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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.” #
— the perfect holiday gift #
— every Just Between Us video gets 100k+ views, madness that they can’t make a living off it #
December 13, 2015
— my friend Nicole is a goddamned genius #
— inside the hateful world of mass shooting conspiracy theorists #
— MIT Media Lab augmented reality project to modify the behavior of connected objects via Belong.io #
— nothing against dildos, it’s a commentary on politicians pandering to gun lunatics #
— mashing up Dilbert comics with horrible, real quotes from its creator #
December 12, 2015
— Apple’s cluelessness about games extends to the TV, so much lost potential #
— running analytics on Neko Atsume, the notoriously opaque kitty collecting game #
— I’ve been following his work for over a decade, but never knew his last name #
December 11, 2015
— I’ve never felt so detached from YouTube culture, I only know 20% of these creators #
December 10, 2015
— digging into a blatant example of faked tweets on 4chan designed to enrage people #
— as before, incredible production values and great storytelling, hopefully leaving the ethical issues behind #
— “If someone does something simple, calls it art, then that’s what it is.” #
December 8, 2015
— short looping animations for the holidays; watch ’em fullscreen with some hot cocoa #
— ten artists reimagine the cover art for their top ten favorite albums of 2015 #
December 7, 2015
— the full research paper is worth reading too #
December 6, 2015
— Tay Zonday is an interesting guy #
December 4, 2015
— anonymous and unlisted first-person story of being a juror on a murder trial via Kottke #
— “giving the people something they didn’t ask for” via @knguyen #
— I’m pretty skeptical of equity crowdfunding, but thrilled they’re working on this #
— stunning John Herrman column on the end of special access for the media via Belong.io #
— extended remix of the Vid Kidz segment from 1985 via @wolfchirp #
December 3, 2015
— want your own? the secret manual has tips for customizing it #
— the same creator brilliantly remixed Lionel Richie’s Hello nearly four years ago #
December 1, 2015
— the NYT interviewed the 15-year-old creator via fastcompany.com #
— incredible in-browser emulation of vintage browsers using Wayback archives; source and screenshots #
November 30, 2015
— the site she founded and defined its voice; excited to see what she does at Ars Technica #
November 29, 2015
— Li Chen celebrates comic #400 with a special full-color detective story #
November 28, 2015
— the NYT goes deep on how armchair terrorists exploit America’s over-militarized police #
— massive, chaotic infrastructure for producing this year’s cultural fads #
November 24, 2015
— it’s bigger than it looks #
— “despair is not useful. Despair is paralysis, and there’s work to be done” #
— I hope Nate Silver’s right, but Trump’s gone from mildly amusing to scary pretty quickly #
November 23, 2015
— staggering collection of Infocom history, now on Archive.org #
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