You might remember a TED conference presentation of the Microsoft-funded Photosynth project, knitting together the world’s photos in 3D space. Looks like they’ve taken it even further since then.
Simple but fun perspective shifting game. Line up the squares floating in 3D-space to see the 2D pixellated icon shown.
On the evolution of David Hellman’s dreamy, painterly art stylings for Braid, released this week on XBLA.
The angry red bear knows when you’ve been bad. Beautiful. I want something like this where I work.
Interesting talk at the Library of Congress by the author of the super-optimistic “Machine is Us/ing Us” video.
Whoopsie! While poking around on this site the other night I was horrified to discover it was pretty badly b0rked in IE. Not quite sure how I managed to miss that, but hopefully I’ve put it right now.
Impressive and inventive CG animated short film on damaged individuals and the life of animator Ryan Larkin. Vaguely reminiscent of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
The mid-80s, one-issue-wonder. A large format comic book and Turtles tie-in, from TMNT creators Eastman and Laird. Scroll down to the bottom to read the whole thing online.
Huge long list of potential XSS security holes with examples and details of browser support.
I haven’t posted in ages, so I might as well use this to break radio silence. It’s a solution to this little programming brain teaser from Dustin Diaz. I don’t think it’s as much of a puzzle as he seemed think, given by the responses in the comments and how long it took me, but regardless: