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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 #
— fan-made newsletter reissuing Suck.com columns, 20 years later to the day #
November 4, 2015
— the complete legal agreement, drawn in the style of famous cartoonists #
November 2, 2015
— related: the newly-launched Glitched, a comic told entirely through Twitter #
October 30, 2015
— one of the best talks we’ve ever had; also, Dooce and The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg #
— currently at 60,000 viewers, promoting the launch of Twitch Creative #
— a cooperative text-based horror game #
October 27, 2015
— worse than I could have imagined #
October 26, 2015
— in a footnote, nice to hear they’re working on tools for writers to make money next #
— our yearly recap; also, just posted the first XOXO talk, Heather Armstrong on sharing her life online #
October 20, 2015
— commitment is patching Chrome for Windows to fix typography issues on your site #
— a solid list that naturally skews geeky, coming from Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder’s audience via Kottke #
— story of a small, empathetic design decision at Slack #
— if this doesn’t make you want to dance, well, see a doctor via Boing Boing #
October 19, 2015
— using historical whois records, Internet Archive, and searching Facebook by email address #
October 15, 2015
— Vanity Fair interviews the woman from the “Ermahgerd” meme #
— Maciej Ceglowski compares big data to radioactive underpants; transcript here #
October 14, 2015
— predates ADVENT/Colossal Cave; more on lost mainframe games #
— Sandwich Video’s pitch-perfect 1980s tech show interviews modern startups #
October 13, 2015
— apparently for its “millennial males” #
— serialized novel written in real-time with live comments and webcam of the author #
October 9, 2015
— absolutely ridiculous projections, it’s like a bubble inside a bubble; related: The Awl on WeLive #
— the developer of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture on illness, working with publishers, and the games industry #
October 7, 2015
— tweets mentioning “earthquake” with less than eight words, no links, and no numbers #
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