An Interview with Peter Watts
Science Fiction author Peter Watts has been mentioned on metafilter previously. Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to interview him and now, in the lead-up to him hopefully winning his first Hugo this weekend, that interview is available online (permalink).
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MURAL LOCATOR, find murals easily
Mural Locator is a site developed for viewers to easily find and locate murals around the world. Readers can submit murals that they see worthy of being shared. This will help promote the artists and their work with large visible images. The collection of murals are documented and associated to their locations with online maps. We wanted to share the beauty of murals with the world and those unaware of this public form of art.
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Fuck Lorem Ipsum
In my line of work, I have to do a lot of html mockups of website designs. I've been using Malevole's text generator instead of Lorem Ipsum boilerplate for years, but always yearned for a more feature-rich version - one that could insert tags and filter the sources of dummy text. I finally got around to making my own. [more inside]
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Terminator 2: The Opera
Terminator 2: The Opera By popular demand: Arnold Schwarzenegger laments his inability to kill in the aria "To Kill Someone Again" from Terminator 2: The Opera. From Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan (Conan the Barbarian: The Musical, RoboCop: The Musical)
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Saatva - An Online Only Luxury Mattress Store
I am the lead developer at Saatva and we recently launched our mattress store. The idea is that since we sell exclusively online and don't have the usual costs(retail space, salesmen), we can offer a much better product for a much lower price. What do you think?
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Life, The Universe, and Everything Food.
Sean C. is a recently married late-20-something currently residing in the scenic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Following 10 years of hard labor working his way up the ladder in other people's kitchens, Sean set his eyes on the greener pastures and shorter workdays of the Information Technology industry. Foodward Thinking is Sean's ongoing endeavor to hone and expand his culinary skills in his own (more comfortable but slightly less equipped) kitchen.
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The Mantid Transmission
This is a short video I made of this mantis I found yesterday. I like taking pictures of mantids and sometimes they pose beautifully.
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New Jersey Land Change Viewer
"Changing Landscapes in the Garden State" is an ongoing collaborative report between Rowan University and Rutgers University that analyzes the urban development patterns in New Jersey since 1986. The latest version of the report was released at the end of July to include the latest data from 2007. Previous versions of the report included static maps of development patterns; this release is the first to include several interactive, animated maps that demonstrate urban growth, farmland, forest and wetlands loss, as well as increases in impervious surface. A final map shows the land that actually remains and is vulnerable to future development. There's not much left in New Jersey; approximately 1 million acres remain.
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FOUND ON GOOGLE IMAGES
Yayah its like a tumblr but its more pure because everything's found doing random searches on google. Its interesting, trust. More to come.
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George Mann's photos of L.A.'s lost Bunker Hill
Retired vaudeville novelty dancer George Mann took up 3-D photography later in life, and shot incredible color images of the soon-to-be-demolished Bunker Hill neighborhood in downtown L.A. They were displayed in 3-D viewers of his own design, then boxed away. Fifty years later, his family unpacked George's archives and decided to share these unseen images with the community of obsessives who cluster around my time travel blog OnBunkerHill. Today, we're thrilled to announce the launch of an online shop making these beautiful vintage photographs available as archival prints, the first in a series of George Mann's mid-century California photographic portfolios. Learn more about George's unusual life here.
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Find bugs by Jinxing your multi-threaded code.
I work at a start-up founded by my thesis advisor. We have just released our first product: Jinx. Jinx makes multi-threaded code 'unlucky' so bugs occur (and can be fixed) more quickly and easily. Its free for academic and non-commercial use or you can get a 30-day trial. We'd love any and all feedback. Look below the fold for more info on multi-threaded code, debugging, and the research Jinx is based on. [more inside]
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Indian Ephemera
For quite a while I've been scanning and uploading various bits of ephemera collected during my time in India. The bulk of it is matchboxes, but there's also a lot of firework wrappers, educational posters, and miscellany. They are beautiful examples of Indian graphic design: strange and colorful, sometimes unintentionally hilarious, sometimes exquisite, and often based on hand-painted pictures. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
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Put This On Episode 3
We just finished episode three of Put This On, a web series for men who want to dress like grown-ups. This one's about work, and we interviewed Paul Feig, the director of the upcoming "Bridesmaids," with Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm, and the co-creator of Freaks and Geeks.
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Using QR codes to protect Canadian wilderness
We made these mysterious posters featuring QR codes and are putting them up in seven Canadian cities. It's our hope that people scan the posters with their smart phone and then complete the petition form they get sent to.
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Victorian fairytale illustration analysis
For the past six months or so I have been blogging for tor.com on Victorian Illustrations. It's only three posts so far, but that are pretty substantive essays - >1000 words each on various facets of Victorian illustration, and how they might influence us today, with a plethora of links to other resources, images, and analysis. [more inside]
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Birchbox: Fruit of the month meets beauty
Birchbox is a fun way to try high-end beauty products. It's a new spin on the age old "of-the-month" club. For $10 a month, we send members oversized beauty samples that they can try at home. Once they find what works for them, they can buy the full-size products, earning rewards points with every purchase. [more inside]
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Spectrumville: A Forum for People with Asperger's Syndrome
Spectrumville is a new internet discussion forum for people with Asperger's syndrome, or any other autism spectrum disorder to take part in discussion. Please note that people who aren't on the spectrum but have family/friends who're on the spectrum are able to join.
posted by GlassHeart at 8:10 PM - 2 comments

Bookbinding Weblog
Recently, I've taken up bookmaking (sorry: not the [potentially more interesting] gambling variety) as a hobby and this weblog is where I post my finished books. I also make infrequent posts about my life, but you can ignore those.
posted by eunoia at 11:16 AM - 4 comments

No Baggage Challenge
Heyo. I'm traveling as a producer and cameraman (and director...and editor...) for a project that will take travel writer Rolf Potts around the world in 6 weeks (hitting 12 countries on 5 continents) with one twist: he's doing it with no luggage. No backpack, no man purse -- not even a fanny pack. [more inside]
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Zum Znacht
daisyk (a Swiss-by-association) and I (a vegan-by-association) have been blogging about the vegan meals we make in our kitchen that are interesting or tasty. Not all of them are based on beetroot.
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ClipIt! is a free Window's clipboard-based content management utility.
The ClipIt! utility let's you name, categorize and store the contents of the Window's system clipboard to a portable file-based repository for future reuse. Clipboard contents stored using ClipIt! can be restored to the system clipboard from the active clip library for reuse in any clipboard-enabled Windows application. The utility also allows you to back-up the contents of a clip library or share a clip library with other ClipIt! users. Advanced features provide the ability to view the various data formats in which the clipboard content is available at the point of input or output, as well as the ability to filter input or output results by one or more available data formats (but these features should be used with caution, as results may not always be what you expect). [more inside]
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Computer-generated modern art parodies
Computer-generated abstract art in a variety of styles, mostly associated with various modern artists. Each piece has a title and a markov-chain 'artist's statement'. The page is formatted for mobile devices, but works reasonably in any browser. [more inside]
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Next Wave 2010 - Text Camp Reader
I was part of a creative writing mentorship as part of Melbourne's Next Wave Festival 2010, which presented multi-form experiential art. Our task was to respond to how well we thought the pieces reflected the year's theme No Risk Too Great. My piece, No Risk Too Great: Comfort Zones, discusses the absurdity of doing things outside your "comfort zone" while still being protected in the confines of a hipster-peer-filled arts festival. (Some images NSFW.)
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Black Rabbit Rrecords
A dear friend has launched an independent music label - and has developed some cool interactive apps for browser and phone (though not IE nor Android devices as these lack support for SVG - default lameness for IE, but for shame Google). Listen to releases online : related - Christmas Card have a pretty nifty site too
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“The visible world is merely their skin.”
City of Roses is an epic fantasy serial zine set rather firmly in Portland, Oregon. It’s also available online, for free. [more inside]
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Epic, a Multimedia Novel
Ok guys, hypertext novels sure are the worst. Here's another nonetheless. [more inside]
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Caerse Muerto
The awesome (horror movie) blog Kindertrauma premiered a short film/music video I put together today. [more inside]
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Wojtek, the soldier bear: the T-shirt
There was an interesting post on the blue about Wojtek, the soldier bear. A couple of folks expressed the desire for a t-shirt with the iconic image of Wojtek. I thought it was a striking image, and figured it wasn't all that hard, so I set it up. [more inside]
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Mad Men Spoiler Cartoons
Jon Hamm continues to surprise as Darren Stevens in AMC's dark, period-obsessed reboot of Bewitched. But four seasons in, fans are clamoring for more attention on Samantha's black magic. Each week, these illustrated spoilers will provide fans of AMC's critically acclaimed Bewitched with teasingly brief revelations on the series' upcoming plot developments and twists. For Instance: [more inside]
posted by ProfLinusPauling at 2:04 PM - 4 comments

signal - quick and easy link blogging
My weekend project was to create a link blog application that would make it easy to share links with my friends through a bookmarklet. It's minimal in terms of features right now and the design is, um, spartan. But, y'know. Ship it. http://www.findsignal.com/jp
posted by jpignata at 10:39 AM - 8 comments

Johnny Winter v Jonah Hex
details a courtroom shoot-out I wrote about for Mojo in October 2003. It’s one of 17 old articles (all PDFs) which I’ve just posted on PlanetSlade.com. There you’ll find my pieces on Troma’s Best Trashy Videos (from Time Out), Quentin Crisp’s New York (The Independent) and Cerebus the Aardvark (The Idler). You’ll also discover how to Write a Cheque on a Cow (Inside Money), learn why you should Clean the Wallpaper with Stale Bread (Sunday Telegraph) and see how a trip to Colorado let me complete My Global Shakespeare Quest (Shakespeare Scene). Start with the menu.
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rage
This thing converts episodes of ABC TV's music video program, rage, into excruciatingly minimalist youtube playlists.
posted by plant at 9:52 PM - 12 comments

Contropastasciutta
FT Marinetti's 1932 'Futurist Cookbook' was one big practical joke filled with bizarre dinners composed of even more bizarre recipes. The photographer, prop stylist, and food stylist all set out to recreate the not just the dishes but also the feel of the cookbook and just how radical it was at the time. This is our 3rd shoot in a series exploring hunger through photography. Previously, previously.
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BULX:Private Sales Site for Home Improvement Brands
I am the lead developer for BULX.com, the new members-only ecommerce site focused on offering high-end home improvement brands at up to 70% off retail prices. New sales launch every weekday at 12 EST. Invite your friends and get $25 in store credit. Just launched yesterday!
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Objects, signs, and dictionaries
If it were still 1997, I would be out a billion dollars in domain names. But seeing as it isn't 1997, I've created three sites in three weeks. Feeding Objects is a site where people...feed objects. It's kind of in the name. Hey, I Found Your Sign is a site that encourages people to remove illegally placed business signs (we buy houses, earn cash from home) from their community. And, finally, My Dictionaric (because dictionaric.com was taken), the call-in podcast where I read the dictionary aloud until someone calls in to chat. I know, I know. I'm really raising the bar for quality internet content.
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Game Design Essentials: 20 Non-Computer Games
At last! It took me a long time, but my latest Game Design Essentials article for Gamasutra is finally done and up! This time the focus is on games that don't require a computer to play. The focus of the article is to briefly summarize the games for an audience of computer game designers, but you might enjoy it too. [more inside]
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Winnipeg Election 2010 - Know Your Candidates!
WinnipegElection.ca is a citizen driven website we created for the upcoming October 2010 civic election in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The site lists all the candidates by ward along with their contact info, websites, social media details, and related news articles. [more inside]
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Whale Shark Websites
Thanks to the advice of several MeFites, I've finally got round to building a site to show off my projects (how delightfully meta!), write about the interaction of the web and small business, and maybe drum up a little freelance WordPress work.
posted by primer_dimer at 9:07 AM - 3 comments

Marriage D.C. - Because Our Marriage Was Once Illegal, Too!
mrmoonpie and I (mrsmoonpie) have been performing wedding ceremonies for primarily, but not exclusively, same-sex couples in D.C. Here is the new website detailing the services I offer. The site is still in its infancy, but I think you will see where I'm going with it. And a big THANK YOU to all of the MeFi folks who offered advice and gave me a helping hand!
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The Dingbat Project
Dingbats are modern shoebox-on-stilts apartment houses ubiquitous to the Sun Belt and west coast. No doubt you've seen a few. Built mostly during the 1950s-1970s, these stucco boxes often feature shmaltzy wrought iron lamps and names like 'Camelot' or 'Roman Gardens;' some are just downright depressing. The Dingbat project is a (perhaps humorous, sometimes educational) catalog of the Dingbats, architectural mishaps, and other urban detritus I encounter in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Less Cancer, More Cake: A Charity Run Fundraiser
On Oct. 10, my birthday, I will be running in the Portland (OR) Charity Half-Marathon, in affiliation with the American Cancer Society. I am selling photos I have taken in New Orleans, where I have lived for the past four years, in order to help raise at least $1,000 and hopefully reach my goal of $1,500 (and am also accepting direct donations). I will be officially running in memory of the late Emilie Lemmons of St. Paul MN, a dear friend of mine who died in Dec. 2008 after a long battle with sarcoma. She was 40 years old. [more inside]
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Monotoning Music with Echo Nest Remix
I got an idea a while back to try and automatically "monotonize" music using the Echo Nest Remix library. This is a presentation and explanation of my initial process and some of the more interesting examples I've produced using the script I wrote. See for example Comfortably Numb as a one-chord song or Suzanne Vega's favorite note. [more inside]
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Parody "I'm Voting Tea Party" Shirts
The Tea Party might have a quasi-mainstream official platform, but it also seems to be a magnet for far right loonies, angry racists, borderline psychotics and those that are simply grossly misinformed. These shirts are for those fringe nutjobs that make the Tea Party rallies so much fun to read about. "Obama is right handed, just like Hitler. That's why I'm voting tea Party!"
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Ruins: A game made in a month.
A top down, 3rd person, 3d shooter game coded in one month for the TIGSource "A Game By It's Cover" competition. [more inside]
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Random photos on the highway
I've been wanting to do a photo essay of drivers that sit too close to the steering wheel for over a decade. When I finally got around to rigging something up, the moments of serendipity were way too fun to limit the project to such a narrow theme. I give you Passenger Window. [more inside]
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Singing Whilst Driving
A blog devoted to scenes of singing in the car (or bus, or helicopter) from TV & the movies. [more inside]
posted by jontyjago at 7:51 AM - 4 comments

No Simple Choice: A selection of life questions to ponder
A selection of collected questions that present scenarios that will test your morals, values and/or goofiness. Behind every answer is an insight into the psyche of the person who has made the selection. Nosimplechoice compares your answers against the general public and give you an indication of how similar or different you are. Login to save and set your profile. You can add your own questions to be added into the cycle of questions for the website. [more inside]
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Do Good for the Gulf
Worked on this for one of my clients but think it's one of the cooler things I've done for them. Scans your Facebook friends to determine which of your friends lived or grew up in a state that borders the Gulf of Mexico, with the aim of dramatizing the human impact of the oil spill and rallying support for the region.
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RETRAZOS: an Illustration and Webcomics project
Since 2006 I've been keeping an illustration and webcomics website. The content was mostly written in Spanish but I've decided to translate (as much as possible) the archives to English, and share this project with a bigger audience. The hard work has ended: it's up and ready. [more inside]
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Diary Dig: Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries explorer
A richly faceted and deeply hyperlinked browser for all of the as-yet released Afghan War Diaries from Wikileaks. Allows you to search by type, category, number of casualties, and many other parameters. Within each document, uncommon phrases that are shared among multiple documents are linked together, allowing you to go down the rabbit hole where you might not have otherwise thought to. My hope is that this will allow reporters, researchers, and the general public to better understand the scope and nature of the US war in Afghanistan, and the contents of this important archive. Source code available.
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