- A House of Puzzles - 7 comments
- Memorize the Presidents With This Song - 8 comments
- The Story Behind Jamie Livingston's Polaroid-a-Day Project - 6 comments
- Code Rush: The Inside Story of Netscape - 3 comments
- George Dyson on the Birth of the Computer - no comments
June 2008 Archives
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Nintendo's Version of Walt Disney - no comments
- Why reCAPTCHA is Good for Humanity - 39 amusing comments and 130 Diggs
- Miracle Fruit and Miraculin - 13 comments, including some Miracle Fruit marketing
- How to Solve a Rubik's Cube in Only 23 Moves - 8 comments
- Required Viewing: The Machine That Changed the World - no comments, but 127 Diggs
Lessons learned this week:
- Everyone enjoys Wii. There are no exceptions.
- Hendrick's makes a fine gin. Also the little pamphlet that comes with it makes the drinker feel special.
- When beach-walking, I prefer the Hard Sand over the Soft Sand.
- Not everyone you meet on the internet is insane. Weird, maybe, but not with criminal intent.
- When researching, it's full-text or nothing.
And now, the blogging.
- Nicholas Negroponte On the Future: Predictions From 24 Years Ago - no comments; more's the pity
- 6 Obscure Facts About the Noid - 14 comments
- Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 2 comments
- The Height Gap - 14 comments
- CAPTCHA Variants: KittenAuth - 20 comments
The Livingston blog continues to make the rounds, and is now nearing 400 "blog reactions" according to Technorati. I feel like they should make a term for that, like "reblog" or "blarg." There, I just did it.
- Charles and Ray Eames Explain the Polaroid SX-70 - 7 comments and 2,360 YouTube views
- How To Dance While Barely Moving: the "Fishstick" - 2 comments but I got an email from Lisagor, Fishstick Master, himself!
- Ira Glass on Storytelling - 4 comments
- Joshua Klein Shows What Crows Can Do - 3 comments
- The Dead Man's Switch - 11 comments
