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March 31, 2007
Disney's Tower of Terror modeled in Half-Life 2 (

paging Cory Doctorow!

)
Techcrunch acquires FuckedCompany (

hedging bets by covering both the rise and fall of startups; if it's an April 1 joke, it really shouldn't be

)
I Saw You (

comics based on Craigslist Missed Connections postings

)
Software Development as a Collaborative Game (

great links in that entry

)
March 30, 2007
Justin.tv hits the front page of the SF Chronicle (

watching the cam right now is very meta, as he walks around SF with people recognizing him

)
March 29, 2007
All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter (

like the MegaPenny Project for celestial bodies

)
Cory Doctorow's xkcd cosplay at ETech (

in case you missed the reference

)
March 28, 2007
Lonelygirl15 hawks gum (

"Whoa, it's sour."; David Lynch responds

)
March 26, 2007
Six Freakiest Children's TV Rock Bands (

related: Wikipedia's List of fictional music groups

)
March 23, 2007
Desktop Tower Defense (

as addictive as everyone says, much more arcade than RTS; impressive run

)
This American Life's first TV episode in its entirety (

yay! plus, the newly redesigned TAL website

) [via]
Playing from the Other Side: the Discomfort of Militainment Avatars (

great stuff, including an Iraq vet who refuses to play for the insurgents and an insane FPS published by Hezbollah

)
March 22, 2007
The 'I Heart Huckabees' Outtakes (

David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin go completely unhinged; NSFW language

)
March 21, 2007
Video: Indian Thriller (

new to me!

) [via]
Understanding Avatars in Games and Social Media (

great reading with many visual examples; Gordon's been on a tear post-SXSW

)
March 20, 2007
Techno Tuesday (

very odd weekly comic about technology

) [via]
Letterhead Fonts embrace DRM with disastrous results (

the foundry that made the Upcoming.org logotype goes to the dark side

)
Video: Chris Ware animation for Showtime's This American Life (

wonderful story about how make-believe cameras changed an elementary school playground

) [via]
A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids' Table (

"Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy."

) [via]
March 19, 2007
Handy list of TLD meanings, prices, and registrars (

correction: Thailand charges 2505 Baht for .th domains, not USD

) [via]
Khoi Vinh's "Grids are Good" presentation and slides (

however you feel about his design, this is a must-read

)
March 18, 2007
Twittervision (

capturing the Twitter zeitgeist on a map

) [via]
Last episode of Ze Frank's The Show (

what a difference a year makes

)
March 16, 2007
Delutube, the Deleted YouTube Video Viewer (

deleted videos apparently remain on YouTube servers, for the moment

) [via]
xkcd creator's laptop stolen (

including the originals for the last three months of comics

)
How Zug Hacked the Super Bowl (

John Hargrave and Rob Cockerham are my idols; unfortunately, unreadable

) [via]
Wired redesigned (

with a Veen-like gallery into their past designs

)
Accordion Hero II (

needs more Yankovic

) [via]
American Idol covers Modest Mouse in a Mustang ad (

or: The Day The Music Died

)
March 15, 2007
Homebrew text adventures on the DS (

with game saving and handwriting recognition!

) [via]
March 14, 2007
DMCA Abuser Apologizes for Takedown Campaign (

the apology video is enjoyable; here's hoping he disappears for a while

)
Girl Talk, DJ Drama, and mashups discussed on floor of Congress (

Congressman Doyle rocks the House

) [via]
Flickr launches collections (

sets-of-sets has the community's biggest feature request for years

)
Notes from Will Wright's SXSW keynote (

one of the best talks I've ever seen

)
March 11, 2007
Lily Allen's "Smile" recorded in Simlish (

the nonsense language spoken in The Sims

)
Yeeaahh! (

Khoi Vinh redesigns Yahoo in his distinctive style

)
March 10, 2007
Tom Wilson's Big Pop Fun (

Biff from "Back to the Future" now does pop art paintings

)
Searchable SXSW Interactive 2007 schedule (

much, much better

)
xkcd on a new Captcha approach (

bots: no lying

)
March 8, 2007
Waxy and Upcoming.org go to SXSW Interactive (

if you're going, come to the Yahoo! BarTab party and say hi

)
Top 100 most-viewed pages on Wikipedia (

funny to see Heroes, Lost, and the Battle of Thermopylae appear; the latter because of 300

)
Khoi Vinh, Zeldman, and Greg Storey join the Deck (

yay! three of my all-time favs join the little ad network that could

)
This American Life's Ira Glass on storytelling (

with tips specifically for vlogs, but applies to anyone who does presentations of any kind

)
Yahoo! Answers adds friend network (

seeing questions and answers from friends is wonderful, but there's no way to search for people

)
Apple: America's best retailer (

history of the Apple stores, and the fun factoid that Apple makes more per square foot than Tiffany's

)
CrunchGear reviews Project Epoc (

controlling games with your thoughts, for real

)
Scribd, like YouTube for documents (

Jason Scott, who runs a massive document archive himself, comments on the ethics of Scribd

)
March 7, 2007
Video: Hands-on demo for Little Big Planet for the PS3 (

don't miss this; deeply innovative and quirky toy/game, possibly worth buying a PS3 for

) [via]
Details on PS3 Home, their MMO world with media sharing (

watch the video; I'm looking forward to communal viewings of bootleg TV shows

)
Zelda Music of Golden Proportions (

what do the Legend of Zelda theme and the Fibonacci sequence have in common?

)
Matt Haughey interviews Mythbusters' Adam Savage (

an interesting glimpse into how Ask Metafilter influenced Mythbusters in their upcoming episode

)
March 6, 2007
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids (

it's amazing how something can make so much sense, but feel so wrong

) [via]
Ex-Google Answers researchers launch Q&A site (

including 9 of the top 12 most prolific answerers

)
March 5, 2007
Items on Amazon.com that you cannot (or at least should not) buy (

dark, unswept corners of a giant store

)
Fawlty Towers map in Counter-Strike (

the lobby looks perfect, down to the moose head

) [via]
Silent Air Guitar Challenge Deathmatch (

if Micki Krimmel's Smells Like Vlog Spirit doesn't win, something's wrong with this world

)
How the world really shapes up (

cartogram maps with countries distorted to reflect certain statistics

)
March 3, 2007
Cisco buys Tribe.net (

I don't get it, and nobody else does either

) [via]
March 1, 2007
Video: Here Come the Emos (

North Dakota local news hilariously takes online emo parodies seriously

)
Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers (

might be worth it just to hear a "song about fish-shaped pancakes stuffed with jam"

)