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July 31, 2007
Polyvore (

fascinating community built around collage of random images strewn around the web

)
July 30, 2007
Casual Gameplay Design Competition 3 winners announced (

some incredible entries cleverly using the "replay" theme

)
Video: Airplane! vs. Zero Hour (

looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

) [via]
July 27, 2007
Faceball (

the national sport of Flickr, now with video tutorials and documentation

)
July 26, 2007
Tether your iPhone: EDGE Internet on your laptop (

neat and simple hack

)
July 25, 2007
Human Brain Cloud (

massively multiplayer word game, with one of the nicest graphs ever

)
Furminator (

pinball machine hacked into a first-person shooter; try the videos

) [via]
Video: Guys and Dolls (

documentary about men living with Real Dolls

) [via]
Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not) (

Wesabe's Firefox uploader and REST API quietly release your bank's stranglehold on your data

)
The Hello Experiment (

if this doesn't make sense, watch this first

) [via]
July 23, 2007
Weekly World News shutting down after 28 years (

Ed Anger is gonna be pissed

) [via]
July 22, 2007
Myspace blocks the letter "i" (

maybe a typo in a case-insensitive regex?

)
July 19, 2007
Ask A Music Scene Micro-Celebrity (

legendary record engineer Steve Albini answers questions in a poker message board

)
David Weinberger debates Andrew "The Cult of the Amateur" Keen (

Weinberger smacks down Keen's inane argument that the social web is making us illiterate

)
July 15, 2007
Video: Echochrome gameplay footage (

looks like a playable version of Escher's Relativity; see also: Portal

)
July 11, 2007
Using your Apple IIe as a Linux terminal (

detailed instructions and fun photos; or, if you prefer, hook it up to your Mac

)
DEC's Glimpse of the Future from 1994 (

marketing video pitching the very early Web to businesses; tons of vintage screen capture goodness

)
July 10, 2007
Eyes Wide Shut in 1947 Life Magazine (

Life Magazine asked comics artists to draw their iconic characters blindfolded

) [via]
July 9, 2007
Vanity Fair's long oral history of The Simpsons (

they interviewed Rupert Murdoch, Art Spiegelman, Barry Diller, Brad Bird, Ricky Gervais, and others

) [via]
July 8, 2007
Terrorist organization logos, grouped by design motifs (

see also: terror groups gone corporate

)
July 6, 2007
Happy Birthday, Ollie Kottke (

you've got baby!

)
Telekinesis, an open-source iPhone remote (

remote desktop, streaming video, and application server, all running in iPhone's Safari

)
YouTube Doubler (

play two videos at once; more entertaining than you'd think

) [via]
iPhone Dev Wiki crew releases iPhoneInterface tool (

they've figured out a way to start arbitrary services and move files around

)
When They Started Hating You (

Jason Scott on the history of user-aggressive software, from BBS crippleware to P2P adware

)
Adrian Holovaty releases templatemaker, a Python library for smart screen scraping (

given a large set of HTML documents, intelligently extracts the strings that change between them

)
July 5, 2007
Fake Steve Jobs on the music industry (

fake or not, this is great commentary on the Universal Music pullout from iTunes

) [via]
July 4, 2007
Gnome corpses used to spam World of Warcraft players (

"corpse graffiti" sounds like a made-up Jargon Watch entry

)
A Sketch Towards a Taxonomy of Meta-Desserts (

don't miss the full chart

) [via]
First in-game footage of Rock Band (

rocks hard, but those drums won't come cheap

)
White Glove Tracking project is done (

as promised, the data and visualizations have been released

) [via]
DVD Jon breaks iPhone activation (

I love that guy; also, the iPhone dev crew just released their own tool

)
July 3, 2007
Appaholic Viral Dashboard (

shows the fastest growing Facebook apps in the last day

)
Poetry written in Inform 7 (

the interactive fiction language is particularly well-suited to poetry and prose; more here

)
NYT on the attention to culinary detail in "Ratatouille" (

including Thomas Keller's ratatouille recipe for the film's final meal

) [via]
iPhone Dev Wiki's Latest Summary (

daily updates of progress in unlocking and modding the iPhone

)