December 17, 2014
NYT Mag on Yahoo under Marissa Mayer
— worth reading if only for the "Bobbie Had a Nickel" anecdote #
The Nib's The Year in Garbage 2014
— so many of these are related to our ever-increasing interconnectedness #
Decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014
— uses the pop spreadsheet from the Whitburn Project #
The Old Pirate Bay
— IsoHunt archived TPB for posterity after its seizure; Peter Sunde's thoughts on the closure #
Computers in Crisis
— Perry Chen's archive of Y2K books and materials, presented at the New Museum this Friday #
Playing With My Son
— before I let Eliot play any modern games, we worked our way through 25 years of gaming history first #
Casey Johnston on the vanishing Comp Sci classroom
— she's been smacking down mansplainers on Twitter #
WNYC analyzes NYC police data to spot problem-prone officers
— should probably factor in percentage of all arrests, since the dataset might include desk jobs #
Deb Chachra on the 25th anniversary of the École Polytechnique Massacre
— "I don't think being a woman in technology is worth dying for, but I learned early that some men think it's worth killing for." #
How anonymous chan culture shaped Gamergate
— a collision of two sets of widely-different online community norms #
Comparing the UX of Apple vs. Google Maps on iOS
— incredibly detailed breakdown of different tradeoffs #
PBS analysis of the Michael Brown shooting witnesses
— 16 out of 18 witnesses said Michael Brown had his hands up when he was shot #
Berta Lovejoy And The Trolls Of /r/RedditArmie
— seeing these goobers more and more often in YouTube comments #
Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics
— five-part video series on the history of game graphics #
I Will Only Bleed Here
— "I finally saw the value of my life as others saw it: a cheap thing, so easily discarded between muzzle flash and hot asphalt" #
Darren Wilson's testimony is literally unbelievable
— the mass of conflicting evidence so clearly should have led to a trial #
Pomplamoose releases 2014 tour financials
— a reminder to financially support artists you love, beyond just seeing them live #
NYT Mag on the Twine game scene
— better tools for design and distribution lead the way to more diverse, interesting voices #
Let's Encrypt
— can't wait for this free, dead simple certificate authority from the EFF, Mozilla, and more #
The Good Web Bundle
— I already pay yearly for four out of the five, and they're all worth supporting #