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May 4, 2015
— 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 #
— the appropriate way to get what you want #
— age/gender detection from Microsoft, with some silly results #
— occasionally NSFW audio via Belong.io #
— another Mallory Ortberg gem #
April 29, 2015
— Boston Magazine profile on the horrific origins of Gamergate #
April 28, 2015
— related: Baltimore Sun investigates police brutality settlements #
April 27, 2015
— life online with 550k Twitter followers, a very particular type of celebrity #
— curious to see if subscription funding like Patreon can fill the gap left by advertisers #
— Leigh Alexander has more on his lesser-known work #
— like everything Paul Ford writes, only partly about what it pretends to be about #
April 20, 2015
— renting GPU instances with Steam’s streaming features #
April 17, 2015
— playable in the browser in emulated System 7.5.5, try quitting to the desktop when you’re done #
— Kevin Fox digs up pre-Wayback screenshots #
April 16, 2015
— this happens constantly across art and tech #
— a “crash discourse” on cultural appropriation from 16-year-old actress Amandla Stenberg #
— oh yeah, I guess the new Star Wars trailer came out too #
April 15, 2015
— or just skip to the amazing Three.js model viewer #
April 14, 2015
— open-sourcing the browser-based emulation loader used by the Internet Archive #
— follow it to find out your house #
April 12, 2015
— a vinyl disc that vibrates to play any audio on a turntable #
April 10, 2015
— unsurprisingly, Jason Scott’s been working on this for years #
April 8, 2015
— our phones are the closest we have to an airplane’s black box #
— Kirby Ferguson video to end mass surveillance under the Patriot Act #
April 7, 2015
— Jim Leonard explains all the technical firsts in their mind-blowing CGA demo #
— gems from SlideShare, a new Tumblr by Neil Cicierega #
April 3, 2015
— “But you’re not you. You’re your digital you. Virtually real, controlled by real you.” #
April 2, 2015
April 1, 2015
— Reddit experiment in crowdsourced play; any user can push the button, exactly once, to reset the timer #
— continuing part one of the Bro Orange story #
— a growing papercraft city, one new building per day via @Livelyivy #
March 31, 2015
— a new vignette game from Nina Freeman #
— first episode from Anita’s new series on positive female characters in games #
— I think I love functional April Fools’ hacks as much as I hate April Fools’ hoaxes #
— Don Hertzfeldt’s first foray into digital animation is now available for streaming on demand #
— “counting things doesn’t change them” #
— is it legal to not hire someone based on their garbage views? #
— I hope they extend this to their most popular products #
— virtual machines for practicing security exploits #
March 30, 2015
— musical theater performance based on The Mother of All Demos via @atduskgreg #
