April 10, 2012
Adrian Chen tracks down the history and identity of Goatse
— with updates from Jay Stile, Anil Dash, and the person who registered goatse.cx #
Disasterpeace's FEZ soundtrack now on sale
— beautiful album from one of Kind of Bloop's talented musicians #
Metafilter's link-rich primer of the demoscene
— the Scene.org awards are always a good place to start #
RIP Jack Tramiel, Commodore founder
— the Vic-20 and C-64 were my first computers, and changed my life forever #
Facebook buys Instagram for $1B
— a small team getting bought by an Internet giant; does that story ever end well for the users? #
LaserTube: Trapped in the Closet
— something like this could turn supercut creation into a social game #
Justin Watt discovers Javascript injection on his hotel's wifi
— the Courtyard Marriott's wifi provider is inspecting traffic and inserting their own ads #
Jonathan McIntosh's history of subversive remix videos before YouTube
— fascinating playlist of 30 videos created between 1941 and 2005 #
Google announces Project Glass, their augmented-reality glasses
— finally, something to do while riding in my self-driving car #
NYT Mag on casual gaming with an interactive illustration
— based on Erik Rothoff Andersson's open-source toy #
Math for Makers
— Greg Borenstein's new project to turn CS research into practical tools for coders and artists; interesting Twitter feed (via) #
Rear Window remixed into a single panoramic shot
— time lapse of a 20-minute installation stitching together all the stabilized backyard footage from the film (via) #
Kill Screen interviews Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe
— yesterday, Al came out of retirement on Kickstarter to remake the first Larry game #
MapsTD, tower defense game on Google Maps
— brilliantly done and surprisingly fun; try battling in your city with various map tilesets (via) #
Criterion Collection releases Kindergarten Cop
— about time this understated classic gets the recognition it deserves #
Google introduces 8-Bit Maps for the NES
— don't miss the promo video and Null Island; finally, some competition for 8-Bit City #
Cult of Mac on a creepy app for stalking women using shared location data
— blame the app, not the sharer; Foursquare just killed their API access #
Lost Prince of Persia source code discovered in dad's closet
— in other Jordan Mechner news, The Last Express is coming to iOS later this year (via) #
Face.com adds age detection to the face recognition API
— it already supports identifying mood, smiles, gender, and glasses #