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These are my links for August 23rd through August 28th:

• Words for Webstock – Bruce Sterling –
• Jani's at the mercy of her mind — latimes.com –
• Tile Drawer – Tile Drawer makes designing and hosting custom maps simple and straightforward. The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration.
• The Afterlife of Paper Redux « bibliostructures –
• The Boy Who Heard Too Much : Rolling Stone –

These are my links for August 14th through August 21st:

• How to load a greasmonkey script after AJAX-Request – Stack Overflow –
• BACK IN THE DAY Forget About Brendan Haywood –
• Profiles: Secrets of Magus : The New Yorker – Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
• Tomorrow Museum » Archive » The Daily Death: When A Celebrity Dies Every 15 Minutes –
• Skynet – Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s MapReduce framework, created at Geni.

These are my links for August 10th through August 13th:

• iPhone Sudoku Grab: How does it all work? –
• Ontic Oren » Go Daddy DNS & Heroku –
• Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed – NYTimes.com –
• Computer-trading worries grow as NYSE builds new datacenter – Ars Technica – The NYSE is building a massive datacenter in New Jersey that should significantly boost the percentage of stock market activity that's nothing but computers trading against one another for millisecond profits. Critics are worried that more such trading could destabilize the markets, or worse.
• The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia. – By Jonah Weiner – Slate Magazine –

I just came across Golden Retriever, something I toyed with for a couple of days last winter. It’s a, even by my lax standards, quite weird concept of trying to create an interface to allow quick and easy retrieval of a data item on a spreadsheet cell, just by specifying the corresponding row (y axis) and column headers (x axis).

I seem to remember the idea was to eventually throw a XMPP/SMS/Command line layer in, so if you had, say, your weekly class schedule on a Google Doc Spreadsheet In The Sky, you could just do ‘Monday 5PM’ and get back ‘Biology’ or whatever. Or maybe you’d have your server passwords on the spreadsheet (don’t) and enter ‘ServerFoo MySQL’ and get back ‘XXYYZZ’ .

I also seem to remember it kinda worked, but that I couldn’t swear.

Google Reader screenshot

• When, if ever, do you want to star something but not share or like it?
• When, if ever, do you want to share something but not star it or like it?
• When, if ever, do you like something but do not want to star it or like it?

These are my links for August 5th through August 7th:

• defunkt's cijoe at master – GitHub – CI Joe is a simple Continuous Integration server. edit
• About Rip – Rip is an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for Ruby.
• USB Ubuntu NetBook Remix Install via Windows | USB Pen Drive Linux –
• Seven Lies About Lying (Part 1) – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com –
• Modernizr – Version 0.9 is the initial public release of Modernizr. It includes tests for a variety of CSS 3 features and an HTML 5 element styling enabler.
• JavaScript dependency management and concatenation: Sprockets – Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files.
• RSSted Development — The American, A Magazine of Ideas –

These are my links for August 1st through August 5th:

• Mario AI Competition 2009 – This competition is about learning, or otherwise developing, the best controller (agent) for a version of Super Mario Bros.
• Infinite Mario Bros! –
• Testing HTTP Digest Authentication in Rails : Light Year Blog –
• Matt Legend Gemmell – iPhone Development Emergency Guide –
• Wolfire Blog – Creating the illusion of accomplishment –

I’ve really enjoyed this Arte documentary featuring a conversation between two very influential game designers, each of them belonging to different generations and both sharing a bit of an outsider fame as well as a discontent with the current mainstream of the video game industry: Jason Roher and Chris Crawford.

The conversation sheds a lot of enlightening points about the craft and art of game design and is ripe with tidbits and references to explore: Little Computer People, Façade, Crawford’s current endeavour, Storytron, M.U.L.E., and many more.

Highly recommended if you are into narrative, digital storytelling, game design or simply creativity and innovation, and have 50+ minutes to spare:

Into the Night with Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford from gmzzz on Vimeo.

These are my links for August 1st from 10:50 to 14:02:

• Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating – Curveship is an interactive fiction system that provides a typical world model (of characters, objects, locations, and things that happen) and also allows the narration and description of that world to change
• Print I Think You're Fat –
• The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Paul Romer, “A Theory of History, with an Application” –
• Should we hate Judas Iscariot? : The New Yorker –
• Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Self-Destructing Data – Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service.
• ARtisan – ARtisan is the fastest and easiest way from point A to point B in browser based augmented reality. With ARtisan, the developer needs no knowledge of the inner workings of augmented reality to create in-depth, interactive AR experiences.