February 28, 2015

User Onboarding — breaking down the UX of first-time users, and archiving site/app history in the process #

Omni Verse's insane movie/TV collages — every couch gag at the same time, Star Wars in 60-second clips, and many more; Fusion dubbed them "superfuses" (via) #

February 27, 2015

How BuzzFeed handled #TheDress — worth it for the GIF alone #

Nightline on VR from 1993 — with the requisite Jaron Lanier appearance, I love how he pronounces "2007" #

February 26, 2015

What Color Is This Dress? — bizarre illusion that's split my Twitter stream in two #

Blogging on Medium — "The fundamental unit of the blog is not the blog post. The fundamental unit of the blog is the stream." #

Internet slang in American Sign Language — the difference between a student and teacher of an evolving language (via) #

New Yorker on Google DeepMind and games — the Breakout demo mentioned in the article (via) #

Killing Time at Lightspeed — reading Twitter on a journey where years pass every time you refresh your feed (via) #

Net neutrality wins — go, Team Internet! also: what the rules mean in plain English #

Sans Bullshit Sans — using OpenType ligatures to replace buzzwords with censor bars #

February 25, 2015

1,000 Chrome Experiments — love the timeline view #

February 24, 2015

Vicemo — see who's buying drugs on Venmo #

"Stranger danger" is vastly overstated — irrational fears over child safety are skewed by media and bad stats #

Jay Smooth on the craft of being good — assuming you're good and fair and make good, fair decisions can perpetuate the status quo #

"FYI I'M A GRAPHIC DESIGNER" — the portrayal of graphic designers in film and TV (via) #

Craig Hockenberry on Chinese DNS poisoning — well, that explains the DDoS I've been dealing with for the last 12 days #

Ev Williams on Medium's new support for shorter-form articles — a hybrid of Twitter and blogging #

February 23, 2015

Audiogrep — automatic audio supercuts from the creator of videogrep #

February 22, 2015

Andrew B. Myers's surreal wallpaper-esque photography — photos that look like vector illustrations; more on his portfolio #

February 19, 2015

Fusion on tweet deleters — adding automated ephemerality to Twitter #

Lenovo's installing adware, MITM SSL proxy on new laptops — don't miss this fun breakdown of extracting and cracking the SuperFish certificate #

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer — "I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can." (via) #

Unhappy Hacking Keyboard — "Real programmers only need a 1 and 0 key." #

February 18, 2015

Googlifier — Chrome add-on adds googly eyes to photos, or tries anyway #

I Know This — game inspired by Jurassic Park's Unix GUI, hold onto your butts #

February 17, 2015

Parker Higgins on how the Blurred Lines lawsuit could impact music copyright — musical influence is not infringement #

Places I've Never Been — John Green realizes he's selling posters with a quote he never said, and makes it right #

February 16, 2015

The Ghost in the MP3 — the Tom's Diner video and audio with only artifacts remaining #

February 15, 2015

HeartForth — emoji-based stack programming language; see also: Emojinal #

InstaDoom — Doom mod adds Instagram filters and a selfie stick #

Embedding Software History

Posted February 13, 2015 by Andy Baio

I’m so excited about this, I had to try it myself—Jason Scott announced that the Internet Archive now supports embedding playable games and other software from their collections in web pages. (Look for the share icon on any software page.)

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February 13, 2015

Vice on Casanova, the 1980s Hollywood party robot — related: Two Panda's robot waiters #

February 11, 2015

#DaftPunKonsole #

February 10, 2015

Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces — "Admittedly, it worked too well and started to conflict with work." #

The Citizen Kane of Supercuts — finally #

Amelia Greenhall's resources for starting a collaborative publication — tons of great advice in here that goes far beyond feminist/tech pubs #

February 9, 2015

Watch People Code — pulled from the subreddit #

Backchannel tracks down a DARPA challenge troll — from the 2011 un-shredding competition (via) #

February 7, 2015

I'm an Anti-Braker — I'm so sick of Big Automotive hiding the truth #

February 6, 2015

Kashmir Hill's CAPS LOCK EXPERIMENT — HACK MAN, the SYSOP of my favorite BBS, used all-caps well into the mid-'90s #

Two Trains — auralization of income equality along NYC subway stops #

Sarah Jeong on the Silk Road verdict — Today In Tabs explainer on the Dread Pirate Roberts #

Make on Katy Perry's Left Shark takedown order against Shapeways — points out that it's a C&D, not a DMCA request, and why that matters #

February 5, 2015

Way to Go — beautiful web-based art/game pairing video with animation #

Mein Coke — Adam Pash wrote a script to convince Coke's automated campaign to tweet Hitler #

February 4, 2015

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence — eminently readable discussion of artificial superintelligence (via) #

How Cards Against Humanity bought, and gave away, a private island — complete with its own secret treasure #

Mallory Ortberg on the Harper Lee interview — the To Kill A Mockingbird prequel is being released under very shady circumstances #