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May 6, 2013
— an interpretive dance based on Spelunky, inspired by my tweet, with a cameo by Spelunky creator Derek Yu; the leaked cam #
May 3, 2013
— funny that “organically” is a curse word in the valley #
— patiently waiting for a compilation of interesting moments captured by Scoble’s glasses #
— the story of baseball’s Glenn Burke, who co-invented the high five #
May 2, 2013
— interactive genre map, click the right arrow on any genre to expand it #
— comically-awful douchebro startup; the YouTube videos are amazing #
— they should’ve bought Old Glory #
— who owns a meme? both were named by others, and spread only after remixed via @ibogost #
May 1, 2013
— what he learned from living a year offline #
— visualizing Car2Go activity in Portland over the last three days #
— before skipping to the last 50 layers today, it was projected to be complete next March #
— music video built around tagged Vine videos via @mikeindustries #
— like Frog Fractions, much deeper than it appears #
— “is mayonnaise an instrument?” #
April 30, 2013
— beautiful visualization of the corrupting influence of money in politics and how to change it #
— powerful new JS and Python support #
— don’t miss his “digital puppet show” at 49:15 #
— part of a three-part series on the history of the emoticon #
— gorgeously-designed webzine on science #
— I love stories like these, reminds me of Sarah Churman’s cochlear implant #
— to celebrate, CERN restored the first URL #
— what do Bob Ross, haircuts, and PES have in common? this subreddit #
April 29, 2013
— impossible captchas using Unicode and Font Awesome glyphs via Nelson Minar #
— “The web also makes it near-impossible to fall into the arms of just one’s fans.” #
April 27, 2013
— “artwork does not need to comment on previous work to qualify as fair use” via Boing Boing #
April 26, 2013
— more genius from Peter Serafinowicz #
— using Markov chains and Gutenberg; this needs to be a Twitter bot #
April 24, 2013
— indie co-op heist game; Anthony Carboni’s review covers it well #
— real-time collaborative game-making, looks outstanding via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— an unhappy footnote: Vlambeer’s upcoming game was already cloned #
April 23, 2013
— Sunlight Foundation tool for spotted plagiarism from press releases and Wikipedia #
— lovely WebGL music video #
April 22, 2013
— this WaPo story is the best breakdown of how they tracked them down #
April 21, 2013
— projection mapped videogames on canvas; someone should do this with famous paintings via creativeapplications.net #
— WebRTC video chat and code editor, perfect for remote interviews #
April 20, 2013
— irrevocably delete between 1 to 10 random Facebook friends #
— want to help save Upcoming? it only takes a couple minutes to install #
April 19, 2013
— with no on-site notice and no way to backup past events; my thoughts about the closure #
— he published it as a printer spool and closed his site again #
— code’s on Github via Hacker News #
April 18, 2013
— nice piece, though there’s no guarantee supercuts are covered under fair use #
April 17, 2013
— nicely curated set of royalty-free vector art and type #
— works on Windows/Mac/Linux, but requires OpenCV and OpenMDAO #
— new Mozilla project to set up real-time collaboration on websites #
— finally, a cat GIF meme-based to-do list via @mathowie #
— the subreddit is a rabbit hole; this is like Where’s Waldo meets this Onion story #
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