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January 6, 2015
— measuring views, users, and time are all proxies for value #
January 5, 2015
— stunning work, all playable in the browser; Jason Scott wrote about the project #
— I consider myself less an optimist and more a magical realist #
— very interesting, O’Reilly is experimenting with alternative funding models #
— the initial focus of #Gamergate’s wrath looks forward #
— reminds me of ACTION CASTLE! #
— great post, but my favorite part is the second-to-last sentence #
— got hooked on this minimalist incremental game thanks to Notch via @notch #
— in its fifth year, continuing to seriously impact culture; dig into the numbers #
December 31, 2014
— Miranda July promotes her debut novel by auctioning items mentioned in it #
— “a comic about loss, coping, and the ways we deal with grief” #
December 30, 2014
— sad end to the index that opened my eyes to the wonder of the web #
— the difference between nerd bullying and structural oppression via @femfreq #
— massive group effort to open a safe located on a Hawaii 2 #
December 25, 2014
— consistently my favorite podcast #
December 24, 2014
— their Year in Review app is a source of misery for several friends this year; don’t miss his followup #
December 23, 2014
— 28 years of Letterman performances, her final appearance was last week #
— I wrote a thing on plagiarism, comedy, and multiple discovery #
— a revolutionary communications platform #
— every game I’ve played here has been gold, and the ones I haven’t are high on my to-try list #
December 20, 2014
— a rite of passage for every outgoing Valleywag editor, until Gawker stops funding their miserable behavior #
December 19, 2014
— animated remixes of scenes from live-action films via @tonyszhou #
— ten years of badass year-end mixes #
— happy holidays from the Danger Zone via latest.is #
December 18, 2014
— the artifacts of any media format define its aesthetic like a cultural permalink #
— the scratch-and-sniff poop button is an especially nice touch #
December 17, 2014
— worth reading if only for the “Bobbie Had a Nickel” anecdote #
— so many of these are related to our ever-increasing interconnectedness #
— this ongoing webcomic about robots and love is really, really good #
— how to make Lego sets more appealing to girls via Marco Arment #
December 16, 2014
— Darius Kazemi’s thinkpiece generator powered by meandering Wikipedia entries #
— interactive tool for game-making resources, built in Twine by Zoe Quinn #
— ask your doctor if Claridryl is right for you #
— bizarre Disney documentary on computer art from 1982 #
December 15, 2014
— every line of this slays me #
— uses the pop spreadsheet from the Whitburn Project #
December 14, 2014
— time represented as hex color; also: 1,000 Colours jigsaw puzzle #
December 13, 2014
— IsoHunt archived TPB for posterity after its seizure; Peter Sunde’s thoughts on the closure #
December 10, 2014
— amazing work by PES, as always #
— Perry Chen’s archive of Y2K books and materials, presented at the New Museum this Friday #
December 9, 2014
— before I let Eliot play any modern games, we worked our way through 25 years of gaming history first #
December 8, 2014
— Dakota Smith gets lots of entertaining misdirected email #
— hour-long documentary narrated by John Waters #
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