September 21, 2012
Salon sells The WELL to its longtime members
— this should be the contractual contingency plan for every failed acquisition #
IFTTT forced to remove Twitter recipes to comply with API changes
— really, really not happy about this; also: the death of animated GIF avatars #
2601 People Wrote This Song
— collaborative music experiment from Ze Frank with averaged video frames #
The dream of the Internet is alive in Portland
— Ryan Gantz's debut on The Verge is a lovely feature on XOXO #
Ben Folds Five and Fraggle Rock's "Do It Anyway"
— first video off their new album, funded by fans on Pledge #
Vimeo Creator Services
— new tools to help video creators make money, including tip jars and pay-to-view #
4chan offers subscription service to cover costs
— for the first time, accepting money for services; $20/year to bypass CAPTCHAs #
Internet Archive launches extensive TV news archive
— 350,000 broadcasts since 2009, loanable on DVD; more from the NYT #
No Evidence of Disease
— staggering tale by Maciej about his girlfriend's battle with cancer, and an unusual friendship #
Venus Patrol launches
— with all the old Offworld posts, too! just in time for XOXO Arcade, which Brandon curated #
Andy Rehfeldt's metal remix of Bob Marley's "Is This Love"
— I could listen to a whole album like this #
Steve Streza's story of making the Gangnam Style/LMFAO mashup
— crazy impressive for a first remix, especially how many weak attempts there were first #
How claw crane arcade machines work
— just as much of a rip-off as video slots, the claw has a weakness variable setting (via) #
Boston Dynamics cheetah robot running 28.3 mph
— nothing at all scary about DARPA funding a robot that runs faster than Usain Bolt (via) #
XOXO's lineup of fringe events
— oh, did I mention we're running a big arts and tech festival next week? #
Homestuck is the Internet's Ulysses
— Andrew Hussie's project to turn his webcomic epic into an adventure game raised $700k in two days #
AntiSec leaks one million Apple UDIDs with device names
— they claim it was found on an FBI agent's laptop (via) #
The Verge reviews McPixel for iOS
— one of my favorite games of the year, absurdly silly point-and-click minigames #
Ustream copyright bots kill the Hugo awards livestream
— didn't realize Ustream had its own version of ContentID #
Greg Knauss on his 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite
— it boggles my mind how anyone could be against affordable health care #
Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources
— three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I've ever heard #
Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube
— including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app #
Photo Hunt
— proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter's new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform #
We Are Back
— classic '90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework (via) #
The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive
— they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players #
Brooklyn Integers
— artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers #
Twitter revokes Tumblr's friend finding privileges
— this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter's the social network graph that matters most to me #
Case study of Indie Game: The Movie's distribution
— opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control #