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February 14, 2012
— an imaginary airship piloted by an AI autopilot based on real weather patterns; follow it on Twitter #
— amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app #
February 13, 2012
— a silly one-room YouTube adventure #
— like a frenetic take on Matthijs Vlot’s Hello #
February 12, 2012
— a near-immediate response to SomethingAwful’s campaign #
— HTML5 pixel art video using the Soundcloud API via blog.dianakimball.com #
February 11, 2012
— or: why some songs give us chills and provoke an emotional response #
— a response to DHH’s post on the non-“startup” startup #
— incredible fan-made compilation of archival commentary on Raiders of the Lost Ark #
February 10, 2012
— “Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally.” via Marco Arment #
— Ohio’s lax laws on personal zoos leads to tragic results via Boing Boing #
— “did you hear? the death-rattle of a million middle men” #
— a minute-by-minute breakdown of the most insane day in Kickstarter history #
February 9, 2012
— turn any site into Horse_ebooks #
— in-depth look at the evolution of the visual design of one of my favorite iOS games #
February 8, 2012
— best project video ever; I backed it so hard #
— ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!? #
— they never should’ve done it in the first place, but this is the right way to handle it #
— as the Daily Dot points out, he’s more of a racist asshole than a troll via MetaFilter #
February 7, 2012
— stylish documentary on the digital media revolution of the last decade #
February 6, 2012
— only open for two years in this video #
— found footage from machine-vision tests #
February 3, 2012
February 2, 2012
— gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence via smarterware.org #
— find and click on the black pixel; you may need to clean your screen first via twitter.com #
— the journalist mentions me and Kind of Bloop #
— a brilliant 24-hour comic by French cartoonist Boulet via twitter.com #
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 #