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October 30, 2015
— one of the best talks we’ve ever had; also, Dooce and The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg #
— currently at 60,000 viewers, promoting the launch of Twitch Creative #
— a cooperative text-based horror game #
October 27, 2015
— worse than I could have imagined #
October 26, 2015
— in a footnote, nice to hear they’re working on tools for writers to make money next #
— our yearly recap; also, just posted the first XOXO talk, Heather Armstrong on sharing her life online #
October 20, 2015
— commitment is patching Chrome for Windows to fix typography issues on your site #
— a solid list that naturally skews geeky, coming from Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder’s audience via Kottke #
— story of a small, empathetic design decision at Slack #
— if this doesn’t make you want to dance, well, see a doctor via Boing Boing #
October 19, 2015
— using historical whois records, Internet Archive, and searching Facebook by email address #
October 15, 2015
— Vanity Fair interviews the woman from the “Ermahgerd” meme #
— Maciej Ceglowski compares big data to radioactive underpants; transcript here #
October 14, 2015
— predates ADVENT/Colossal Cave; more on lost mainframe games #
— Sandwich Video’s pitch-perfect 1980s tech show interviews modern startups #
October 13, 2015
— apparently for its “millennial males” #
— serialized novel written in real-time with live comments and webcam of the author #
October 9, 2015
— absolutely ridiculous projections, it’s like a bubble inside a bubble; related: The Awl on WeLive #
— the developer of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture on illness, working with publishers, and the games industry #
October 7, 2015
— tweets mentioning “earthquake” with less than eight words, no links, and no numbers #
— the video intro is adorable; from the creators of Patatap #
October 6, 2015
— new Jonathan Harris project visualizing human behavior online with YouTube, Twitter, MTurk, Google Ngrams #
October 5, 2015
— turn a user’s tweets into algorithmically-generated rhyming lyrics with music #
— Dina Kelberman’s ongoing project to manually find chains of visually similar images and videos in Google #
October 2, 2015
— Davey Wreden’s very meta followup to the Stanley Parable, highly recommended #