoming browser. Some good ideas in there (splitting out tabs as separate processes definitely makes a lot of sense), but does the world really need another web browser? #
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22 days ago
Andy Baio : Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, full-length chiptune documentary freely viewable for one week only - watch it before next Friday!
deusx : Chapter 01 | Pitchfork.tv - "One Week Only Reformat the Planet: Chapter 01 It started with sequencing 8-bit chipsets on Nintendo Game Boys, but the Chiptune scene has now expanded well beyond game systems. Directed by Paul Owens, Reformat the Planet is the essential introducti
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2 month ago
joshua : Mapping Walkability – San Francisco
Andy Baio : Lee Byron maps walkability in San Francisco - built using Walkscore, Google Maps, and Processing
nelson : SF walkability - Walkscore + Google Maps
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2 month ago
nelson : More on Google Lively - interview explaining the product
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2 month ago
nelson : Fox News photo lies - It's so blatantly silly it's hard to believe this happened
Andy Baio : Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment - watching the clip reminded me of high school [via]
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nelson : Spore megathread - Good ol' something awful plays with the new creature tool from Spore. Lots of cartoon penises with sharp teeth
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Radiohead's "Nude" performed by a ZX Spectrum, dot matrix printer, scanner, and hard disk array - starts at about 1:10; best remix ever
nelson : LoFi Radiohead / Nude - deeply fucked; give it to 1:30 before giving up
Rod Begbie : Big Ideas (Don't get any) - Beautiful video of Radiohead's "Nude" being "performed" on old hardware. (Slightly skeptical because I don't recall the 48k Spectrum having multi-channel sound, but let's not piss on the chips of a great clip.) Forward to 1:10 if you want to skip the Spe [via] #
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Robokill - one of the slickest Flash games I've played, like Smash TV with robots [via]
nelson : Robokill - Great little casual game. Smash TV + upgrades
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4 month ago
nelson : Processing.js - A heroic project, the design Java framework ported to run in Javascript
Andy Baio : John Resig ported Processing to Javascript, using the Canvas element - one of the most amazing hacks I've ever seen; don't miss the demos further down the page
Rod Begbie : Processing.js - John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the tag. John is officially one of the most scary-smart people I know. [via] #
Simon Willison : Processing.js - Processing.js. John Resig’s outstanding port of the Processing visualisation language to JavaScript and Canvas. Runs amazingly well in Firefox 3. One hell of a hack.
jcgregorio : John Resig - Processing.js - "I've ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element." Whoa.
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art - named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE [via]
nelson : Piet language - Programming language whose programs are 2d images
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : San Diego GOP chairman co-founded warez group Fairlight - funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics [via]
nelson : GOP / Fairlight - Founder of one of the most famous pirate groups is now a Republican Party official in california
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4 month ago
nelson : Automated Blogger spam - Analysis of the network that's breaking Google's CAPTCHA and spamming the world
Andy Baio : Analysis of malware that creates Blogger spam blogs - using remote CAPTCHA solvers run by the spammers [via]
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4 month ago
Linkorama : If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - Nice to have lawyers to blog these things for you. Quite interesting analysis.
Andy Baio : Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover - the best explanation I've seen [via]
gleuschk : blog.pmarca.com: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - very clear explanation
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Don Hodges fixed the kill screen bug in Pac-Man - he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too
deusx : DONHODGES.COM - PAC MAN'S SPLIT SCREEN LEVEL ANALYZED AND FIXED - "Pac-Man suffers from the well known split screen when level 256 is reached. We will examine how and why this occurs, and create a patch to fix the program’s bug."
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5 month ago
nelson : 101-gta4.nfo - NTSC release of Grand Theft Auto IV, 5 days before official
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5 month ago
deusx : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - "From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989."
wearehugh : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - holy fucking shit!
Andy Baio : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documen
cobra libre : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the 'Infocom Drive' -- a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting [via] #
Rod Begbie : Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - Andy Baio has the scoop on the great text-adventure sequel that never was. Fascinating stuff. #
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Ben Heck's custom-made Apple IIgs laptop - it's like technology from a parallel world [via]
nelson : Apple IIgs laptop - Beautiful bit of hackery, nicely finished
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Waxy.org Redesigns - For the first time since I started blogging in 2002, I've redesigned Waxy.org. Over the last six years, I've grown pretty sick of the old design but never found the time to rework it. Mostly, the changes are cosmetic. Cleaner design, new logo, bigger t
plasticbag : Andy Baio has redesigned Waxy.org and it looks pretty great. - At some point when the current lunacy is over and my teeth are fixed, I have an apartment, Fire Eagle is completely launched, my taxes are done and Web 2.0 Expo and Where 2.0 are over I shall redesign too.
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5 month ago
nelson : South Park v. Youtube - Decoder ring for the brilliant episode. I love that about 1/3 of these videos were greatly enhanced by Waxy's researches
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6 month ago
nelson : Abort, retry, or EPIC FAIL - Andy writes a post so I don't have to
philgyford : Waxy.org: Abort, Retry, or EPIC FAIL - On the increasingly annoying "FAIL!" meme. Half my friends on Twitter sound interchangeable these days, as if they must regurgitate this month's coolest phrases or look like losers.
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6 month ago
nelson : Waxweb, 1995 demo - Digital video, MOO, VRML, user authoring, all put together and delivered. in 1995. It was pretty cool.
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Nice roundup of Twitter visualizations - including some academic projects I hadn't seen [via]
nelson : Twitter visualizations - Various views into what's going on at Twitter
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : The Lost Features of Google - long list of forgotten or abandoned Google experiments; also, Philipp's roundup of their intranet
nelson : Lost features of Google - Nice roundup of some dead products
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 763 SXSW MP3s - a fun read, but surprisingly great for finding new music
Ethan Marcotte : Six-word reviews of 763 SXSW MP3s - By Paul Ford. Naturally. ∞
adamrg : Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford - I haven't made it through all the songs yet. This collection is EPIC.
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Evil Gmail backup software charged $30 to steal your password - the SEO scumbag's app sent every user's credentials to his own hardcoded Gmail account
factoryjoe : Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics - Why you shouldn't give your username and password to third party apps! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, gmail, security
nelson : G-Archiver theft - Some jerk sells a program that steals your gmail password
Rod Begbie : A Question of Programming Ethics - Pretty much inevitable -- An app that asked for your GMail username & password was harvesting them. One point to the "Why we need OAuth" party. [via] #
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