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April 28, 2017
— refreshing counter-argument to the current religious fervor #
— lovely exploration game for iOS, recommended for fans of Windosill #
April 24, 2017
— a laundry list of the clever ways that movie studios screw over artists #
— I wonder how many publishers would still use AMP if it wasn’t a prerequisite to get in the Google News carousel #
— simulate anyone’s voice with a 60-second voice sample and questionable ethics #
April 21, 2017
— every Rube Goldberg machine needs a storyline and song #
April 20, 2017
— “You have to build for the reality we live in, not the one we hope to create.” #
— Tim Carmody’s running a great series on Kottke.org this week #
— investors dumped $120M into a “juicer” that squeezes bags of pre-made juice #
— addictive and devious puzzle game for iOS/PC/Mac #
April 18, 2017
April 17, 2017
— launch a vintage Mac app in seconds in the browser; how it works #
April 14, 2017
— incredible deep dive into the technical and cultural history #
April 13, 2017
— you can’t say Mouse Reeve’s name on her Mastodon instance #
— this year’s best April 1 project was a massive team effort #
— using Counterparty to enforce scarcity for digital works via @dphiffer #
— Google Creative Lab made autocorrect for drawing #
— now available free for Mac and Windows; don’t miss the process posts #
— love the increasing desperation in the Wikipedia edit requests from their marketing head #
— nobody really knows how the most advanced AI works—only that it does via @mikerugnetta #
— remix retro replicas inspired by LiveJournal, MovableType, MySpace, and more via @anildash #
— fans create nicely-designed cards for each amiibo bin; here’s a good tutorial #
April 11, 2017
— the internal priority shift was part of a larger trend I wrote about #
— ARG or startup? you decide #
April 10, 2017
— it’s multi-user too, try walking around via @bai0 #
— “Music and chicken have become intertwined.” via @flaneur #
— they’re a bit busy now, but there’s no shortage of telnet BBSes online #
April 8, 2017
— LJs with more than 3,000 daily visitors can no longer be anonymous or use obscenities #
— using harmonics to compose a melody that repeats itself at 1024x the original speed via @hotdogsladies #
April 7, 2017
— using deep learning with famous voices to generate speech-like sounds #
— Bob Ross gets the Deep Dream treatment, the audio is a WaveNet model of Ross’s voice #
April 6, 2017
— training a recurrent neural network on a list of 150k videogame titles #
— they did the same thing at XOXO 2013, but our attendees not only paid, they organized the cash #
— “I’m obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999” #
April 5, 2017
— eyes generated by DeepWarp; click to change character via @alteredq #
— 630+ contributors map the story behind nearly every pixel from Reddit Place #
— a game for learning CSS Grid via Belong.io #
April 4, 2017
— it may not be VR, but it’s adorable #
— part of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, works open in date-accurate web browsers via Michael Eades #
— I signed up on another instance and there’s a learning curve; also: Yoz Grahame and Sarah Jeong #
April 3, 2017
— outstanding interactive viz from the NYT #
