June 20, 2011
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
— conspiratorial, but fun, three-part BBC documentary by Adam Curtis (via) #
NYT Magazine profile of Amanda Hocking, self-publishing star
— curious to see how her publishing contract pans out; video Q&A up on her blog (via) #
Receipt Racer
— one-day game openFrameworks hack built with a thermal receipt printer and PS3 controller (via) #
Paranoid Android: YouTube Artists Mix
— 36 covers songs on YouTube spliced into a single collage remix (via) #
Rebecca Black's Friday removed from YouTube
— in other meme news: Boxxy parodies herself and YouTube added a Nyan Cat scrubber #
TorrentFreak on Spotify's P2P architecture
— this interesting academic paper goes into much more detail #
Why Kickstarter just lowered max project length to 60 days
— some interesting charts; related: Calacanis' long, great interview with Yancey Strickler #
Ars Technica on the LulzSec manifesto
— read the whole thing; "We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it." #
jsmad, a pure Javascript MP3 decoder
— adds MP3 playback for Firefox, who won't support it; here's how it works (via) #
Dan Budiac finds his 15-year-old self in Telehack
— someone make a game using the 1995 web next, kthxbye #
The first supercut?
— Joseph Cornell's 1936 montage of every Rose Hobart scene from East of Borneo (via) #
Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern Age
— in other McSweeney's news, they redesigned #
Don't Play Games With Me
— Sebastian Deterding's brilliant presentation on the present and future of gameful design #
Wheels of Steel, incredible Javascript turntables
— don't miss Scott Schiller's detailed breakdown of how it works and Nyan Cat mode #
GameBoy Color emulator in Javascript
— supports save states and local ROMs, or load these as URLs; code's on Github #
Video of every password from the LulzSec porn hack
— one per frame, from the creator of the Unicode video #
Ze Frank revisits the first Fabuloso Friday, five years later
— the script was collaboratively written by fans of The Show #
Aaron Straup Cope on web history and the suspension of @towerbridge
— over the weekend, Twitter removed one of its first Twitter bots and removed its three-year archive #
How Andy Carvin debunked the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax
— some amazing sleuthing that played out on Twitter #
Derek Powazek on On the Media's anti-tech bias
— his new On the Network tumblelog documents historical examples #
Google's playable Les Paul tribute doodle
— the keyboard works, here's a solid cover of Here Comes the Sun #
Slate's Hollywood Career-o-Matic
— interactive tool to measure actor/director careers using Rotten Tomatoes ratings (via) #
Jim Gilliam's "The Internet Is My Religion"
— intense speech about faith, technology and activism, from the creator of NationBuilder, GovLuv, and Act.ly #
Analysis of the leaked Sony user passwords
— 67% of people with accounts at both Gawker and Sony reused their passwords (via) #
Video of Apple's WWDC presentation
— the whole thing's worth watching, or read Gizmodo's coverage of the major announcements #