March 19, 2016
March 18, 2016
March 15, 2016
Julie Rubicon
(short fiction, totally not written by Robin Sloan, about Facebook on Facebook)
March 13, 2016
March 11, 2016
March 10, 2016
March 9, 2016
March 8, 2016
March 7, 2016
March 5, 2016
March 3, 2016
Fileship
(hold digital files hostage until your client pays up)
March 2, 2016
March 1, 2016
Vandelay Industries
(a Slack bot that searches every line from Seinfeld and posts an animated GIF)
February 28, 2016
February 25, 2016
Playthings
(cheeseburger drums and gummy bear xylophones on a day-glo VR island)
February 24, 2016
Stripe Atlas
(targeted to non-US businesses, but seems pretty damned useful for U.S. businesses too)
February 23, 2016
February 22, 2016
February 19, 2016
The Simpsons Sphere
(360Β° video of 500 episodes at the same time; try it in the YouTube app on your phone)
The Maker
("the simple story of one man's enduring passion")
The Outpost Is Here
(the absurdly great launch lineup for XOXO's new shared workspace in Portland)
February 18, 2016
Codeology
(gorgeous visualization of Github projects by size and languages)
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February 17, 2016
February 16, 2016
The Brain
(a neural network built in Quartz Composer)
February 15, 2016
February 12, 2016
Zebra
(painful new game from Bennett Foddy; epilepsy warning)
Blab
(Twitch meets Hangouts)
February 11, 2016
February 10, 2016
February 8, 2016
XOXO Outpost
(if you're in Portland, applications are now open for our shared workspace, opening this week)
February 7, 2016
February 5, 2016
February 4, 2016
January 27, 2016
January 26, 2016
The Chickening
(Nick DenBoer and Davy Force bat-shit insane remix of The Shining)
January 25, 2016
January 24, 2016
January 22, 2016
January 21, 2016
January 19, 2016
January 14, 2016
January 13, 2016
January 11, 2016
January 8, 2016
January 5, 2016
January 4, 2016
January 1, 2016
The Trump Diet
(Matt Haughey embarks on a high-stakes weight loss challenge)
December 31, 2015
Milling Time
(you may not play Hearthstone, but this probably applies to you too)
December 30, 2015
MVP
(short fiction about devs building a game for an audience of bots)
December 23, 2015
December 17, 2015
A-Frame
(shockingly simple open-source framework for making WebVR with HTML)
December 16, 2015
December 15, 2015
Pilot
(each episode is a pilot for a new podcast, from This American Life's Stephanie Foo)
December 14, 2015
December 13, 2015
Reality Editor
(MIT Media Lab augmented reality project to modify the behavior of connected objects)
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MRA Dilbert
(mashing up Dilbert comics with horrible, real quotes from its creator)
December 12, 2015
December 11, 2015
YouTube Rewind 2015
(I've never felt so detached from YouTube culture, I only know 20% of these creators)
December 10, 2015
December 8, 2015
Yule Log 2015
(short looping animations for the holidays; watch 'em fullscreen with some hot cocoa)
10x15
(ten artists reimagine the cover art for their top ten favorite albums of 2015)
December 7, 2015
December 6, 2015
December 4, 2015
Jury Duty
(anonymous and unlisted first-person story of being a juror on a murder trial)
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Access Denied
(stunning John Herrman column on the end of special access for the media)
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December 3, 2015
December 1, 2015
November 30, 2015
November 29, 2015
November 28, 2015
The Serial Swatter
(the NYT goes deep on how armchair terrorists exploit America's over-militarized police)
November 24, 2015
November 23, 2015
November 22, 2015
NeuralTalk and Walk
(Kyle McDonald walks around Amsterdam with a neural net trying to describe what it sees)
November 21, 2015
November 20, 2015
Gay Island
(homophobic Tumblr post turns into dystopian young adult sci-fi)
November 19, 2015
November 17, 2015
November 16, 2015
Unfollow
(Adrian Chen on Megan Phelps-Roper, a former Westboro Baptist member that found empathy online)
November 15, 2015
November 12, 2015
November 11, 2015
#ALLMYMOVIES
(watch Shia LaBeouf watch every Shia Labeouf movie in reverse-chronological order, 24 hours a day)
November 9, 2015
November 6, 2015
Dumb Cuneiform
(convert tweets to actual clay tablets; yes, this is real)
November 5, 2015
Suck, Again
(fan-made newsletter reissuing Suck.com columns, 20 years later to the day)
November 4, 2015
November 2, 2015
October 30, 2015
October 27, 2015
October 26, 2015
Medium's stack
(in a footnote, nice to hear they're working on tools for writers to make money next)
October 20, 2015
October 19, 2015
October 15, 2015
Ermahgerddon
(Vanity Fair interviews the woman from the "Ermahgerd" meme)
October 14, 2015
Computer Show
(Sandwich Video's pitch-perfect 1980s tech show interviews modern startups)
October 13, 2015
PCKWCK
(serialized novel written in real-time with live comments and webcam of the author)
October 9, 2015
October 7, 2015
October 6, 2015
Network Effect
(new Jonathan Harris project visualizing human behavior online with YouTube, Twitter, MTurk, Google Ngrams)
October 5, 2015
karaoke_ebooks
(turn a user's tweets into algorithmically-generated rhyming lyrics with music)
I'm Google
(Dina Kelberman's ongoing project to manually find chains of visually similar images and videos in Google)
October 2, 2015
September 29, 2015
September 25, 2015
September 24, 2015
September 23, 2015
cloud ocr
(pick a street, look up, and try to OCR the sky)
September 22, 2015
Neurotic Neurons
(Nicky Case's explorable explanation of exposure therapy, and how we learn and unlearn)
September 21, 2015
September 18, 2015
September 8, 2015
September 7, 2015
September 3, 2015
Byte
(like Hypercard meets Mixel, odd and interesting; the
API is shockingly robust for a brand new iOS app)
September 1, 2015
August 30, 2015
August 29, 2015
August 26, 2015
Leaving Everywhere
(Darius Kazemi made a rant generator about moving away from cities using real census data)
August 23, 2015
August 22, 2015
August 21, 2015
August 20, 2015
August 19, 2015
August 18, 2015
Cameron's World
(incredible collage of text and images from archived GeoCities pages)
August 14, 2015
August 13, 2015
Ferrolic
(computer-controlled ferrofluid makes a pretty interesting analog display)
August 11, 2015
August 9, 2015
August 7, 2015
August 6, 2015
August 5, 2015
Ennuigi
(follow a depressed Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders over a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom)