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May 27, 2015
— remaking Space Oddity using only the thousand most-common words in the English language #
— the game devs randomly and permanently assign skin color to players with interesting results #
May 26, 2015
— 25% are journalists; collected by scraping who @Verified follows #
— turn a selection of your OS X screen into a playable Super Mario level #
— this will only surprise someone who hasn’t been in a Hot Topic in a decade #
— sorry, pedestrian detection costs extra #
— “Who are they? What do they want?” #
— Robin Sloan’s near-future scifi short story of persuasive AI in medicine #
May 22, 2015
— a new TNG Edit after five years! the original series of remixes were instant classics #
— new podcast from Gimlet and This American Life’s Starlee Kine #
— short comic nicely articulates privilege #
May 21, 2015
— we need a word for the feeling when something is equally exciting and terrifying #
— 49 animation students each rotoscoped 52 out of 2,767 total frames #
May 20, 2015
— third part of Maciej Ceglowski’s incredible travelogue series #
— completely predictable outcome for a frustratingly unnecessary feature #
— streaming’s a good deal if you’re a major label, but indies are stuck with paltry royalties only #
May 19, 2015
— the whole Chicago Review PDF is worth reading #
— ending something in a deliberate way is a time for celebration and closure #
May 18, 2015
— Paul Ford on Spotify’s social network of related artists #
— clustering 86 million photos found online #
May 17, 2015
— ASCEND via Nelson Minar #
May 15, 2015
— get texted something stupid every Saturday at 2am #
May 14, 2015
— “You refused to buy us Lunchables, and now you must pay.” #
— the lovely PDX flag gets a shout-out at the end #
— The Awl’s John Herrman had the best thoughts on the implications I’ve seen #
May 12, 2015
— part of the reason why I ran my experiment #
May 11, 2015
— “Sometimes a conversation just doesn’t need your input.” #
May 8, 2015
— use parentheses for triplets like this #
— 47MB download and slow as hell, but crazy impressive #
— which, in turn, exploits behavioral psychology to take player’s money #
— the security lead took over the character in-game, stripped, killed, and deleted him #
May 7, 2015
— much more hand-lettering work on his Instagram #
— finished this unusual iOS game this morning, highly recommended #
May 6, 2015
— Paul Robertson’s gorgeous series of pixel art shorts for Adult Swim #
— a new option for indies to make money from serialized video beyond ads #
— you bet I’m preordering one #
May 5, 2015
— like multiplayer Osmos; see also: Curvytron, addictive multiplayer Tron-like game #
May 4, 2015
— Ryan McHenry compiled his Vine videos in a single video on YouTube #
— the epic indexing project ended last week #
— pull comments, likes, and reshares from social networks to your own site via Nelson Minar #
— using social media to draw attention to systemic oppression #
— Gina Trapani’s IMDB-like database for people who make stuff, here’s me #
— tiny game engine for making simple games constrained to 16 drawings linked by color #
— he sold it nearly a year ago, but was worried about telling anyone via @superamit #
April 30, 2015
— just wait until someone combines this with automated drawing #
— in Pippin Barr’s signature style #
