August 8, 2012
Internet Archive offers over a million torrents of books, music, and films
— now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org #
How YouTube lets content companies claim public domain footage
— five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA (via) #
NYT visualization on the history of the Olympic men's 100m sprint
— love the auralization at the end #
Mat Honan on the Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to his hack
— the scariest: all you need to hack an iCloud account is a billing address and the last four credit card digits #
Moot on 4chan's one billionth post
— more a 4chan State of the Union, tracking the site's incredible growth and future #
YouTube's Content ID from Scripps takes down NASA's Mars Rover video
— automation run amok, NASA says "everything from imagery to music gets flagged" #
Touch Arcade's review of 10000000, brilliant puzzle/RPG for iOS
— I was addicted to this all weekend #
Knight Capital accidentally deployed test suite into production
— the trading software bug caused $440M in losses, wiping out a 17-year-old firm in 45 minutes #
Highlights from EA's The Sims cloning lawsuit against Zynga
— the RGB values for skin tones were exactly the same #
Mat Honan's post-mortem on getting hacked
— they bypassed his security questions for iCloud by phone with Apple tech support #
The Twitter Political Index
— running sentiment analysis on tweets that mention the candidates; it tracks nicely to Gallup polls #
Ascii Street View
— by Peter Nitsch, of course; related: painting in ASCII with a paintbrush (via) #
Original Spelunky ported to Javascript
— using GameMaker Studio's new HTML5 support; no sound, but very playable #
The first functional 3D printed gun
— weapons are now disallowed from Thingiverse, but the model's still up there #
Wired on the design of the Def Con 20 badges
— crypto puzzle, viral game, and reprogrammable platform rolled into one #
Diana Kimball's case study of Cards Against Humanity
— going from an idea to a Kickstarter-funded Amazon bestseller #
Robin Sloan's book review written in Javascript
— so good; related: Kill Screen's interactive memoir of Ico #
Portland man found not guilty for stripping at TSA checkpoint
— the TSA may still choose to fine Brennan and place him on the no-fly list #
Polygon's The Evolution of PC Games
— music remix with audio culled exclusively from the original games #
Books of Adam on falling in love with videogames
— owning Earthbound as your very first game would set the bar pretty high #