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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 #
November 22, 2015
— Kyle McDonald walks around Amsterdam with a neural net trying to describe what it sees #
November 21, 2015
— n-gram analysis of Reddit comments from 2007-2015 #
November 20, 2015
— re-enacting reference footage for Alice in Wonderland; actual reference shots here #
— live visualization of satellites in the line of sight above us; more info here via Belong.io #
— homophobic Tumblr post turns into dystopian young adult sci-fi #
November 19, 2015
— bizarre confluence of browser plugin and bad design choices #
— force the British film board to watch paint drying; currently at six hours, six minutes long #
November 17, 2015
— I fully expect someone else to fill this niche soon #
November 16, 2015
— Adrian Chen on Megan Phelps-Roper, a former Westboro Baptist member that found empathy online #
— I always preferred Spotify’s listening model, but the loss of a good competitor is a bummer #
— if the whole bookmarking thing doesn’t work out, he has a great future in conference coverage #
November 15, 2015
— the race is on for the first full VR band #
— stunning generative art by Katie Rose Pipkin #
November 12, 2015
— always fun to receive little surprises in the mail from a bunch of weirdos #
— make your own, click to party #
November 11, 2015
— one of the most moving talks we’ve ever had #
— on Github, too via Belong.io #
— watch Shia LaBeouf watch every Shia Labeouf movie in reverse-chronological order, 24 hours a day #
November 9, 2015
— they performed live at XOXO this year, and it was glorious #
— several of my favorites are in here #
November 6, 2015
— convert tweets to actual clay tablets; yes, this is real #
— there are alternatives, empowering indie cooks and bringing neighborhoods together #
— Linda Dong shows off animation tools in Keynote, and the file for download #
November 5, 2015
— DHH’s epic rant against disruption culture; related: Jennifer Daniel’s Design Is Capitalism #
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