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May 17, 2013
— 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 #
— 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.” #
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