User Onboarding
— breaking down the UX of first-time users, and archiving site/app history in the process #
Omni Verse's insane movie/TV collages
— every couch gag at the same time, Star Wars in 60-second clips, and many more; Fusion dubbed them "superfuses" (via) #
Nightline on VR from 1993
— with the requisite Jaron Lanier appearance, I love how he pronounces "2007" #
Blogging on Medium
— "The fundamental unit of the blog is not the blog post. The fundamental unit of the blog is the stream." #
Internet slang in American Sign Language
— the difference between a student and teacher of an evolving language (via) #
Killing Time at Lightspeed
— reading Twitter on a journey where years pass every time you refresh your feed (via) #
"Stranger danger" is vastly overstated
— irrational fears over child safety are skewed by media and bad stats #
Jay Smooth on the craft of being good
— assuming you're good and fair and make good, fair decisions can perpetuate the status quo #
Craig Hockenberry on Chinese DNS poisoning
— well, that explains the DDoS I've been dealing with for the last 12 days #
Andrew B. Myers's surreal wallpaper-esque photography
— photos that look like vector illustrations; more on his portfolio #
Lenovo's installing adware, MITM SSL proxy on new laptops
— don't miss this fun breakdown of extracting and cracking the SuperFish certificate #
Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer
— "I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can." (via) #
Parker Higgins on how the Blurred Lines lawsuit could impact music copyright
— musical influence is not infringement #
Places I've Never Been
— John Green realizes he's selling posters with a quote he never said, and makes it right #
Embedding Software History
I’m so excited about this, I had to try it myself—Jason Scott announced that the Internet Archive now supports embedding playable games and other software from their collections in web pages. (Look for the share icon on any software page.)
Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
— "Admittedly, it worked too well and started to conflict with work." #
Amelia Greenhall's resources for starting a collaborative publication
— tons of great advice in here that goes far beyond feminist/tech pubs #
Kashmir Hill's CAPS LOCK EXPERIMENT
— HACK MAN, the SYSOP of my favorite BBS, used all-caps well into the mid-'90s #
Make on Katy Perry's Left Shark takedown order against Shapeways
— points out that it's a C&D, not a DMCA request, and why that matters #
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
— eminently readable discussion of artificial superintelligence (via) #
How Cards Against Humanity bought, and gave away, a private island
— complete with its own secret treasure #
Mallory Ortberg on the Harper Lee interview
— the To Kill A Mockingbird prequel is being released under very shady circumstances #