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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 #
— possibly the first computer art, though oscilloscope-based art predates it #
January 17, 2013
— it sent photos every 10 minutes, and just arrived in his hands #
— Anna Anthropy’s autobiographical game of going through hormone replacement therapy #
January 16, 2013
— excellent Internet detective work #
— new to me, real-time stats on their trending articles #
— I still think an indie arcade/bar with physical, local multiplayer games could do well #
— they recently switched from a per-flight to per-hour model #
— though it could go further, this is a great step #
— Robin Amer on the funeral #
January 15, 2013
— Cabel Sasser writes about messages hidden in old games, and tracks down the authors #
— great design, XOXO gets a mention at the end #
— archive pages including JS and a static image #
January 14, 2013
— shot-for-shot remake took 2.5 years to make #
— how appropriate, you fight like a cow #
January 12, 2013
— Lessig on the DOJ’s prosecution of Aaron Swartz, even after JSTOR dropped the case #
January 11, 2013
— open-source voxel game toolkit for modern browsers #
January 10, 2013
— YouTube lets media companies decide what’s fair use and what’s not #
— this would save a lot of time at the Olympics #
January 9, 2013
— stream from a client running elsewhere or download straight to the box #
— Joshua Topolsky freaked out over it; live demo here, starting at 22:00 #
— Buzzfeed watches on as they seed services with a fake history #
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