Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources
— three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I've ever heard #
Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube
— including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app #
Photo Hunt
— proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter's new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform #
We Are Back
— classic '90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework (via) #
The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive
— they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players #
Brooklyn Integers
— artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers #
Twitter revokes Tumblr's friend finding privileges
— this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter's the social network graph that matters most to me #
Case study of Indie Game: The Movie's distribution
— opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control #
How Gasketball's free-to-play app business model backfired
— if you make a free app, make it really, really easy to give you money #
Khan Academy's new interactive computer science program
— created by John Resig, who wrote about the project #
Progressive Insurance defends policy holder's killer in court
— a horrific new low for an insurance company, an impressive feat #
Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra
— inspired by Kutiman's Thru-You, Gotye's remix of YouTube covers of "Somebody That Used to Know" #
A Long Drawn-Out Trip
— Gerald Scarfe's pre-Wall 1973 animation, largely unseen because of music clearance #
Kirby Ferguson's Embrace the Remix talk at TED
— nice distillation of the core ideas behind Everything Is A Remix #
Mixel to close in September
— one of the only iOS apps to allow public remix, shutting down way too soon #
Internet Archive offers over a million torrents of books, music, and films
— now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org #
How YouTube lets content companies claim public domain footage
— five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA (via) #
NYT visualization on the history of the Olympic men's 100m sprint
— love the auralization at the end #
Mat Honan on the Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to his hack
— the scariest: all you need to hack an iCloud account is a billing address and the last four credit card digits #
Moot on 4chan's one billionth post
— more a 4chan State of the Union, tracking the site's incredible growth and future #
YouTube's Content ID from Scripps takes down NASA's Mars Rover video
— automation run amok, NASA says "everything from imagery to music gets flagged" #
Touch Arcade's review of 10000000, brilliant puzzle/RPG for iOS
— I was addicted to this all weekend #
Knight Capital accidentally deployed test suite into production
— the trading software bug caused $440M in losses, wiping out a 17-year-old firm in 45 minutes #
Highlights from EA's The Sims cloning lawsuit against Zynga
— the RGB values for skin tones were exactly the same #
Mat Honan's post-mortem on getting hacked
— they bypassed his security questions for iCloud by phone with Apple tech support #