Fez technical postmortem
— I liked the bits on the designer vs. programmer dynamic; crazy that it was a two-person game #
Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo's new CEO
— first smart move Yahoo's made in years, but it's hard to turn that ship around #
David House's grand jury testimony in the Bradley Manning hearing
— that guy has balls of steel (via) #
Marc Maron interviews Dan Harmon on the end of Community
— six years after Arrested Development, networks still don't know how to handle fan favorites #
Betaworks buys Digg assets for a rumored $500k
— the end result of their disastrous redesign and not listening to their users; patents and team sold separately for more #
Kyle McDonald's story of his Secret Service raid following People Staring at Computers
— you might remember his project, setting up software on Apple Store computers (via) #
Analysis of the 450,000 leaked Yahoo Voices passwords
— apparently Associated Content, the content farm they acquired in 2010, stored passwords in plaintext #
Using Echo Nest to use music preference to predict political leaning
— Democrats appear to have more diverse tastes (via) #
A Lip-Sync Six Years in the Making
— "I think it's simultaneously the best and worst idea I've ever had." #
Rabble digs into the history of the @reply on Twitter
— using Kellan's oldtweets, a searchable archive of Twitter's first year #
How Vi Hart Makes A Video About Making A Video About Making A Video
— reminds me of this classic Reddit thread #
SCOTUSblog's postmortem on the ACA verdict mess
— 7,000-word breakdown of the nine-minute period after the Supreme Court's announcement (via) #
Tom Francis on Spelunky and the City of Gold
— written in 2009 about the free PC version, every word of this applies to the brilliant new XBLA release #
Howard Rheingold on the rise and fall of The WELL
— interesting to hear the community's trying to buy it #
A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self
— from the same guy, a heated debate between Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie #
San Diego malfunction leads to 15 minutes of fireworks in 15 seconds
— sometimes, failure is more fun than success #
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
— surreal black comedy set in post-apocalypse London; love the bicycle-powered Tube #
Reddit explains Obamacare
— crazy that a comment on Reddit is the best explanation I've seen so far of the ACA #
Salon lays off The Well staff, put it up for sale
— I have an archive of every pre-2005 post, just in case #
The Kleptones' Paths to Graceland mixtape
— trying to track down and reconstruct the mythic tape that inspired Paul Simon #
Profile of Mike Merrill, publicly-traded person
— full disclosure: I'm bidding on several shares in the public auction #
Anil Dash on clouds for people and EC2 for poets
— love this idea, something I spent lots of time on at Expert Labs #
Google Compute Engine launches
— like EC2, access to the virtual machines instead of App Engine alone #
Google Chrome and Drive launching on iPhone and iPad today
— likely only using Apple's rendering engine, so not as significant as it seems #
Google's Project Glass demo at I/O
— live skydiving onto Moscone; attendees can preorder for $1500, ships next year #
Idea Channel on mashups and the shifting value of genre definitions
— between Off Book and Idea Channel, PBS is doing interesting online work lately #
Rock-scissors-paper robot wins every time against human opponents
— high-speed vision analyzes your move and responds before you finish throwing #
Jess & Russ's wedding invitation
— it took six months and the help of 15 star illustrators and designers #
Louis CK selling complete tour direct through his site
— no ticket agencies, flat rate, no sales tax #