Caselaw Access Project
— 360 years of U.S. court decisions available for download or via API; also, caselaw limericks! #
CBS shuts down Stage 9, stunning fan-made virtual recreation of the Enterprise
— setting confusing, different standards for Star Trek fan films vs. other media #
Building a Turing machine in PowerPoint
— the paper and deck is available in the video description (via) #
How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village
— misinformation, facilitated by easy social sharing, can be deadly #
The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2
— shhh, my XOXO co-organizer Andy McMillan gave them the edibles that kicked off the whole thing #
Motherboard on Hosni Auji’s upcoming Flight Simulator
— like a hyper-realistic Desert Bus, but played as a passenger #
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared teases new series
— very few details, but SuperDeluxe and Conan O'Brien's production company are involved #
ENHANCE.COMPUTER
— Nicole He's cyberpunk voice game; see also: Blade Runner's Esper Machine in the browser #
Animating “This Is America” on vintage Mac hardware
— MacPaint on a Mac 128K for drawing, MacroMind Director on a Mac SE for animation #
Google Reader Time Capsule
— Mihai Parparita's snapshot of Google Reader before it shuttered five years ago; more on the project #
Below the Surface
— stunning project to document 700,000 objects excavated from an Amsterdam canal #
Matt Haughey interviewed me on Hobby Horse about interactive fiction
— Matt's new podcast about our personal obsessions #
Cameron Esposito’s “Rape Jokes”
— her brilliant one-hour standup special about sexual assault, stream free or purchase to support RAINN #
Shinrashinge’s monster battle daydream
— astounding paper animation filmed in one shot an iPhone; see more #
New Yorker on Alexandra Bell’s Counternarratives project
— re-editing subtle and not-so-subtle racism on the front page of the NYT #
Tom 7 reverse-emulates the NES
— running an NES emulator on a Raspberry Pi encased in an NES cartridge, plugged into an unmodified NES (via) #
Favstar to shutter next month because of Twitter API changes
— the streaming API closure is delayed for now, but there's still a lot of uncertainty #
Marcin Wichary’s Segmented Type playground
— you can draw with it too, read the Twitter thread for more (via) #
Shudu Gram, the virtual black supermodel created by a white man
— see also: Lil Miquela, the virtual Brazilian-American model created by an AI startup #
Chrome’s autoplay changes broke countless web games and art projects
— I contributed dozens of links to projects broken by the update, many featured by Chrome #
The United States of Japan
— post-industrial Japanese social trends may be a glimpse at America's future #
Robin Sloan on uncertainty and cooperation in a multiplayer universe
— lovely fusion of Fortnite and the Three-Body Problem #
Sarah Jeong on the legality of cheating in videogames
— Epic Games is suing game players for using freely-available Fortnite cheats #
Francine, an oil painting in pure CSS
— source on GitHub, along with two more astounding illustrations by Diana Smith #
Buzzfeed on Instagram engagement trading
— paying people with real accounts in order to automate networks of artificial likes #