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June 4, 2014
— I agree with Fred Wilson’s take, heavy curation makes sense until a community finds its legs #
June 1, 2014
— Zelda meets Pachinko via @tinysubversions #
— Leigh Alexander digs up more truth in her fiction than in the Alamagordo landfill #
May 29, 2014
— it was the top story this morning #
May 28, 2014
— from Duncan Robson, who knows something about the subject #
— my post on “selling out” online communities, and the rise and fall and rise of Upcoming.org #
— the rest of his videos are fantastic too via Kottke #
May 27, 2014
— no steering wheel, pedals, mirrors, backseat, or animatronic robot driver #
May 26, 2014
— Maciej Ceg?owski on privacy, “Investor Storytime” and the grim state of the modern Internet #
— I hope you really like Smash Mouth #
May 25, 2014
— a doppelgänger field guide by John Martz #
May 24, 2014
— nice profile of programmer/poet Adam Parrish, with a cameo by Darius Kazemi #
May 23, 2014
— drawing on the world with animation cels and an iPhone via @tofslie #
May 22, 2014
— ambient album released as a Linux kernel module #
— found on Model View Culture, which quickly became an essential read for me this year #
May 21, 2014
— this sounds so much like me as a kid, it hurts #
— the FBI and legal system ruined his life and business to get access to Snowden and 410,000 others #
— going deep on the beloved 15-year-old community’s Google problems; help keep it going #
May 20, 2014
— algorithmic generation of trolling shirts you can actually buy #
— 2005 was a pivotal year for online video and celebrity culture #
May 19, 2014
— because who really needs more than four big tech companies? #
— love the idea of a boot camp for independent side projects #
— an unfortunate casualty of Google’s war against content farms #
May 16, 2014
— essential reading for every news organization #
May 14, 2014
— beautiful d3.js experiment by Mike Bostock; many more #
— this doubles as a band name generator #
— switching from iPhone sends your texts from iOS users to a black hole #
— “everything has parts, everything has subtypes, anything can have measures” #
May 13, 2014
— here’s one I just generated for Alice in Wonderland #
— linkbait headline aside, this guy’s work is just fantastic via @AtlanticCities #
— converting an 1860 map of Fort Washington in Manhattan #
— the banker as a playable character, convertible notes, and Series A financing #
— frustratingly familiar story of a talented creator losing control #
May 11, 2014
May 10, 2014
May 9, 2014
— that’s okay, they can pay to use the “fast lane” #
May 6, 2014
— I actually prefer this approach to nuking or selling it #
— from The Distance, a new publication from Basecamp celebrating 25+ year indie businesses #
May 5, 2014
— always sad to see indie communities I love go away #
— Lawrence Lessig’s Super PAC to end all Super PACs #
— classic computer science algorithms as Arabic tile calligraphy #
May 4, 2014
— I wish more visualizations included a “Just Wu-Tang” mode #
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