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Bill O'Reilly's Producer
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 1:41am CEST
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look at the other side of the camera -
"Things Younger Than McCain" creator on the subject of ageism
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 1:33am CEST
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unlike sex and race, your age affects your ability to lead -
V8 Engine built out of Lego Mindstorms
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 1:26am CEST
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it can hit 1440 RPM without any lubrication -
Let's Write a Song with Rivers Cuomo
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:01pm CEST
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the Weezer frontman's been vlogging on YouTube; the moustache is unnerving -
Joel Johnson's exhaustive roundup of 25 years of "exergaming"
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:29am CEST
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from the Atari Joyboard to the Wii Fit -
George Lucas wanted Indy IV to be "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars"
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 3:32am CEST
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the aborted draft by The Fugitive screenwriter made its way online in 2005 -
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:11pm CEST
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systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period -
NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 1:09pm CEST
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for a more practical example, see Tufte-style charts in 11 lines of Nodebox code -
Cubescape, fun tool for building isometric pixel landscapes
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:36pm CEST
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some nice 8-bit art in the popular section -
The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 11:56am CEST
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For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they've created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns of raw data, including each song's duration, beats-per-minute, songwriters, label, and week-by-week chart position. It's 25 megs of OCD, and it's awesome.
As far as I know, this is the first time the project and its data have ever been discussed outside of Usenet. Despite its illegality, they've created a wonderful resource and you can do some fun things with the data. For the next three days, I'm going to publish some analysis and insights gleaned from their work.
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b3ta's Extending Album Art challenge
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 9:24am CEST
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all the Pink Floyd ones made me laugh [via] -
Games With A Purpose
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:52am CEST
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humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game [via] -
MacJesusX
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 9:22pm CEST
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the very blasphemous Mac app from 1992 was ported to OS X with new features -
goodbye, foom
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 8:34pm CEST
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TwitBuzz
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 7:35pm CEST
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I've tried several Twitter meme-trackers, and this is the best -
Simon Stabs
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:38pm CEST
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Bishop's knife trick turned into a harmless game -
McSweeney's on good dating advice from a Grand Theft Auto FAQ
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 12:56am CEST
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Android Scan, mobile barcode scanner and search utility
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 12:48am CEST
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a winner in Google's Android developer challenge, this looks very useful [via] -
Trailer for Mr. Bounce, an innovative riff on Breakout
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 12:46am CEST
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from the creators of the wonderful Understanding Games series [via] -
Last.fm Playground
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 12:37am CEST
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read more about the announcement, with some fun examples [via] -
New Einstein letter elaborates on his views of religion
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 8:42pm CEST
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he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism [via] -
Sightseeing in Liberty City
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 8:39pm CEST
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Flickr photoset compared NYC locations to their GTA counterparts [via] -
WalletCards, clever idea to store membership cards on your iPhone
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 8:16pm CEST
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I'd love a slim wallet too, but your mileage may vary [via] -
Christian Mac/PC parody on GodTube
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 8:01pm CEST
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394 comments debating the differences between "Christians" and "Christ-followers"; more here -
Sad Trombone
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 7:33pm CEST
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goes nicely with Instant Rimshot [via] -
New Google Reader for the iPhone
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 1:19am CEST
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huge improvement -
MUTO, an animation on public walls
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 1:01am CEST
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I love watching it replace graffiti as it walks through [via] -
Current.tv on Tron Guy at ROFLCon
Posted: May 13th, 2008, 12:06am CEST
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some of the user-contributed video on Current is great, as is the original programming -
BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 10:09pm CEST
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amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme -
Obsessing, a web-based editor for playing with Processing.js
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 9:44pm CEST
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could Processing.js be the beginning of the end for the closed-source culture of rich media tech? -
Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 8:53pm CEST
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I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features -
Things Younger Than John McCain
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:51pm CEST
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I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever [via] -
PMOG comes out of beta
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:49pm CEST
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Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's game built on passive web surfing [via] -
Matt Haughey on how PR people should pitch bloggers
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:46pm CEST
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most won't do this because it takes too much time, even though it's far more effective -
Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 7:41pm CEST
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they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them