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  • 'This American Life' Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
    "In what cultural anthropologists are calling a "colossal achievement" in the study of white-collar professionals, the popular radio show has successfully isolated all 7,442 known characteristics of college graduates who earn between $62,500 and $125,000 per year and feel strongly that something should be done about global warming." Ahehehehehe.
    (tags: thisamericanlife theonion npr radio satire middleclass )
  • YouTube – AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON
    "When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker." Linked everywhere, but – utterly charming.
    (tags: video animation dogs atat starwars )
  • Bing Destination Map: Automatic Napkin Sketching of Maps – information aesthetics
    "…Bing Destination Maps [bing.com] seems quite interesting as a new way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified, understandable and accessible way. In other words, imagine one can now create a sort of information-optimized summary maps, similar to those you would quickly draw yourself on the back of napkin." It is slow and a bit beta, and the loading graphic is crackers… but otherwise, this is superb.
    (tags: piratemaps bing maps sketching approximation npr )
  • Phonetikana – the johnson banks thought for the week
    "One of the three typographic styles that is used in Japan is essentially phonetic, and is called Katakana. We’ve been attempting to find ways to incorporate phonetic sounds with the Katakana letterforms." Brilliant.
    (tags: katakana type japan typography ingenious phonetics )
  • Modern Nerd – Solved: Gmail, iPad, iPhone, and multiple from addresses
    Fantastic. If you're like me, and use One Gmail Account To Rule Them All, but use Mail as your email client, you can only use the main email address to send from. This allows you to pick a from address, making your mailing lists work again, and allowing you to pick the From address on send.
    (tags: email iphone ipad settings hacks gmail )
  • GPSTagr: geotag flickr photos using GPS
    Welcome to GPSTagr. Our service allows you to geotag your flickr photos using a track file from a GPS device in 3 easy steps.
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  • uplog » » Coding a Networked Bike
    "We’ve just finished a project for Yahoo called purple pedals (a.k.a. the yBike). In a nutshell, it’s a bike that takes pictures and uploads them to flickr in real time."
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  • IF Competition: General Reflections and Favorites « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction
    "This year, I have no apologies about any of my top five. Here’s my list of the cream of the crop…" Emily Short on this year's IF competition entrants.
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  • geotag-lightroom-plugin – Google Code
    "This project installs menu items into the Adobe Lightroom interface that allows photos to be tagged with geographic information through the Lightroom interface."
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  • Huffduffer
    "# Find links to audio files on the Web. # Huffduff the links—add them to your podcast. # Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds." It's like delicious for audio, but it spits out a podcast. Some really lovely work from Jeremy.
    (tags: web application webapp hfdf podcast filtering social aggregation )
  • T=Machine » Cultural differences: game developers vs web developers
    Adam's a smart guy and all, but god, most of this just really rubs me the wrong way. He's correct about business (or rather, he's correct about many of the things I hate about Web Entrepreneurship at the moment); I don't really think his views on product design ring true, though.
    (tags: design web games industry comparison development product )
  • Trends in Japan – CScout Japan Blog » Bandai RPG Pedometers animate your steps
    "Bandai will soon be releasing two new hybrid pedometer games to keep you entertained while racking up the miles as you go about your life. … [The] idea is to set personal goals of exercise and achieve them in a fun way."
    (tags: games ubicomp pedometer talkingshoe rpg design interaction )
  • jordanmechner.com » Blog Archive » October 20, 1985
    Jordan Mechner is serialising – and backdating – his journals from making the original Prince Of Persia. This post is a corker, if only for one of the early videos of Mechner's brother running and jumping. If you've played the original game, you'll understand what I mean the second you see the video.
    (tags: animation video jordanmechner princeofpersia )
  • The Sands of Time: Crafting a Video Game Story – Jordan Mechner
    "In this chapter I'll try to shed some light on the creative and technical decision-making processes that went into crafting the story and narrative elements of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (POP for short). The team's approach was practical, not literary; our challenge was to find the right story for a mass-market action video game." Jordan Mechner on writing Sands of Time; well-crafted, and very pragmatic.
    (tags: writing jordanmechner games script princeofpersia pop popsot )
  • The Unfinished Swan
    "The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden." Beautiful.
    (tags: xna games monochrome blackandwhite 3d npr nonphotorealistic abstract surreal stylised )

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