Ads via The Deck
February 28, 2007
Sprout (

lovely entry in the Casual Gameplay competition

)
February 27, 2007
Video: Background ephemera from "Children of Men" (

including commercials, billboards, and interface design

) [via]
Maps from Memory (

more in the Flickr group

)
Ning relaunches with new focus (

"Clone this app" replaced by "Create your own social network"; watch Gina's demo

) [via]
February 26, 2007
History of Minesweeper (

including an overview of the modern remakes and variations

)
54 of Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos were removed from YouTube (

as Rex notes, everyone loses here

)
February 25, 2007
Google testing in-line video results in main search (

moving to a plus box world

)
The Merlin Show (

starting tomorrow, Merlin Mann goes video

)
Rainn Wilson on Saturday Night Live (

both clips are great; "Captain Pajama Shark!"

)
Six cool things you can build with OpenID (

great list; the biggest hurdle is getting developers to understand what OpenID isn't

)
February 22, 2007
Guitar Hero hack for the Commodore 64 (

don't miss the MP3 sample of the output

) [via]
Drunken Jedi Trailer Trash (

Star Wars for the MySpace crowd

)
February 21, 2007
Video: Teaser trailer for This American Life, the TV show (

my favorite radio show comes to Showtime, premiering March 22

)
February 20, 2007
New Barenaked Ladies video stars YouTube celebs (

I must be an addict; I recognized all but one person

) [via]
Evan Williams looking to sell Odeo (

as Anil points out, Ev's freedom leads to interesting moves

)
SXSW Music releases huge showcase torrent (

739 MP3s from 739 artists

)
February 17, 2007
Matt and Jessamyn launch a weekly Metafilter podcast (

I'm interested in the potential impact of this as a reinforcement for good behavior

)
February 15, 2007
Omninerd on the accuracy of Internet weather forecasts (

tracking a month of weather predictions on the top 10 weather sites

)
February 14, 2007
Uniqlo Explorer (

insane Flash photo mosaic work; click the "Uniqlo Explorer" box and start clicking around

)
Macrochan, the 4chan image browser (

culls and tags meme images from 4chan forums; beware, some tags very NSFW

)
Jason Scott on Computer Camps in the 1980s (

Computer Tutor sounds like heaven on earth; many similar camps continue today, but avoid this one

)
February 13, 2007
Video of 12,000 foot skydiver accident and post-landing interview (

hit the ground at 80 miles an hour and survived, with cameras recording everything from two angles

)
Michael Crook settles out of court (

and rescinds his false DMCA notices

)
Video: Osama Team Hunger Force (

"we will disrupt their workday with a mildly offensive blinking neon light!"

) [via]
Schwarzenegger & Chan Terminate Piracy (

I don't know how I missed this PSA, mentioned in the Vanity Fair article

)
Pirates of the Multiplex (

the Pirate Bay make Vanity Fair

) [via]
February 11, 2007
You've Ruined Everything (

Jason Scott's archetypes for online community members and the critical events that shape it

)
Oscar Torrents (

arrogant, but a good companion to my article

)
WFMU's Ten Albums in Ten Minutes contest (

don't miss Nevermind on 45; see also: Sixty-Second Song Remixes

)
February 9, 2007
RU Sirius interviews Cory Doctorow (

Cory may be a zealot, but he's my kind of zealot

)
February 8, 2007
Guitar Hero coming to the Wii (

I think Guitar Hero DS would be funny; see also: M-06, the Nintendo DS guitar

)
Video: Adventure Time (

"your mind has been transported back in time... and to Mars!"

) [via]
February 7, 2007
Long exposure photos of '80s arcade games (

Tempest is gorgeous

)
Yahoo! Pipes, like Unix pipes for the web (

Tim O'Reilly nails why this is so neat

)
Outstanding Metatalk post from a former engineer at Data General (

also news to me from that thread, Jessamyn is the daughter of Tom West

) [via]
February 6, 2007
Steve Jobs argues against DRM for the music industry (

wow, Cory Doctorow must be in hog heaven

)
Microsoft to support OpenID (

wonderful news

)
February 5, 2007
Gizmodo's Superbowl ad roundup (

Robert Goulet and Mr. Turkey Neck were my personal favorites, but overall, nothing too exciting

)
February 3, 2007
Cyclowiz, the first real Nintendo Wii modchip, hits market (

here's a video of the installation process

)
Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food (

Carell and Colbert from the underrated Dana Carvey Show, which also had Robert Smigel and Charlie Kaufman as writers

)
Bram Cohen vs. Marc Cuban (

low blows from both sides

)
February 2, 2007
Video: David Sedaris on the Stadium Pal (

the testimonials have many happy NASCAR fans; see also: the Beerbelly

)
February 1, 2007
Mooninites LED bomb scare on eBay (

$2000, cheap!

)
Boston ad prank suspects talk about hair (

best press conference ever; is it somehow illegal to create LED displays in public?

)