interesting 2.21.10
- ShadyURL: Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening
- Sketchpad: Free online paint/drawing application – utilizing html5 <canvas>
- Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum – online exhibition
- Please Rob Me: Listing all those empty homes out there – raises awareness of the dangers of location sharing services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz
- Magic Wands: Warrior (The xx Remix) – download free mp3
- Chatroulette: connects users with random strangers for live video chats – created by 17 year old Andrey Ternovskiy
- The AIKON project: the Artistic/Automated Ikonograph – using computational & robotic technologies to explore the drawing activity
- TED Talks: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Microsoft’s augmented reality mapping tech incorporating Photosynth
interesting 11.15.09
- http://☃.net
- The Big Pictr: Photos from flickr in the style of The Big Picture – by Trevor Hartsell
- 1080p HD video is coming to YouTube
- Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away – with only 15 hours warning
- EPA Study Reveals Widespread Contamination of Fish in U.S. Lakes and Reservoirs
- Christian Swinehart: CYOA – Visualization of the patterns & paths in Choose Your Own Adventure books
- Avatars Can Surreptitiously And Negatively Affect User In Video Games, Virtual Worlds
- Twitter fave Shit My Dad Says (@ shitmydadsays) heads to TV – ‘Will & Grace’ team on board to produce family comedy
- Zoink Games: Wiiwaa – interactive Wii game using Wiimote stuffed inside plushie toy
interesting 7.5.09
- Jen Hui Liao: Self-Portrait Machine – guides one’s hands to draw own picture
- Abstruse Goose: Electromagnetic Leak – If extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring our TV broadcasts…
- Augmented reality on the iPhone using NyARToolkit [w/ code]
- Kinetic Sketch: playful physics based online drawing tool, also integrates webcam or Flickr – create & share
- Nine extraordinary clouds
interesting 6.28.09
- John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner [video]
- Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age – 16 year old Brooke Greenberg remains a toddler
- Another Perfect World: virtual worlds documentary – Second Life, Lineage, Eve Online, etc
- RIP Michael Jackson
- The New York Times: New York City Homicides Map (2003-2009)
- Ideas worth taking credit for. The TED augmented reality hoax.
- The Big Picture: A troubled week in Iran
interesting 5.17.09
- When virtual reality feels real
- TED Talks: Seth Godin – Why tribes, not money or factories, will change the world [video]
- KANYE WEBST WEEK AT F.A.T. - net art
- Wolfram|Alpha: computational knowledge engine
- Nils Völker: Drawing Lego Robot – records movement of visitor’s eyes then reproduces way we look at things
- Star Trek ARG Ends + Nimoy Announces Winner
- Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series – An online spinoff blends movie action and videogame art
interesting 5.3.09
- TIME announces The World’s Most Influential Person – moot, founder of 4chan.org
- Firekites: AUTUMN STORY – Stop motion hand drawn chalk animation music video by Lucinda Schreiber & Yanni Kronenberg
- MAG: Massive Action Game – 256 player MMORPG shooter for PlayStation 3, re-create battles on scale of Blackhawk Down
- AMERICAN HARDCORE: documentary of underground hardcore punk years 1979 to 1986, directed by Paul Rachman [watch online]
- Breathe Owl Breathe: Boat – music video directed by Weston Currie
- Flickr: The Official White House Photostream
- 6+ Antwerp Fashion: exhibition – Margiela, Bikkembergs, Demeulemeester, Van Beirendonck, Van Noten, Van Saene, & Yee
- Metaverse Meetup – Community of Metaverse Meetup chapters, worldwide
- Ekovaruhuset House of Organic Eco-Fashion Boutique Opens in Paris
- Wool Clothing Fetish
- Makoto Tojiki: The Man With No Shadow – LED light sculpture
- Marco Tempest: Augmented Reality Card Magic 1.0 [video]
interesting 4.19.09
- Rhizome: Interview with JODI
- Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries presents DAKOTA – net art
- Andre Michelle: ToneMatrix – Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer (play online)
- Josh Nimoy: BallDroppings – musical playtoy that looks like abstract pong (Chrome Experiments)
- Ice-T talks Twitter (@FINALLEVEL) with @JimmyFallon [video]
- Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
interesting 4.12.09
- FriendFeed launches new beta
- Tweeting Cat Door: sends message & photo to Twitter when cat uses door, via RFID tag on collar – @GusAndPenny
- PPC Interactive: STAR TREK movie cast & JJ Abrams taking your questions via Twitter
- T Djll: Manufactured Endings – “The End” as cultural critique and just for fun [Flickr set]
- ANIMUS: Assassin’s Creed 2 teaser – augmented reality
- BMW Z4 in 3D – augmented reality car as virtual paintbrush
- TEDx (beta): a new way for local communities to create & host their own unofficial TED-style events
- Museum of Broken Relationships
- Bobba beta: Pocketsize virtual world for mobile phones – by Sulake, developers of Habbo
- xkcd: Matrix Revisited
- ArtBabble: Play Art Loud – art videos from IMA, Met, NYPL, SFMoMA, LACMA, MoMA, Art21, etc
- Discovery Channel: Science of Sex Appeal [videos]
- HugeURL and FreakingHugeURL
- Will Wright: Stupid Fun Club – entertainment think tank
- BumpTop: 3D desktop
- FUCKTWITTER – Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab
interesting 4.5.09
- 2009 PC Energy Report: Leaving computers on overnight wastes billions of dollars a year & pollutes environment
- WFMU: 8 Solar Bits on The River: Solar powered live broadcast + handheld music from Bubblyfish, Glomag, Natty, Nullsleep, & DJ Trent
- Skype for iPhone: It’s official
- TAG at the Grand Palais: historic exhibition of 150 influential graffiti artists
- Cat Shit One, aka Apocalypse Meow – animated series trailer
- April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.
- The Round Wave: kinetic sculpture by Reuben Margolin [video]
- Xi Has Moved into the Real World – clues to the PlayStation Home ARG now appearing on billboards around the world
- MySoti shirts in PlayStation Home and in real life, with chance to design and sell your own in the virtual world
- What would it look like to fall into a black hole?
- Stanford to publish free iPhone Application Programming course on iTunes U
- Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter?
- TED Talks: P.W. Singer – Military robots and the terrifying future of war [video]
- Martin Lihs: WiiSpray – virtual graffiti using Nintendo Wii Remote spraycan
- xkcd: Omegle – a simple site that just connects you to a random person, anonymously, for a conversation
- David Cronenberg being knighted by France – Légion d’Honneur
interesting 3.29.09
- XI: world’s first console-based Alternate Reality Game starts in PlayStation Home – ARG
- moot, 4chan.org founder, ranked #1 in TIME’s World’s Most Influential People of 2009
- VentureBeat: GamesBeat 2009 Games Conference [webcast]
- Vimeo’s TOS claims unrestricted rights to use any video “without compensation to the submitter”
- MacHeist 3 Bundle: 12 Mac apps for $39, 25% goes to charity of your choice
- Vuzix to introduce World’s 1st Consumer Augmented Reality Video Eyewear at GDC [PDF]
- Mozilla and the Khronos Group Announce Initiative to Bring Accelerated 3D to the Web
- Steve Lambert: SelfControl – OS X app that blocks email, Twitter, Facebook, etc for set times with no undo
- Academic Earth: Video lectures from the world’s top scholars – Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale
- Idea IS the format: The future begins – a quick look at Star Trek movie posters
- Peter Beste: TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL – 7 years of documentary photographs
- WWF Earth Hour: turn off your lights for 1 hour to show support for action on climate change – March 28 @ 8:30pm
- enlarge my penis, and my mind will follow – spam creativity
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