This past weekend was the Rails Rumble and a team of intrepid blenderbox developers hunkered down in our Brooklyn headquarters and, in a mere 48 hours, produced a slick new web app: Compost. Compost is the simple way to post, share, and present your design comps. More than just a slideshow, Compost allows you to...

Andy Baio of waxy.org fame digs into his old server logs to chart the spread of the classic Star Wars Kid video and subsequent remixes. This is a fascinating analysis of how a viral idea – or meme – makes its way across the internet.

An excellent review of Outside, billed as the the first massively multiplayer game. The physics system is note-perfect (often at the expense of playability), the graphics are beyond comparison, the rendering of objects is absolutely beautiful at any distance, and the player’s ability to interact with objects is really limited only by other players’ tolerance....

The yearly Google Zeitgeist is always a great read (in a dorky sort of way).

Posts like this are one of the reasons David Byrne is one of my favorite bloggers.