JS MESS, insane multi-machine emulator in Javascript
— Jason Scott and his volunteer team have ported dozens of new systems, including the Mac SE #
gif hell, top animated gifs on Twitter
— be warned, can be *very* NSFW at times, though it's mostly One Direction at the moment #
I Have Applause
— supercut of applause from MLK's I Have A Dream speech, embroiled in copyright battles #
Golan Levin and Pablo Garcia discuss the NeoLucida at Eyeo
— turning Kickstarter into a MOOC (via) #
Alexis Madrigal on Medium's blurry line between publication and platform
— to me, seems like their editorial strategy is just meant to help people understand what the platform's for #
Wired feature on Welcome to Night Vale
— in a year, it beat This American Life to become the #1 podcast on iTunes #
Bradley Manning and the Two Americas
— long, important Quinn Norton post on information, authority, and the new political dissent #
Notch shelves 0x10c, community picks up the project
— don't miss his blog post about the decision, and the challenges of coping with success #
Scenes from the Wire
— bot that makes animated GIFs using scenes from The Wire and subtitle files (via) #
The Kids' Guide to the Internet from 1997
— or save some time and watch Everything Is Terrible's NSFW remix #
Andrew Plotkin on Seltani, his new interactive fiction world
— inspired by Twine, MUDs, and MMOs, you can try it right now #
Butterick's Practical Typography
— fantastic free text, though I wish the hyperlinks were visually distinct #
UK govt destroyed Guardian hard drives as they watched
— the Guardian's editor reported on this too, but completely buried the lede #
Groklaw shuts down because of government email surveillance
— "There is now no shield from forced exposure." #
The Pickle Index
— using instant noodles and pickled mustard sales to track population trends in China #
Paranoid Browsing
— anti-profiling Chrome plugin searches the net randomly, inspired by Cory Doctorow's Little Brother #
Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow for nine hours
— UK and US authorities blatantly abusing a terrorism law; more from Greenwald #
PirateBay releases PirateBrowser
— one-click Firefox browser preconfigured with Tor and proxy configurations #
Mat Honan on Vine's creative culture
— "If Instagram is an art museum, Vine is a block party." (via) #
The Making of Cart Life
— last year's IGF winner was the designer's first game; try it for Windows or the unofficial Mac port #
LIsten to Wikipedia
— bells are additions, strings are subtractions, the pitch is the size of the edit (via) #
Marco Arment on the Lodsys settlement
— file under: our deeply broken intellectual property system #
Future Crew's Second Reality goes open-source
— the 20th anniversary of the legendary demoscene production #
DEFCON: The Documentary
— Jason Scott was the first to be given all access to film the world's largest hacker con #