5 days ago
Andy Baio : Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app - related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December [via]
nelson : Atari Adventure for iPhone - classic Atari 2600 game ported
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Andy Baio : Google.org tracking flu spread using search queries - brilliant use of search data; get a flu shot before it gets to your state! [via]
Rod Begbie : Google Flu Trends - Benevolent data-mining of Google's search logs -- but it does raise the question of what else they can predict… Does Google have "insider trading"-esque omnipotence for the whole stock market, for example? [via] #
jcgregorio : Google Flu Trends - Wish it had a feed...
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nelson : Virtual flute - Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app. Creative endeavour or sign of the apocalypse?
Andy Baio : Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app - also, the Zelda theme; surprisingly deep for a $1 app
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Andy Baio : The Presidential Debates, Synchronized - this is masterfully done [via]
nelson : Talking Points - Great video showing candidates going back repeatedly to their talking points during debates
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Andy Baio : ZIP File Quine - just keep unzipping [via]
nelson : zip file quine - A zip file that contains itself
Rod Begbie : zip file quine - A .zip file which contains itself. Fun! [via] #
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1 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org: very cool work by Andy and Joshua
deusx : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - "While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without clicking through to every article. With the help
nelson : Political link colouring - Interesting hack: categorize blogs by conservative / liberal, then colour links accordingly
joshua : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - I did the heavy lifting on the math side
wearehugh : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org
Greg Storey : Visualizing political bias with Greasemonkey. - Waxy is the Bill Nye of the Internet.
Andy Baio : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Like the rest of the world, I've been completely obsessed with the presidential election and nonstop news coverage. My drug of choice? Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum, the political sister site of Techmeme, which constantly surfaces the most controversial stori
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2 month ago
nelson : Miss Alaska 1984 - Sarah Palin lists her qualification as "recognized by Who's Who"
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2 month ago
nelson : North Korean arcade - Old videogames
Andy Baio : Inside a North Korean video arcade - I love the modded Aero City cabinet
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : Kickstarter - I wanted to take a moment to announce that I've joined the board of directors for Kickstarter, a brand-new startup based out of Brooklyn and Chicago. Kickstarter aims to let creative people of all kinds — journalists, artists, musicians, game dev
deusx : Kickstarter - Waxy.org - "Kickstarter aims to let creative people of all kinds — journalists, artists, musicians, game developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers — raise money for their projects by connecting directly with fans, who receive exclusive access and rewards in excha
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : Nintendo's Wario Land meta-ad destroys YouTube UI - watch until the 15 second mark; inspired by the HEMA ad?
nelson : YouTube / Wii - Clever video ad
deusx : YouTube - experiencewii's Channel - "Sweet gameplay footage from the new Wii release “Wario Land: Shake It!”"
Rod Begbie : Wario Land - Shake It! YouTube ad - Brilliantly-done ad for the new Wario game for Wii. Seems dull to start, but worth continuing with! [via] #
Simon Willison : Wario Land: Shake It - Amazing footage! - Wario Land: Shake It—Amazing footage!. Some virals really do deserve linking to.
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : Dan Hanna's Daily Photo Aging Project - the mother of all photo-a-day projects, he shot himself front-to-back for 17 years
nelson : Time of my Life - 17 years of a guy photographing himself daily
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : Freestyle Rap Battle, Translated - here's the original
nelson : Freestyle rap - Translated for the Princeton debate set
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3 month 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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3 month 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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4 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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5 month ago
nelson : More on Google Lively - interview explaining the product
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5 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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6 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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6 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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