Via LikeCool: Aled Lewis’ Pixel Monster In Emotional Reunion With Severed Limb.
HTML5 Now!
When the W3C announced their HTML5 logo last week, we were a smidgen skeptical about the whole thing. Branding? on my pages? It’s less likely than you think.
So, before the blog launched, we took a minute to visualize what we saw when we looked at the logo and the suggested badge available on the HTML5 page. Like in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, we couldn’t help but seeing a giant popsicle labeled “sucker”, because, well, we’ve been through this thing before, and it wasn’t pretty. Remember Netscape Now badges? (Yes, we’re that old). Nerduo loves HTML5, so don’t get us wrong.
In conclusion: this is what we made. Take it for a spin (ideally after copying the image to your own server). Because snarkyness is what makes the web so awesome. Right?
The Future of Print Just Got Brighter
Hey look, print’s not dead! “Intelligent cereal boxes” that use “eCoupled intelligent wireless power” by Fulton Innovation.
Via The Daily What and David William
USB - Satan’s Data Connection
Introducing the Automatypewriter, a new way to experience interactive fiction! It’s still a little rough around the edges (in particular, you can see that the spacebar sticks a little, and the whole thing needs to be tidied up), but you get the idea: the Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type on its own, as well as detect what you type on it. By reading what it types to you and responding, it can be used interactively to play a game or participate in a story (in this case, Zork).
Via Make
Folding GIF envelopes to the left of me, rainbow rules to the right
Yes, the Archive Team is planning to release a 900GB torrent of as much of GeoCities as they can get together. It’s a piece of history, really, and it would be a shame for it to just up and disappear. Then again, who the hell is going to want this?
Me, I was a Tripod guy, through and through.
Forever!
The only thing I could think after watching Jony Ive talk in the latest iPhone video. It’s almost a potential meme, isn’t it?
Hackers at 25
It’s been 25 years since “Hackers” was published. Author Steven Levy reflects on the book and the movement.
