- Robokill – Lovely top-down robot RPG shooter game [via:waxy
- Tegaki blog – “It’s easy to create handwriting blog by mouse!”
- BBC: Sound Index – “The Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.” … “IBM’s Semantic Super Computing is used to crawl and analyse our partners’ sites.” [via:alicebartlett]
- Jennifer Government: NationStates – “NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society’s less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state.” [via:dominiccampbell]
- Six Degrees of Wikipedia – “The centre of Wikipedia is ‘2007’ From this article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2111479 articles reachable from it. The top 10 articles are…”
- YouTube – Hipster Olympics – “A battle of apathetic grandeur” [via @aneel]
- dale lane: A daily CurrentCost ‘bill’ – Dale calculates a daily cost and emails it himself. Here’s how.
- Bruce F. Webster – The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect – “the more talented and effective IT engineers are the ones most likely to leave … to evaporate, if you will. … What tends to remain behind is the ‘residue'”
- Virtual Worlds News: MPEG Issues Call for Requirements for “Information exchange with Virtual Worlds” Interoperability Project – “the ISO MPEG working group on the Information Exchange with Virtual Worlds project, or MPEG-V” … “now looking to create a standard for architecture, interfaces between virtual worlds, and interfaces between the virtual world and the physical world”
- MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes – Search front-end for Muxtape.com
- Haikurious – “It’s Haikurious! / All of today’s Internet / Wrapped in a Haiku”
- Paul Carr: Show e-pirates some respect – Paul Carr being amusing about piracy in 2003. “the only way Sony (or anyone else) is going to convince me and my fellow file thieves to go straight is to make their new legal services much more convenient to use than the existing illegal ones. “
- Go Big Always – Get your scary software out of my workplace – “It’s clearly used for goofing off. The last thing I want are my employees wasting my money emailing/cybersurfing/chatting/networking with each other. What’s the use case for email at work? What’s the ROI? Who else is doing it?”
- kybernetikos.com: Hurricane, Charity and the New Stone Age – “no one man can mine both the copper and the tin he needs to cast a simple bronze blade. For the bronze age to come about, there had to be trade and sharing of knowledge between diverse and separated cultures.”