High Definite/Nerdy Sh*t

After being “dark launched” in July, Facebook has officially launched their social archaeology tool, Timeline, which displays the user’s updates, photos, friends, and any other actions they’ve done since becoming a member of the social network in a chronological manner. Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle seems to be a fan, while The Atlantic’s Rebecca Greenfield has some concerns. Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know, in case watching a 1 1/2-minute video is too much for you.

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Andrew continues his war against classic video game enemies.

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Some Most things shouldn’t be shared.

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On June 11, 1997, LightSurf Technologies founder Philippe Kahn took and transmitted this photo of his newborn daughter by jerry-rigging a digital camera and a phone, making it the world’s first “camera phone” photograph and inadvertently condemning the planet to a future filled with Duck Face photos.

Screw you, Philippe.

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Happy Place

A new subreddit in the same vein as “Explain Like I’m Five” in which participants explain things the way Calvin’s dad would. For example:

How come pizza is delivered, but we have to drive to the burger place?

Pizzas have to stay in motion to taste good. That’s why you toss pizza dough in the air when you’re making it. If they’re stationary for too long, they stop tasting good, which is why the third slice is never as good as the first. You can trick pizza into being tasty again by putting it in the fridge–the coldness dulls its senses and makes it thinks it’s moving.

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For those of you that can’t make it to Baltimore’s 5k Zombie Run, don’t fret. You too can run around like a crazed lunatic in the comfort of your own neighborhood with Zombies, Run!, a “running game and audio adventure”.

Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android where you help rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, you can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base – all while getting orders, clues, and story through your headphones.

Zombies, Run! | Kickstarter

Endless Origami

Google has launched their flight search in an effort to help you explore air travel options.

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From “creative technologist” Casey Pugh:

I recently created Music Video Genome. It’s essentially Pandora for music videos (or a personalized MTV). Through the power of VHX’s new API, Last.fm and YouTube, it made it quite simple to accomplish.

This past weekend I participated in a video hackday. You get 24 hours to start and finish a video based project. At the end everyone demos their speed hack.

My project morphed several times over the course of the weekend, but the final result ended up being something I’m really enjoying.

I called it Genome because it’s not that simple to match music videos to real songs. Most music “videos” on YouTube are just a stupid static image. Granted not all songs have music videos, but it would be amazing if I could crowd-source the documentation of music videos to songs. If a song does not have an official music video, fans could make their own and have it bubble up as the official video.

Try it out here. | Via