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February 13, 2013
— 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 #
February 4, 2013
— great comments, one from John Mashey and another pointing to this history of the concept #
February 2, 2013
— it’s the QWOP of surgery; the gameplay videos are great #
February 1, 2013
— fans recreate an entire episode posted online, submissions stitched together and broadcast #
— fun to see an entire subreddit listed as the petitioner on a court filing #
January 30, 2013
— times are changing; “I’d rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked.” #
— Oscar-nominated Disney short fusing cel and CG animation techniques #
— first filed on April 9, 1965 #
— convert any subtitled video into a PDF of screengrabs with every scene change and line of dialogue #
— great analysis on name popularity using R via @fredbenenson #
— over 3,000 buildings with full interiors created by 100 builders over four months #
January 29, 2013
— I’m rooting for them, their vision is much broader than their Twitter-ish service #
January 27, 2013
— great interview with their Chief Legal Officer; “Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that.” via Justin Mason #
— I thought such a balanced essay wouldn’t inspire anger itself, but HN quickly proved me wrong #
— copyright law aside, attribution would just be the ethical thing to do; compare the two songs #
— mapping the “X is the Y of Z” snowclone via MetaFilter #
— 739k stored and retrieved with 100% accuracy #
January 26, 2013
— unmoderated stream of new videos on Vine #
— beat-matching hit songs from 1890-present using Echo Nest and the Whitburn dataset #
January 25, 2013
— absurdist digital art, it’s only released in the obsolete HV-DVD format #
— unintended consequences of building a search engine around previously-unsurfaced data #
— the simplest system I’ve seen for Gmail power users #
January 24, 2013
— Carl Malamud’s beautiful speech at the SF memorial tonight #
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