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March 20, 2016
— experiments with using machine learning for writing prose, poetry, and other texts #
March 19, 2016
March 18, 2016
— interesting postmortem from Panic’s first foray into videogame publishing #
March 15, 2016
— short fiction, totally not written by Robin Sloan, about Facebook on Facebook #
— Twitter’s killing “elevated” access to its streaming API #
March 13, 2016
— making every movie better, one Dire Straits song at a time via Kottke #
March 11, 2016
— “Lifehacks for Dads Who Do Fifty Percent: Big Data Will Choose the Next President.” #
— some great music writing in here #
March 10, 2016
March 9, 2016
— try it with Cardboard, if you have one #
March 8, 2016
— his ambitious followup to Mountain #
— I should have questioned this myself, but I assumed they did lots of post-processing cleanup via Boing Boing #
— love all the different student interpretations via @molleindustria #
March 7, 2016
— “In the US, under-30s are now poorer than retired people” #
March 5, 2016
— the original vaporwave via @textfiles #
— the data and source are available on Pwanson’s site #
March 3, 2016
— hold digital files hostage until your client pays up #
March 2, 2016
— gripping reading for anyone with a fear of public speaking via Daring Fireball #
— “Donald Trump could be just the first of many Trumps in American politics” #
— a depressing case study for bootstrapped paid iOS apps #
— performative music instrument built from 2,000 marbles and 3,000 parts #
March 1, 2016
— a Slack bot that searches every line from Seinfeld and posts an animated GIF #
February 28, 2016
— Twitter bot making headlines #
February 25, 2016
— Diana Kimball’s speculative fiction memo on super-persuasive AI #
— a partnership with the Guardian to imagine an automated future #
— massively-multiplayer Minesweeper via MetaFilter #
— four years after Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro’s demos, real-time face substitution is an app #
— more than just ironic, it ties into how we experience art online and where we “live” #
— the short film claims no CGI, no Photoshop #
— “Trump found the flaw in the American Death Star” #
— art-inspired technology gives us new ideas instead of incremental improvements #
— cheeseburger drums and gummy bear xylophones on a day-glo VR island #
February 24, 2016
— there’s no Gopher client for Chrome, but you can use an HTTP gopher proxy to browse it #
— that guy with the hockey stick will be first against the wall after the robot uprising #
— targeted to non-US businesses, but seems pretty damned useful for U.S. businesses too #
February 23, 2016
— Brandon Hardesty’s web series on character actors is so good #
February 22, 2016
— incredible story of how ’80s government security policy was influenced by the film, though he wasn’t the first to report it #
— don’t miss the scan of the book it wrote, worth it for the illustrations alone #
— the interface for this incredible game, Hello Operator #
— “the one object in the museum’s collection off-limits to photographers” #
February 19, 2016
— 360° video of 500 episodes at the same time; try it in the YouTube app on your phone #
— “the simple story of one man’s enduring passion” #
— still feels like bad practice that Google indexes content that isn’t freely available on the web #
— the absurdly great launch lineup for XOXO’s new shared workspace in Portland #
February 18, 2016
— gorgeous visualization of Github projects by size and languages via r/InternetIsBeautiful #
February 17, 2016
— as much about how people make money on Tumblr, and Yahoo’s attempts to thwart it #
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