Daily Dot on the pre-history of Tumblr

11 hours ago

Andy Baio : Daily Dot on the pre-history of Tumblr - interviews with the guys behind anarchaia and Projectionist

nelson : Origins of tumbelogs - Remembering Anarchia, Projectionist

Marco Arment on Tumblr

4 days ago

nelson : Marco Arment on Tumblr - Really sweet take on Tumblr from its first employee

Andy Baio : Marco Arment on the Tumblr acquisition - great early personal history of Tumblr

Welcome to Google Island

7 days ago

nelson : Welcome to Google Island - Lovely fever dream journalism by @Mat Honan

Andy Baio : Welcome to Google Island - short fiction by Mat Honan, inspired by Larry Page's comments at I/O  [via]

CRAPCHA

26 days ago

nelson : CRAPCHA - For when you want a really hard to solve CAPTCHA

Andy Baio : CRAPCHA - impossible captchas using Unicode and Font Awesome glyphs  [via]

Death of Upcoming.org

1 month ago

nelson : Death of Upcoming.org - Another web product killed

Andy Baio : Yahoo killing Upcoming on April 30 - with no on-site notice and no way to backup past events; my thoughts about the closure

Notch profile

2 month ago

nelson : Notch profile - Nice story about the man behind Minecraft

Andy Baio : The New Yorker profiles Notch - coping with the responsibility of sudden fame and wealth  [via]

Google Readers' influence

2 month ago

nelson : Google Readers' influence - Nice details on the value of Google Reader traffic to publishers

Andy Baio : What if the Google Reader readers never come back? - entirely likely

Boomerang for Gmail

3 month ago

nelson : Boomerang for Gmail - Take a message out of your inbox, bring it back later.

Andy Baio : Boomerang for Gmail - reschedule emails in your inbox; like a poor man's Mailbox  [via]

Fader's explainer on the Harlem Shake

3 month ago

Andy Baio : Fader's explainer on the Harlem Shake - first time I've seen the sample source cited; YouTube's Content ID is paying off nicely for Baauer

nelson : Harlem Shake explained - Great research into the history of the meme

WebCamMesh

3 month ago

nelson : WebCamMesh - Amazing 3d-guessing camera demo; pixel brightness translates to depth

Andy Baio : WebCamMesh - webcam demo maps pixel brightness to depth  [via]

Discourse

4 month ago

nelson : Discourse - New forum software from the StackExchange folks

Andy Baio : Discourse - Jeff Atwood and Robin Ward reboot the discussion forum; see it in action

Pirate hacks of Africa

4 month ago

nelson : Pirate hacks of Africa - Interesting remix culture

Andy Baio : Pirate hacks of Africa - supreme bootleg weirdness from a Nairobi videogame store  [via]

Elevated

4 month ago

Andy Baio : Elevated - 28kb of WebGL madness in JS, ported from the original 4k PC demoscene intro  [via]

nelson : Elevated demo - An old 4k rendering demo ported to WebGL. All rendered realtime in a tiny amount of code.

Newegg vs patent troll

4 month ago

nelson : Newegg vs patent troll - Successfully litigated against a claim to own shopping carts

Andy Baio : How Newegg crushed the "shopping cart" patent troll - great interview with their Chief Legal Officer; "Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that."  [via]

Actual Facebook Graph Searches

4 month ago

nelson : Actual Facebook Graph Searches - Search engines can be creepy

Andy Baio : Actual Facebook Graph Searches - unintended consequences of building a search engine around previously-unsurfaced data

Archive.is

4 month ago

nelson : Archive.is - Web service for archiving web pages at a specific moment. Handles Javascript

Andy Baio : Archive.is - archive pages including JS and a static image

Lessig on Aaron Swartz

4 month ago

nelson : Lessig on Aaron Swartz - Righteous anger

Andy Baio : Prosecutor as bully - Lessig on the DOJ's prosecution of Aaron Swartz, even after JSTOR dropped the case

Tweeria

5 month ago

nelson : Tweeria - Twitter is an MMO game, who knew?

Andy Baio : Tweeria - turns Twitter activity into a lazy RPG

Screenshot-proof images

5 month ago

nelson : Screenshot-proof images - Clever if horrible idea

Andy Baio : Screenshot-proof dithering - the proof-of-concept might trigger seizures  [via]

The Basement

5 month ago

Andy Baio : The Basement - I found a scan of the clipped 1918 map in the Oregonian archives

cobra libre : The Basement #

box2d-jquery

5 month ago

nelson : box2d-jquery - Physics + DOM = lol

Andy Baio : box2d-jquery - this is begging to be a bookmarklet or browser addon  [via]

John McAfee update

6 month ago

nelson : John McAfee update - Crazily detailed NYT report on the man's recent life

Andy Baio : NYT on John McAfee - he's posting updates to his blog, currently on the run with two Vice reporters

Gamasutra interviews Stewart on why Glitch shut down

6 month ago

Andy Baio : Gamasutra interviews Stewart on why Glitch shut down - sad to say, I had no idea you could do 90% of what's in this video

nelson : Glitch Postmortem - Great interview with Stewart

Skrillex Quest

6 month ago

nelson : Skrillex Quest - Brilliant glitch / Zelda / dubstep game homage. (Also, an ad.)

Andy Baio : Skrillex Quest - 8-bit glitch art meets dubstep, with more than a little Sword & Sworcery influence

Ian Bogost on the Wii U

6 month ago

Andy Baio : Ian Bogost on the Wii U - insightful look at Nintendo's history, the new Wii U slate, and existential despair

cobra libre : Ian Bogost: Wii Can't Go On, Wii'll Go On - "Like a lap only appears when you sit down, this weird interstitial space only exists when we activate both sorts of devices. It's not a two-screen experience, but a no-screen experience." #

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