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Entries for week beginning October 11, 2009

October 17, 2009

Charlie Brooker’s hidden message

Charlie Brooker’s hidden message

www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/17/charliebrooke...

"The line 'kicking ratings...' was originally a standalone sentence, but got subbed. Puzzle fans! Spot my hidden 'free speech' message." -- @charltonbrooker

October 16, 2009

Piracy in the App Store

Really interesting stats on jailbreaking and use of cracked iPhone apps.

October 15, 2009

Archive Team: Under Construction

A collection of of-their-time webpage detrius: The “Under Construction” graphics of geocities.

McSweeney's Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet

“McSweeney’s No. 33 is to be in the form of a daily broadsheet — a big, old-fashioned broadsheet.” Sounds fabulous.

unix-jun72

The original source for Unix 1st Edition, scanned from a printout, ready to run in a PDP-11 emulator. This fills me with geeklove.

October 14, 2009

October 13, 2009

October 12, 2009

Cat Shit One

I have not the words. Has to be watched to be believed.

October 11, 2009

JoCo performs Flood (1/9)

When Jonathan Coulton realised that his concert in Chicago would collide with a They Might Be Giants concert, he did the only sensible thing: Together with his support act, learn the whole of “Flood” and perform it.

saute-swinish