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May 23, 2013
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]
XOXO 2013 (how could we not?)
Discourse (Jeff Atwood and Robin Ward reboot the discussion forum; see it in action)
Docracy's TOS Tracker (track changes across nearly a thousand terms of service agreements)
February 5, 2013
The Chairs' Hiatus (Matthew Bogart's graphic novella about an indie rock friendship)
NYT on Facebook fatigue (the full study)
Litterplugs ("Remember: you're not littering if it ain't touchin' the ground!")
Elevated (28kb of WebGL madness in JS, ported from the original 4k PC demoscene intro) [via]
WebRTC demo (cross-browser real-time videochat between Firefox/Chrome without Flash, and it just works)
UCLA's 3D reconstruction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (after reading Devil in the White City, I really want to play a game set there)
Serious Eats' food scientist goes vegan for a month (an omnivore foodie transitions to veganism, rejecting faux foods along the way)
February 4, 2013
Tracing the etymology of "Big Data" (great comments, one from John Mashey and another pointing to this history of the concept)
February 2, 2013
Surgeon Simulator 2013 (it's the QWOP of surgery; the gameplay videos are great)
February 1, 2013
What to do with $175,000 in weed found in your backyard (insane L.A. story)
Occupy Conan (fans recreate an entire episode posted online, submissions stitched together and broadcast)
EFF files petition on behalf of subreddit to cancel "Gaymer" trademark (fun to see an entire subreddit listed as the petitioner on a court filing)
January 30, 2013
Macklemore is first indie artist to top Billboard charts in 19 years (times are changing; "I'd rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked.")
Paperman (Oscar-nominated Disney short fusing cel and CG animation techniques)
David Friedman's profile of the inventor behind the first software patent (first filed on April 9, 1965)
Storyboard (convert any subtitled video into a PDF of screengrabs with every scene change and line of dialogue)
Hilary, the most poisoned baby name in U.S. history (great analysis on name popularity using R) [via]
Game of Thrones' King's Landing recreated in Minecraft (over 3,000 buildings with full interiors created by 100 builders over four months)
Dio, Linden Labs' social platform for making interactive worlds (Colossal Cave, Alice in Wonderland, Chinatown; interesting tutorials on YouTube)
January 29, 2013
App.net adds 10GB storage, expanding app platform (I'm rooting for them, their vision is much broader than their Twitter-ish service)
January 27, 2013
OXO responds to Quirky's copyright claim (very, very odd to see a for-profit company picket a competitor) [via]
How Newegg crushed the "shopping cart" patent troll (great interview with their Chief Legal Officer; "Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that.") [via]
Marco Arment on anti-Apple anger (I thought such a balanced essay wouldn't inspire anger itself, but HN quickly proved me wrong)
Fair use analysis of Escape From Tomorrow (the indie film was surreptitiously shot entirely in Disney World)
Wired interviews Jonathan Coulton on Glee's reuse of his cover song (copyright law aside, attribution would just be the ethical thing to do; compare the two songs)
Metropho.rs (mapping the "X is the Y of Z" snowclone) [via]
Data storage in DNA (739k stored and retrieved with 100% accuracy)
January 26, 2013
vinepeek (unmoderated stream of new videos on Vine)
Remix of the Century (beat-matching hit songs from 1890-present using Echo Nest and the Whitburn dataset)
January 25, 2013
Star Wars resorted by shot length (absurdist digital art, it's only released in the obsolete HV-DVD format)
Actual Facebook Graph Searches (unintended consequences of building a search engine around previously-unsurfaced data)
Inbox Zero for Life (the simplest system I've seen for Gmail power users)
January 24, 2013
Aaron's Army (Carl Malamud's beautiful speech at the SF memorial tonight)
The Atlantic tracks down the first digital pinup (possibly the first computer art, though oscilloscope-based art predates it)
January 17, 2013
Swiss artists send self-photographing package to Julian Assange (it sent photos every 10 minutes, and just arrived in his hands)
dys4ia (Anna Anthropy's autobiographical game of going through hormone replacement therapy)
January 16, 2013
Notre Dame football player's girlfriend and her death proven a hoax (excellent Internet detective work)
Gawker's Big Board (new to me, real-time stats on their trending articles)
The Verge's life and death of the American arcade (I still think an indie arcade/bar with physical, local multiplayer games could do well)
Bypassing Gogo Inflight's auth (they recently switched from a per-flight to per-hour model)
Verizon developer outsourced his job to China (nice hack)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren to introduce changes to CFAA (though it could go further, this is a great step)
After Aaron (Robin Amer on the funeral)
January 15, 2013
Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (Aaron's funeral was today)
Message in a Binary Bottle (Cabel Sasser writes about messages hidden in old games, and tracks down the authors)
MailChimp's annual report 2012 (great design, XOXO gets a mention at the end)
Archive.is (archive pages including JS and a static image)
Facebook announce Graph Search (more from The Verge's liveblog)
January 14, 2013
Live Action Toy Story (shot-for-shot remake took 2.5 years to make)
Monkey Island Insult Sword Fighting (how appropriate, you fight like a cow)
January 12, 2013
Prosecutor as bully (Lessig on the DOJ's prosecution of Aaron Swartz, even after JSTOR dropped the case)
January 11, 2013
voxel.js (open-source voxel game toolkit for modern browsers)
January 10, 2013
Buffy vs Edward Remix Unfairly Removed by Lionsgate (YouTube lets media companies decide what's fair use and what's not)
Every National Anthem at Once (this would save a lot of time at the Olympics)
January 9, 2013
BitTorrent Box brings streaming uTorrent to your TV (stream from a client running elsewhere or download straight to the box)
The Verge tries out the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset (Joshua Topolsky freaked out over it; live demo here, starting at 22:00)
Anatomy of a 4chan Hoax (Buzzfeed watches on as they seed services with a fake history)
January 8, 2013
How Twitter uses MTurk to evaluate popular search terms (related: Clockwork Raven, their open-source interface for Mechanical Turk)