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These are the bookmarks I created on June 18th, 2008:

• TimesPeople Beta - New York Times - TimesPeople is a new way to discover what other readers find interesting on our site.. With TimesPeople, you can share articles, videos, slideshows, blog posts, comments on articles, and ratings and reviews of movies, restaurants and hotels.
• A VC: What Comes After Post Modernism? -

These are the bookmarks I created on May 1st, 2008:

• 10 Steps to your own Sweatshop (master copy) - Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse have created a great video documentation of their latest project, Double Happiness Jeans. Must-See Video!

These are the bookmarks I created on April 30th, 2008:

• KRISTIAN MERCADO - A former student and friend, Kristian is an excellent artist, and this is his portfolio.
• twistori - A twitter aggregator that processes twitter posts according to the words they contain. Similar to Paul Visco’s site-scraped poetry.

These are the bookmarks I created between April 7th, 2008 and April 8th, 2008:

• Tale of Tales - A well-known game art / indy game developer.
• Halo 2 Cutscene Library - A collection of the cutscenes from HALO 2, now in HD. Pretty amazing collection of stuff to play with.
• Tale of Tales ||T|h|e||E|n|d|l|e|s|s||F|o|r|e|s|t|| - Deer-based MMORPG…

These are the bookmarks I created on April 6th, 2008:

• Mazapán.se - You Have To Burn The Rope - Awesome Flash game!
• Programming Contests, Software Development, and Employment Services at TopCoder - An interesting site that I like to use as an example of the weirdness of labor / user-generated content.

These are the bookmarks I created on February 27th, 2008:

• Welcome to Pixish! - Buy and sell images — post assignments and leverage the community to crowdsource your image needs.
• OhmyNews International - This is an international citizen journalism site that has grown from a Korean-only version.

These are the bookmarks I created between February 7th, 2008 and February 10th, 2008:

• Annals of Crime: Friend Game: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - A terribly sad article about hoaxes and suicides on social networking sites. This touches on several other sad stories I’ve read over the years (Miss Norway, A Rape in Cyberspace, etc.) To me, this represents just how signifcant the virtual life can be.
• etc3 Source - The source code for Erica T Carter’s digital poetry engine.
• A Companion to Digital Humanities - The entire anthology is available for free online. I haven’t read this yet, but it seems like it could be very interesting.
• Machinima from Second Life KLRU Event - This post features a video of the PBS event in Second Life at the virtual Austin City Limits. It was a well-attended event with a high quality audio stream sponsored by KLRU.
• About the Series | Situated Technologies - The About page for what sounds like an interesting series of pamphlets.
• Social Design Best Practices - OpenSocial - Google Code - An interesting list of things that social applications should do. This seems reasonable and useful.
• EPIC-FU - art+tech+music for geeks - A videoblog KThread recommended to me.

These are the bookmarks I created on February 1st, 2008:

• Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason Rohrer - An art game that I clearly need to try playing. The statement is really interesting, but I stopped reading because it said to play the game first…
• Create Live Community! Meebo Network - A developer page about the meebo Network that discusses the chat room API.
• Meebo Launches Rooms API - Chat Gets Everywhere - ReadWriteWeb - A more in-depth write-up of the Meebo rooms API.
• meebo rooms - Meebo has launched rooms — embeddable chatrooms that span across websites. This could be very initeresting…
• Seesmic - A video messaging site similar to Twitter, but with video. And threaded conversations.

Sarah has been sitting next to me all night giggling at wildly inappropriate moments considering the movie I’ve been watching: a PBS documentary about some sad down being forced to relocate due to widespread lead contamination (“The Creek Runs Red” on Independent Lens). Talk about depressing…

So she finally IMs me a link to the gallery she’s looking at and it’s this Album Sleeveface Meme, which she’s pointed out to me a few times before. I’m not sure where it came from, but there are about twice as many images today as there were yesterday (at least on the sites Sarah has found) and the images have two crucial qualities: 1) They are hilarious. 2) They are easy to make. Just like slapping some IMPACT or ARIAL BLACK text onto a kitty-cat photo, these things practically make themselves. In fact, a run of photoshopped sleeveface images can’t be too far away…

Here are a couple links:

Random Sleeveface Gallery

Fun Tuna: Cool Sleevefaces Illusions