Skip to content
August 8, 2013
— the 20th anniversary of the legendary demoscene production #
— Jason Scott was the first to be given all access to film the world’s largest hacker con #
August 7, 2013
— you can call me //djCTRL// from now on via @OKFocus #
— Siri as love interest #
— Craigslist short fiction via @torrez #
— visualization of activity popular online communities #
— “a kind of pop culture Zelig” #
August 6, 2013
— one million particles, and open-source via CreativeJS #
— $325,000 to make, funded primarily by Sergey Brin #
August 5, 2013
— trying to make sense of the artificial language from xkcd’s time #
— like Groundhog Day meets a dating sim #
August 1, 2013
— music video constructed from random images off a subset of Tumblr blogs; sometimes NSFW via finalbossform.com #
July 31, 2013
— fantastic story of a disgusting situation #
— most bad behavior comes from normally good people; great talk about the League of Legends tribunal system #
— Paperboy remake powered by Oculus Rift, Kinect, and a stationary bike via polygon.com #
— they should number it Room 641B #
— bizarre to read the very matter-of-fact internal presentation #
— inspired by Alan Kay, a time warp back to 1973 to talk about programmer humility #
July 29, 2013
— open-source visualization of emoji activity on Twitter #
— 3,099 panels, an artificial language, animated starfields, and more via Boing Boing #
— when you live in public, it’s hard to block out the tiny, but vocal, minority of assholes via Nelson Minar #
July 26, 2013
— many of these are discoverable on Shodan #
— includes some new bits about Aaron Swartz and Reddit via @jennydeluxe #
July 25, 2013
— the coding equivalent of Dance in a Year #
— finding love online in the telegraph era via @Caterina #
July 24, 2013
— I’d never considered using a visual code editor until this #
— like in gambling, there are “whales” who devote huge chunks of their income to virtual upgrades #
July 23, 2013
— Hal Lasko, a 97-year-old pixel artist, draws entirely in MS Paint #
— averaging faces detected in famous films #
July 22, 2013
— short film on the Australian remix artist #
July 20, 2013
— great interview that explains why Homestuck’s cult following is so huge, but ignored outside of its fanbase #
July 17, 2013
— Wikileaks isn’t amused #
— new original series from Adventure Time’s Natasha Allegri #
July 16, 2013
— this is what hope looks like #
— this should be interesting #
— WebGL sculpting tool via @pyalot #
July 15, 2013
— in honor of episode #500; Ira Glass’s favorites and other staff picks #
— official transcriptions in the best UI ever made for guitar tab #
July 14, 2013
— bot cleverly hunts for anagrams in near real-time on Twitter #
— I keep waiting for a device that records audio or video constantly, stored remotely #
July 11, 2013
— the feds were asked not to attend for the first time, in the wake of Snowden and Manning #
— a search engine for Pastebin and similar anonymous text services #
— artists, inspired by Humble Bundle, roll their own #
— producing work without compromising independence or creative vision #
— interactive embeddable HTML5 vector piano via @torrez #
Waxy Links