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April 17, 2012
— agree with the issues, but defensive patents exist to ward off potential attackers with countersuits #
— “don’t negotiate with terrorists” #
— a contract that guarantees any filed patents will only be used defensively, even if sold #
— pioneered by Hatsune Miku #
April 16, 2012
— Flash games puts you in charge of editing a state-run newspaper, with a twist via Boing Boing #
— coder-centric search engine that searches punctuation #
— spotting Photoshop trickery with a few lines of Javascript #
— one of the demoscene’s legendary groups open-sources a decade of work #
April 14, 2012
— on Metafilter, Rhomboid breaks down how the video glitches work via MetaFilter #
April 13, 2012
— functional textmode interface to Google using termlib.js and the Google REST API via twitter.com #
— click as fast as you can; an experiment with the Svpply API by OK Focus #
— with DVD rentals, people were aspirational; with streaming, immediate gratification #
— Pixeljam takes on pinball #
April 12, 2012
— like Little Printer for hardware hackers #
— visions of an always-connected device from 1982, drawn by Glen Keane via Kottke #
— funny, that’s my strategy too #
April 11, 2012
— animated beatbox engine #
— hold down “j” to advance via jwz #
— the email version of Twitter’s Fame game #
— extremely frank discussion of why he left Microsoft to start a small indie studio #
— 376 daily drawings inspired by NES games via twitter.com #
— David Smith’s free Mac app to download all your Instagram photos #
— Pippin Barr’s 36 experiments with Pong #
April 10, 2012
— choose-your-own-adventure music video #
— “Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.” #
— I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned his new game yet #
— responsive coding inspired by Bret Victor’s Inventing on Principle talk #
— with updates from Jay Stile, Anil Dash, and the person who registered goatse.cx #
— beautiful album from one of Kind of Bloop’s talented musicians #
April 9, 2012
— the Internet discovers 9-year-old boy’s cardboard DIY arcade in East L.A. via Boing Boing #
— remember that April 1 joke? someone built it for real via Hacker News #
— the Scene.org awards are always a good place to start #
— the Vic-20 and C-64 were my first computers, and changed my life forever #
— a small team getting bought by an Internet giant; does that story ever end well for the users? #
— first episode from the reboot of The Show via Kottke #
— something like this could turn supercut creation into a social game #
— neat hack using the deprecated Google Image Search API; try it with Apple #
April 7, 2012
— best explanation of the trend I’ve seen so far #
April 6, 2012
— here’s their demo reel via jwz #
— a free Windows tool for making cinemagraph animated GIFs #
April 5, 2012
— the Courtyard Marriott’s wifi provider is inspecting traffic and inserting their own ads #
— fascinating playlist of 30 videos created between 1941 and 2005 #
April 4, 2012
— finally, something to do while riding in my self-driving car #
— ending the race to the bottom for iOS apps #
— based on Erik Rothoff Andersson’s open-source toy #
— well-designed touch typing tutorial via O'Reilly Radar #
April 3, 2012
— Greg Borenstein’s new project to turn CS research into practical tools for coders and artists; interesting Twitter feed via twitter.com #
