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January 31, 2012
— don’t miss the figure 8 pattern at the end via r/videos #
— left to their own devices, popular online communities get taken over by cheap, easy gags via twitter.com #
— interesting tale of a founder selling his site, but unable to share the details for years #
— from what I hear, it was done with 10 minutes’ notice to Flickr management #
— videogame maps drawn from memory #
January 30, 2012
— strikingly similar to Shit Rocks Say #
— “a cheetah, a cheetah, a cheetah” #
— web app that beeps when you get new signups or sales #
— markup language for recording and replaying turntablism #
— nice piece of Quora fiction via Marco Arment #
— 10% of the festival was funded on Kickstarter, with two optioned by HBO #
— I made the same decision to skip this year; I may regret it, but it just wasn’t fun last year #
— collateral damage in the copyright war #
— too bad; Twitter and Facebook aren’t a replacement for longer-form communication #
January 29, 2012
— Terry Cavanagh’s multiplayer game about being a cat via MetaFilter #
January 27, 2012
— process of elimination #
January 26, 2012
— returning after a two-year break #
— now with 10 years of data; I’ll republish the article here tomorrow #
— a national treasure; part two #
January 25, 2012
— lovely design via elspethjane.com #
— with cameos from Limbo and Super Meat Boy #
— here’s the awesome preview, with responsive design, new plugins, and tons of new components #
January 24, 2012
— love the colorblind mode #
— visualizing the incredible rate of YouTube uploads #
— Google will be in trouble if their strategy succeeds, or if it doesn’t #
January 23, 2012
— new Auto-Tune the News starring Joseph Gordon-Lewitt and Vermin Supreme #
— finally listened to this stunning This American Life episode; it led to this response from Apple #
— hack by Twitter, Facebook and Myspace devs shows how Google sacrifices relevance for Google+ promotion via twitter.com #
January 22, 2012
— sad to hear they’re ending development, it showed potential #
January 20, 2012
— essential reading, along with Tim O’Reilly’s post from earlier this week #
— related: Marco Arment on stopping the next SOPA #
— a long decline since the mid-1990s via @mrdoob #
— the final edit of the amazing, crowdsourced Star Wars remake that won an Emmy #
— I’m sure top men are working on returning those files via twitter.com #
January 19, 2012
— simple nerd test: do you laugh harder at the photos or the code output? via twitter.com #
— until it’s integrated into Twitter, try Percolate, which I use daily #
— man, I wish Kutiman would do a Thru-You followup #
— using word lists from Wikipedia; some great responses so far via jwz #
January 18, 2012
— updated constantly; more Republicans now oppose it, but Democrats still support it 40-34 #
— essential Lessig lecture on “striking at the root” to fix government via codinghorror.com #
— hands down, the fairest and clearest explanation of the goals and risks I’ve seen for the layperson #
— and saved future lives, thanks to the international donor drives #
— including cropping out credits #
— or why SOPA is a bad idea #
— hoping some of them channel their anger into picking up the phone #
