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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 #
— Robin Sloan reminisces about Micro MUSE #
— turn street view into post-apocalyptic overgrowth using undocumented 3D depth data #
— even if it’s commercial, the Dragon’s Lair fan art was being used for commentary and criticism #
— I’m stunned how well this works on mobile browsers #
— Nate Silver relaunched FiveThirtyEight as a dedicated site #
— sounds like he’s gearing up to sue Newsweek #
— Github’s response confirms much of her story, putting their founder on leave #
— a casual music fan reviews a library of obscure vinyl in alphabetical order #
— now it just needs auto-play #
March 14, 2014
— I put much of the blame on the App Store’s miserable discovery tools #
— make your own Flappy Bird clone; fun use of Tumblr #
— it was released in theaters and on iTunes today #
March 13, 2014
— her new book is available for purchase or free download on her site #
— animated adaptation of Mike Lacher’s classic McSweeney’s epic #
— Reddit AMAs organized and reformatted as interviews #
March 12, 2014
— the creator of The Mesh looks back on the 25th anniversary of its proposal #
— for confused iOS 7 users #
— “Get high on hashtags and enjoy your digital cronut.” #
— turn any word into a Game of Life field via @pomeranian99 #
March 11, 2014
— design your own subway; early alpha, but still fun #
— Seinfeld without people; it gets great at 3:30, when the music stops #
— addictive variation of the Threes mechanic #
— interactive demo on building 2D visibility in a game, here’s another variation via @worrydream #
— you’d be crazy to use this, but I think it’s fascinating #
— Funny or Die is currently the top referer to Healthcare.gov #
— Frank Chimero’s reflections on resuming life online after losing both his parents #
— 20 strangers are asked to kiss, magic ensues #
— “Nguyen refuses to compromise his independence.” #
