Canadian Vinyl
These are all records I collected for my old Canadian music audioblog Five Bucks On By-Tor. I'm not posting to that site any more, and many of these records have been carted back to the thrift store, but I thought it would be nice to have photos of them all in one place.
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Otto, Protector of the North Woods
is my latest comic venture. An existential horror-comedy set in northern Minnesota on the shores of Lake Superior, it just wrapped its first storyline, which features a gang of foul-mouthed ghost sailors.
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Free Book: Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving
It feels like our world is spinning out of control. We see poverty, disease, and destruction all around us, and as we search for ways to make sense of the chaos, we're turning to new disciplines for answers and solutions. New, creative innovations are needed, and these new approaches demand different methods and different theories. This book is presented as a handbook for teaching and learning how to design for impact. In it, you'll learn how to apply the process of design to large, wicked problems, and how to gain control over complexity by acting as a social entrepreneur. You'll learn an argument for why design is a powerful agent of change, and you'll read practical methods for engaging with large-scale social problems. [more inside]
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A new website for an old cloth.
The Harris Tweed Authority is the guardian of Harris Tweed, the only textile in the world protected by an Act of Parliament from Shearing To Stamping.(Vimeo film). [more inside]
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WAKING UP: the ebook and Minecraft map
My digital short story Waking Up launched today on Amazon, and to accompany the 14K-word ebook is a hellaciously difficult Minecraft map (by evil mastermind Vechs, of course) based on the world of the story. [more inside]
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Saving Sasha
I adopted a dog from a dog rescue and tried to teach her to love me or at least come when she's called. And then, because it's 2012, I started a blog about it. And then, because sometimes life is really shitty, I discovered that my brand new doggie is horribly sick.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:46 AM - 4 comments

Your Mother, the Hacker
Need help explaining your Internet-y job to your mom? We're here to help! We're sending out Mother's Day e-cards to clue her in on the nonsense that is the Web. Pick some terms and they'll show up friendly-like in her inbox this Sunday. Web servers, the Cloud, PHP, and a gazillion more await! There's also a version with holiday-appropriate floweriness.
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Lexcavator  
Lexcavator is an arcade/word game for Mac, PC, and Linux. The goal: guide your guy (@) deeper into an infinite of letters by clearing words from the board! Multiple game modes, detailed record-keeping, online global leaderboards—there's something here for everybody! Pay what you want (even $0, if you are so inclined). [more inside]
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Intervals, online time, task and project management software
Intervals is an online app that I've been working on for several years. Our web design and development agency built it, and uses it, to track our time, tasks and projects. Thought I'd share it with other web-savvy types who might find Intervals useful. There is also a lot of great content in the blog as well, where we've been writing about web design and development for several years. Lots of great content there.
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Exploring The Abandoned Hospital Complex On Ellis Island  
Everyone's been to the Immigration Museum on Ellis Island for school field trips and vacations. But did you know that the south side of the island features a 29 building hospital complex that has been completely abandoned for nearly 60 years? A rare glimpse into what remains, and how it can be saved.
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The Kate Bush Orgy® on WHRB 95.3 FM
30 hours of music, interviews, articles, and commentary on WHRB 95.3 FM, streaming on the web at whrb.org. [more inside]
posted by Kit at 9:49 PM - 7 comments

International Waters, an interdisciplinary meta-festival of Portland culture
I run an organization here in town called Research Club. We’re in the middle of our biggest project yet — the Portland Passport Project. For the next stage, we've talked to all the amazing groups that we've worked with here in Portland and put together a calendar of their events happening between May 15 and July 21. The goal is to create a broader context where you can encounter as many different branches of Portland culture as possible. [more inside]
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Michael A. Arnzen: Purveyor of the Uncanny
This is a four-minute Ken-Burns-style microdocumentary I made about Seton Hill University's Michael A. Arnzen, four-time Bram Stoker Award winner and the twisted mind behind gorelets.com. [more inside]
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#SciFund 2: The Sci-Fundining
Science crowdfunding on the web is exploding with sites like Microryza, Petridish, and Cancer Research UK (which regularly brings in tens of thousands of pounds for projects). Now #SciFund, the largest science crowdfunding derby on the web is back, baby, for round 2. #SciFund is unique in that its purpose isn't just to crowdfund research, but to change academic culture and create better ties between scientists and the world around them. Indeed, after round 1, we did a number of fancy-pants analyses showing how scientists doing outreach work were going to be better able to use crowdfunding. Or just get the gestalt message from this post on Dr. Zen trying to become the Amanda Palmer of Science. But the real fun and joy of #SciFund is to see the videos these passionate scientists have made about their work... [more inside]
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Strand Bookstore Labor Dispute Comics
This is the official site for the continuous comic strip updates regarding the ongoing strand labor dispute by cartoonist Greg Farrell. Site also features employee testimonials, all updated about once a week.
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The Amy Adams Song (Kermit the Frog)  
Kermit the Frog performs his song for Amy Adams.
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94 Elements - Our lives through the lens of the elements
94 Elements is a global filmmaking project based around the 94 naturally occurring elements, from Hydrogen to Plutonium. Award-winning and upcoming filmmakers each take one element as the basis for a human story around how it's used - watch the 2 minute trailer here and you can see the first film now on the project website. There are opportunities for upcoming filmmakers to win commissions to make new films for the project, such as this pitch at the Sheffield DocFest in June, and we've got great plans for some really interesting data-vis work around how we use our resources.
posted by gravelshoes at 7:39 AM - 3 comments

Cock-rocking the NPR Crowd in Brooklyn: And I Am Not Lying Live, a Comedy Storytelling Burlesque Sideshow
I've started a monthly variety show in Brooklyn based on my blog: And I Am Not Lying. MeFites may remember it from the tales of my band with piano-playing chickens or the infamous iced espresso incident. The show is an outgrowth of the work I've been doing since 2008 in the exploding NYC storytelling scene. We've got a residency at Union Hall in Brooklyn on the first Tuesday of every month - comedy, storytelling, burlesque and sideshow. There's a post explaining more here (image features boobs in pasties, click at your own risk), and you can go off and get tickets here. [more inside]
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143 hours and four ink pens.  
I just finished a freehand ink pen drawing on a 70x100cm paper. I've been working on it for 5 weeks, 143 hours in total.
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Fuck You Broccoli  
When I was a child, I hated all cooked vegetables, and a good number of raw ones. But the only recourse I had was to not eat them, and try to finagle my way into somehow getting dessert without eating them. But now that I'm older, it's personal. I still hate them. And I'm going ad hominem on all their asses.
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Video for Lunch: a blog of #QualityVideos, all 5 mins+
Great videos longer than 5 minutes are shared everyday on the blog Video For Lunch. It's so named because the found videos are nourishing and good to watch while you eat lunch. Things like a short doc on climbing photography, a New York Times op-ed video on P.T.S.D, and Tom Waits putting a fish in his pants. No gratuitous time-lapses, music videos, or the usual viral video fare. A la #longreads, sharing is encouraged with the hashtag #qualityvideos. Shorter #VideoSnacks are served on the side and @VideoForLunch.
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New iPhone App - Robo-Haiku
I've developed my second iPhone app, Robo-Haiku, which lets you generate random english-language haikus that are bizarre, humorous, and sometimes cynical. They can be tweeted or emailed to your friends. It's free, and supported by advertising. [more inside]
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The Long Bleep, a podcast and blog about taboo language.
The Long Bleep will be a public forum for discussion of four-letter words, "dirty" words, swearing, cursing, obscenities, and more. The first step is a questionnaire. Its results will be used to create podcasts and blog posts structured around things that really happened when taboo language was used: confrontations, first encounters, eureka moments, learning situations. Those stories will lead us down cultural and historical paths as we tease out the complicated relationship English-speakers worldwide have with "dirty" words. More information on the blog.
posted by Mo Nickels at 3:35 PM - 4 comments

Roguelike Radio Interview with Glenn Wichman
Glenn Wichman is one of the three people who made the computer game Rogue, bits of which are visible in roguelikes (of course), many computer RPGs, and MMORPGs. We interviewed him today for the Roguelike Radio podcast.
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Grow a Face
A drawing of a face mutates based on your picks. The result can be freely used anywhere, like as an avatar. HTML5/ Canvas-based.
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Who Was David Algonquin? The Works Of The Mystery Man Of American Letters  
Ken Cosgrove, everyone's favorite Accounts man on Mad Men, has a side career as an author with many pen names. The David Algonquin Wiki imagines a world where Ken's stories have become popular and well-remembered pieces of culture but the man himself is largely a mystery (Although Harlan Ellison is a fan). Wiki is open to anyone, with an attempt being made to write his stories round-robin style.
posted by The Whelk at 9:38 AM - 43 comments

LiveHoods: Using Social Media and Machine-Learning to Study Cities  
Our research hypothesis is that the character of an urban area is defined not just by the the types of places found there, but also by the people that make it part of their daily life. To explore this idea, we use data from approximately 18 million check-ins collected from the location-based social network foursquare, and apply clustering algorithms to discover the different areas of the city. [more inside]
posted by jasonhong at 11:17 AM - 1 comment

Ghosts With Shit Jobs
In the future, jobs still suck - but in whole new ways. By 2040, the economy has flipped and North Americans are a cheap labour pool for wealthy Asian markets. A Chinese documentary show focuses on the "ghosts" (Cantonese slang for white people) unlucky enough to have been born into the slums of Toronto in a special report that translates as "Ghosts With Shit Jobs." [more inside]
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80s Joke Line
My friends and I built an 80s Joke Line for a hackathon event here in Toronto. You can call in to hear a joke and then share one of your own. It's cobbled together using Flask (a Python web framework) and APIs from Twilio and Soundcloud. The code is on GitHub. We are a bit short on jokes. Maybe you can help with that. [more inside]
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[Citation Needed] - Free Kindle book
[Citation Needed] - The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing is a collection of some of our all-time favorite entries from the blog of the same name. It has over two hundred examples of so bad it's funny Wikipedia writing with commentary from me and Josh Fruhlinger (from the Comics Curmudgeon blog.) And best of all, it's free for the Kindle for the next few days!
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Blogologues: Younger Than Springtime
Hi all! Our company has been experimenting with this crazy comedy project in which we perform the internet, completely verbatim. We've done a bunch of one-night engagements of the project with new themes every time, and for the first time ever we have a 16-performance run. We're performing weekends through May 5th in the west village of NYC. [more inside]
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AEscifi.ca is now an SFWA qualified market
AEscifi is the newest addition to the list of SFWA qualified markets, joining such venerable publications as Asimov’s and Analog on a short list of thirty-two professional English-language science fiction markets.
posted by 256 at 9:09 AM - 1 comment

End Piece: the last artwork of great artists  
This is an online effort to catalog the last artworks made by artists before they die.
posted by Jason and Laszlo at 8:12 AM - 1 comment

Gomi - Free stuff near you
You see an abandoned on the city street. You list it. Anyone can claim it. Basically we've developed an app that whenever you see something like a couch, TV, BBQ, etc. that's been dumped on a street corner, you whip out your iPhone and take a picture of it. The item goes onto a big map, so that anyone can browse and get it for free!
posted by tomargue at 7:45 AM - 3 comments

DaveDaveFind: Built with Udacity
I just finished the excellent CS101 course at Udacity, which promised I'd learn to build a search engine in seven weeks. I was skeptical, but sure enough, I did! This very simple search engine is based on the code I learned in class, and searches the Udacity course materials. While building it, I also learned to use the Bottle web framework and Google App Engine. I kept a blog with lots of details here. The next round of classes starts tomorrow, so I thought I'd post this here and encourage anyone interested in learning to build their own to sign up.
posted by ecmendenhall at 4:51 PM - 3 comments

Your Hollywood Friends and Neighbors
Bunny and Coco podcast from an enormous bed in downtown Hollywood, California, telling weird and wild stories from the most famous neighborhood in the world. Episode four includes an interview with Julia Marchese, who started the petition to save 45mm film, and who discusses the unique pleasures of the revival house cinema. Theme song by MeFi's own frenetic, AKA Brad Sucks: It's this incredible song. [more inside]
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UK Diet Diaries
One of the best ways to get motivated is to share your goals and commit to them publicly. UK diet diaries is a community aiming to help people lead better lives by encouraging them to lose weight and get fitter by logging their diets online. If you are looking to improve your diet please come and join the community.
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Instarchive - Download a zip file of your Instagram photos
There’s been a lot of talk about Instagram lately. We’re pretty sure the sky isn’t falling, but you should always have a backup, so we built this little tool for you. It’s called Instarchive, sign into your Instagram account and we’ll send your photos down to your computer in a convenient zip file. It's quick and easy, we hope you like it.
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The trailer for my novel KINO
My novel Kino will be published by Atticus Books on Tuesday. It's about a German silent film director whose movies are believed lost during World War II -- until his granddaughter receives a print of his 1927 debut The Tulip Thief under mysterious circumstances... [more inside]
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Couplets: a multi-author poetry blog tour
I'm coordinating a book blog tour for April, to help promote poetry and poets for National Poetry Month, for upwards of 70 poets visiting upwards of 25 poet-bloggers. [more inside]
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True Stories of BDD
A collection of stories used to drive web project development, translated into more honest language. Web developers, feel free to build the collection. [more inside]
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Zombies, Run! A running game and audio adventure for iOS
We've recently released our first original smartphone game, Zombies, Run! It's a running game and audio adventure for iOS (and soon, Android) where you run in the real world while getting story and instructions through your headphones. As you run, you also get chased by zombies (so you need to speed up) and you automatically collect supplies that you can use to grow your home base, Abel Township. Today, we also launched our free 75 page book, The Runner's Guide, with more background on the world of Zombies, Run! plus the script and audio for Mission 1. [more inside]
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Cloudy All Day
Doing some research on clouds for another project, so dropping fun cloud stuff off here. Honestly, I recommend going outside and looking at actual clouds instead.
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Pocket Tactics: Strategy game news and reviews for Android and iOS
Strategy games are really starting to come into their own on smartphones and tablets, and there wasn't really a site to serve that niche. Hence: Pocket Tactics. [more inside]
posted by CRM114 at 10:26 AM - 4 comments

Pop Comedy Podcast
My friend and fellow comic Natalie and I have started a podcast about pop culture. Our guests pick a few of their obsessions, and each week we delve into why we obsess about, well, what we obsess about. Take a listen and tell us what you think! [more inside]
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Evaporating Shorelines
This is a documentary film, regarding Great Salt Lake in Utah. Proposed expansion of Great Salt Lake minerals, offers to destroy much of the wetland environment of the lake, in tandem with water diversions from all sides. Shirley Gorospe sank her personal monies into making this film. I donated images along with other Utah photographers. The Army Corp of Engineers has OK'd projects on the lake with little to no oversight. Classic case in point is the ill-advised railroad causeway, that belted the lake across the middle and modified the halves of the lake, making the north half useless for brine shrimping. [more inside]
posted by Oyéah at 12:49 PM - 2 comments

Paleoart
A MLKSHK "shake" devoted to artistic representations of prehistoric life.
posted by brundlefly at 5:41 PM - 2 comments

Puncho Fighto, an iOS fighting game
It's a 2D fighting game for iPhone and iPad. Bonus: features music from mefi's CarrotAdventure! [more inside]
posted by big friendly giant at 9:58 AM - 4 comments

10 alternative Disney movie posters  
I have re-designed several classic Disney movie posters, giving each one a quirky twist! I'd love to hear your thoughts!
posted by rowansm at 7:00 PM - 12 comments

These automatic arms.
"These automatic arms" is a short Windows game -- maybe 15 minutes long. You appear not to be in control of your arms. Bystanders may be in danger. A tin foil hat may help? Reunite with your child and give them a proper hug. [more inside]
posted by nobody at 6:09 AM - 4 comments