How Gawker trolled Donald Trump into tweeting a Mussolini quote as his own
— Twitter bot making headlines #
"We Are the World" using Face Swap Live
— four years after Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro's demos, real-time face substitution is an app #
PBS Idea Channel on ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
— more than just ironic, it ties into how we experience art online and where we "live" #
Matt Taibbi on how America made Donald Trump unstoppable
— "Trump found the flaw in the American Death Star" #
Sailor Mercury on the intersection of art and technology
— art-inspired technology gives us new ideas instead of incremental improvements #
Metafilter's Gopher server is back after 15 years of downtime
— there's no Gopher client for Chrome, but you can use an HTTP gopher proxy to browse it #
Boston Dynamics' new demo of their Atlas humanoid robots
— that guy with the hockey stick will be first against the wall after the robot uprising #
Stripe Atlas
— targeted to non-US businesses, but seems pretty damned useful for U.S. businesses too #
Reagan and WarGames
— incredible story of how '80s government security policy was influenced by the film, though he wasn't the first to report it #
Paul Ford on Racter, a 1980s-era chatbot
— don't miss the scan of the book it wrote, worth it for the illustrations alone #
Artists covertly scan bust of Nefertiti and release data to public domain
— "the one object in the museum's collection off-limits to photographers" #
The Simpsons Sphere
— 360° video of 500 episodes at the same time; try it in the YouTube app on your phone #
How Google's Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
— still feels like bad practice that Google indexes content that isn't freely available on the web #
The Outpost Is Here
— the absurdly great launch lineup for XOXO's new shared workspace in Portland #
Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
— as much about how people make money on Tumblr, and Yahoo's attempts to thwart it #
Smell Dating
— from Useless Press, a "publishing collective that creates eclectic Internet things" #
Creative Cloud for Mac update deletes the first hidden folder in root
— for Backblaze users, it's the folder containing backup drive metadata #
Internet Archive adds Windows 3.1 software emulation
— start with the Windows Showcase before deep-diving the rest #
The First 100,000 Funded Kickstarter Projects in 100 Numbers
— it took 121 days to hit 100 funded projects, only three days for the most recent 100 funded #
How to Snapchat Like the Teens
— surprisingly informative, while also making me feel like I'm a warm corpse #
XOXO Outpost
— if you're in Portland, applications are now open for our shared workspace, opening this week #
DeRay Mckesson on why he's running for mayor of Baltimore
— pretty excited about this; related: Campaign Zero's ten steps to ending police violence in America #