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April 13, 2017
— you can’t say Mouse Reeve’s name on her Mastodon instance #
— this year’s best April 1 project was a massive team effort #
— using Counterparty to enforce scarcity for digital works via @dphiffer #
— Google Creative Lab made autocorrect for drawing #
— now available free for Mac and Windows; don’t miss the process posts #
— love the increasing desperation in the Wikipedia edit requests from their marketing head #
— nobody really knows how the most advanced AI works—only that it does via @mikerugnetta #
— remix retro replicas inspired by LiveJournal, MovableType, MySpace, and more via @anildash #
— fans create nicely-designed cards for each amiibo bin; here’s a good tutorial #
April 11, 2017
— the internal priority shift was part of a larger trend I wrote about #
— ARG or startup? you decide #
April 10, 2017
— it’s multi-user too, try walking around via @bai0 #
— “Music and chicken have become intertwined.” via @flaneur #
— they’re a bit busy now, but there’s no shortage of telnet BBSes online #
April 8, 2017
— LJs with more than 3,000 daily visitors can no longer be anonymous or use obscenities #
— using harmonics to compose a melody that repeats itself at 1024x the original speed via @hotdogsladies #
April 7, 2017
— using deep learning with famous voices to generate speech-like sounds #
— Bob Ross gets the Deep Dream treatment, the audio is a WaveNet model of Ross’s voice #
April 6, 2017
— training a recurrent neural network on a list of 150k videogame titles #
— they did the same thing at XOXO 2013, but our attendees not only paid, they organized the cash #
— “I’m obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999” #
April 5, 2017
— eyes generated by DeepWarp; click to change character via @alteredq #
— 630+ contributors map the story behind nearly every pixel from Reddit Place #
— a game for learning CSS Grid via Belong.io #
April 4, 2017
— it may not be VR, but it’s adorable #
— part of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, works open in date-accurate web browsers via Michael Eades #
— I signed up on another instance and there’s a learning curve; also: Yoz Grahame and Sarah Jeong #
April 3, 2017
— outstanding interactive viz from the NYT #
December 14, 2016
— Select All goes deep with the internet’s own calendar #
December 7, 2016
— stunning feat of engineering, albeit at one frame every three minutes #
December 6, 2016
— artists reimagine the covers of their top 10 albums of the year #
— like the power of Heroku with IFTTT’s remixing #
December 5, 2016
— “the epitome of privilege” #
— Joshua Topolsky’s new site makes some pretty bold design choices #
December 1, 2016
— browser add-on to denote unreliable news sources on Facebook #
November 29, 2016
— lovely compilation of indie animators; don’t miss Lovestreams at 21:08 #
— “The history of libraries is one of loss.” #
— using machine learning to cluster and visualize audio via Nelson Minar #
— the Trump subreddit is slowly dominating the site through manipulation and inaction #
— face recognition is Superman’s other kryptonite #
November 28, 2016
— OpenType font that mingles charts with text #
November 26, 2016
— the sequel to Bushes of Love, both masterpieces #
November 25, 2016
— your eyes are your wallet #
— fifth episode of their brilliant Star Wars remixes; worth it for the opening alone #
— as usual, the behind-the-scenes is as interesting as the final product #
— this feels like a metaphor for something, but I don’t know what #
November 23, 2016
— Vi Hart argues that age was the critical factor for the election #
November 22, 2016
— dynamic lighting and transparency with proper depth #
— absurdly great bundle of 151 indie games, 100% of proceeds to ACLU and Planned Parenthood #
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