August 20, 2015
Banksy opens Dismaland, large-scale Disneyland satire
— the most mediocre place on Earth; love the Cinderella pumpkin crash #
A tour of abandoned college campuses in Second Life
— all these polygons will be lost like tears in rain #
100 Days of Pleasantries (NSFW)
— illustrated diary of a stripper's memorable encounters with customers and co-workers #
This Is My Jam shuts down with class
— going read-only with a permanent archive and API, open-sourcing the data, export with opt-out #
Glenn Fleishman on the happy birthday copyright lawsuit
— he got a copy of the 1922 book that firmly puts the song in the public domain #
Adam Saltsman on bootstrapping his indie dream game
— the reality of indie game development: it's really fucking hard #
Rolling Stone on the point of no return for climate change
— let's see what the GOP candidates have to say about it... #
FBI subpoenas Boing Boing for nonexistent Tor logs
— how awesome is it that they run a Tor exit node? answer: very awesome #
F.A.T. Lab closes its doors
— they seem torn up about it, but they made so much great stuff and should be proud #
The Data Drive
— cut-and-paste Facebook from a parallel world where Zuck ran off with all of Facebook's data #
Soylent founder on "how I gave up alternating current"
— I can't decide if this is real, satire, or just cynical trolling to promote Soylent 2.0 #
Rhythmic gymnastics ribbon with a robotic arm
— first robots take over manufacturing, and now they're going after our gymnasts #
No one will ever read this but
— audio readings of found online writing that each author thought would never be read (via) #
Bobbie Johnson on people with liberal arts degrees in tech
— most of the people I know doing interesting work in tech don't have engineering degrees, or a degree at all #
Blackbox
— new startup from the Cards Against Humanity team helping others sell and ship stuff, like Exploding Kittens today #
New evidence appears in Happy Birthday copyright case
— nail in the coffin for Warner/Chappell's case #
State of Georgia sues Carl Malamud for copyright infringement
— for republishing annotations of their legal code, not the code itself #
Boing Boing on Manyland, the pixel MMO
— amazing to see how it's evolved, the timelapse is beautiful chaos #
NYT on the legality of Sandra Bland's arrest
— straightforward explanation of everything they screwed up #
British Movietone posts video archive to YouTube
— a followup to my 2008 post about their formerly-inaccessible darkweb #