January 6, 2013
Don't worry, it's just electrostatic discharge
— also: wire safety, fun with capacitors, and how to make a Windows shortcut (via) #
Andrew Sullivan goes indie and ad-free, $20/year membership
— great interview with David Carr; "There's no sugar daddies anymore." #
Building an Outrun clone in Javascript
— he also made tutorials for Pong, Breakout, Snake, Tetris, and Boulderdash #
Daily Dot on the black market for YouTube views
— these leeches are all over Fiverr: Facebook Likes and friends, Flickr views, Instagram likes, and 59k Twitter followers for $5 #
$100M pledged to indie film projects on Kickstarter
— 86 theatrical releases, and three of Rotten Tomatoes' top 20 of 2012 were Kickstarter-funded #
The King of Comedy (1983)
— Scorsese's underrated followup to Raging Bull, it was a major box office flop #
BLK, multiplayer voxel world in JS
— tech demo inspired by Minecraft, created as 20% project at Google #
The Data Behind "My Ideal Bookshelf"
— Fred Benenson visualizes the relationships between notable people and their favorite books #
MASTABA SNOOPY
— extremely bizarre Twine game set in a future dystopia based on Peanuts lore (via) #
What could have entered the public domain today?
— works published in 1956 would've been available, but we're stuck waiting until 2052 #
Top 50 Most Anticipated Indie Games of 2013
— great list, and didn't even get to Kentucky Route Zero or Double Fine Adventure #
Tenth Grade Tech Trends
— like danah boyd's ethnographic studies, always good to get a different perspective #
Kevin Kelly on replacing human jobs with robots
— I love the Seven Stages of Robot Replacement at the end #
Typingpool
— Ryan Tate automated the process outlined in my post about transcribing audio with Mechanical Turk #
Ian Bogost on the first footage of Meteors
— lawsuit surrounding the rare 1979 Asteroids clone created a legal precedent for clones #
Parker Higgins analyzes the Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire" lawsuit
— I've heard Sunshine of Your Love a million times, but never noticed the Blue Moon quote #
Wired's text adventure interview with Infocom's Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky
— a playable game powered by Playfic, the site I launched earlier this year #
Twitter rolling out the ability to download your full tweet history
— I don't have it yet, but it's been spotted in the wild #
Syrian rebels make gamepad-controlled tank
— the machine gun's controlled with a generic PS2 controller (via) #
Tuning '77
— audio supercut of 90 minutes of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments from 1977 shows (via) #