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 #

Real SXSW Headlines Found on Twitter in the Last 15 Minutes

Posted March 7, 2013 by Andy Baio

Pizza Hut To Hold 140-Second Interviews For Social Media Manager Position at SXSW

Meet Nyan Cat’s Creator at Mashable House

Tweets Will Power Doritos’ 62-Foot SXSW Vending Machine Concert Stage

Top the Kred SXSW 2013 Leaderboard and Become a Kred Star

Klout Offers ‘Cirque du Soleil’ VIP Perk at SXSW

Quiznos to Present at OMMA Mobile at SXSW on Mobile Advertising Campaign Success Powered by Sense Networks!

…and more.

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 #