December 31, 2010
Clay Shirky on Wikileaks and the globalization of journalism
— even Shirky's "half-formed" thoughts are essential reading #
The Joy of Stats, hour-long BBC doc on infoviz
— hosted by Gapminder's Hans Rosling, featuring Stamen, David McCandless, Peter Norvig, and Sep Kamvar (via) #
The Senate in Pixels
— also: The Presidents, The Supreme Court, The Beatles, Indiana Jones, and Hitchcock films (via) #
Andrew Sorenson's Variations on a Christmas Theme
— made with Impromptu, a Scheme-based language for live coding performances; more examples (via) #
Metafilter on Starship Titanic
— don't miss the long comment by Yoz about the remarkable secret role-playing community, still alive after 13 years (via) #
Flight of the Navigator WebGL demo for Firefox 4
— stunning open standards demo with real-time Twitter/Flickr integration to show off beta 8, released today; video explanation #
Christopher Nolan's hand-written Inception timeline notes
— don't miss the scanned interview with his brother #
Shaun Inman scratches an 8-bit itch
— his Nintendo sound file player is now available on the App Store #
Jaron Lanier on Wikileaks
— I haven't been a fan of his grumpy essays lately, but this was a thoughtful counterpoint #
Gawker CTO's memo to employees about the Gnosis hack
— painful to read; short version: if you taunt 4chan, prepare for the worst #
Researching the rise of spam on Mechanical Turk
— you'd think Amazon would use MTurk to identify and remove spammy tasks (via) #
Word Lens, augmented reality translation for the iPhone
— don't miss the jaw-dropping demo, text recognition and in-place replacement in real-time #
Yahoo! to close or merge Delicious, Upcoming, Fire Eagle, more
— I'll write more about this soon, I think #
Favimom, a Javascript RPG played with favicons
— "kottke.org used Blogospheric Pressure! boingboing.net took 3 damage" #
Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning's inhumane treatment in detention
— seven months in solitary (via) #
DanKam, an augmented-reality iPhone app for the colorblind
— I'm red/green colorblind, and it works shockingly well #
Fuck Yeah, Tumblr
— inspired by my link, topherchris annexed the name and made a best-of-Tumblr tumblelog #
NYT on the Homeland Security seizures of music blog domains
— the DHS ordered Verisign to switch nameservers, which makes all .com domains vulnerable; related: F.A.T.'s Seizure Solidarity #
60 Best Tumblr Blogs of 2010
— I need a tumblelog of great new tumblelogs; too bad the obvious name is taken #
TorrentFreak's snapshot of the public BitTorrent universe
— about 30M unique people trading 12,000 TB of unique files, 76% of it video #