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September 16, 2014
— captures the mood nicely, “like a link blog come gloriously to life” #
— no-waiting 16-player chess game at XOXO Arcade, now downloadable #
— learned more about the Pen tool in 15 minutes than 20 years of futzing with Illustrator #
— Zoe Quinn summarizes the insanely stupid manufactured “controversy” that is GamerGate #
— Andy McMillan’s bringing his gorgeous design journal to the web #
— counting the minutes until October 1; Thru You stands as one of the best remix projects ever #
— shocking that people don’t like when bands they don’t know or care about are forced into their collections #
— Mojang confirmed the $2.5B Microsoft deal, which still feels like a steal #
September 9, 2014
— Leonard Richardson created a MInecraft world that combines thousands of player-created maps #
— scored points for the Twitter username #
— you could use a hug right about now, I suspect #
— Warren Ellis wrote a nice thing; Little Printer will try to live on open-source #
September 2, 2014
— defeat the misogynerds with pure sass via @tinysubversions #
August 28, 2014
— the new #1 is from Portland #
— also: Leigh Alexander on gamer culture #
— the screenshot of her tweets is unbearably awful #
— you can bet on the results #
— Miranda July made an app that delivers messages from friends verbally by strangers via Belong.io #
August 27, 2014
— Processing-like Mac app to use Python for 2D graphics and animation #
August 26, 2014
— software for making glitch art from images, breaking things on purpose #
— much simpler than Microsoft’s technique, but free and instant #
— brutal, important new entry in Feminist Frequency’s series, predictably met with denial and anger #
August 25, 2014
— aiming by looking through a crossbow sight with each eye #
August 23, 2014
— entirely creepy via @golan #
— two people playing the same song at the same time somewhere in the world #
August 21, 2014
— stunning profile of a man who lived alone in the woods for 27 years via Belong.io #
August 19, 2014
— Vox’s coverage has been solid #
— the newest episode of Tony Zhou’s Every Frame A Painting is right up my alley; related: Jason Reitman’s new film #
— add “gif” to the beginning of any youtube.com URL #
August 13, 2014
— Erika Moen mourns Robin Williams, and reaches a very personal realization #
— robots and revolutions #
August 12, 2014
August 11, 2014
— fonts that go together, or font combinations that are played out? #
— a 2010 interview that sets some context for today’s sad loss #
— this Chrome add-on would’ve made it easy #
August 10, 2014
— the guy mentioned in the lede was featured in this 2009 video #
August 9, 2014
— another evil game from John Cooney #
August 8, 2014
August 7, 2014
— 20 years later; how it was made #
— I hope they open an EFF office there with a fair use museum #
— inputs determined by tracking a fish’s position in an aquarium #
— one of the most talented groups of people I’ve ever known #
August 6, 2014
— oh, and all archives will be deleted, shortly after Justin.tv nuked their archives and shuttered #
— a billion times better than it needs to be, I admire the craft that went into this #
— learn about quarks while cursing your life #
— I wonder how many of this are SF-only #
