Augmented reality’s A-ha moment
— a lot of work for a goofy pun, but I’m here for it
emu-coop
— SNES hack makes single-player games into two-player games by sharing inventory over IRC
The Evolution of Trust
— Nicky Case’s interactive explainer on how trust or distrust evolves in groups
100 Demon Dialogues
— Lucy Bellwood confronts her personal demons; back her project to make it a book and plushie
17776
— SB Nation’s experimental mashup of football sportswriting and speculative sci-fi
it is as if you were doing work
— Pippin Barr’s work simulator for a post-AI era
NYT speaks to two dozen women on sexual harassment in tech
— new disclosures about prominent VCs like Chris Sacca and Dave McClure
Detailed postmortem on making Silicon Valley’s Not Hotdog app
— bespoke neural networks for image recognition running locally on mobile
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
— brilliant use of the Wikipedia API, try examining or taking objects
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Is Travis Still CEO?
— good riddance, though I doubt this changes much at Uber
The Verge interviewed me about Lorde’s “Supercut”
— delighted to see a word I coined here in 2008 become the central metaphor in a song by an artist I love
Visualizing ice flows with animated color cycling
— a technique made popular in 8-bit games
The Verge interviews Maciej Ceglowski on Pinboard, Delicious, and fandom
— Britta took over the newly-acquired @delicious Twitter account and official blog, and it’s awesome
The Secret History of the iPhone
— “yeah, the iPhone ruined more than a few marriages”
Undertale’s Japanese localization causes a fan frenzy
— over a personal pronoun with cultural connotations
NYT Mag profiles Jonny Sun
— melancholic joy at the intersection of weird Twitter and M.I.T.
Theoriz’ Mixed Reality
— projection mapping experiments with motion tracking
Instagram adds Archive feature to hide old photos from public view
— this should be an option in all social software
NYT moves to machine learning-assisted comment moderation
— built on top of Perspective, a project from Instrument and Google’s Jigsaw incubator
Super Mario Odyssey
— the Mario universe meets David OReilly’s Everything
Ars Technica’s investigation into the litigious jerk who thinks he invented e-mail
— after suing Gawker, he’s going after Techdirt for reporting on his easily-debunked claims
Mallory Ortberg’s Internet
— an oral history of The Toast
Gun Emoji Pairings
— analyzing 100k tweets to understand how people use the gun emoji
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Ian Bogost on Binky, a fake social networking app for iOS/Android
— an infinite timeline of random images with fake likes and comments
#c0ffee is the color
— valid words as hex colors
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eleVR’s expressive programming in VR
— making LOGO Turtles in Anyland, a creative social space in VR
Design in the Era of the Algorithm
— Josh Clark on design principles for addressing flaws in machine learning
What Will Happen to Us?
— four cartoonists on life without the Affordable Care Act
Taeyoon Choi’s The Handmade Computer
— first biweekly chapter documenting the artist’s project to build a computer
Portraits of Imaginary People
— machine-generated uncanny valley faces upressed into 4k images
The Deleted City 3.0
— stunning interactive visualization of Archive Team’s 650GB GeoCities backup
Russian malware controlled through comments on Britney Spears’ Instagram photos
— we live in a weird future
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How microdots exposed The Intercept’s anonymous source
— most new printers are exposing you
Simone Giertz’ wearable mattress
— ready for a nap anywhere, anytime
Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie webcomic wraps after ten-year run
— the fifth book will be out on June 29
Let Her Speak, Please
— men talking over women in science, captured on video
Merch Mulch
— 360º photogrammetry study of abandoned malls; see also: Dan Bell’s Dead Malls series
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The Kids Are Alt-Right
— the rise of Trump inspiring waves of sexist, racist rhetoric in school
Leaked Fyre Festival emails
— as a festival organizer, reading these is pure schadenfyre
Notes from an Emergency
— Maciej Ceglowski on how five American tech companies built a toolkit for authoritarian movements
Beaker Browser
— experimental browser distributed openly in a peer-to-peer mesh with revisions and forking
Real Press Sec
— Twitter bot turns every Trump tweet into the correct Presidential statement format
Jon Satrom’s glitch art homepage
— seizure warning
c0m3w/m3
— an “infinity poem” composed of 62,000 internet-connected cameras
4D Toys
— Marc ten Bosch’s mindbending 4th-dimensional physics toybox for iOS and Vive
Convenient Friction
— Christina Xu on human interaction and trust in China’s online-to-offline platforms
Apology Simulator
— craft a series of apologies, and decide whether they’re sincere
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