March 21, 2013
Apple removes sweatshop game from App Store
— the latest in a line of serious games pulled over controversial themes #
World Wide Maze
— amazing Chrome experiment turns any website into a 3D maze controlled with your phone #
Veronica Mars movie launches on Kickstarter
— with the creator and original cast in the pitch video #
College student asks to accompany Billy Joel
— love when this happens; see also: Brubeck, Steel Panther, The Who, and many more #
The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity
— infinite generative text constructed from Gutenberg and Twitter searches #
Tropes vs. Women in Videogames: The Damsel in Distress
— awesome first episode from the Kickstarter project that raised the ire of misogynistic gamers #
I Knew You Were Tribbles (When You Dropped In)
— needs more Nick Cage, paper towel dispensers, and goats (or all at once) #
Who pays writers?
— Tumblr blog for tracking publication pay rates; this should be structured data #
Mechanical Turk workers aren't anonymous
— in tests, looking up the profile pages of 30% of workers revealed real names #
Messages from the Future: How Facebook Died
— tech punditry as time-travel scifi; also: the fate of Google Glass #
Derek Yu's guide to making it indie games
— like his post about finishing projects, widely applicable outside of gaming (via) #
App.net introduces free tier
— the only rational move for a social network; love that they started with a paid plan first #
Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution (1967)
— Leonard Bernstein on pop; performances by Brian Wilson and a 15-year-old Janis Ian #
Has A Kickstarter Project Won an Oscar?
— Inocente was the sixth Kickstarter-funded film nominated, but first to win #
Steven Brill's epic breakdown on why medical bills are so high
— infuriating 26,000 word feature story; I hope "chargemaster" quickly enters the lexicon #
Emoji Dick acquired by Library of Congress
— the only one of its 14 million items to credit Mechanical Turk for a creative role #
Chrome Web Speech API demonstration
— this could be useful for a first rough pass for transcription #
The Big Whobowski
— shot-for-shot remake of the Lebowski trailer in the Doctor Who universe; side-by-side comparison #