Flickr founder’s Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson’s new project ‘Glitch‘ goes into alpha testing this week. Currently in development, it’s a ‘massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web’ and is set to launch later this year. Teaser video looks amazing.

For some reason I keep returning to this Flickr set, Lego Star Wars by Balakov aka Mike Stimpson. Fantastically playful!

LittlePixel’s Flickr set of ‘classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books’.

• March’s issue of Sight & Sound is a Kubrick special with three articles on the director and his films. Linda Ruth Williams looks at the sexual relationships within his films, Brian Dillon covers Jane and Louise Wilson’s Aryan Papers installation and Kim Newman reappraises Barry Lyndon.
• Chuckie Egg – Flash version of the old school BBC Micro favourite.
• Flickr Clock – Explore uploaded video over time.

A special day, not just for America but for the whole world. Here’s some of the sites and app’s that shared some great content. I was expecting a Twitter meltdown but that didn’t happen. Guess everyone was too wrapped up in the moment.

Yet again Boston.com’s The Big Picture have some fantastic photo coverage in The Inauguration of President Barack Obama including satellite imagery of Capital Hill taken by GeoEye.

• Twitter and the use of #inaug09
• Boxee’s streaming of Fox News inaguration footage via Hulu.
• Microsoft’s Live Labs Obama Inauguration Photosynths
• Lots of Obama uploads on micro blogging service Tumblr.
• Flickr’s ‘Inaguration 2009‘ group pool.

• Compfight. Excellent Flickr search tool that allows for searches based on tags, text and creative commons settings.
• From the makers of Desktop Tower Defence and Flash Element TD comes ‘The Casual Collective‘, a social gaming site with a mix of online multi-player games including the highly addictive Desktop TD.
• Love the simplicity of the Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve’s winning entry in the City Racks Design Competition.

• Boxee – Trying out Boxee at the moment. Based on XBMC it’s a cross platform media centre with a difference – social media interaction. Users can view, rate and recommend content pulled from a host of social media apps including Flickr, Last.FM and YouTube. The interface is designed to be remote driven but can be used with a keyboard/mouse. As its alpha it’s still fairly buggy but overall it offers some great features and functionality.
• Juice – Context relevant search plugin for Firefox
• The Shape of Alpha – Plotting geographic boundaries using Flickr image geodata.

• Biscuit Tin from Magnetic North. Neat way of viewing a users Flickr collection
• Loving the improved panniers on the 2009 Kona Ute.
• Matt Webb’s 100 Head Cattle Drive – Help Matt Webb get his herd of 100 plastic cows and raise money for charity at the same time.

• Explore Flickr with the vomiting panda. Original artwork by the very talented The Searcher.
• City Shrinker – Nice collection of tilt-shift photography
• Wolda, the worldwide logo design annual announce their 2008 winners. Talking about logo’s, anyone seen Creative Reviews new identity?

• The King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters – Finally managed to find some time to watch this documentary on the battle by Steve Wiebe to beat Billy Mitchell’s 25 year old Donkey Kong Hi-Score. Fantastic stuff!
• Droid Fonts – Ascenders font collection for Google’s Android platform
• StackOverflow – Question and answer site for programmers. From the sounds of it, questions get answered super-quick.
• Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com – Great article on Flickr’s approach to managing user violations