April 2008
106 posts
“Brain researchers for the first time claim to have found a method for improving...”
– Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter
Alice Marwick on celebrity theory →
NYU PhD student Alice Marwick delivered an excellent keynote on Day 2 of ROFLCon last weekend, where LOLs and anecdotes were in abundance. Presenting some of her work on “social status…
&& not 'and', || not 'or' →
dancroak:
Do it!
“and” and && don’t behave identically. more info
“I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years...”
– Jeremiah Wright (via azspot < marco)
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Kwicks for jQuery →
mootools-esque expanding-item effect… examples say “imitation is the best form of flattery”
Watchabhay:
Ghost Ride the Delorean (via yesbutnobutyes)
A 2005 study by the Georgia Institute of... →
via azspot
WatchYochai Benkler: Open-source economics
1 day until Caturday →
this only works at MIT
Internet Famous Class @ ROFLCon →
A good bit of Famo Class are attending ROFLCON this weekend at MIT… “the whole Internet all in one place.” Tron Guy, Leeroy Jenkins, I Can Has Cheezburger, XKCD, One Red Paperclip, 4chan,…
jvoorhis | A compelling alternative to Hpricot →
scraping using only lynx, grep, sed, and awk
Chocolate Rain 1 year anniversary techno →
Tay Zonday is commemorating the 1 year anniversary of epic win Chocolate Rain (now over 20M views) by… selling an album of techno remixes.
The logical followup to “Cherry…
ArtWikiMarathon in ArtNews Magazine, April 2008 →
Lamar Clarkson of ArtNews Magazine wrote about The Great Internet Art Wiki Marathon that went down on January 26, 2008. We had several dozen participants from all over the world,…
Google Me →
elspethjane.com via hotchickswithdouchebags.com
WatchThis happens when you don’t properly vent a sealed storage tank before emptying it via DeadYak/#unix
WatchKorean Drummer Steals the Show
Nation of Thizzlam muxtape: music to sell drugs to →
WatchM.I.A. - Boyz dirtstyle back-to-Africa
thx floraflora
Waxtailor MP3's →
good French instrumental hiphop who left their directory listings on. Thanks to nstrich for the rec.
Watchrocketboom:
A remote controled toy car plays the “Mario Brothers” theme song while driving in a straight line by hitting individual bottles filled with liquid.
“Why not let your economic stimulus package become a cultural stimulus package?”
– Steve Lambert
“Show your tits or get out.”
– real-world internetspeak by elspethjane
WatchNo backstabbing. BFF forever [w/ CRYING]
Chris Crocker not doing TV, wants to be honest... →
“I’ve got 153 million views under my belt… I know what I’m doing.”
Chris Crocker’s dropping a potential deal with “the network” (VH1?)… cuz he wouldn’t be allowed to curse.
Alexa “upgrades” ranks, algorithm →
“The new Alexa rankings” were announced today. “Even better” they say, but there’s zero disclosure of their “new data sources” or any actual methodologies, in contrast to Compete and…
Rick Roll Detector! →
Another extension for detecting rickrolls, think it uses its own DB
Massaging the statistics →
#1: Brad Feld recently proclaimed your analytics are very wrong, specifically referring to:
* issues w/ tracking “widget” usage (like embeds), a new and imprecise science at best
* RSS…
Digg - Firefox Introduces New Rickroll Protection! →
Extension that signals rickrolls based on the Rickroll Database blacklist
Lonelygirl15’s acting career vs. BloodCell →
You’ll recall Lonelygirl15 was killed off after the first “season” after actress Jessica Rose moved on to better and brighter things. But this here BloodCell preview is doing 100k…
