October 6, 2014
List of actual, real ethical concerns in videogames
— not on the list: the friendships and sex lives of indie game devs and writers #
New Homestar Runner: Fish Eye Lens
— they appeared on Twitter last week, hope this means the return of Strongbad #
Rolling Stone's profile of Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward
— "having quality of life outweighed the need to control this project and make it great all the time" #
StartUp Podcast
— terrible name, great podcast; Alex Blumberg from Planet Money/This American Life tries to start a company #
The GIF's visual language in music videos
— if you can't watch the playlist, which is preferred, try the full video #
Metafilter gets its first new design in a decade
— as always, incredibly well-considered roll-out process #
Gridland
— incredibly addictive, deceptively simple match-three game from the creator of A Dark Room #
Steam revamps discovery with curators
— this instantly made Steam better for me; though now they need a way to find curators #
The narrative lottery at XOXO
— Glenn Fleishman's Boing Boing writeup, with a great roundup of reactions at the end #
Digital Amnesia
— documentary about Internet archivists; interviews with Brewster Kahle and Jason Scott #
TwitPic blocking Archive Team's attempt to save it before shutdown
— update: that explains it, they were in the process of getting acquired #
The Bézier Game
— learned more about the Pen tool in 15 minutes than 20 years of futzing with Illustrator #
5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person
— Zoe Quinn summarizes the insanely stupid manufactured "controversy" that is GamerGate #
Give It Up, first single off Kutiman's upcoming Thru You sequel
— counting the minutes until October 1; Thru You stands as one of the best remix projects ever #
Apple releases U2 removal app
— shocking that people don't like when bands they don't know or care about are forced into their collections #
Notch leaving Mojang, the public eye
— Mojang confirmed the $2.5B Microsoft deal, which still feels like a steal #
Minecraft Geologic Survey
— Leonard Richardson created a MInecraft world that combines thousands of player-created maps #