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March 31, 2014
— I’m floored that Brendan Eich hasn’t explained or apologized for his Prop 8 donation by now #
— Google kicks off Internet Jackass Day with style #
— more information on SCOTUSblog #
— shot-for-shot remake of a 1955 Tom & Jerry cartoon using Touhou game characters via @ironicsans #
— composer David Kanaga’s GDC talk on music and games via @PurpleMFTW #
— Ben Purdy explains how he made it in 48 hours #
— the timelapse gives you a sense of how insane this is #
March 28, 2014
— when your dad works at Dreamworks via MetaFilter #
— in most cases, parody still requires permission in the UK #
March 27, 2014
— Facebook’s Julie Zhuo responds #
— incredibly deep look into the development of Threes, and the clones spawned from it #
— crowdsourced Twitch play as a new game mechanic #
— artist Jen Lowe put her heartbeat on the Internet, with a 24 hour lag via CreativeJS #
— browse Facebook on your Rift, today #
— Linux administration is so unsexy, but I’m incredibly glad I taught myself what little I know #
— a new writing platform #
March 26, 2014
— Zoe Keating also updated her revenue stats #
March 25, 2014
— “I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook.” #
— a remake of the McSweeney’s piece using stock footage, created as an ad for stock footage #
— a very restrictive license, but an interesting historical artifact #
— it happened on September 30, but they were charged yesterday #
— a three-year-old tries the Oculus Rift #
— Mozilla’s new CEO invented Javascript, but also helped fund anti-gay marriage legislation; his statement was pretty bad #
— try it on a touchscreen; by Lullatone and Jono Brandel #
— the Internet is perceived as both an archive and ephemera via @textfiles #
March 24, 2014
— Chrome extension visualizes your browser history as favicons #
— VC-funded fanfic platform, would be great if they let fans pay writers directly #
— distribution of road orientations by city #
— Max Temkin elaborates, “how people find out about your art is inseparable from the art itself” #
— the same group that tried to blackmail Meetup #
— the L.A. Times’ Ken Schwencke on his bot that writes articles based on USGS earthquake reports #
— The Verge on the Oculus Rift-based art project to swap perspectives #
— Joe Sabia indexed 1,300 cultural references from all nine seasons of The Office by creation date #
March 21, 2014
— graph IMDB ratings of the full lifetime of a TV series; Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Brady Bunch #
— spreading Google’s DNS servers to bypass the Twitter ban #
March 20, 2014
— reminiscent of a 1980s videogame arcade 13 years before Pac-Man via @cyriakharris #
— by Crap Hound creator Sean Tejaratchi, who’s pretty great at Twitter #
March 19, 2014
— it’s the small things #
— the video is a nice encapsulation of their values #
— Chrome add-on takes a webcam snapshot with every pull request; earlier: lolcommits #
March 18, 2014
March 17, 2014
— flying toasters for the modern age #
