Category Archives: Posts

.Gifs: A complete taxonomy (v1)

16th
Feb. × ’12
By Tony

As I previously blogged, .gifs are making a comeback in a major way. Consider me the Audobon of the world wide web. I’ve shot and stuffed fine specimens in all of the main genres of .gif. For science! It’s alive! The kitsch .gif Frames: few Size: small Purpose: LOOK AT ME Habitat: Geocities When the [...]

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Google Scholar Citations

18th
Nov. × ’11
By Tony

Google Scholar has opened it’s citations tool to all users. Here’s my profile.

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List of Video Game Archetypes That Have Been Driven Into the Ground by iOS Developers

31st
Oct. × ’11
By Tony

Fixed-turret tower defense Fixed-cannon demolition Match-three puzzler Cave flight One-button platformer Vertical bounce platformer Vertical one-button two-surface platformer Asynchronous board game Fast-reflex business management Fast-reflex object touching Town sim Color-based shoot-em-up Traffic direction Any I’ve forgotten?

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3 Worst Battlestar Galactica Crafts on Etsy

20th
Sep. × ’11
By Tony

   

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It’s dangerous to go alone

19th
Sep. × ’11
By Tony

Humorous site providing screencaps and gifs of classic dialogue from Zelda games.

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Picasa

14th
Sep. × ’11
By Tony

I got a camera! And you can see my photos here. If you’re into that kind of thing.

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A Nibble of Ice Cream Sandwich

8th
Sep. × ’11
By Tony

Tech pundits eagerly await the arrival of Mountain View’s latest digital delicacy onto our Android devices, and signs indicate that we might get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich next month. The firmware is intended to integrate Android for handsets (2.3.4 and below) and design elements from Android 3.0 for tablets. When Google unveiled the [...]

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Hypnotic .gif

19th
Aug. × ’11
By Tony
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New project: fab-ulo.us

4th
Aug. × ’11
By Tony

I’m working on a new blog, fab-ulo.us. Sorry for the gross, hacky URL, but it’s not arbitrary! It’s a blog about fabrication technologies, techniques, and trends. I was planning on making it exclusively about 3d printing, but i’ve found some really exciting manual fabrication news items, and decided to broaden the scope of the project. [...]

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Did you know?

1st
Aug. × ’11
By Tony

Mameshiba. I just discovered this Japanese phenomenon. A little bean dog appears and gives unsolicited trivia, usually spoiling the bean’s friend’s lunch. There are twenty of these videos. They’re all adorable. Here’s a choice selection.

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Monkey self-portrait

15th
Jul. × ’11
By Tony

These photos are causing all kinds of monkey business. Techdirt, the target of a C&D for copyright infringement, has an ongoing series about who owns the copyright in these images.

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Stardust

7th
Jul. × ’11
By Tony

.gif by Ignacio Torres. Part of his series Stellar. (thanks for the find, Shivian!)

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“This wasn’t a ripoff, it was a love-in”

6th
Jul. × ’11
By Tony

A note by John Lennon, explaining the Beatles’ performance of traditionally Black standards early in their career. The entire note is posted at TechDirt, and it’s definitely worth a read.    

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Albrecht Dürer’s 1511 © Notice

5th
Jul. × ’11
By Tony

Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains. Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works. Beware! Know you not that I have a grant from the most glorious Emperor Maximillian, that not one throughout the imperial dominion shall be allowed to print or sell fictitious imitations [...]

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Gallery of Dumb Nintendo Project Café Controller Renders

2nd
Jun. × ’11
By Tony

    The Nintendo faithful are eagerly anticipating that company’s next home console, internally nicknamed “Project Café.” As anyone who even remotely follows the game press knows, Nintendo fan speculation rivals– maybe surpasses– Apple fan speculation. Nintendo is great at leaking just enough information to leave you hooked, and then draws a product release out [...]

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Old Glory

14th
May. × ’11
By Tony

Dumpster, Treasure Island, corner of Broadway and Cornelia.

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Cat .gif

19th
Apr. × ’11
By Tony

I found this cat .gif for you. It took a while to select the perfect one.

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In a .Giffy

4th
Apr. × ’11
By Tony

2011 appears to be the Year of the .gif. What’s that, you say? 1996 was the year of the .gif? Well, this is one trend I’m thrilled to welcome back. Here are 2 .gif-centric social sharing sites that I absolutely love. 3fram.es 3fram.es is a site for sharing stop-motion webcam gifs. The “social” features are [...]

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24th
Mar. × ’11
By Tony
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22nd Century Romance

7th
Mar. × ’11
By Tony

As seen on FAILblog.

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