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Posted Apr 22, 2002
February 10, 2012
MG Siegler on VEVO employees pirating a football game
— "Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally."
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GQ on Terry Thompson and last year's exotic animal massacre in Ohio
— Ohio's lax laws on personal zoos leads to tragic results
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Game developers react to Double Fine's $1M fundraising success
— "did you hear? the death-rattle of a million middle men"
DataEast's Movie Opinion Meter
— using the awesome dataset from Information Is Beautiful's Hollywood budgets design challenge
Kickstarter's craziest 24 hours
— a minute-by-minute breakdown of the most insane day in Kickstarter history
February 9, 2012
Horse_ebookmarklet
— turn any site into Horse_ebooks
The Puzzlejuice Emails
— in-depth look at the evolution of the visual design of one of my favorite iOS games
February 8, 2012
Double Fine's Kickstarter project to make a new point-and-click adventure
— best project video ever; I backed it so hard
What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You
— ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!?
Path apologizes, deletes user address books
— they never should've done it in the first place, but this is the right way to handle it
BBC tracks down an Internet troll
— as the Daily Dot points out, he's more of a racist asshole than a troll
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February 7, 2012
PressPausePlay
— stylish documentary on the digital media revolution of the last decade
February 6, 2012
Restored Disneyland footage from 1957
— only open for two years in this video
Robot readable world
— found footage from machine-vision tests
February 3, 2012
February 2, 2012
How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist
— gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence
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Where's the Pixel?
— find and click on the black pixel; you may need to clean your screen first
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ARTINFO on the chilling effect of the Prince v. Cariou copyright ruling
— the journalist mentions me and Kind of Bloop
January 31, 2012
Nano quadrotors flying in formation
— don't miss the figure 8 pattern at the end
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Bootstrap 2 released
— here's the announcement
Jeff Atwood on the risks of unmoderated communities
— left to their own devices, popular online communities get taken over by cheap, easy gags
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How and why J.D. Roth sold Get Rich Slowly
— interesting tale of a founder selling his site, but unable to share the details for years
Yahoo lays off in-house Flickr support team
— from what I hear, it was done with 10 minutes' notice to Flickr management
Mapstalgia
— videogame maps drawn from memory
January 30, 2012
Shit Programmers Say
— strikingly similar to Shit Rocks Say
Impressions of Corporate Logos by a 5-Year-Old
— "a cheetah, a cheetah, a cheetah"
Bellbot
— web app that beeps when you get new signups or sales
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