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For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over - New York Times ‘Stern, which used to crank out 27,000 pinball machines each year, is down to around 10,000…. “You work at a pinball company,” he explained, grumpily, “you’re going to play a lot of pinball.”’ (tags: pinball arcade)…
Minnesota Twins - The Text Adventure - Twinkie Town (tags: twins interactivefiction baseball) twistori tracking emotions on twitter. (tags: twitter emotion aggregation)…
zefrank.com :: if the earth were a sandwich : find the opposite tool In case you’re wondering, “so where *would* I end up if I dug through the earth?” (tags: maps googlemaps opposites geography) Twitter Twerp Scan check follower/followee ratios to find the more obvious spambots. (tags: twitter spam)…
The Groundblog spies its shadow.
Disgruntled Real-Life ‘Sarah Marshalls’ Speak Out on Movie ‘“I was shocked to see all the billboards and posters that hated against me and people with my name. It’s just so bizarre.” So, Marshall decided to fire back, launching her own brand of signs proclaiming: “YOU SUCK JUDD APATOW.”’ (tags: signs film marshall names)…
Ice cream, soft heart ‘Until his death Thursday after a long battle with various illnesses, Sonny Siron, 81, was always here, in this, his neighborhood.’ (tags: minneapolis obituaries icecream)…
MTV Multiplayer » Majesco Actually Impressed With Wii Online Capabilities, Makes Breakthroughs Majesco/Budcat making a Wii game based on Kenta Cho’s Tumiki Fighters (rad), with player-created block-objects (awesome), shareable w/o friend codes (omg)! (tags: majesco ugc cho) TypeRacer Typing. Racing. Good times. (tags: race typing onlinegames)…
Mightygodking.com » Blog Archive » Fun From Yesterday! Fun with old 2600 box art. (tags: atari 2600 retrogaming covers)…
VGChartz.com | (tags: games sales statistics) New Wii Games Find a Big (but Stingy) Audience - New York Times A broader audience for Wii means a lower attach rate, but aren’t they still selling more units overall? (tags: nintendo wii sales) Citizen Space Coworking facility in South Park, SOMA, SF. (tags: sanfrancisco coworking office)…
SecretTweet.com - Post your secrets anonymously to Twitter taking ambient intimacy a little further. (tags: twitter confession) Social Gaming Summit 2008 (tags: conference socialsoftware gamedesign)…
Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org Baio uncovers juicy documents and prototypes from Infocom circa 1988-9. (tags: infocom retrogaming interactivefiction hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy)…
Jack McCallum: A new wave of clutch shooters - Jack McCallum - SI.com A lot of thinking goes into last-second plays. (tags: basketball strategy)…
Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation « FoundRead ‘The Quarterly: It sounds like you spend a fair amount of time thinking about the morale of your teams. Brad Bird: In my experience, the thing that has the most significant impact on a movie’s budget… is morale.’ (tags: film animation bird interviews leadership)…
Black Day for love, big day for noodles | Oddly Enough | Reuters April 14 is “Black Day” in S. Korea, where lonely hearts drown their sorrows in ja-jang-myun. (tags: food love holidays korea noodles) Fake names tell a story, too - Baby Name Wizard Blog - Discussing Trends in Baby Names The names people give their children — or the fake names that get assigned to them during censuses —…
The Rather Difficult Font Game (tags: fonts type quiz)…
Tweet Clouds “Going” and “Trying” are my most used words. I’m on the move! (tags: twitter clouds words) Matzo Sells Like Hotcakes - New York Times ‘There’s the matzo, the last link… that many Jews have with the world of their fathers. And there’s the brave new world of… salmon primavera, chicken in balsamic cherry sauce and falafel pizza.’ (tags: food tradition kosher) someecards.com | ecards for when you care enough…
Martijn Hendriks » Give Us Today Our Daily Terror, video stills ‘Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed.’ (tags: movies art hitchcock birds imaging) tedmosbyisajerk.com Featuring a 20-minute song of pure psycho awesome. How I Met Your Mother is the hardest working sitcom around. (tags: howimetyourmother tv songs dating) ある折紙創作家の頁 / folders.jp Origami by Satoshi Kamiya. (tags: origami japanese)…
eggbeater: Chef Owners Who Work The Line. ‘“Stand over here, I’m going to show you how to put out this table, I’m going to show you how to cook, how to work like a team, how to put out just one ticket.” And then he did.’ (tags: cooking restaurant teamwork leadership)…
Twubble Twitter network scanning, similar to FB’s “People you may know” feature. (tags: twitter social network) WoW Forums -> Got Killed by an AFK Warlock Stuff like this really makes me miss WoW. (tags: worldofwarcraft threads pvp) Adobe TV Oodles of instructional videos covering Adobe’s whole product suite. (tags: adobe photoshop video tutorials)…
TwitterLocal Search for tweets in a geographic area. (tags: twitter geography local) Mazapán.se - You Have To Burn The Rope What it says on the tin. Catchy song at the end. (tags: literal simple games parody songs) In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times “they profess a love of the nonstop action… At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something…
Ninja teens or ninja teams? Ask the Chinese! | Sinosplice: Life in China Interpreting the TMNT theme via its Chinese translation. (tags: cartoons language chinese lyrics) Ramblings of a colorblind gamer. ‘To me, there is only the blue streak and then three other ball trails of identical color which I cannot, in my wildest dreams, hope to differentiate between.’ (tags: accessibility color usability gamedesign blind) [ws] Color Scheme Generator 2 Color…
Okami Art Buckets of original Okami concept art. (tags: okami concept art)…
favotter Track which of your twitter posts get favorited by others. (tags: twitter socialsoftware favorites)…
GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles. Infographic/Excel chart humor. Still finding its legs. From the people who brought you icanhascheezburger. (tags: lolcats information charts humor) jwz - Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! ‘In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.’ (tags: mosaic nostalgia internet browsers)…