The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
— Nolen Royalty tells the story of how a group of teens were writing secret binary messages on the Tiny Award-winning multiplayer experiment #
Shutterbug
— free desktop-only browser game where you photograph bugs by resizing and moving the browser window (via) #
Kind of Bloop 15th Anniversary Vinyl
15 years ago this week, Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis came out on the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, the bestselling jazz album of all time.
I started the project as a bit of a goof, launching on Kickstarter on May 12, 2009, only 14 days after Kickstarter itself launched. I wanted to test out the platform I’d helped to build, to see what the experience was like as a creator. For years, I’d also wondered what “chiptune jazz” might sound like, and figured this was a good way to do both.
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Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From
— Facebook is paying bonuses for viral content, no matter how terrible, while laying off the content moderators who can prevent it #
One Million Screenshots
— a zoomable explorable rendering of 1M+ homepage screenshots, updated monthly (via) #
La Sentinelle
— French embroidery artist Marine Beaufils finished her needlepoint project recreating screenshots from The Sentinel #
Tulip Creative Computer
— The Echo Nest's Brian Whitman new project is a $59 portable computer for creative coding, first batch is sold out with more shipping in late August (via) #
The Mystery of Detective Barbie’s Audio
— can any audio codec nerds out there help extract the staggering 9,342 sound clips of girls' names from a 1999 Barbie game #