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May 23, 2013
— interviews with the guys behind anarchaia and Projectionist #
— someone show these people how to use Kickstarter #
— the modern web meets early 1990s children’s toy commercials #
— Hatfield negotiated a license directly with Bowie, but it’s otherwise complicated #
— standalone minigame set in the world of Kentucky Route Zero via freeindiegam.es #
— common human search queries as poetry via @tha_rami #
— great overall primer for selecting type #
— “stop trying to fix it” via @delfuego #
— a 42:1 scale LEGO model of a LEGO model of a model #
May 22, 2013
— so bad it’s good; don’t miss Jason Scott’s great backstory and interview with the director #
— after five years, Farbs’ classic retro gaming mashup ported to Flash #
— giving in to pressure from partners? #
— asking him to take down the assets is fine, but this is overreaching #
— simple idea, great effect #
— his blog is fascinating and, of course, there’s a subreddit #
— John Scalzi notes that Amazon gets exclusive copyright and licensors can use your new elements without compensation #
— on YouTube’s eight birthday #
May 21, 2013
— reminds me of Among the Sleep with Oculus Rift support #
— my pick for a worthy Google Reader successor #
— clever echolocation game mechanic, second place in Ludum Dare 26 #
— Chrome add-on puts large numbers into human terms via blog.xkcd.com #
May 20, 2013
— great early personal history of Tumblr #
May 19, 2013
— the community isn’t taking it well; let’s hope Yahoo learned from their first billion-dollar mistake #
May 17, 2013
— I really wish Bret would independently release some of his work as products #
— dead simple timer for the Scientific 7-Minute Workout #
— short fiction by Mat Honan, inspired by Larry Page’s comments at I/O via @alexismadrigal #
— randomly, I’d commented in his first post via @jomc #
— remove backgrounds from a browser #
May 16, 2013
— Minecraft was offered the same deal and turned it down #
May 15, 2013
— no fee for Google Wallet funds or bank transfers, 2.9% for credit/debit #
— visualization of Arrested Development in-jokes via @ahhrrr #
— curious that it didn’t launch with Wired first #
May 14, 2013
— 1 in 6 chance of deleting your Facebook account and all posts #
— his Space Oddity cover is just amazing #
May 10, 2013
— teleport to a random place the Street View Car’s been, and guess where you are #
May 9, 2013
— $400k pledged to 2,200 other projects by the Veronica Mars/Zach Braff first-time backers #
— 19 months later, a followup to her last post #
May 7, 2013
— only a month after the theatrical release #
— ridiculously amazing deal, and a very creepy Tim Schafer video #
— revived on its ten year anniversary #
May 6, 2013
— Neil ran the numbers and guesses around 130 TB/day #
— are we in Black Mirror territory yet? #
— “It would take a massive, society-rending effort against general purpose computing to really keep Bitcoin down.” via @cdixon #
— more communicative than Bitcoin’s elusive creator #
— procedurally-generated t-shirt designs #
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