July 2015 - Waxy.org

July 30, 2015

Rhythmic gymnastics ribbon with a robotic arm — first robots take over manufacturing, and now they're going after our gymnasts #

No one will ever read this but — audio readings of found online writing that each author thought would never be read (via) #

Projection mapping on a moving surface at 1,000 fps — some interesting applications for gaming #

Gamifying Sisyphus — just have him play clicker games instead #

eyeballs.js — JS version of the classic Mac extension #

Bobbie Johnson on people with liberal arts degrees in tech — most of the people I know doing interesting work in tech don't have engineering degrees, or a degree at all #

Blackbox — new startup from the Cards Against Humanity team helping others sell and ship stuff, like Exploding Kittens today #

Citizen Ex's TLD stories — James Bridle explores the origins of .io, .ly, and more #

July 28, 2015

New evidence appears in Happy Birthday copyright case — nail in the coffin for Warner/Chappell's case #

What do machines sing of? — machine that endlessly sings '90s pop ballads with intonation #

July 24, 2015

State of Georgia sues Carl Malamud for copyright infringement — for republishing annotations of their legal code, not the code itself #

Les Orchard on the Verge's web tracking — 7MB of Javascript #

PICO-8 — "a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs" #

July 23, 2015

Boing Boing on Manyland, the pixel MMO — amazing to see how it's evolved, the timelapse is beautiful chaos #

NYT on the legality of Sandra Bland's arrest — straightforward explanation of everything they screwed up #

July 22, 2015

Is This a Selfie? — related: the NYT follows up on the author's question about planetary selfies #

British Movietone posts video archive to YouTube — a followup to my 2008 post about their formerly-inaccessible darkweb #

Deep Dreamer — Mac app to easily make deepdream images; Yosemite or newer only #

July 21, 2015

@StayWokeBot — a bot intended to help clue people into issues of social inequality #

Study finds poorly-performing men more likely to harass women in online gaming — I'd love to see this repeated in other competitive online communities #

Out of the Blue — Metafilter's new podcast going deeper on stories surfaced by the community #

Why Are You So Angry? — six-part series on Internet aggression, focused on Gamergate as a case study; good followup #

Final episode of the Double Fine Adventure documentary — one of the best explorations of the challenges of making something, at a particularly interesting time for indie games #

Erica Joy's salary transparency experiment at Google — "People asked for and got equitable pay based on data in the sheet" #

Trolling the KKK with a sousaphone — music request: Yakety Sax at Westboro Baptist Church #

The Mobile Web Sucks — related: analysis of trackers on 20 homepages #

Paul Ford on the Ashley Madison hack — touches on other major hacks and the ethics of outing personal information #

Gawker reports on Gawker resignations — super inside baseball, an existential crisis over whether the site is "too mean" #

Zero-day exploit remotely controls Jeep Cherokees — an estimated 471,000 vehicles are vulnerable, including brakes, transmission, and GPS #

July 14, 2015

Echochamber.js — from multiplayer to single-player #

The Web We Have to Save — "What are we exchanging for efficiency?" #

Lightyear.fm — terrestrial radio can't make it past a few light years, but who's counting #

July 13, 2015

mothgenerator — beautiful algorithmic insects #

What happens when you give email addresses to 70,000 trees? — oh, and the trees like to reply #

Patent troll lawsuits hit all-time high — 90% of high-tech patent lawsuits are filed by trolls #

New Yorker on the impending earthquake that will devastate the Pacific Northwest — some light Monday morning reading for all my Portland friends #

July 9, 2015

Public dataset of every Reddit comment — 1.7 billion comments, also on the Internet Archive #

Linkmoji — emoji short URLs, like so #

The Verge's profile on The Awl — deliberately staying small and focused, excluding an audience they don't care about #

Slack launches emoji reactions and voting — so much more expressive than a fav alone #

July 8, 2015

Loop Ring Chop Drink — stylish short animation about four dysfunctional strangers in an apartment building #

Nick Douglas on the Facebook "post-memes," a cousin of advice meme — like using cartoon mascots as emoji; related: The Awl on minions #

July 6, 2015

My GEL talk about videogames and my son — this was a fun one to do, Eliot was in the audience #

Calvin and Markov — Markov-generated comics from Josh Millard, creator of Garkov #

July 5, 2015

A Holacracy of Dunces — Paul Carr on Zappos' shift to a flat organization #

July 3, 2015

Reddit mutiny after AMA employee fired — many of the most popular subreddits went private, all the top posts are about it #

July 2, 2015

Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color — minority representation in mainstream films, like Her, Fault in Our Stars, and Noah #

Google's DeepDream open-sourced — incredible nightmare fodder on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and more #

Sarah Jeong on the ICANN's disastrous proposal to kill domain privacy — a number of women's rights and digital rights groups wrote a letter to ICANN #

Augmented reality desktop with Oculus DK2 and prototype color Leap Motion — totally into this, though I'd guess the mouse/keyboard would be more convenient (via) #