The Upcoming.org Archives
— 7.6 million event pages back from the dead from Upcoming's first ten years #
Amen, a toolbox for algorithmic music remixing
— today's the effective last day of the Echo Nest's pioneering Remix API #
Don't Get Rich, Don't Die Trying
— The Thermals' Hutch Harris on day jobs, money, and ego in indie music #
Terrapattern
— visual search engine for satellite imagery; example: baseball in Detroit, planes in NYC #
Oculus adds DRM to block Vive users, broken in a day
— surprising how similar the two competing headsets are #
Miranda July and Paul Ford at Seven on Seven
— with the help of Mystery Show's Starlee Kine, they researched every attendee in the room #
Family Guy uses a 7-year-old YouTube video, then blocks the original
— you'd think Content ID would factor in the publication date of copyrighted works, but I guess not #
What's Your Pay Gap?
— WSJ finds that "women earn less than men in 439 of 446 major U.S. occupations" #
On rocky beginnings
— visualization of music listened to in a difficult year, part of the Quantified Selfie project #
Shuffleboard At McMurdo
— the first dispatch from Maciej Ceglowski's Kickstarter-funded trip to Antarctica #
Max Goodman goes on a picnic
— Stupid Hackathon project orders a random food delivery to a random location and Ubers you there #
Craig Mod's archival plans for Hi.co
— microscopic etching community contributions on a nickel plate with a 10,000 year lifespan #
How algorithmic news feeds help spread conspiracy theories
— an extension of the filter bubble and the net's ability to affirm all your existing beliefs #
YACHT's stolen sex tape was a PR stunt gone wrong
— misguided hoax from a group I admire; their apology doesn't help much #
Marco Arment on Apple's role on podcasting
— the push for more behavioral analytics inevitably leads to centralization, and sacrificing control #
Christoph Niemann's augmented reality New Yorker cover
— watch the video to get a sense of how it looks #