December 22, 2008
- MusicBox: Map and visualize your music library
displayed according to genre and acoustic features of each song; watch the demo video
- RIAA abandoning its lawsuit strategy
about time
December 17, 2008
- James Surowiecki on the decline on the newspaper industry
sooner or later we’ll get what we pay for
December 13, 2008
- Daily Routines
how interesting people organize their days
- Lawrence Lessig moving from Stanford to Harvard
to become the director of the ethics center
December 9, 2008
- Laurence Lessig on the auto industry bailouts
sums up my feelings well
December 7, 2008
- Best book covers of 2008
always enjoy these; surprisingly, i haven’t read any of them
- Prop 8: The Musical
NPH always a star
- Usability testing of telephone buttons
or, why you shouldn’t always trust your users
November 30, 2008
- NYT magazine on Google’s free speech challenges
how to do no evil while being everywhere in a sometimes evil world?
November 29, 2008
- Great Rolling Stone profile of David Foster Wallace
finally had a chance to read this today; heartbreaking
- The LA Times Data Desk
databases, maps, and other visualizations
November 27, 2008
- NYT magazine writeup of the Netflix Prize
half a percent to go
November 8, 2008
- The world’s first music video in an Excel spreadsheet
smash through your firewall
- Epic lip-dub of Thriller
140 people in one amazing shot
- MTV music video library online
free access to 22,000 videos
- Using geotagged photos to reverse-engineer maps
enough geotagged photos to draw the whole world
- From 52 to 48 with love
we’re not that different, you and i
- Tyler Cowen on voting
both voting and not voting are motivated by the thought that you are better than other people
October 27, 2008
- Economist / Intelligent Life review of Get Your War On
an almost incredible stamina
- Photos: Slime Molds
nice macro shots
- typeface.js, render any font in a browser using vector drawing
huge game-changer —- no longer have to limit yourself to ‘web-safe’ fonts
October 24, 2008
- Video: Vlad and Boris’ song for Sarah Palin
i made a teliscop for YOU
October 22, 2008
- Zip File Quine
wicked
October 20, 2008
- Transcript of a McCain push poll call
despicable
October 18, 2008
- John McCain and Barack Obama making jokes at the Alfred E Smith dinner
got my first name from my father, jor-el
October 16, 2008
- New Yorker cartoon-off with Randall Munroe of XKCD
about three-fourths autobiographical
October 14, 2008
- Year Up featured in today’s Boston Globe
boston-centric, but a good introduction
October 12, 2008
- Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to test moral psychology
the motivation for turkers seems to be more like casual gaming than serious work
October 11, 2008
- This American Life explains the financial crisis
i finally understand what a credit default swap is
October 10, 2008
- Video: Kenny Shopsin makes mac and cheese pancakes
sure, you’re not going to get rich, but why would you need to?
October 4, 2008
- Great one-page summary of the financial crisis
better than anything i’ve seen from a major newspaper
October 1, 2008
- Interactive chart of recessions and growth periods since 1948
helpful descriptions when you click on any segment of the timeline
September 30, 2008
- Search Google as it existed in 2001
771 pages for Barack Obama, compared to 78.6 million today
September 26, 2008
- Joey Comeau on the books he loved as a teen
if the combination of those two things doesn’t seem perfect to you, then you are a very different person from teen joey
September 12, 2008
- R.I.P. Don LaFontaine, the voice of 5000 movie trailers
in a world, where one man
- Add more cowbell to any MP3
or, add christopher walken
September 8, 2008
- Google Map annotated with the travel notes of Marco Polo
passages from his book, plus modern-day names and photos
- Philip Pullman’s 40 essential books
wide-ranging tastes in poetry, art, philosophy, and of course fiction