August 30, 2015
Jim Jarmo's Puntastic
— lyrics replaced with social media profile pics; Anarchy in the FB, Tweeted Love #
Amanda Palmer is not crowdfunding her baby
— spirited defense of motherhood for independent artists #
Leaving Everywhere
— Darius Kazemi made a rant generator about moving away from cities using real census data #
Annalee Newitz's analysis of the Ashley Madison leaked database
— Only 0.04% of women ever checked their messages, compared to 64.7% of men #
Wired on the Hugo Awards and sci-fi's culture war
— "Some nerds just want to watch the world burn." #
BigRingLover's guide to the J.R.P.G. Torkelson's Lorne of the Rings trilogy
— more genius from Neil Cicierega; related: guide to the races of Star Warms #
How Jason Scott and 60 volunteers saved 50,000+ rare tech manuals from destruction
— see the before and in-progress photos to get a better sense of the undertaking #
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't
— Steven Johnson on the steady increase of indie artists making a living #
Rex Sorgatz's TV Channel Guide from the Future
— "A whole lotta cash is flowing from old television networks to new internet properties" #
Ashley Madison DMCAs journalist for posting spreadsheet column names
— also: Sarah Jeong's followup on the copyright status of hacked user info #
Banksy opens Dismaland, large-scale Disneyland satire
— the most mediocre place on Earth; love the Cinderella pumpkin crash #
A tour of abandoned college campuses in Second Life
— all these polygons will be lost like tears in rain #
100 Days of Pleasantries (NSFW)
— illustrated diary of a stripper's memorable encounters with customers and co-workers #
This Is My Jam shuts down with class
— going read-only with a permanent archive and API, open-sourcing the data, export with opt-out #
Glenn Fleishman on the happy birthday copyright lawsuit
— he got a copy of the 1922 book that firmly puts the song in the public domain #
Adam Saltsman on bootstrapping his indie dream game
— the reality of indie game development: it's really fucking hard #
Rolling Stone on the point of no return for climate change
— let's see what the GOP candidates have to say about it... #
FBI subpoenas Boing Boing for nonexistent Tor logs
— how awesome is it that they run a Tor exit node? answer: very awesome #
F.A.T. Lab closes its doors
— they seem torn up about it, but they made so much great stuff and should be proud #
The Data Drive
— cut-and-paste Facebook from a parallel world where Zuck ran off with all of Facebook's data #
Soylent founder on "how I gave up alternating current"
— I can't decide if this is real, satire, or just cynical trolling to promote Soylent 2.0 #