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July 10, 2013
— interesting privacy issues of active vs. passive surveillance #
July 9, 2013
— didn’t realize my 2006 post played a role in the charity; I’ve served 9.6 terabytes so far! #
July 8, 2013
— Mihai reanimated Reader’s corpse to read your own personal backup #
— easily mix 2D and 3D content on a webpage via @pyalot #
July 7, 2013
— MIT Media Lab project to visualize Gmail #
— turn ordinary objects into UAVs #
July 3, 2013
— forget the mouse, Doug was augmenting human intellect #
— fired from both bands, he went on to become part of the U.S. Army Special Forces #
— watching the Mother of All Demos again today, it’s still astounding how visionary he was #
— beautiful meta-Breakout lets you play 16 tiny Breakouts at once #
July 2, 2013
— “Well, fuck them, and fuck that.” #
— a cycle that escaped the playfield into system memory via @helvetica #
— stunning exploration of music theory and constraints #
— Miranda July’s weekly email project glimpses into the sent mail of notable people #
July 1, 2013
— the former Groupon founder’s album of motivational ’80s rock is actually real, and out now #
— keyword heatmaps in 14 cities #
June 28, 2013
— skinning 3D models with pizza #
— those Nacho Libre and Tropic Thunder Jack Blacks look pretty accurate, though #
— fun with unsupervised machine learning via Justin Mason #
— tools to download all your Google Reader data, from the former technical lead on Reader #
June 27, 2013
— I recommend Feedly and Newsblur, but Feedly doesn’t export and NewsBlur marks everything read after 14 days #
— The Internet Archive started its own credit union #
— use your webcam to instantly make an animated gif #
— a new game from the creator of Candy Box #
— try it here; very interested to see how this plays out #
June 26, 2013
— more silliness from Simone Rovellini #
— six years of archived feeds will be lost when Reader dies in four days #
— on the right side of history; the decision is an interesting read #
June 25, 2013
— semi-private link sharing, surprisingly good so far #
June 24, 2013
— laser owls, pizza, and an electronic wind instrument solo #
June 22, 2013
June 21, 2013
— we need to go deeper; play it online with a friend via Justin Mason #
— experimental project that calls you randomly at 2am and records it for a podcast #
— we’re getting the band back together #
— bans so-called “seduction” guides, donates $25k to RAINN #
June 20, 2013
— launching this weekend; hopefully, some good comes out of the Google Reader shutdown via @mat #
— fast and solid feedreader alternative to NewsBlur #
June 19, 2013
— I love that he snorts his bath salts through a krazy straw #
June 18, 2013
— bookmarklet turns any webpage into an erasure poem; examples: Daring Fireball and me #
— linkbait headline for the delightful news that Tom Francis will be working on games fulltime #
June 17, 2013
— “If those services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?” #
June 15, 2013
— intantly spin up an Ubuntu server with a built-in terminal for 35 free minutes via Nelson Minar #
June 14, 2013
— high-altitude balloons with Internet access for rural and remote areas via google.com #
— just enabled it, and it’s instantly useful #
— “Your light bulbs will narrate their agonizing deaths.” #
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