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August 20, 2013
— bot that makes animated GIFs using scenes from The Wire and subtitle files via tinysubversions.com #
— fundamentally misunderstood, I still think the idea holds great promise #
— inspired by Twine, MUDs, and MMOs, you can try it right now #
— fantastic free text, though I wish the hyperlinks were visually distinct #
— responsive by default, flat design with an optional legacy theme #
— the Guardian’s editor reported on this too, but completely buried the lede #
— “There is now no shield from forced exposure.” #
August 19, 2013
— using instant noodles and pickled mustard sales to track population trends in China #
August 18, 2013
— anti-profiling Chrome plugin searches the net randomly, inspired by Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother #
— UK and US authorities blatantly abusing a terrorism law; more from Greenwald #
August 16, 2013
— it was originally called “Armageddon” via Nelson Minar #
August 14, 2013
— I’d switch to stem-cell steak in a heartbeat #
August 12, 2013
— spotting racial discrimination with public crime data #
August 11, 2013
— app to capture terminal activity and easily share it with the world #
August 10, 2013
— Anil Dash’s very believable satire of the tech news cycle #
— one-click Firefox browser preconfigured with Tor and proxy configurations #
— that baby yoga video is, uh, something else #
— more backstory in the Reddit thread via MetaFilter #
August 9, 2013
— “If Instagram is an art museum, Vine is a block party.” via Kottke #
— last year’s IGF winner was the designer’s first game; try it for Windows or the unofficial Mac port #
— bells are additions, strings are subtractions, the pitch is the size of the edit via @caseorganic #
August 8, 2013
— adorable webcomic blending myth and modern #
— file under: our deeply broken intellectual property system #
— 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 #
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