Link Archives
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June 19, 2013
John McAfee's NSFW video on how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus (I love that he snorts his bath salts through a krazy straw)
June 18, 2013
The Deletionist (bookmarklet turns any webpage into an erasure poem; examples: Daring Fireball and me)
Gunpoint recoups development costs in 64 seconds (linkbait headline for the delightful news that Tom Francis will be working on games fulltime)
Maciej Ceglowski on the NSA and modern surveillance (related: using metadata to find Paul Revere)
June 17, 2013
Battle for the planet of the APIs ("If those services don't trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?")
Edward Snowden live Q&A (Cosmo asks the tough questions)
June 15, 2013
Instant Server (intantly spin up an Ubuntu server with a built-in terminal for 35 free minutes) [via]
June 14, 2013
Google's Project Loon (high-altitude balloons with Internet access for rural and remote areas) [via]
Matt Haughey on Gmail's Organized Inbox (just enabled it, and it's instantly useful)
The Internet of Actual Things ("Your light bulbs will narrate their agonizing deaths.")
Sci-Fi Corridor Archive (so many octagons) [via]
We See In Every Direction (Jonas Lund built a massively-multiplayer web browser) [via]
Filmmaker sues to prove Happy Birthday To You is public domain (and, best of all, they want Warner to pay back millions in undeserved licensing fees)
NYT on how Yahoo tried to fight PRISM in court (related: the story of one CEO that defied NSA wiretap orders)
June 13, 2013
Profile of NYC teen who speaks 20 languages (part of THNKR's prodigy series) [via]
Apple's short film on the personal impact of four iOS apps (helps to explain why this app can cost $220 and still have four stars)
Wemoji (reenact emoji icons with your webcam; more unlock as photos are added)
Foursquare Time Machine (don't miss the infographic it generates in the "Share My Stats" section)
Stamen's Map Stack (powerful photo filters for map design)
Venus Patrol's Horizon press conference (stunning lineup of upcoming artful indie games, an antidote to E3 ego and bluster)
Jony Ive Redesigns Things (apparently, I started a meme)
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the future of film ("out of that chaos will come some really amazing things... because all the gatekeepers have been killed!")
John Martz ends Drawn (don't know how I missed this, but I'm sad to see it go)
June 12, 2013
Kyle McDonald's Caricature (automatically generating caricatures based on motion)
Geek vs. Nerd (analyzing 68k tweets to see how the terms are used)
June 11, 2013
Author Hugh Howey on the future of self-publishing (widely applicable across all indie art and tech)
ScummVM ported to Javascript (ported with Emscripten, audio's Firefox-only for now)
Frank Chimero on the iOS 7 redesign and perspective (also, Leo Drapeau's quick icon redesign)
In Defense of Art Games (fantastic Ignite talk by Owen Goss; links to the cited games)
June 10, 2013
The Pirate Cinema (turning film torrents into a cut-up art installation)
Dan Sinker on getting his phone tapped in 1999 (not a great feeling)
Apple's major WWDC announcements (new iOS and OS X, free ad-supported Pandora competitor)
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, outs himself (don't miss the video)
June 6, 2013
Why phone call metadata matters (who you call is often as significant as what you say)
NSA secretly collecting cell phone metadata for millions of Americans (Glenn Greenwald with a huge exclusive leak; good summary from Politico)
June 5, 2013
Sharefest (mesh P2P file sharing in the browser with pure JS and WebRTC)
June 4, 2013
Phil Thompson's Copyrights (Chinese-produced oil paintings based on Google's blurred-out images of artwork)
Speed coding an NES emulator (fun to see the glitches get debugged)
June 3, 2013
Your Swimsuit Jumped Over Its Own Weathercock, You Liar! ("a (questionably) ero visual novel whose text is entirely driven by Markov chains")
This American Life's followup on When Patents Attack (Obama's taking executive action against patent trolls)
Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi (GQ interviews Kim Jong-il's sushi chef, a rare glimpse into his inner circle)
Unsplash (ten new high-res copyright-free photos every ten days)
May 31, 2013
Short documentary about the Internet Archive (featuring Brewster Kahle, hero of the Internet)
Naveen's personal API (related: Federico Zannier's self-mined data project)
MadEye (remote pair programming in a Google Hangout) [via]
Kids Know Everything and We Ruin Them (a little boy philosophizes at the dinner table)
Local People With Their Arms Crossed ("Hey, look at me. I'm featured on the front of my local newspaper.")
May 30, 2013
Rollit, skee ball Chrome experiment (absurdly impressive WebGL experiment synced with your smart phone)
Help the EFF bust the podcasting patent (love seeing Stack Exchange used to find prior art)
May 29, 2013
Daily Dot on PeeJet's hip-hop photoshop photos (see also: Everett Hiller's holiday party)
Glenn Fleishman acquires The Magazine from Marco Arment (Marco's having a fire sale)
May 28, 2013
Humble Indie Bundle 8 (awesome lineup includes Hotline Miami, Dear Esther, Little Inferno, and Proteus)
Armikrog (funding a followup to The Neverhood on the day Kickstarter hit a big milestone)
A Band Called Death (documentary about the rediscovered protopunk band, the album's on YouTube)
May 27, 2013
Fretboard Heatmaps (famous guitarists visualized, data parsed from 30,000 guitar tabs) [via]
Polygon feature on LGBT indie games (Twine has been transformative for bringing new voices into the fold)
May 24, 2013
Jay Silver's TED talk on turning everyday objects into computer interfaces (the creator of Makey Makey, which I highly recommend) [via]
Steven Universe pilot (Rebecca Sugar, the artist behind Adventure Time's best songs, starts her own show)
The Lonely Island's "Semicolon" (catchy parody of hashtag rap)
The Girl Who Turned to Bone (how rare diseases are now treated, and how people support each other online) [via]
May 23, 2013
Daily Dot on the pre-history of Tumblr (interviews with the guys behind anarchaia and Projectionist)
SIGGRAPH's technical papers 2013 preview (someone show these people how to use Kickstarter)
Planet Online (the modern web meets early 1990s children's toy commercials)
How does copyright work in space? (Hatfield negotiated a license directly with Bowie, but it's otherwise complicated)
Limits & Demonstrations (standalone minigame set in the world of Kentucky Route Zero) [via]
Google Poetics (common human search queries as poetry) [via]
Jessica Hische on typography (great overall primer for selecting type)
It's Not About the Nail ("stop trying to fix it") [via]
LEGO's full-scale X-Wing model arrives in Times Square (a 42:1 scale LEGO model of a LEGO model of a model)
May 22, 2013
Computer Beach Party (so bad it's good; don't miss Jason Scott's great backstory and interview with the director)
ROM CHECK FAIL (after five years, Farbs' classic retro gaming mashup ported to Flash)
Indie developers can't self-publish on the Xbox One (giving in to pressure from partners?)
NYT asks Scroll Kit developer not to use their name (asking him to take down the assets is fine, but this is overreaching)
Face morphing mirror at Maker Faire (simple idea, great effect)
Soylent, the post-food drink, raises $230k in a day (his blog is fascinating and, of course, there's a subreddit)
Amazon introduces Kindle Worlds, official licensing for fanfic (John Scalzi notes that Amazon gets exclusive copyright and licensors can use your new elements without compensation)
The History of YouTube by the Gregory Brothers (on YouTube's eight birthday)
May 21, 2013
Google Glass through a toddler's eyes (reminds me of Among the Sleep with Oculus Rift support)
Newsblur redesigns (my pick for a worthy Google Reader successor)
You Must Escape (clever echolocation game mechanic, second place in Ludum Dare 26)
Dictionary of Numbers (Chrome add-on puts large numbers into human terms) [via]
May 20, 2013
Flickr launches major redesign with 1TB free space, new apps (looking pretty great)
Marco Arment on the Tumblr acquisition (great early personal history of Tumblr)
May 19, 2013
Yahoo approves Tumblr acquisition for $1.1B (the community isn't taking it well; let's hope Yahoo learned from their first billion-dollar mistake)
May 17, 2013
Doodal (now you're doodling with portals)
Bret Victor on drawing dynamic visualizations (I really wish Bret would independently release some of his work as products)
7min (dead simple timer for the Scientific 7-Minute Workout)
Welcome to Google Island (short fiction by Mat Honan, inspired by Larry Page's comments at I/O) [via]
Interview with a Metafilter troll, ten years later (randomly, I'd commented in his first post) [via]
Clipping Magic (remove backgrounds from a browser)
May 16, 2013
Nintendo claims ad revenue over fan-made YouTube videos (Minecraft was offered the same deal and turned it down)
How index cards inspired Google's new UI design (it's all over the upcoming Maps redesign)
May 15, 2013
Google adds sending money to Gmail (no fee for Google Wallet funds or bank transfers, 2.9% for credit/debit)
Recurring Developments (visualization of Arrested Development in-jokes) [via]
Kevin Poulsen on Aaron Swartz's StrongBox project (curious that it didn't launch with Wired first)
May 14, 2013
Social Roulette (1 in 6 chance of deleting your Facebook account and all posts)
The Atlantic on Chris Hadfield return from the ISS (his Space Oddity cover is just amazing)
May 10, 2013
GeoGuessr (teleport to a random place the Street View Car's been, and guess where you are)
May 9, 2013
Who is Kickstarter for? ($400k pledged to 2,200 other projects by the Veronica Mars/Zach Braff first-time backers)
Hyperbole and a Half on depression, part two (19 months later, a followup to her last post)
May 7, 2013
Pong in pure CSS3 (no Javascript)
Upstream Color now on sale through VHX (only a month after the theatrical release)
The Humble Bundle Double Fine Bundle (ridiculously amazing deal, and a very creepy Tim Schafer video)
Return of the CSS Zen Garden (revived on its ten year anniversary)
May 6, 2013
How much would it cost to store every phone call in the USA? (Neil ran the numbers and guesses around 130 TB/day)
Guillotine simulator for Oculus Rift (are we in Black Mirror territory yet?)
How one EVE Online player nearly crashed the market with a single useless item (they're planning a TV series based on player stories)
Dan Kaminsky on Bitcoin ("It would take a massive, society-rending effort against general purpose computing to really keep Bitcoin down.") [via]
Quotes from Silk Road's anonymous founder (more communicative than Bitcoin's elusive creator)
Geometee (procedurally-generated t-shirt designs)
Spelunky Dance (an interpretive dance based on Spelunky, inspired by my tweet, with a cameo by Spelunky creator Derek Yu; the leaked cam)
May 3, 2013
NYT Magazine profile on Y Combinator and demo day (funny that "organically" is a curse word in the valley)
Tender moments caught on Russian dashcams (patiently waiting for a compilation of interesting moments captured by Scoble's glasses)
Jason Collins isn't the first openly gay male in pro sports (the story of baseball's Glenn Burke, who co-invented the high five)
May 2, 2013
Every Noise at Once (interactive genre map, click the right arrow on any genre to expand it)
Rippln, the worst startup in the history of forever (comically-awful douchebro startup; the YouTube videos are amazing)
Bad Robot Surgery (they should've bought Old Glory)
Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat sue Scribblenauts for infringement (who owns a meme? both were named by others, and spread only after remixed) [via]
May 1, 2013
Finding Paul Miller (what he learned from living a year offline)
Disposable Cars (visualizing Car2Go activity in Portland over the last three days)
Nearing the End of Peter Molyneux's Curiosity Cube (before skipping to the last 50 layers today, it was projected to be complete next March)
Vinetune (music video built around tagged Vine videos) [via]
Candy Box (like Frog Fractions, much deeper than it appears)
Pogo's SquareBob SpongeMix ("is mayonnaise an instrument?" )
April 30, 2013
Let's Free Congress (beautiful visualization of the corrupting influence of money in politics and how to change it)
Light Table 0.4 released (powerful new JS and Python support)
Bret Victor's Stop Drawing Dead Fish (don't miss his "digital puppet show" at 49:15)
Rhizome's history of ASCII art (part of a three-part series on the history of the emoticon)
Nautilus (gorgeously-designed webzine on science)
Stereoblind gamer sees 3D for the first time with the Nintendo 3DS (I love stories like these, reminds me of Sarah Churman's cochlear implant)
Happy 20th birthday, WWW! (to celebrate, CERN restored the first URL)
Slate on the ASMR phenomenon and YouTube whisperers (what do Bob Ross, haircuts, and PES have in common? this subreddit)
Microsoft's IllumiRoom prototype (apparently just a research project, for now)
April 29, 2013
CRAPCHA (impossible captchas using Unicode and Font Awesome glyphs) [via]
Twitter: The Comic (some of these just kill me)
The Amanda Palmer Problem ("The web also makes it near-impossible to fall into the arms of just one's fans.")
April 27, 2013
Richard Prince wins "fair use" appeal ("artwork does not need to comment on previous work to qualify as fair use") [via]
April 26, 2013
Building A Human (more genius from Peter Serafinowicz)
Automatically-generated snowball poems (using Markov chains and Gutenberg; this needs to be a Twitter bot)
April 24, 2013
Monaco (indie co-op heist game; Anthony Carboni's review covers it well)
CraftStudio (real-time collaborative game-making, looks outstanding) [via]
Polygon's feature on the history of Ridiculous Fishing (an unhappy footnote: Vlambeer's upcoming game was already cloned)
April 23, 2013
Churnalism (Sunlight Foundation tool for spotted plagiarism from press releases and Wikipedia)
Io Echo's Ministry of Love (lovely WebGL music video)
April 22, 2013
Reddit's apology for the Boston Marathon witch hunt (this WaPo story is the best breakdown of how they tracked them down)
April 21, 2013
for(){}; (projection mapped videogames on canvas; someone should do this with famous paintings) [via]
Codassium (WebRTC video chat and code editor, perfect for remote interviews)
April 20, 2013
FriendFracker (irrevocably delete between 1 to 10 random Facebook friends)
ArchiveTeam Warrior (want to help save Upcoming? it only takes a couple minutes to install)
April 19, 2013
Yahoo killing Upcoming on April 30 (with no on-site notice and no way to backup past events; my thoughts about the closure)
_why's book as a single PDF (he published it as a printer spool and closed his site again)
Play accordion by resizing your browser window (code's on Github) [via]
April 18, 2013
Nick Douglas breaks down how to make a supercut (nice piece, though there's no guarantee supercuts are covered under fair use)
Boys Clubs (from Apple to Tesla)
April 17, 2013
Retro Vectors (nicely curated set of royalty-free vector art and type)
Detect pulse with a webcam (works on Windows/Mac/Linux, but requires OpenCV and OpenMDAO)
TowTruck (new Mozilla project to set up real-time collaboration on websites)
TODO CAT (finally, a cat GIF meme-based to-do list) [via]
Empire Uncut trailer (the fan-made sequel to Star Wars Uncut; claim a scene!)
Reddit and 4chan search for the Boston Marathon bomber (the subreddit is a rabbit hole; this is like Where's Waldo meets this Onion story)
Medium buys MATTER (the first Kickstarter-funded acquisition? more perspective from Ev Williams)
Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster on Parks & Recreation (eight minutes of improvised Star Wars/Avengers fanfic)
April 16, 2013
CVS BANGERS (Hennesy Youngman hypes up the shampoo aisle on a Tuesday night)
Wired's 20th anniversary issue (from 1993 to xkcd)
Dustforce sales figures (amazing to see what Steam and Humble Bundle have done for indies)
April 15, 2013
90-year-old woman tries Oculus Rift (indistinguishable from magic)
Disney Star Wars (uneven, but lots of nice touches in here)
Do Not Touch (crowdsourced music video with nearly 7,000 cursors recorded so far)
April 12, 2013
playfun and learnfun, automating NES gameplay (feed in keystrokes with memory states and let it see the future; source and paper here)
April 10, 2013
Geo for Bootstrap (pretty sure I used that Kai Power Tools background in 1996) [via]
April 9, 2013
Teehan+Lax's Google Street View Hyperlapse (WebGL tool turns Street View into animations like these)
April 8, 2013
Reasons My Son Is Crying ("I wouldn't let him drown in this pond.") [via]
April 7, 2013
The New Yorker profiles Notch (coping with the responsibility of sudden fame and wealth) [via]
April 6, 2013
Jason Rohrer's A Game for Someone (a titanium board game buried somewhere in the Arizona desert, intended to last for 2,000 years)
Listen to Bitcoin (real-time Bitcoin trade visualization/auralizer) [via]
Oliver Kreylos's first impressions of the Oculus Rift (his video from last week showed how future UI could work)
April 5, 2013
Skype malware pegs exploited CPUs to mine Bitcoins (the dollar is so boring compared to this)
Weird Twitter: The Oral History ("Meet the unwitting pioneers behind the internet's dumbest revolution.")
Felix Salmon on the Bitcoin bubble (great primer on the current state of Bitcoin) [via]
Movie studios order Google to remove their DMCA requests (corporate idiocy or bots gone awry?) [via]
April 4, 2013
Lawrence Lessig at TED (continuing his push towards removing the corrupting influence of money in government)
The Email Guitar (shred while composing work emails)
Roger Ebert, rest in peace (the balcony is closed)
18 Cadence (brilliant interactive fiction explores one house across a century; cut up stories to share)
April 3, 2013
An Acquisition Is Always A Failure (Jacob Lodwick reflects on the Vimeo/CollegeHumor acquisition) [via]
David O'Reilly's stunning Adventure Time glitch episode (he tweeted links to download the HD episode all day yesterday)
Disney closes LucasArts (I hope they're open to selling and licensing the IP)
Neurofiction (reactive storytelling based on neural activity) [via]
Rdio introduces Vdio (where are the streaming services that allow individual artists to share their work?)
American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al (try getting a reservation at Dorsia now)
April 2, 2013
Prince DMCAs Vine over six-second clips (he made Vine sad)
xkcd's time (he's been posting one frame an hour for days)
Fictive Kin on the shuttering of Punchfork (after Pinterest acquired them, the founder demanded others not scrape the user data)
April 1, 2013
Google's Treasure Maps mode for April 1 (I love the Street View filter mixing analog and digital photo artifacts)
Times Haiku (unintentional poetry algorithmically found in NYT stories)
March 28, 2013
Paul Ford on Bitcoin (decentralizing trust)
Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success (born on third base)
telnet spaceclaw.net (Flickr as a BBS)
March 27, 2013
How TurboTax fought free, simple tax filing (repulsive story of corporate lobbying)
Moshpit simulation in JS (don't forget to hit the play button in the bottom right for audio) [via]
March 26, 2013
What if the Google Reader readers never come back? (entirely likely)
March 25, 2013
All 6 Star Wars At Once (the first couple minutes are amazing)
March 24, 2013
Why I Left Google (hate to say, the loss of Google Reader has made me deeply skeptical of the company I once adored)
March 21, 2013
The Atlantic on Mike Merrill's personal IPO (Panic's own kmikeym, go buy some shares!)
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost (best thing I read about the whole ordeal)
Apple removes sweatshop game from App Store (the latest in a line of serious games pulled over controversial themes)
World Wide Maze (amazing Chrome experiment turns any website into a 3D maze controlled with your phone)
March 20, 2013
Dataviz of singer-songwriter quality over time (don't miss the interactive version on Tableau)
Google Images adds animated GIF filter (OMG, you guys; transparent backgrounds, too!)
March 18, 2013
Jason Molina, RIP (his Songs: Ohia work is some of the most emotive music ever recorded)
PBS Offbook on the rise of webcomics (interviews with some of my favorites)
Leigh Singer's Breaking the Fourth Wall (eight minutes, 54 films)
Dave Grohl's keynote at SXSW ("There is no right or wrong. There is only your voice.")
March 14, 2013
Chris Wetherell on the death of Google Reader (his thoughts from November)
March 13, 2013
Google Reader to close on July 1 (horrible, I use it multiple times daily)
Veronica Mars movie launches on Kickstarter (with the creator and original cast in the pitch video)
March 12, 2013
Leaked audio of Bradley Manning's statement (the full text)
College student asks to accompany Billy Joel (love when this happens; see also: Brubeck, Steel Panther, The Who, and many more)
Curiosity rover finds ancient Mars could have supported life (news conference is streaming now)
March 11, 2013
OneTab (instant must-have Chrome extension)
The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity (infinite generative text constructed from Gutenberg and Twitter searches)
simian.interface (stylish abstract indie puzzler)
Jazz that nobody asked for (built around a public domain song and CC-licensed sound effects)
March 10, 2013
4-D webcam video experiment (Chrome or Firefox nightly only)
Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition (dad modifies the game ROM for his three-year-old daughter) [via]
March 8, 2013
Tropes vs. Women in Videogames: The Damsel in Distress (awesome first episode from the Kickstarter project that raised the ire of misogynistic gamers)
March 7, 2013
I Knew You Were Tribbles (When You Dropped In) (needs more Nick Cage, paper towel dispensers, and goats (or all at once))
Comics Quest (how webcomics make money, a clip from the Stripped documentary)
March 6, 2013
Who pays writers? (Tumblr blog for tracking publication pay rates; this should be structured data)
Mechanical Turk workers aren't anonymous (in tests, looking up the profile pages of 30% of workers revealed real names)
March 4, 2013
The Verge interviews emoji's creator (love the comments)
March 1, 2013
Jim'll Paint It (finally, a drawing of Moby throwing ninja stars at a melancholic badger)
FPS-MAN (Pac-Man makes a surprisingly good FPS)
Corporations as hostile AI (an improvement on Charlie Stross's alien invasion metaphor)
Messages from the Future: How Facebook Died (tech punditry as time-travel scifi; also: the fate of Google Glass)
Amanda Palmer at TED (drawing parallels between couchsurfing, crowdsurfing, and crowdfunding)
February 28, 2013
Bombermine (massively-multiplayer Bomberman)
Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's goodbye memo (best sendoff since Butterfield)
We Found Our Son on the Subway (perfect New York story)
Derek Yu's guide to making it indie games (like his post about finishing projects, widely applicable outside of gaming) [via]
February 27, 2013
archery (GIF art created with Mathematica, source included) [via]
SpaceTop (this looks awkward to me, but makes more sense in the context of Google Glass)
Loom (game toolkit with live editing on multiple devices; free for next 30 days)
February 26, 2013
Code.org (great video about the importance of learning programming, with tons of solid resources)
February 25, 2013
Starpilot (a clever or horrible idea, giving the people you fav on Twitter the ability to post as you)
The Ononeon (real is the new fake)
App.net introduces free tier (the only rational move for a social network; love that they started with a paid plan first)
Inside Pop - The Rock Revolution (1967) (Leonard Bernstein on pop; performances by Brian Wilson and a 15-year-old Janis Ian)
February 24, 2013
Has A Kickstarter Project Won an Oscar? (Inocente was the sixth Kickstarter-funded film nominated, but first to win)
February 23, 2013
Steven Brill's epic breakdown on why medical bills are so high (infuriating 26,000 word feature story; I hope "chargemaster" quickly enters the lexicon)
Emoji Dick acquired by Library of Congress (the only one of its 14 million items to credit Mechanical Turk for a creative role)
February 22, 2013
Chrome Web Speech API demonstration (this could be useful for a first rough pass for transcription)
The Big Whobowski (shot-for-shot remake of the Lebowski trailer in the Doctor Who universe; side-by-side comparison)
Joshua Topolsky on Google Glass ("the question is no longer 'if,' but 'when?'")
February 21, 2013
We Buy White Albums (visit it in NYC until March 9; layered audio of 100 copies of side one) [via]
Bring in the Cats [via]
j.views covers Massive Attack with fresh vegetables and a Makey Makey (YouTube comment: "you give a whole new meaning to the word 'producer'")
Kelly & Clive ("This is music's Arab Spring. When the youngsters take power from the old men and refuse to give it back.")
What Your Culture Really Says (scathing indictment of startup "culture")
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (incredible excerpt from Salt Sugar Fat)
Billboard makes YouTube part of Hot 100 formula (this week, Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" was finally overtaken by "Harlem Shake")
Media Molecule's 3D sculpture tech demo (for me, the most interesting part of the PS4 announcement)
February 20, 2013
Photographer sues biggest Joni Mitchell fan site (over the non-commercial use of four photos uploaded by fans)
Glenn Fleishman on the legality of Amoeba's out-of-print MP3 store (charging for the works is begging for a court battle)
Posterous closing on April 30, one year after Twitter acquisition (migrate your stuff to Tumblr; of course, Archive Team is on it)
Google releases new Glass trailer (firmly in Black Mirror territory, but I'm totally sold)
February 19, 2013
Reddit's Full-Length Movies on YouTube (and its companion subreddit, /r/fulltvshowsonyoutube)
Twine and the Art of Personal Games (great starter list of interesting Twine games)
February 18, 2013
okc_ebooks (online pickup artists try to seduce a chatbot)
February 17, 2013
The Bonhamizer (another great hack from Paul Lamere, adds Bonham drums to any song)
February 16, 2013
Analysis of 10,000 porn stars and their careers (scraping the Internet Adult Film Database for data)
February 15, 2013
Posthaven (a reaction to Posterous' closure next month)
Boomerang for Gmail (reschedule emails in your inbox; like a poor man's Mailbox) [via]
The Old Reader (cloning Google Reader with its deeply-missed social features)
Comix.io (make xkcd-style comics with markup)
Interactive map of Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree (awesome hip-hop history comic syndicated on Boing Boing)
Fader's explainer on the Harlem Shake (first time I've seen the sample source cited; YouTube's Content ID is paying off nicely for Baauer)
February 14, 2013
Tanlines, Not the Same (an alpha channel experiment by OKFocus)
Little Printer scales up and drops price (down to $199 for a limited time)
Tesla rebuts NYT story with log data (the writer's rebuttal; I suspect the truth's somewhere in between)
Kickstarter app released for iPhone (beautifully made, love the activity feed)
Techdirt's story of engaging an attribution troll on Twitter (if only his tongue was made of glass)
Leonard Cooper's win at the Jeopardy Teen Tournament (a major turnaround and a silly moment of joy)
Versu (a new storytelling platform for iPad, co-created by Emily Short for Linden Lab; related: Dio)
February 13, 2013
400 Years (waiting as a game mechanic)
SlowPal, quick search and filtering of Paypal transactions (Paypal's transaction history isn't real-time, they email you when searches are finished)
CANYON.MID (related: Virt's cover, with comments by the original composer)
8BitMUSH (12-year-old community lets you build with web-based drawing tools and solid interactive tutorials) [via]
February 11, 2013
WTF, Evolution? ("Tough break, star-nosed mole.")
February 9, 2013
WebCamMesh (webcam demo maps pixel brightness to depth) [via]
Intro to pixel shaders in three.js (this one would make a great YouTube filter)
February 8, 2013
The Verge on DrawQuest (Chris Poole's new iPad app, spun out of lessons learned from Canvas)
Mat Honan on the return of Flickr (Facebook is "the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you're trying to poop")
PixelConduit (free Mac app for real-time video effects)
The Pirate Bay documentary released (buy the CC-licensed film for $10, watch it on YouTube, or download it where you'd expect)
February 7, 2013
Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church (Megan's post, also on Medium, is fascinating)
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age (auto-generated Geocities screenshots viewed in Netscape 4.51, pulled from the Archive Team archive) [via]
NBC closes Everyblock with no notice (the hidden text easter egg on the announcement makes me sad)
February 6, 2013
The Eagleman Stag (amazing stop-motion short on the perception of time) [via]
Pirate hacks of Africa (supreme bootleg weirdness from a Nairobi videogame store) [via]