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January 19, 2016
— great personal comics on dating terrible dudes #
January 14, 2016
— the averaged photos are haunting and beautiful #
— and used the legal system to hack his way out of federal prison in the process #
January 13, 2016
— Sha Hwang’s talk about GIFs turned into a remixable NewHive essay #
January 11, 2016
January 8, 2016
— I lost myself in this for an hour last night, VJing retro videos for a bunch of people; desktop only #
— old hat around these parts, but love the visualization #
January 5, 2016
— the anonymous creator of Bad Lip Reading knows how to write a catchy hook #
January 4, 2016
— Nicky Case’s interactive experiments with thinking in systems #
— no word on pricing or shipping dates yet #
— astounding remix of The Wizard of Oz recut in alphabetical order; related: ARST ARSW #
January 1, 2016
— another essential Maciej Ceglowski talk, video here #
— Charles Vestal’s new year’s resolution to draw (at least) one butt a day in 2016 #
— also, the replies to Rachel’s query on Twitter turns up so many great responses #
— Matt Haughey embarks on a high-stakes weight loss challenge #
— today marks seven full years of Jonathan Mann’s daily song project #
December 31, 2015
— a depressing annual reminder that current copyright law terms suck #
— “the measure of health in any open source community is how they deal with conflict” #
— a divisive and misunderstood game with a massive, and well-deserved, cult following #
— feels a bit like they’re trying to cover their asses #
— four years of great independent writing #
— you may not play Hearthstone, but this probably applies to you too #
— the service monitored deleted tweets from public officials, a violation of Twitter’s API terms #
— free, open-source tool for performing estimates using Monte Carlo experiments via Belong.io #
— I’m going to miss that guy #
December 30, 2015
— this bot is so good, I was convinced it’s human; after reading how it works, I’m still not sure #
— short fiction about devs building a game for an audience of bots #
December 23, 2015
— tying racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic paranoia into meme culture #
December 17, 2015
— shockingly simple open-source framework for making WebVR with HTML #
— please somebody do this for real #
— now’s a good time for Wu-Tang and Bill Murray to steal their album back #
— the new Blackbar prequel for iOS by Neven Mrgan and James Moore #
December 16, 2015
— retelling A New Hope without using any images or sounds from the film via MetaFilter #
— brilliant free jazz guitar harmonizing found footage on YouTube via MetaFilter #
December 15, 2015
— pretty sure we’re all playing Frog Fractions 2 right now #
— officially launching the Slack platform; related: Botkit #
— correlating penis length and tipping preferences, among others #
— simulation of 1,000 people’s average day, minute by minute via @_ #
— 31 hours of music, broken up into playlists #
— the Kickstarter-funded indie RPG is brilliant; here’s a great review explaining why it’s finding an audience #
— each episode is a pilot for a new podcast, from This American Life’s Stephanie Foo #
— released in February 2009, players collectively stretched across the solar system #
December 14, 2015
— Brewster Kahle’s bank shutters, stymied by bureaucracy #
— export tools and some goodbye analytics; import your playlists to Spotify #
— my favorite indie game platform launched an open-source desktop app #
— “You gotta hear both sides.” #
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