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 #
Matt Haughey on Facebook vs. Twitter
— Facebook is for proximity-based relationships, Twitter is interest-based #
Lunar Trails, physical plots of Lunar Lander playthroughs
— related: Sam van Doorn's painting device built with pinball parts #
Skrillex Quest
— 8-bit glitch art meets dubstep, with more than a little Sword & Sworcery influence #
Amazon Random Shopper
— Darius Kazemi's bot buys him random stuff from Amazon and he blogs the results (via) #
Ian Bogost on the Wii U
— insightful look at Nintendo's history, the new Wii U slate, and existential despair #
The Lying Disease
— long feature on Munchausen by Internet; see also: Maciej's recent brush with someone faking cancer #
SIGGRAPH Asia's technical papers trailer
— don't miss the mechanical toy solver, sculpt by numbers, and the lenslet array (via) #
Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight Bundle
— bringing players into their internal gamejam, vote on the pitches, and get prototypes #
Indie Game: The Movie covers distribution
— this case study is amazing; don't miss the addendum about Louis C.K. #
Controlling "Call Me Maybe" by heartbeat
— this was his third take in a row, letting him spike his heart rate quickly #
Alexis Madrigal's profile of Harper Reed and the Obama tech team
— Romney's consultants were deeply outgunned by true geek heroes #
LCD Soundsystem and Miles Davis improv YouTube duet
— from 2011, but new to me; way better than Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz #
Indie musician discusses his streaming music revenues
— a best case scenario with an artist-run label #
SoundSlice
— Adrian Holovaty's brilliantly-designed tool for transcribing guitar tab from YouTube videos #
LazyTruth, Chrome add-on debunks chain letters in Gmail
— this should be built into Hotmail and AOL #
The Infinite Jukebox
— seamlessly turn any song into an infinite remix; try the uncanny Call Me Maybe or Little Wing #
Mixing digital sculpture with real objects
— step-by-step walkthrough on how the Lego sandstone model was made #
Sportsfriends on Kickstarter
— four of the best multiplayer indie art games join forces for a commercial release #
Unraveling the "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" mystery
— fun modern detective work into an old Usenet conspiracy theory #
A Slower Speed of Light
— free Mac/PC game simulates lowering the speed of light as a gameplay mechanic #
Twitter's political engagement map
— state-by-state searchable visualization of the response from candidate tweets #
Indie Game: The Movie's breakdown of the tech that made it possible
— the perfect case study of the new indies, making art in the post-Kickstarter era #
Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On
— the scariest post-Sandy article I read came from an unlikely source #
It's Global Warming, Stupid
— the magazine cover is a wakeup call in an election where it was never mentioned #