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May 31, 2017
— music video as animated coloring book #
— interactive explainer on how Thailand fireflies sync their lights; code here via @buster #
May 30, 2017
— a comic history lesson by Lucy Bellwood and Sarah Mirk #
— Twitch plays the stock market, starting with $50k in real money via Belong.io #
May 23, 2017
— related: Maciej Ceglowski’s campaign for social media travel mode #
— Saint 11 packs so much into every 256×256 image #
— unforgivable corporate behavior, an empire built on exploiting the poor #
May 19, 2017
— 50 million drawings, use it with sketch-rnn, a generative model for vector drawings #
— Janelle Shane’s hilarious experiments have become required reading for me via Belong.io #
May 17, 2017
— writeup of Panic’s brush with blackmail and the Handbrake malware #
May 10, 2017
— followup to his enormously popular history of japan #
— 128,000 identical comments using names from voter registration records #
— generating summaries of movement over time via @tomcoates #
May 9, 2017
— documenting the representation of poverty and homelessness in GTA V via gamescenes.org #
— click to build, right-click to remove #
May 8, 2017
— working around the continued decline of web ads #
— a prediction algorithm predicts the most likely next frame, no editing via @cpriestman #
— okay, now I’m excited #
— Three.js/WebGL demo takes fourth place at Revision 2017; see also: ninjatool and the demo source #
May 6, 2017
May 5, 2017
— as always, fun glimpse into the bleeding edge of CG and machine learning #
May 4, 2017
— a disgusting display of callousness, corruption, and greed #
May 3, 2017
— generating datasets with wildly different appearances but identical statistics via jwz #
May 2, 2017
— rolling roguelike inspired by Ice Cold Beer, out now for Switch, PS4, PC, and Mac #
— NYMag feature on the counterculture of the far right #
— full-album Sgt Pepper remake into a Star Wars concept album, with videos for each song via Kottke #
May 1, 2017
— the pseudonymous cracker explains why this preservation matters #
— Felix Colgrave’s animated film about love and regicide #
— brilliant comic on wealth disparity, the gig economy, and universal basic income #
— “thedarkoverlord” claims they also got material from Fox, IFC, ABC, and National Geographic #
