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January 8, 2013
— related: Clockwork Raven, their open-source interface for Mechanical Turk #
January 7, 2013
— better than the original #
— stylish point-and-click Kickstarter-funded adventure for PC/Mac; nominated for four IGF categories #
— dense and dark street vendor simulation, free but Windows-only; nominated for three IGF awards #
January 6, 2013
— SSH replacement that assumes intermittent connectivity #
— instant audio visualization via @aaronkoblin #
January 5, 2013
— Glenn Fleishman’s new podcast on the creative indie economy #
January 4, 2013
— we’ve come a long way since the Rock-afire Explosion #
— great interview with David Carr; “There’s no sugar daddies anymore.” #
— he also made tutorials for Pong, Breakout, Snake, Tetris, and Boulderdash #
— incredibly infectious; earlier: Mall, Laundromat #
— 3D printed sandstone figurines from children’s drawings via @golan #
— dead simple, clean wireframing with a simple URL via @cameronmoll #
— wind a path between any two artists, from Iggy to Ozzy #
January 3, 2013
— 86 theatrical releases, and three of Rotten Tomatoes’ top 20 of 2012 were Kickstarter-funded #
— Tommy Edison’s Instagram stream is fascinating #
January 2, 2013
— Scorsese’s underrated followup to Raging Bull, it was a major box office flop #
— tech demo inspired by Minecraft, created as 20% project at Google #
January 1, 2013
— Fred Benenson visualizes the relationships between notable people and their favorite books #
— extremely bizarre Twine game set in a future dystopia based on Peanuts lore via @flantz #
— works published in 1956 would’ve been available, but we’re stuck waiting until 2052 #
— great list, and didn’t even get to Kentucky Route Zero or Double Fine Adventure #
December 29, 2012
— videos about numbers and stuff; related: everything by Vi Hart via @notch #
— like danah boyd’s ethnographic studies, always good to get a different perspective #
December 28, 2012
— easily the nicest augmented reality app I’ve seen #
— one dot for every person from the 2010 U.S. Census via Boing Boing #
— horrific story told with beautiful interactive article design #
— a bookmarklet by Paul Ford to find tweetable sentences on any page #
December 26, 2012
— turns Twitter activity into a lazy RPG #
— I love the Seven Stages of Robot Replacement at the end #
December 22, 2012
— amazing year, and a great list of games #
— incredibly muddy, but still awesome via Boing Boing #
— the proof-of-concept might trigger seizures via Nelson Minar #
December 21, 2012
— three free months of Flickr Pro #
December 20, 2012
— Ryan Tate automated the process outlined in my post about transcribing audio with Mechanical Turk #
— lawsuit surrounding the rare 1979 Asteroids clone created a legal precedent for clones #
— I’ve heard Sunshine of Your Love a million times, but never noticed the Blue Moon quote #
— Adrian Holovaty transcribed the viral YouTube hit into tablature #
December 19, 2012
— I found a scan of the clipped 1918 map in the Oregonian archives #
— a playable game powered by Playfic, the site I launched earlier this year #
December 18, 2012
— making $50k/month on affiliate links, instead of traditional ads via Daring Fireball #
— one of my favorite new startups #
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