C. Spike Trotman at XOXO
— one of the best talks we've ever had; also, Dooce and The Toast's Mallory Ortberg #
Bob Ross marathon on Twitch
— currently at 60,000 viewers, promoting the launch of Twitch Creative #
Medium's stack
— in a footnote, nice to hear they're working on tools for writers to make money next #
Remembering XOXO 2015
— our yearly recap; also, just posted the first XOXO talk, Heather Armstrong on sharing her life online #
Designing quotation marks on Medium
— commitment is patching Chrome for Windows to fix typography issues on your site #
50 Best Non-Fiction Podcasts
— a solid list that naturally skews geeky, coming from Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder's audience (via) #
Swing Dancers vs. Street Dancers
— if this doesn't make you want to dance, well, see a doctor (via) #
Blake Ross finds the makers of Reload, a dangerous herbal Viagra
— using historical whois records, Internet Archive, and searching Facebook by email address #
Restoring Wander, a lost adventure game for mainframes from 1974
— predates ADVENT/Colossal Cave; more on lost mainframe games #
How WeWork convinced investors it's worth $10B
— absolutely ridiculous projections, it's like a bubble inside a bubble; related: The Awl on WeLive #
The Chinese Room co-founder on why she's leaving
— the developer of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture on illness, working with publishers, and the games industry #
USGS using Twitter to track earthquakes
— tweets mentioning "earthquake" with less than eight words, no links, and no numbers #
Network Effect
— new Jonathan Harris project visualizing human behavior online with YouTube, Twitter, MTurk, Google Ngrams #
I'm Google
— Dina Kelberman's ongoing project to manually find chains of visually similar images and videos in Google #
The Beginner's Guide
— Davey Wreden's very meta followup to the Stanley Parable, highly recommended #