November 11, 2012
Mixing digital sculpture with real objects
— step-by-step walkthrough on how the Lego sandstone model was made #
Sportsfriends on Kickstarter
— four of the best multiplayer indie art games join forces for a commercial release #
Unraveling the "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" mystery
— fun modern detective work into an old Usenet conspiracy theory #
A Slower Speed of Light
— free Mac/PC game simulates lowering the speed of light as a gameplay mechanic #
Twitter's political engagement map
— state-by-state searchable visualization of the response from candidate tweets #
Indie Game: The Movie's breakdown of the tech that made it possible
— the perfect case study of the new indies, making art in the post-Kickstarter era #
Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On
— the scariest post-Sandy article I read came from an unlikely source #
It's Global Warming, Stupid
— the magazine cover is a wakeup call in an election where it was never mentioned #
Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4B, new Star Wars coming in 2015
— includes ILM, Skywalker Sound, and LucasArts; Leia is now a Disney princess #
Anil Dash liveblogs the Apple Special Event
— with help from Paul Ford; love the new Klout integration in iTunes #
Wired profile on Peter Molyneux and @PeterMolydeux
— the parody Twitter account inspired Molyneux to leave Microsoft #
Glenn Fleishman's story of appearing on Jeopardy
— some of the best bits in the comments; watch the ending #
ViolentAcrez interviewed on CNN, apologizes and blames Reddit
— not mentioned: his maimed award was for "Worst Reddit", only after he flipped out #
Creepshots returns disguised as lesbians and fashionistas
— beyond immature; Predditors is back online too, doxing Creepshots users #
Circa, news app released for iPhone
— a more structured approach to news aggregation, allowing you to follow story updates #
Gawker outs a popular Reddit moderator/troll
— more background from /r/subredditdrama, part one and two #
District court rules book scanning is fair use
— a smackdown against the short-sighted Authors Guild #
Marco Arment launches The Magazine
— I'd love to see something like this as a platform, helping indie writers get paid #
NYT on the patent wars
— interesting perspective from a patent reviewer; don't miss the video feature #