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April 30, 2013
— beautiful visualization of the corrupting influence of money in politics and how to change it #
— powerful new JS and Python support #
— don’t miss his “digital puppet show” at 49:15 #
— part of a three-part series on the history of the emoticon #
— gorgeously-designed webzine on science #
— I love stories like these, reminds me of Sarah Churman’s cochlear implant #
— to celebrate, CERN restored the first URL #
— what do Bob Ross, haircuts, and PES have in common? this subreddit #
April 29, 2013
— impossible captchas using Unicode and Font Awesome glyphs via Nelson Minar #
— “The web also makes it near-impossible to fall into the arms of just one’s fans.” #
April 27, 2013
— “artwork does not need to comment on previous work to qualify as fair use” via Boing Boing #
April 26, 2013
— more genius from Peter Serafinowicz #
— using Markov chains and Gutenberg; this needs to be a Twitter bot #
April 24, 2013
— indie co-op heist game; Anthony Carboni’s review covers it well #
— real-time collaborative game-making, looks outstanding via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— an unhappy footnote: Vlambeer’s upcoming game was already cloned #
April 23, 2013
— Sunlight Foundation tool for spotted plagiarism from press releases and Wikipedia #
— lovely WebGL music video #
April 22, 2013
— this WaPo story is the best breakdown of how they tracked them down #
April 21, 2013
— projection mapped videogames on canvas; someone should do this with famous paintings via creativeapplications.net #
— WebRTC video chat and code editor, perfect for remote interviews #
April 20, 2013
— irrevocably delete between 1 to 10 random Facebook friends #
— want to help save Upcoming? it only takes a couple minutes to install #
April 19, 2013
— with no on-site notice and no way to backup past events; my thoughts about the closure #
— he published it as a printer spool and closed his site again #
— code’s on Github via Hacker News #
April 18, 2013
— nice piece, though there’s no guarantee supercuts are covered under fair use #
April 17, 2013
— nicely curated set of royalty-free vector art and type #
— works on Windows/Mac/Linux, but requires OpenCV and OpenMDAO #
— new Mozilla project to set up real-time collaboration on websites #
— finally, a cat GIF meme-based to-do list via @mathowie #
— the subreddit is a rabbit hole; this is like Where’s Waldo meets this Onion story #
— the first Kickstarter-funded acquisition? more perspective from Ev Williams #
— eight minutes of improvised Star Wars/Avengers fanfic #
April 16, 2013
— Hennesy Youngman hypes up the shampoo aisle on a Tuesday night #
— amazing to see what Steam and Humble Bundle have done for indies #
April 15, 2013
— indistinguishable from magic #
— uneven, but lots of nice touches in here #
— crowdsourced music video with nearly 7,000 cursors recorded so far #
April 12, 2013
— feed in keystrokes with memory states and let it see the future; source and paper here #
April 10, 2013
— pretty sure I used that Kai Power Tools background in 1996 via @benfinoradin #
April 9, 2013
— WebGL tool turns Street View into animations like these #
April 8, 2013
— “I wouldn’t let him drown in this pond.” via @danbruno #
April 7, 2013
— coping with the responsibility of sudden fame and wealth via Nelson Minar #
April 6, 2013
— a titanium board game buried somewhere in the Arizona desert, intended to last for 2,000 years #
