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August 23, 2014
— entirely creepy via @golan #
— two people playing the same song at the same time somewhere in the world #
August 21, 2014
— stunning profile of a man who lived alone in the woods for 27 years via Belong.io #
August 19, 2014
— Vox’s coverage has been solid #
— the newest episode of Tony Zhou’s Every Frame A Painting is right up my alley; related: Jason Reitman’s new film #
— add “gif” to the beginning of any youtube.com URL #
August 13, 2014
— Erika Moen mourns Robin Williams, and reaches a very personal realization #
— robots and revolutions #
August 12, 2014
August 11, 2014
— fonts that go together, or font combinations that are played out? #
— a 2010 interview that sets some context for today’s sad loss #
— this Chrome add-on would’ve made it easy #
August 10, 2014
— the guy mentioned in the lede was featured in this 2009 video #
August 9, 2014
— another evil game from John Cooney #
August 8, 2014
August 7, 2014
— 20 years later; how it was made #
— I hope they open an EFF office there with a fair use museum #
— inputs determined by tracking a fish’s position in an aquarium #
— one of the most talented groups of people I’ve ever known #
August 6, 2014
— oh, and all archives will be deleted, shortly after Justin.tv nuked their archives and shuttered #
— a billion times better than it needs to be, I admire the craft that went into this #
— learn about quarks while cursing your life #
— I wonder how many of this are SF-only #
— new JS library inspired by Processing, with add-ons for HTML5 video, webcams, and sound #
— 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 #
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