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July 30, 2015
— first robots take over manufacturing, and now they’re going after our gymnasts #
— audio readings of found online writing that each author thought would never be read via @Nossidge #
— some interesting applications for gaming #
— just have him play clicker games instead #
— JS version of the classic Mac extension #
— most of the people I know doing interesting work in tech don’t have engineering degrees, or a degree at all #
— new startup from the Cards Against Humanity team helping others sell and ship stuff, like Exploding Kittens today #
— James Bridle explores the origins of .io, .ly, and more #
July 28, 2015
— nail in the coffin for Warner/Chappell’s case #
— machine that endlessly sings ’90s pop ballads with intonation #
July 24, 2015
— for republishing annotations of their legal code, not the code itself #
— “a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs” #
July 23, 2015
— amazing to see how it’s evolved, the timelapse is beautiful chaos #
— straightforward explanation of everything they screwed up #
July 22, 2015
— related: the NYT follows up on the author’s question about planetary selfies #
— a followup to my 2008 post about their formerly-inaccessible darkweb #
— Mac app to easily make deepdream images; Yosemite or newer only #
July 21, 2015
— a bot intended to help clue people into issues of social inequality #
— I’d love to see this repeated in other competitive online communities #
— Metafilter’s new podcast going deeper on stories surfaced by the community #
— six-part series on Internet aggression, focused on Gamergate as a case study; good followup #
— one of the best explorations of the challenges of making something, at a particularly interesting time for indie games #
— “People asked for and got equitable pay based on data in the sheet” #
— music request: Yakety Sax at Westboro Baptist Church #
— touches on other major hacks and the ethics of outing personal information #
— super inside baseball, an existential crisis over whether the site is “too mean” #
— an estimated 471,000 vehicles are vulnerable, including brakes, transmission, and GPS #
July 14, 2015
— from multiplayer to single-player #
— “What are we exchanging for efficiency?” #
— terrestrial radio can’t make it past a few light years, but who’s counting #
July 13, 2015
— beautiful algorithmic insects #
— oh, and the trees like to reply #
— 90% of high-tech patent lawsuits are filed by trolls #
— some light Monday morning reading for all my Portland friends #
July 9, 2015
— 1.7 billion comments, also on the Internet Archive #
— emoji short URLs, like so #
— deliberately staying small and focused, excluding an audience they don’t care about #
— so much more expressive than a fav alone #
July 8, 2015
— stylish short animation about four dysfunctional strangers in an apartment building #
July 6, 2015
— this was a fun one to do, Eliot was in the audience #
— Markov-generated comics from Josh Millard, creator of Garkov #
July 5, 2015
— Paul Carr on Zappos’ shift to a flat organization #
July 3, 2015
— many of the most popular subreddits went private, all the top posts are about it #
July 2, 2015
— minority representation in mainstream films, like Her, Fault in Our Stars, and Noah #
— incredible nightmare fodder on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and more #
— a number of women’s rights and digital rights groups wrote a letter to ICANN #
— totally into this, though I’d guess the mouse/keyboard would be more convenient via r/oculus #
