some speculation that it was to do with revenue split from the 5by5 app. I would certainly like to know.

(<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)

thinking of giving this a shot

an AV Club spinoff site about games. First <a href="http://penny-arcade.com/report/">The PA Report</a> and now this? Suddenly there is a lot more good games-writing.

okay, this is sort of a weak article. In fact, I'm only linking to it because I can't get the phrase "socially aggressive narcissist" out of my head.

among other things, Marco Arment takes issue with "via" links. I used to not bother with them, but realized I do find it interesting where a given site found a link, so I try and provide them where possible. I think it's only interesting for obscure links, not for newspaper articles, and it's not always something you know / remember.

I found it really odd how he conflates source and via links in the Daring Fireball example, but then I read <a href="http://www.curatorscode.org/">the page that prompted his post</a> and see that it's done there too. Via = source, hat tip = via? Bullspit. The source link is the actual link, and "via" is how you got there. I got to Barrie via Highway 400. I got to this article about creative-commons licensed mashups via Boing Boing.

(<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

A meditation on Gchat

(<a href="http://www.chutry.wordherders.net/wp/">via</a>)

actually, one thing I really liked about Pinboard was that it cost a one-time fee, not a recurring charge. But I especially like that paying for stuff on the web makes it less likely to have ads.

good followup to "The Pummeling Pages".

on the rapidly decreasing readability of some web publications. This is a fascinating issue.

reflection on camgirl history. I don't totally understand why it stopped though.

web service for building custom triggers based on common actions (<a href="http://smarterware.org">via</a>)

bookmark this page for your next yearly review.

rare is something people don't access, as opposed to can't access (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

leading up to the launch of Glitch

I've just barely tried Glitch. I loved the Game Neverending, Butterfield's previous game, and who doesn't love Katamari?

ooooh... browser plugin for command-line style web navigation. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

ratings are consistently down among late-night talk shows as people increasingly just watch choice bits online. Question is, would those bits still get play in the absence of the hour-long show?

Josh Allen reviews things on a scale of one to ten sexy ladies.

good idea

D&D style (via <a href="http://funkaoshi.com">Funkaoshi</a>)

it's that time of year already... LISTMAS

Wikipedia co-founder edited his wikipedia page to remove references to the other co-founder. Wow. This isn't new, but it's such beautiful irony.

I've been following JA for about 10 years - great to see him being so extra-awesome these days

"The whole point of having friends, as opposed to “friends,” is that you don’t have to relentlessly keep up appearances and strike poses." Great article. (via <a href="http://funkaoshi.com">Funkaoshi</a>)

re: instapaper for video. Awesome. Now it needs a plex/boxee plugin (altough come to think of it, I could load up the saved videos page in the PS3... hmmm!)

I love pinboard. It's so nice to have a bookmarking site that actually develops new services.

MeFi members help save two girls from sex traffickers. Total craziness.

review of a book from the author of the essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".

not yet complete open source facebook replacement

this one's for Steve.

from Steve Jobs. I love it when Jobs writes these open letters. If only he would read them while puffing his pipe by the fireside?

the sad part of when a company starts 'monetizing' is that all the minds that had been working on making a thing great for users suddenly turn around and start thinking about how to make it less great for users.

bad tumblelogs are not the fault of tumblr. Or: semi-literates do not produce good blogs. (One thing I hate about tumblr: the meaningless padding of "tublrUsr1991 liked this" x40 at the bottom of everything.)

does what it says on the box.

This is a great idea - a show that's all recaps. Like trailervision in reverse. Also, this dude is an amazing actor.

theme to pretty up Greader in Chrome

good article; amongst other things points out how Google is not as "open" as they pretend to be

"sporadic play" multiplayer browser-based strategy game that sounds pretty nifty

Daily writing webapp

does what it says on the box.

wow,

Ram on recent art photo vs. Flickr debates

profile of the AV Club, which I gotta admit to loving

how to encode and embed flash-free video in the new html spec

rape tunnel=fake. "Our intention was to get attention."

nice

apparently a good overview of the genre

new Japanese name for Twitter

let's just hope for a quick, painless death for Flash video

comedy web series from the Canadian Film Centre

interesting self-hosted feed reader from the creator of mint. A little cutesy with the temperature metaphor, but abandoning unread counts is a huge idea.

another meta-review site

interesting. Browsers are going to allow linking to fonts soon. Hoping for Comic Sans resurgence

producers of the Susan Boyle clip could have made $1.87-million

Ram's greasemonkey script to hide comments at the Star and post; helpful for hiding all the racist road-raging bullshit the Tamil protests have attracted

They're blocking links to the Pirate Bay in private mails. "This raises serious questions about whether Facebook is in compliance with federal wiretapping law"