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August 22, 2012
— this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter’s the social network graph that matters most to me #
August 20, 2012
— replacing identity on Twitter with a color #
August 18, 2012
— a Flash game about failure and regret; after you play, watch this playthrough #
— opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control #
August 17, 2012
— he got his baby photos back, fortunately #
August 16, 2012
August 15, 2012
— if you make a free app, make it really, really easy to give you money #
August 14, 2012
— created by John Resig, who wrote about the project #
August 13, 2012
— a horrific new low for an insurance company, an impressive feat #
August 12, 2012
— inspired by Kutiman’s Thru-You, Gotye’s remix of YouTube covers of “Somebody That Used to Know” #
August 11, 2012
— Gerald Scarfe’s pre-Wall 1973 animation, largely unseen because of music clearance #
August 10, 2012
— nice distillation of the core ideas behind Everything Is A Remix #
— one of the only iOS apps to allow public remix, shutting down way too soon #
— a collaboration with McSweeney’s #
August 8, 2012
— the physics of silliness #
— now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org #
— five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA via @xor #
August 7, 2012
— it’s quickly moving from simple reality show parody to dystopic scifi #
— old but new to me; more background #
— love the auralization at the end #
August 6, 2012
— the scariest: all you need to hack an iCloud account is a billing address and the last four credit card digits #
— more a 4chan State of the Union, tracking the site’s incredible growth and future #
— fan-funded book tours with built-in scheduling; reminds me of my earlier post #
— automation run amok, NASA says “everything from imagery to music gets flagged” #
— my five-year-old nephew’s obsessed with Apple devices, so he makes his own #
August 5, 2012
— I was addicted to this all weekend #
— the trading software bug caused $440M in losses, wiping out a 17-year-old firm in 45 minutes #
— generate random polygons, match with face recognition algorithm, and mutate #
— the RGB values for skin tones were exactly the same #
August 4, 2012
— they bypassed his security questions for iCloud by phone with Apple tech support #
August 3, 2012
— three.js demo decomposing images into particles via CreativeJS #
— new game by Bennett Foddy, creator of QWOP and GIRP #
August 2, 2012
— real-time stream views of Instagram in various cities #
August 1, 2012
— “I can find a picture of a stallion for you” #
— a uniquely Internetian story #
— very unnerving five-minute game for Mac/PC; I got 5/8 pages, and was scared silly #
— running sentiment analysis on tweets that mention the candidates; it tracks nicely to Gallup polls #
— editorial curation, no comments, and built from scratch in six weeks via Kottke #
July 30, 2012
— by Peter Nitsch, of course; related: painting in ASCII with a paintbrush via @mrdoob #
— using GameMaker Studio’s new HTML5 support; no sound, but very playable #
July 29, 2012
