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July 30, 2012
Ascii Street View (by Peter Nitsch, of course; related: painting in ASCII with a paintbrush) [via]
Original Spelunky ported to Javascript (using GameMaker Studio's new HTML5 support; no sound, but very playable)
July 29, 2012
Fluid simulation with 512k particles
The first functional 3D printed gun (weapons are now disallowed from Thingiverse, but the model's still up there)
July 26, 2012
Cloud Atlas trailer (long trailer for the new centuries-spanning sci-fi epic by the Wachowskis)
Wired on the design of the Def Con 20 badges (crypto puzzle, viral game, and reprogrammable platform rolled into one)
How I hacked my brain with Adderall (reminds me of Limitless)
Diana Kimball's case study of Cards Against Humanity (going from an idea to a Kickstarter-funded Amazon bestseller)
Pandyland on Instagram
July 25, 2012
Actor Chris Gethard confronts his Internet tormenter (related: celebrities read mean tweets)
Generation Sell ("The small business is the idealized social form of our time.")
July 24, 2012
Delicious to switch from "stacks" to tags (groan)
July 23, 2012
Notch on patents (Mojang is being sued over a DRM patent)
Robin Sloan's book review written in Javascript (so good; related: Kill Screen's interactive memoir of Ico)
David Carr asks, What Is Yahoo? (trying to understand the net's most popular question mark)
July 19, 2012
McSweeney's list of suggested BuzzFeed articles (in a stroke of genius, BuzzFeed made them real)
July 18, 2012
Portland man found not guilty for stripping at TSA checkpoint (the TSA may still choose to fine Brennan and place him on the no-fly list)
Robert Hodgin at Eyeo 2012 (very entertaining experiments based around the Cornell Box)
Polygon's The Evolution of PC Games (music remix with audio culled exclusively from the original games)
July 17, 2012
Dear Marissa Mayer
Books of Adam on falling in love with videogames (owning Earthbound as your very first game would set the bar pretty high)
Fez technical postmortem (I liked the bits on the designer vs. programmer dynamic; crazy that it was a two-person game)
Ars Technica tracks down the secretive owner of FunnyJunk (great detective work)
July 16, 2012
Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo's new CEO (first smart move Yahoo's made in years, but it's hard to turn that ship around)
David House's grand jury testimony in the Bradley Manning hearing (that guy has balls of steel) [via]
July 15, 2012
Star Wars "Call Me Maybe" (impressed he didn't cut corners on the repetitive choruses)
July 13, 2012
HypnoSF (amazing music video, and the resulting animated GIFs)
July 12, 2012
Marc Maron interviews Dan Harmon on the end of Community (six years after Arrested Development, networks still don't know how to handle fan favorites)
RRRRRRRROLL_GIF (see also: mr. div)
Betaworks buys Digg assets for a rumored $500k (the end result of their disastrous redesign and not listening to their users; patents and team sold separately for more)
Amazon's push for same-day delivery (the promise of Kozmo, but for everything?)
Kyle McDonald's story of his Secret Service raid following People Staring at Computers (you might remember his project, setting up software on Apple Store computers) [via]
Analysis of the 450,000 leaked Yahoo Voices passwords (apparently Associated Content, the content farm they acquired in 2010, stored passwords in plaintext)
Using Echo Nest to use music preference to predict political leaning (Democrats appear to have more diverse tastes) [via]
A Lip-Sync Six Years in the Making ("I think it's simultaneously the best and worst idea I've ever had.")
July 10, 2012
Machines (Take Care of The) (music video as a Robotron-inspired game)
xkcd's what if? (answering ridiculous hypothetical questions with physics) [via]
July 9, 2012
Rabble digs into the history of the @reply on Twitter (using Kellan's oldtweets, a searchable archive of Twitter's first year)
How Vi Hart Makes A Video About Making A Video About Making A Video (reminds me of this classic Reddit thread)
July 8, 2012
SCOTUSblog's postmortem on the ACA verdict mess (7,000-word breakdown of the nine-minute period after the Supreme Court's announcement) [via]
Tom Francis on Spelunky and the City of Gold (written in 2009 about the free PC version, every word of this applies to the brilliant new XBLA release)
Apple cracking down on UDID activation sites (apparently, a direct reaction to my recent article)
July 6, 2012
Howard Rheingold on the rise and fall of The WELL (interesting to hear the community's trying to buy it)
A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self (from the same guy, a heated debate between Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie)
July 5, 2012
San Diego malfunction leads to 15 minutes of fireworks in 15 seconds (sometimes, failure is more fun than success)
Comic Sans Everywhere for Chrome [via]
July 3, 2012
Giant Bomb's hour-long preview of Spelunky (out tomorrow on XBLA, really excited to play this)
Charles Carreon dismisses his lawsuit against the Oatmeal (a temporary end to an epic flameout)
Andrew Kim's proposed rebranding for Microsoft (fun speculative work)
July 2, 2012
The Kid vs. Plants vs. Zombies (this guy rivals Calvin's dad)
Public radio reporter interviews his two daughters' "worst haircut ever" (related: this little anecdote from Metafilter)
The Bed Sitting Room (1969) (surreal black comedy set in post-apocalypse London; love the bicycle-powered Tube)
July 1, 2012
Reddit explains Obamacare (crazy that a comment on Reddit is the best explanation I've seen so far of the ACA)