March 11, 2014
Sight & Light
— interactive demo on building 2D visibility in a game, here's another variation (via) #
Between Two Ferns with President Barack Obama
— Funny or Die is currently the top referer to Healthcare.gov #
This One's for Me
— Frank Chimero's reflections on resuming life online after losing both his parents #
Rolling Stone interviews Flappy Bird creator in Hanoi
— "Nguyen refuses to compromise his independence." #
Help Brandon Boyer recover from getting screwed by his bastard insurance company
— while Obamacare covers anything from 2014 on, he "had the misfortune of being self-employed & sick in America in 2013" #
Beyonce's Drunk in Love unofficial emoji video
— previously: Oneohtrix Point Never and Katy Perry (via) #
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment for the Oculus Rift
— we need a Seinfeld MMO, a VR recreation of Jerry's New York circa 1992 #
Flappy Jam
— 800 games in support of Dong Nguyen; highlights: Maverick Bird, Hey You: A Flappy Bird Lament, and Flappy Space Program #
Zoe Keating's music revenue spreadsheet 2014
— full Google Doc here; I wish more artists did this, she's the only one I know of #
British spy agency and NSA hacked over 1.8M Yahoo users' webcams
— stored images every five seconds, around 7% with nudity #
Berg's Cloudwash prototype
— a network-enabled washing machine sounds ridiculous, until you see one well-designed #
Pomplamoose mashes up Pharrell's Happy and Daft Punk's Get Lucky
— live in one take with projection mapping from a single projector #
Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris
— using the commands from 70k+ Pokemon players to simultaneously control a game of Tetris #
Our Robocop Remake
— in the spirit of Star Wars Uncut, 50 filmmakers remake Robocop into a wonderfully NSFW mess #
3D printer modded to play air hockey
— related: the upcoming man vs. machine ping-pong match against the KUKA Agilis #
TwitchPlaysPokemon
— the madness that arises when 90,000 people play a single game using a chatroom #
Crowdpilot
— like Romantimatic, people are reacting badly to the idea of augmenting relationships (via) #
Avery Edison held in Toronto men's prison for visa issues
— officials told her partner that "male genitals equals male prison" #