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June 8, 2015
— more than two months and a million presses later #
June 7, 2015
— write using favicons from around the web #
June 4, 2015
— navigating phone trees as collective art #
— sunsetting the long-neglected service that Tim O’Reilly once called “a milestone in the history of the internet” #
— “My grandfather is dying. The cloud is alive. Our future is bizarre” #
June 3, 2015
— Susie Cagle’s story of the California drought is terrifying #
— Sarah Rothenberg makes neat stuff #
— interactive, audio-responsive music video; see also: jazz.computer #
June 2, 2015
— creepy surveillance art by Kyle McDonald via Belong.io #
May 31, 2015
— until recently, Minecraft never hosted servers, so it wasn’t an issue for them #
— Starlee Kine’s endless curiosity about other people is the best part of her new podcast #
— hot on the heels of TrashDay #
May 29, 2015
— Olivia Taters, still suspended from Twitter, now in comic form #
May 28, 2015
— “The web has no gatekeepers. The web has no quality control. The web is a mess. The web is for everyone.” #
— the insanely ridiculous Kickstarter-funded short film is finished #
May 27, 2015
— free tool for making Twitter bots using Tracery #
— remaking Space Oddity using only the thousand most-common words in the English language #
— the game devs randomly and permanently assign skin color to players with interesting results #
May 26, 2015
— 25% are journalists; collected by scraping who @Verified follows #
— turn a selection of your OS X screen into a playable Super Mario level #
— this will only surprise someone who hasn’t been in a Hot Topic in a decade #
— sorry, pedestrian detection costs extra #
— “Who are they? What do they want?” #
— Robin Sloan’s near-future scifi short story of persuasive AI in medicine #
May 22, 2015
— a new TNG Edit after five years! the original series of remixes were instant classics #
— new podcast from Gimlet and This American Life’s Starlee Kine #
— short comic nicely articulates privilege #
May 21, 2015
— we need a word for the feeling when something is equally exciting and terrifying #
— 49 animation students each rotoscoped 52 out of 2,767 total frames #
May 20, 2015
— third part of Maciej Ceglowski’s incredible travelogue series #
— completely predictable outcome for a frustratingly unnecessary feature #
— streaming’s a good deal if you’re a major label, but indies are stuck with paltry royalties only #
May 19, 2015
— the whole Chicago Review PDF is worth reading #
— ending something in a deliberate way is a time for celebration and closure #
May 18, 2015
— Paul Ford on Spotify’s social network of related artists #
— clustering 86 million photos found online #
May 17, 2015
— ASCEND via Nelson Minar #
May 15, 2015
— get texted something stupid every Saturday at 2am #
May 14, 2015
— “You refused to buy us Lunchables, and now you must pay.” #
— the lovely PDX flag gets a shout-out at the end #
— The Awl’s John Herrman had the best thoughts on the implications I’ve seen #
May 12, 2015
— part of the reason why I ran my experiment #
May 11, 2015
— “Sometimes a conversation just doesn’t need your input.” #
May 8, 2015
— use parentheses for triplets like this #
— 47MB download and slow as hell, but crazy impressive #
— which, in turn, exploits behavioral psychology to take player’s money #
— the security lead took over the character in-game, stripped, killed, and deleted him #
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