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February 21, 2013
— this week, Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” was finally overtaken by “Harlem Shake” #
— for me, the most interesting part of the PS4 announcement #
February 20, 2013
— over the non-commercial use of four photos uploaded by fans #
— charging for the works is begging for a court battle #
— migrate your stuff to Tumblr; of course, Archive Team is on it #
— firmly in Black Mirror territory, but I’m totally sold #
February 19, 2013
— and its companion subreddit, /r/fulltvshowsonyoutube #
— great starter list of interesting Twine games #
February 18, 2013
— online pickup artists try to seduce a chatbot #
February 17, 2013
— another great hack from Paul Lamere, adds Bonham drums to any song #
February 16, 2013
— scraping the Internet Adult Film Database for data #
February 15, 2013
— reschedule emails in your inbox; like a poor man’s Mailbox via Nelson Minar #
— cloning Google Reader with its deeply-missed social features #
— make xkcd-style comics with markup #
— awesome hip-hop history comic syndicated on Boing Boing #
— first time I’ve seen the sample source cited; YouTube’s Content ID is paying off nicely for Baauer #
February 14, 2013
— an alpha channel experiment by OKFocus #
— down to $199 for a limited time #
— beautifully made, love the activity feed #
— if only his tongue was made of glass #
— a major turnaround and a silly moment of joy #
— a new storytelling platform for iPad, co-created by Emily Short for Linden Lab; related: Dio #
February 13, 2013
— waiting as a game mechanic #
— Paypal’s transaction history isn’t real-time, they email you when searches are finished #
— related: Virt’s cover, with comments by the original composer #
— 12-year-old community lets you build with web-based drawing tools and solid interactive tutorials via @peter_nitsch #
February 11, 2013
— “Tough break, star-nosed mole.” #
February 9, 2013
— webcam demo maps pixel brightness to depth via Nelson Minar #
— this one would make a great YouTube filter #
February 8, 2013
— Chris Poole’s new iPad app, spun out of lessons learned from Canvas #
— Facebook is “the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you’re trying to poop” #
— free Mac app for real-time video effects #
— buy the CC-licensed film for $10, watch it on YouTube, or download it where you’d expect #
February 7, 2013
— Megan’s post, also on Medium, is fascinating #
— auto-generated Geocities screenshots viewed in Netscape 4.51, pulled from the Archive Team archive via @cory_arcangel #
— the hidden text easter egg on the announcement makes me sad #
February 6, 2013
— amazing stop-motion short on the perception of time via Kottke #
— supreme bootleg weirdness from a Nairobi videogame store via Nelson Minar #
— Jeff Atwood and Robin Ward reboot the discussion forum; see it in action #
— track changes across nearly a thousand terms of service agreements #
February 5, 2013
— Matthew Bogart’s graphic novella about an indie rock friendship #
— “Remember: you’re not littering if it ain’t touchin’ the ground!” #
— 28kb of WebGL madness in JS, ported from the original 4k PC demoscene intro via CreativeJS #
— cross-browser real-time videochat between Firefox/Chrome without Flash, and it just works #
— after reading Devil in the White City, I really want to play a game set there #
— an omnivore foodie transitions to veganism, rejecting faux foods along the way #
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