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August 5, 2015
— follow a depressed Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders over a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom #
— how awesome is it that they run a Tor exit node? answer: very awesome #
— Greg Knauss was there first #
August 4, 2015
— see also: Neil Cicierega’s “Wndrwll” #
— emoji searcher in your menubar #
— Gina Trapani and Anil Dash’s IMDb for projects; here’s me #
August 3, 2015
— sync Netfix movies with friends #
— The Onion’s answer to VICE #
— they seem torn up about it, but they made so much great stuff and should be proud #
— cut-and-paste Facebook from a parallel world where Zuck ran off with all of Facebook’s data #
— I can’t decide if this is real, satire, or just cynical trolling to promote Soylent 2.0 #
— Hank Green on Facebook’s deception and lack of accountability #
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 #
