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May 9, 2012
— watch the video or it won’t make any sense #
— for fans of Kutiman’s ThruYOU, found footage beat mashups from Meat Beat Manifesto’s Jack Dangers #
May 8, 2012
— “There won’t ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that’s fine with me” #
May 7, 2012
— amazing WebGL CAD designer that prints to Makerbot, Shapeways, and Ponoko #
— wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade via Boing Boing #
— the company regretted its short-sighted decision to offer lifetime first-class travel via Kottke #
— if you’re jailbroken, Kyle Howells made it real via berglondon.com #
May 6, 2012
— Minecraft minigame implemented in Minecraft via twitter.com #
May 4, 2012
— honest advice from an unwilling advice meme star #
May 2, 2012
— a reasoned, thoughtful post with actions that help prevent it from happening again elsewhere #
— with anonymous throwaway accounts, some very upsetting stuff in here #
— another gem from Vi Hart #
— in a bizarre twist, she also recently stole @OhWonka #
May 1, 2012
— experimental search engine removes the top million popular sites from results via Hacker News #
— weirdly personal, I imagine neither of the founders are happy about this piece #
April 30, 2012
— free, collaborative, open-source guide #
— silly tool to make GIFs fullscreen, click to get another one #
— to commemorate the third birthday; related: Perry writes about the origin story #
— companion piece to this article on the insane success of the Pebble watch #
April 28, 2012
— interesting look at the state of quantified health #
April 27, 2012
— why this is impressive; order a one here with optional box via MetaFilter #
April 26, 2012
— that’d make a great screensaver with this as the background audio #
— hour-long textural mix tapes designed for “prolonged periods of intense concentration” via MetaFilter #
— seems awkward to navigate and moderate to me, but interested to see how it plays out #
— they argue it frees up journalists for actual reporting, instead of routine grunt work #
— interesting prototype video #
— Ludum Dare game by a first-time game developer #
— making the classic music visualization real; incredible work, though it sounds very different in person #
April 25, 2012
— bookmarklet turns any page into a 3D object, with the DOM representing depth via html5watch.tumblr.com #
— camera wired to Mechanical Turk; reminds me of Image Search for the Blind #
April 24, 2012
— new blog surfaces the most interesting stuff from the community #
— 5 GB free, and Gmail goes up to 10GB free #
— I could’ve used that speech when I was 14, but I never went to gyms via alexisohanian.com #
April 23, 2012
— every level from the original SMB, recreated on a single screen each via freeindiegam.es #
— made for the Ludum Dare compo; over 1,100 games were entered! via freeindiegam.es #
— ingenious short tutorial on vim key controls #
— a passively-multiplayer game built on Twitter activity #
— I know the controls seem insane, but stick with it; the level design is devious #
April 22, 2012
— fun and interesting glimpse inside their crazy flat structure #
April 20, 2012
— try evolving the biggest head possible #
— Frogger cabinet modded to use real-time car traffic from NYC streets #
— very cute; I’m hoping some people make Playfic games #
April 19, 2012
— new game from the creator of Machinarium and Samorost; the bundle is a steal #
— countdown until someone writes a Twitter bot #
April 18, 2012
— ranking everything from sneakers to World of Warcraft classes #
— communication failure at every level in the chain of command #
— a capsule history of Kickstarter itself; the Pebble watch is up to $4.4M #