AMC's new port of Colossal Cave Adventure
— to promote Halt and Catch Fire, which is worth checking out #
Mike Bostock's Visualizing Algorithms
— I'd seen several of these on Mike's bl.ocks, but this ties it all together (via) #
Facebook's emotional contagion experiment on 600,000 users
— changes to emotional content in news feeds affected mood and behavior, raising ethical issues #
Buzzfeed tracks down the sex offender that started DEN.net
— inside baseball for anyone who was around for the dot-com boom #
Courtney Klossner on Prodigy's early '90s fan community
— great details about cheating per-minute fees #
8088 Domination
— Trixter did the impossible: full-motion video in CGA graphics mode on a 1981 IBM PC (via) #
NYT to close or merge half its blogs
— death of the blog, or just part of the ongoing death of the homepage? #
Google's Material Design style guide
— interesting read, once I discovered the navigation hidden in a hamburger button #
A comparison of diversity at Google, Facebook, and Yahoo
— technical employees average 84% male; here's the data #
The story behind Woot.com's sale to Amazon
— the Meh project video is much better than it should be #
Analysis of hardware/software from 373 interviews on The Setup
— a year old, but new to me; since then, The Setup added a lightweight API #
Jeff Covey on the end of Freshmeat
— the Slashdot/Andover acquisition was all Eric Raymond's fault #
Paul Ford tests the limits of the Kinja CMS
— can we pay Paul to do this for every major writing platform please? #
The Object, Offline
— Yancey Strickler on the bleeding of objects between the digital and physical worlds #
Friending the App Store
— I wrote a thing on Medium about what the App Store could learn from the social web #
YouTube to block indie labels
— this seems so wrongheaded, it's hard to imagine it actually happening (via) #
OK Go's The Writing's on the Wall
— this video explains one small section, a glimpse at the mad logistics of a production like this #
Feminist Frequency's Women as Background Decoration
— love this series; a neverending parade of shameful examples #
Matter vs. Shanley Kane
— I'm a huge fan of Shanley's work on Model View Culture, curious to see how this plays out #
VVVVVV on iOS, Android, and Ouya
— plus a free level editor and the brutally hard/good Super Gravitron minigame #
Tesla opens up patent library, promises not to sue
— "good faith" feels vague in this context, but this is a great move #