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January 31, 2020
— “You don’t actually bite down. You bite up because of your lower jaw.” via Boing Boing #
— dark software patterns fueling the opioid crisis via The Verge #
— kill it dead via Boing Boing #
— competing with the most valuable startup on the planet won’t be easy, but this is a good way to do it #
— intense open-source intelligence automation tool with over 170 modules #
— and the inevitable backlash from internet bozos #
— massive Flash/Shockwave preservation project makes 38,000 webgames and 2,400 animations playable from a single Windows-only launcher via @bfod #
— a companion to the vocal burst map, an interactive visualization of emotions conveyed by music via Web Curios #
— creative use of the pause function to turn tweets into single-button games via Web Curios #
— 3D shader visualizer in the style of Refik Anadol’s stunning art installations via Web Curios #
— relatable content from Ze Frank #
January 30, 2020
— a $42M monument to techno-utopianism inside a mountain owned by Jeff Bezos #
— four years and 156 episodes later #
— 360 scans of a Vietnam street converted to a 3D point cloud and rendered real-time in Unity with custom shaders #
— from the Product Hunt folks, a new social site for sharing stuff you use and love #
— their bi-weekly drops are a great source of random internet weirdness, I highly recommend signing up #
— Increpare made a hellish four-way version of Tetris #
— don’t miss the first part, which focused on male perpetrators #
— a transparent attempt to avoid litigation, which should absolutely go forward or this kind of abuse will keep happening #
— like Pink Trombone meets QWOP, out now for Windows and Switch #
— huge exclusivity deals from Microsoft, Facebook, and YouTube, some brokered by shady talent agencies #
— news orgs need to understand the dynamics of the online culture war #
— a bouncing visualization of FiveThirtyEight polling data via @ftrain #
— long domain is long via @ftrain #
— interesting 2018 article about the untested fair use defense for whether streaming is transformative or not #
January 29, 2020
— News Corp’s unfortunately-named news aggregator #
— new additions include a trans flag, plunger, headstone, cockroach, lungs, and bubble tea #
— mysterious new project from MSCHF, watch the community try to figure out the password #
January 28, 2020
— seven years in the making #
— my favorite game released last year, I can’t recommend it highly enough and I’m not alone #
— music made with barcode scanners #
— minimalist news summaries reformatted from Wikipedia’s Current Events portal via kickscondor.com #
— trauma, negligence, and exploitation #
January 27, 2020
— after a hiatus, Rex Sorgatz’s excellent newsletter is back with a new domain and daily publishing schedule #
— releasing in the next couple weeks, according to the creator #
January 24, 2020
— the revamped six-second looping video app from the creators of Vine, unrelated to their 2015 app with the same name #
— like every glitch project, the source is available to remix #
— 2011 mashup album combines De La Soul vocals with instrumentals from Soviet Union jazz/soul records #
January 23, 2020
— Google made a collaborative puzzle game to promote their I/O conference #
— ironically, the founder tried to scrub his own online history #
— the obvious next step is just intermingling them in between organic results #
— a visual archive of Geocities sites by neighborhood, part of the Restorativland project to restore dead webpages via Belong.io #
January 22, 2020
— my favorite indie software/game publisher/console developer launched its own podcast #
January 21, 2020
— 33 years old, if you count the zines #
— from Moscow-based animation studio Petrick via Daring Fireball #
