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November 30, 2007
Google Reader adds feed recommendations (

they were deadly accurate for me

)
November 29, 2007
Tay Zonday promotes Dr. Pepper with "Cherry Chocolate Rain" (

strangely depressing, but I guess it's better than William Hung's commercial

) [via]
Google tests thumbs-up voting on search results (

no social feedback, but retains your setting across searches for the same terms

) [via]
November 28, 2007
Stir-fried wikipedia (

I think I'd prefer the steamed eggs with wikipedia

)
PayPerPost's bloggers ask if the marketplace is dying (

the PPP forums are fascinating right now, seeing how the community responds as the business collapses around them

)
Technical overview of how the Facebook Beacon works (

this could have been fun and useful, if it was only opt-in on a site-by-site basis

) [via]
Gamespot reviews Deal or No Deal for the Nintendo DS (

problems with the randomizer make this the worst game released this year

)
What the Google Intranet Looks Like (

to compare, I found recent intranet screenshots for Yahoo! and Microsoft

)
Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein compares real bands to Rock Band (

she continues the discussion on her own blog

) [via]
Video: Gay bashing in Halo 3 (

warning, offensive audio; very upsetting to hear, but not at all surprising

) [via]
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (

the same group responsible for the secret cinema and bar built in a cavern under Paris

)
November 27, 2007
Desert Bus for Hope hits $20,000 raised for Child's Play (

they've been playing the world's most tedious game on live cameras for four days straight

)
So You Want to be An Arcade Champion? (

one man's quest to play all 4,000 games in the Twin Galaxies world records book alphabetically

)
Managing RSS feeds with better groups (

funny, this is almost exactly the way I organize my feeds in Google Reader

)
Ron Paul Blimp (

$235k in pledges so far; oh, the humanity

)
ROFLCon's Guest List status report (

shaping up to be one of the strangest conventions of all time

)
November 26, 2007
Shredz64 (

one man's quest to connect his Guitar Hero controller to his C64 and develop a game to use it with

) [via]
Fray relaunches as a quarterly printed book (

the original community for personal storytelling comes back after two years of hiatus

)
Ze Frank on feeling uninspired (

"let's not wait for inspiration, but let's be ready for it when it comes"

)
Gameplay footage from The Act, cancelled coin-op game (

the unusual game used cel-style animation and a knob to control the character's mood from serious to silly

) [via]
LucasArts game engine ported to iPhone (

all their classic adventure games running full-speed with multitouch control

)
Facebook, you owe Mike a Christmas present (

I need a spoiler warning for my mini-feed

)
Desert Bus for Hope hits $11,000 and 98 hours (

now in its 66th hour of gameplay, Penn & Teller donated $1,500 and bought them sandwiches; more on the game

)
2 Guys 1 Cup with John Mayer (

safe-for-work parody of the sickening original

) [via]
November 24, 2007
iPhysics, physics game engine for the iPhone (

inspired by Crayon Physics

)
November 23, 2007
Rex starts the 2007 List of Lists (

as always, keep checking back as we get closer to 2008

)
November 22, 2007
Video: Music Animation Machine plays Gradius, Dr. Mario, Donkey Kong, and more (

images from classic video games play their own themes using MIDI visualization; more background

) [via]
Food Pairing (

tool to inspire creative cooking using the flavor components of 250 different ingredients

) [via]
November 21, 2007
PickyPirate, a Metacritic-BitTorrent mashup (

finding the best-rated media on popular torrent sites

) [via]
November 20, 2007
Video: Grickle's Closet (

I don't know why I find Graham Annable's animations so funny, but I do; see also: The Last Duet on Earth

)
Flickr's second billion took three months (

absolutely insane growth, though slightly skewed by the one-time Yahoo Photos user migration?

) [via]
Flickr launches Places and redesigned map views (

big congrats to Rev. Dan, Kellan, and the rest of the flickr crüe

)
Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading (

I wish they'd modeled the Kindle after their excellent MP3 store instead of bowing to paranoid publishers

)
November 19, 2007
Google Reader team visits the set of Heroes (

they should've given a bit part to Chris

)
I Want to See That! (

should be called "Go See A Movie With Ben and Katie"

)
Google Maps adds collaborative map editing (

fix address and Street View locations while retaining original locations

) [via]
The Laptop Club (

hand-drawn laptops created by 7- to 9-year-olds

) [via]
Harry Potter and the Order of Typography (

Jon Hicks highlights the typeface selection in a lovely slideshow

) [via]
Katamari creator previews new game, Noby Noby Boy (

the gameplay video shows off the stretching dynamic, combined with eating and expelling barnyard animals; whee!

)
Jonathan Coulton performs "Portal" live (

better than other shakycam versions, but the guy with the cake is scaring me

)
Video: Twitter helps solve a murder on CSI (

both usernames were registered shortly after it aired

)
World of Datecraft (

travel the world, meet interesting people, and steal their loot

) [via]
Half-Life 2 Episode 2 statistics (

this kind of communal feedback is fascinating for players, but invaluable for developers

) [via]
November 18, 2007
Lost in the Static (

strange freeware PC game builds a platformer out of noise

) [via]
You gonna light that pipe? (

Jim Treacher takes on a three-panel comic from a "write this comic" contest

)
November 16, 2007
Interactive Fiction Comp '08 results announced (

download them all; read Emily Short's review of Lost Pig, the winner

)
Catching Up with an Aqua Teen Terrorist (

R.U. Sirius interviews Peter Berdovsky about hairstyles from the 1970s

)
GameSetWatch on the extremely meta Game Center CX (

a Nintendo DS game about playing retro games, based on a Japanese TV show about playing retro games

) [via]
plusplusbot, karma for anyone (

bringing the IRC karma bot to Twitter

) [via]
Ian Rogers' 1994 zine about Sly and the Family Stone (

a loving tribute from a man who really loves his music

)
November 15, 2007
Peter Rojas' RCRD LBL goes live (

exclusive DRM-free music from their own new label and partnering with like-minded labels on a daily MP3 blog

)
ASCII rave in Haskell (

creating music by typing text into a "broken" speech synthesizer; another video

) [via]
Prince sends DMCA notices to b3ta users for Photoshopping contest (

this is just idiotic (sorry, Anil!)

)
November 13, 2007
Prince of Persia butchered in "Life" TV show (

laughably bad portrayal of technology, including Excel spreadsheets hidden in the 10th level of the game

) [via]
Ze Frank's Strike #2 (

if he keeps making them, I'll keep linking to them

)
November 12, 2007
Peter Pan finds his Tinkerbell (

there's someone out there for everyone

)
Announcement: I'm leaving Upcoming to work on Waxy.org full-time! (

a friend said I should cross-post this to Waxy Links since they didn't see the main blog post

)
November 10, 2007
Orangina's new furry-friendly ad campaign (

more head-shaking weirdness at the official site

)
November 9, 2007
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot (

we're paying for the Internet by the hour

) [via]
Smoking Gun uncovers David Bowie's 1976 mugshot (

the only guy that could make a mugshot look like a high fashion photo shoot

)
November 8, 2007
Elvis Costello reunites with Clover to perform "My Aim Is True" live, tonight (

I'm insanely giddy about this; I'll be in line for the late show at 7:30pm if anyone wants to say hi

) [via]
November 7, 2007
Jimmy Carter, cat murderer (

lamentably

)
Homebrew version of The Last Starfighter (

they developed a working version of the nonexistent game from the film

)
November 6, 2007
Video: Facebook News Network (

"All the News Feed that's fit to print."

)
November 5, 2007
Ze Frank's Strike Day (

it's like The Show, but with blinking and better lighting

)
Tim O'Reilly on Open Social and Facebook (

he nicely articulates why both fall short, while reframing the problem with a solid prediction

)
November 4, 2007
Matthew Somerville's BBC News diffs (

thanks, Webb

)
FoxDiff, tracking diffs in FoxNews.com headlines (

biases aside, it's fun simply to watch a newsroom making slight changes over time

)
November 2, 2007
Feed the Head, updated in late August (

if you played it before, try it again

)
Pac-Txt (

Pac-Man meets Zork

) [via]
Google's OpenSocial API docs go live (

the Orkut sandbox is moderated, so Plaxo Pulse is the only live implementation so far

)
November 1, 2007
Tumblr 3.0 launches with a zillion new features and improvements (

including privacy, hosted MP3s, video through Vimeo, and investors

)
Mythbusters to test "plane on conveyer belt" riddle on December 12 episode (

using an Ultralight plane and a quarter-mile conveyor belt

)