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August 6, 2014
— I made a Twitter-powered automated link aggregator that favors projects over articles #
August 5, 2014
— love the selfie assembly line video #
— Kickstarter digs into the data behind its biggest meme #
— like The Block Bot, coping with Twitter abusers by building new tools #
August 4, 2014
— reconstructing “Under Pressure” solely from silent video of earbuds vibrating #
August 1, 2014
— Alexis Madrigal on Blue Bottle’s attempt to scale #
— 30 years later, a fan realized every copy of the game was defective, and then fixed it #
— it’s a larger symptom of social platforms treating users as customers, not clients #
— partly funded by Stripe, supports transactions in arbitrary currencies #
July 31, 2014
— I was gonna write a description, but I decided to take a nap instead 😉 #
July 30, 2014
— I didn’t realize the author earnings report was published by Wool’s Hugh Howey #
— a chaotic collaborative story with each word decided by voting #
— social graph-driven blocklists are pretty clever, though potentially expensive #
— fun way to explore and try web fonts #
— the second edition is free online in advance of its print publication #
— James Kerr’s digital collage GIFs made from Renaissance paintings #
— they’re clearly panicking that their crappy patent will be invalidated #
— 20-minute mini-doc on the app’s history #
— artist/coder Owen Mundy captured millions of location-tagged cat photos #
— another stunning entry in Every Frame A Painting, his series on creative directing and editing #
— “You don’t have to like everything and everyone, but let people love the small things they love. They mean you no harm.” #
— solid criticism of the piece; related: one trans woman’s story of being ejected from MichFest in 1991 #
— Paul Ford on peeking into private spaces in shared videos online #
July 29, 2014
— related: Jared Sinclair’s sales numbers from Unread #
— absolutely brilliant mashup prequel to Mouth Sounds #
July 28, 2014
— you can’t promise to secure a national ID system based on an insecure nine-digit number #
— anonymous edits from big tech, inspired by my request #
— using Extempore, an IDE for live-coding multimedia #
— Kevin Kelly with a bit of techno-optimism that I happen to agree with #
— Tim Carmody on why this doesn’t bother people as much as Facebook’s experiments #
July 25, 2014
— the comments identify nearly every photo #
— “an interactive piece about the fleeting nature of digital pleasures”; try it on mobile #
July 24, 2014
— some behavior may be legally public, but publishing it for profit subverts reasonable expectations #
July 23, 2014
— the edit was inspired by John Resig’s tweet seven minutes earlier #
— Kaskade’s post talks about his issues with Soundcloud #
— start with a 3D tool, set a ten minute timer, and render when time’s up #
— a big gambit, I hope it pays off; I’m not a fan of the two-app approach #
— from last November, but rediscovered with the new New Yorker changes #
— first comedy album to hit #1 since Allan Sherman in 1963 #
July 22, 2014
— next step, someone has to make a vinyl image generator #
— RCA refused to pay for music videos, so he partnered with a different portal for every one #
July 21, 2014
— “A generative, networked system laced throughout with secrets.” #
— Clay Aiken has the most obscure top ten hit of the last 50 years #
July 18, 2014
— hiding Netflix activity through a VPN is 10x faster than connecting directly through Verizon #
July 17, 2014
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