Ads via The Deck
August 31, 2007
Flight simulator easter egg in Google Earth (

with joystick support and two types of planes

) [via]
Twitter Blocks (

Stamen's new visualization of network activity

)
August 29, 2007
Michael Arrington's CrunchFood (

biting parody of Techcrunch style; "Fondue Joins the DeadPool"

) [via]
August 28, 2007
Fun with the iPhone accelerometer (

now with source code!

)
Boing Boing redesigns with comments (

and a new gadget blog by Joel Johnson

)
August 27, 2007
dyeSight, $2 Multi-Touch Pad (

building a tabletop multitouch display with a plastic bag, some blue dye, and an iSight

)
August 23, 2007
CBS 5 on the Faceball "Craze" (

local news visits the Flickr office, complete with goofy news anchors and weatherman

) [via]
Video: Extra TV profile of The Spot from 1995 (

dig that mid-'90s web design and postage stamp video clips

)
August 22, 2007
Should Do This (

Robot Co-op's new baby, a very lightweight suggestion board for the world

)
The journalism that bloggers actually do (

NYU professor responds to idiotic anti-blogger op-ed citing strong examples of blogger journalism

) [via]
Video: Content-Aware Image Resizing (

incredible technique to identifying seams in images and modify only the boring parts

) [via]
August 20, 2007
Schulze and Webb on Olinda, their digital radio for the BBC (

not a concept piece, but a "standalone, fully operational, social, digital radio"

)
iPhoneFrotz (

Z-Machine interpreter for the iPhone; also: MAME!

)
Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph (

this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful

)
August 16, 2007
Google Maps Streetview, circa 1907 (

see also: MIT's Aspen Moviemap from 1979

)
August 14, 2007
MIT's Scratch project (

not sure how I missed this lovely programming learning environment and community

)
MovableType 4.0 released (

out of beta with native OpenID and memcached support, among other changes

)
Why Did Google Answers Shut Down? (

appropriately answered by a former GA researcher, now answering on UClue

)
Jason Scott releases arcade manual archive (

1,700 vintage game manuals as watermark-free PDFs

)
Wired News on Wikiscanner, tracking anonymous edits by sneaky organizations (

several outstanding spin jobs were found and submitted by readers

) [via]
August 13, 2007
Massive warez NFO database released publicly (

MySQL dump covering 2.6 million releases back to the '80s; mixed quality, but could be fun for data mining

) [via]
August 9, 2007
Thoughts on Facebook's new Data Store API (

they may be the new AOL, but their tech is undeniably cool

)
August 7, 2007
iPhoneNES, first NES emulator for the iPhone (

next stop, Doom!

) [via]
August 6, 2007
Comic: iPhone Trauma (

also: iPhone oversight

) [via]
August 5, 2007
NYT unmasks Fake Steve Jobs (spoiler warning) (

FSJ isn't happy; here's how they found him

) [via]
August 3, 2007
Image: Digg circa 1995
Yelp launches API (

looks great, but no XML response?

) [via]
August 1, 2007
Anymails (

visualization of email as microbes; don't miss the movies

) [via]