Leap Motion open-sources low-cost AR headset design
— the hand-tracking experiments by Keiichi Matsuda are incredible #
Minit, an adventure game played 60 seconds at a time
— can't recommend highly enough; out now for PC/Mac, Xbox, PS4 #
Firefox announces Facebook Container Extension
— quarantines your Facebook identity in a container inaccessible to third parties #
The Internet Archive’s Handheld History Collection
— handheld electronic games emulated by MAME, now in Javascript #
Pro Publica/Mother Jones exposé on age discrimination at IBM
— they systematically and illegally targeted older workers for layoffs #
Behind the scenes of Spike Jonze’s “Welcome Home” Apple commercial
— one of the best ads I've ever seen (via) #
1% of subreddits start 74% of conflicts
— analyzing Reddit raids in 1.8 billion comments in 36,000 subreddits across 40 months #
GQ feature on the solitary success of Stardew Valley
— nearly five years of obsessive, solo development fortunately found an audience #
Twitch streaming every episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
— to celebrate Fred Rogers' 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the show #
XOXO returns in 2018
— we're back after a year off, kicking things off with four talented artists livestreaming an XOXO mural all day today #
Kottke.org turns 20
— "kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through" #
Charlie Warzel on Bitcoin mining towns and local backlash
— cryptocurrency prospectors setting up shop in Montana, Washington, and Wyoming for cheap electricity #
The Broccoli Tree: A Parable
— "If we hoard and hide what we love, we can still lose it; only then, we're alone in the loss." #
Heather Havrilesky interviews Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans and his new book
— Ortberg continues to be an internet treasure; the book's out today #
Only Slightly Exaggerated
— Oregon's tourism board commissioned a Miyazaki-inspired animation blending magical creatures with real-life Oregon locations #
National Geographic confronts its racist history
— related: New York Times adding obituaries for prominent women it originally ignored #
Inside Cuba’s El paquete semanal, a weekly 1TB dump of copyrighted media
— absent of broadband, industrious pirates are charging for coordinated Sneakernet file transfers, including YouTube videos and magazines with ads #
The Verge on the history of Know Your Meme
— not mentioned: Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron's arrest for stealing from Syrian refugees #
You Think You Know Me is now available
— my wife's delightful Kickstarter-funded card game is out, so I made a website for it #
Jeremy Keith on forced SSL, AMP, and abuse of power
— Google and Mozilla are trying to improve the web, but making new barriers to entry #
Vi Hart’s Peace for Triple Piano
— "a spherical video in a mathematically triplified space with symmetry in space-time"; how it was made #
One Hour One Life
— Jason Rohrer's new game merges Passage and Sleep Is Death into something completely new #
Future Fonts
— get access to fonts in development at a deep discount; like Steam Early Access for type designers #
Niemen Lab interviews Jason Kottke about blogging in a post-blogging world
— interesting to hear how membership made writing viable for him again #
Kotaku interviews the women of Atari
— a nuanced look at the company's past from those who were there #
Salon asks ad-blockers to opt into crypocurrency mining instead
— like Les said, better to exploit my CPU than my brain, I guess #