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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 #
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 #
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