2012
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December 2012
- Numberphile
- Tenth Grade Tech Trends
- Minecraft Reality for iOS
- Census Dotmap
- Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
- Save Publishing
- Tweeria
- Kevin Kelly on replacing human jobs with robots
- 2012: A Banner Year for Indie Games
- Converting MP3s into 3D printed records
- Screenshot-proof dithering
- Flickr's Holiday Gift
- Music History in GIFs
- Typingpool
- Ian Bogost on the first footage of Meteors
- Parker Higgins analyzes the Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire" lawsuit
- 100 Riffs on Soundslice
- The Basement
- Wired's text adventure interview with Infocom's Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky
- Echo Nest's Brian Whitman on how music recommendation works
- NYT on the Wirecutter
- Commodore 64 Christmas Demos
- VHX's State of Distribution PSA
- 2012: A Jam Odyssey
- Cards Against Humanity's holiday stats
- Twitter rolling out the ability to download your full tweet history
- Spaceteam
- Syrian rebels make gamepad-controlled tank
- Tuning '77
- The Web We Lost
- box2d-jquery
- The Art of Incredipede
- The Kingdom of Cipher
- Jason Scott on software emulation of CRT monitors
- Polygon on Johann Sebastian Joust
- The Unified Theory of XOXO
- AOL's history told through the NYT crossword puzzle
- Designing for color accessibility
- Craig Mod on subcompact publishing
- Try R
- Songs About Us
- Apple to manufacture Mac line in U.S.A.
- Photobooth.js
- Christmas GIFs
- LOOT The Game
- History of hip-hop sampling videogame soundtracks
- The Carp and the Seagull
- NYT on John McAfee
- Pinokio, animatronic lamp made with Arduino/Processing
- The Daily closes its doors
- Gamasutra interviews Stewart on why Glitch shut down
November 2012
- Matt Haughey on Facebook vs. Twitter
- The Brief
- Bad Kids Jokes
- Lunar Trails, physical plots of Lunar Lander playthroughs
- Staples announces in-store 3D printing
- Skrillex Quest
- Amazon Random Shopper
- Ian Bogost on the Wii U
- The Grey Album, remastered
- HTTP Status Rappers
- The Lying Disease
- LARP TREK
- SIGGRAPH Asia's technical papers trailer
- ReCode Project
- Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight Bundle
- Indie Game: The Movie covers distribution
- Nekrogoblikon's "No One Survives"
- IBM PC Model 5150 in JS
- Controlling "Call Me Maybe" by heartbeat
- Alexis Madrigal's profile of Harper Reed and the Obama tech team
- LCD Soundsystem and Miles Davis improv YouTube duet
- Indie musician discusses his streaming music revenues
- SoundSlice
- Small World
- LazyTruth, Chrome add-on debunks chain letters in Gmail
- Steven Levy on the patent problem
- Cabel Sasser on his soundtrack for The Incident
- The Infinite Jukebox
- Wired talks to fugitive suspect/antivirus pioneer John McAfee
- Jam with Chrome
- Mixing digital sculpture with real objects
- Sportsfriends on Kickstarter
- Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter
- The Atlantic on long voting lines and partisan vote suppression
- Surveillance Camera Man
- Unraveling the "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" mystery
- A Slower Speed of Light
- Twitter's political engagement map
- Indie Game: The Movie's breakdown of the tech that made it possible
- NYT's Hurricane Sandy timelapse
- Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On
- It's Global Warming, Stupid
- Where the City of Darkness Meets the City of Light
October 2012
- Infinite Gangnam Style
- Windchime
- Super Bread Box
- Microscopix, WebGL graphic demo
- Halfblock
- Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4B, new Star Wars coming in 2015
- Gatekeeper's Exo
- Polygon launches
- Frog Fractions
- Typing Karaoke
- Brief history of gestural interfaces
- Anil Dash liveblogs the Apple Special Event
- Ira Glass makes balloon animals while giving advice to teen girls
- Wired profile on Peter Molyneux and @PeterMolydeux
- paint mámor
- Glenn Fleishman's story of appearing on Jeopardy
- View Source
- ViolentAcrez interviewed on CNN, apologizes and blames Reddit
- Ze Frank's very important notes on the second presidential debate
- Badly Recreated Animated Film Frames
- Grad student writes about "weird Twitter," drama ensues
- Creepshots returns disguised as lesbians and fashionistas
- ReConstitution 2012
- Humble eBook Bundle
- 42zip
- Circa, news app released for iPhone
- I Like What I See
- Aaronetrope
- The Greatest Event in Television History
- Ze Frank on the VP debate
- Gawker outs a popular Reddit moderator/troll
- Conway's Game of Life emulated in Conway's Game of Life
- District court rules book scanning is fair use
- Marco Arment launches The Magazine
- heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com
- NYT on the patent wars
- The Rumble 2012: Bill O'Reilly vs. Jon Stewart
- Senate candidate's World of Warcraft hobby used against her
- Guilded Youth
- Looper writer/director releases free in-theater commentary track
- Entertainment Weekly ad contains a fully-functioning 3G Android phone
- Adventure Time fans make fictional Card Wars game real
- Quartz on Facebook Zero
- Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore launch party
- YouTube fixes ContentID appeals, now requires DMCA filing
- Betabeat profile on Andrew Hussie and Homestuck fandom
- The Crying Competition
- Teenage Engineering lets customers 3-D print their own replacement parts
September 2012
- GIFCTRL
- 99 Problems But Mitt's Not One
- Stack Exchange teams up with US Patent Office to crowdsource prior art
- YouTube allows full download of your original videos
- Is Barack Obama the President?
- xkcd's massive comic as an MMO
- Bret Victor on learnable programming
- GIF Sound
- Katz's Deli, miniaturized
- Stamen maps the Bay Area's private company shuttle routes
- We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
- LEGO Great Ball Contraption
- Julia Nunes organizing East Coast living room tour
- Kickstarter Is Not A Store
- Salon sells The WELL to its longtime members
- The Tweets of XOXO
- IFTTT forced to remove Twitter recipes to comply with API changes
- The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
- Patterns
- 2601 People Wrote This Song
- The dream of the Internet is alive in Portland
- Ben Folds Five and Fraggle Rock's "Do It Anyway"
- SHEXAGON
- Chris Anderson on the new MakerBot Replicator 2
- xkcd's click and drag
- Vimeo Creator Services
- 4chan offers subscription service to cover costs
- Internet Archive launches extensive TV news archive
- Wired on XOXO
- No Evidence of Disease
- Venus Patrol launches
- Hyundai's Hyper-Matrix Wall
- Andy Rehfeldt's metal remix of Bob Marley's "Is This Love"
- Steve Streza's story of making the Gangnam Style/LMFAO mashup
- How claw crane arcade machines work
- Boston Dynamics cheetah robot running 28.3 mph
- XOXO's lineup of fringe events
- Wired on the Algorithmic Copyright Cops
- 4chan releases an API
- Homestuck is the Internet's Ulysses
- AntiSec leaks one million Apple UDIDs with device names
- The Verge reviews McPixel for iOS
- Johann Sebastian Joust's new traitor mode
- Ustream copyright bots kill the Hugo awards livestream
- Heather Champ brings back The Mirror Project
- Greg Knauss on his 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite
- Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources
August 2012
- Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube
- Photo Hunt
- Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit
- Coding.fm
- The Waiting Game
- We Are Back
- The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive
- Insane in the Chromatophores
- Brooklyn Integers
- Gangnam Style, Dissected
- Super Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600
- Twitter revokes Tumblr's friend finding privileges
- Uncertain Rainbow
- Give Up
- Case study of Indie Game: The Movie's distribution
- Awkward Stock Video
- How Mat Honan recovered his data
- Kickstarter case study of Robin Sloan's book project
- How Gasketball's free-to-play app business model backfired
- Staggering Beauty
- Obvious announces Medium, a new blogging platform
- Khan Academy's new interactive computer science program
- Progressive Insurance defends policy holder's killer in court
- Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra
- A Long Drawn-Out Trip
- Hieroglyphy, a tool to turn any JS code into ()[]{}!+
- Kirby Ferguson's Embrace the Remix talk at TED
- Mixel to close in September
- Beck's new album released only as sheet music
- What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty?
- Internet Archive offers over a million torrents of books, music, and films
- How YouTube lets content companies claim public domain footage
- The Onion's Sex House
- Visualizing the Racial Divide
- NYT visualization on the history of the Olympic men's 100m sprint
- Mat Honan on the Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to his hack
- Moot on 4chan's one billionth post
- Togather
- YouTube's Content ID from Scripps takes down NASA's Mars Rover video
- Little Techie
- NASA's Mars Curiosity landing livestream
- Touch Arcade's review of 10000000, brilliant puzzle/RPG for iOS
- "Dude. Will you marry me?"
- Knight Capital accidentally deployed test suite into production
- Pareidoloop
- Highlights from EA's The Sims cloning lawsuit against Zynga
- Mat Honan's post-mortem on getting hacked
- Nucleal
- Clop
- This Is Now
- Sight, sci-fi short on augmented vision
- Animated Pizza Gifs
- Alternate Scorsese Siri commercial
- Bahi JD, Iranian animated GIF artist turned Japanese pro animator
- Slender
- The Twitter Political Index
- Headliner
- Digg relaunches
July 2012
- Ascii Street View
- Original Spelunky ported to Javascript
- Fluid simulation with 512k particles
- The first functional 3D printed gun
- Cloud Atlas trailer
- Wired on the design of the Def Con 20 badges
- How I hacked my brain with Adderall
- Diana Kimball's case study of Cards Against Humanity
- Pandyland on Instagram
- Actor Chris Gethard confronts his Internet tormenter
- Generation Sell
- Delicious to switch from "stacks" to tags
- Notch on patents
- Robin Sloan's book review written in Javascript
- David Carr asks, What Is Yahoo?
- McSweeney's list of suggested BuzzFeed articles
- Portland man found not guilty for stripping at TSA checkpoint
- Robert Hodgin at Eyeo 2012
- Polygon's The Evolution of PC Games
- Dear Marissa Mayer
- Books of Adam on falling in love with videogames
- Fez technical postmortem
- Ars Technica tracks down the secretive owner of FunnyJunk
- Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo's new CEO
- David House's grand jury testimony in the Bradley Manning hearing
- Star Wars "Call Me Maybe"
- HypnoSF
- Marc Maron interviews Dan Harmon on the end of Community
- RRRRRRRROLL_GIF
- Betaworks buys Digg assets for a rumored $500k
- Amazon's push for same-day delivery
- Kyle McDonald's story of his Secret Service raid following People Staring at Computers
- Analysis of the 450,000 leaked Yahoo Voices passwords
- Using Echo Nest to use music preference to predict political leaning
- A Lip-Sync Six Years in the Making
- Machines (Take Care of The)
- xkcd's what if?
- Rabble digs into the history of the @reply on Twitter
- How Vi Hart Makes A Video About Making A Video About Making A Video
- Spelunky Pancakes
- SCOTUSblog's postmortem on the ACA verdict mess
- Tom Francis on Spelunky and the City of Gold
- Apple cracking down on UDID activation sites
- Howard Rheingold on the rise and fall of The WELL
- A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self
- San Diego malfunction leads to 15 minutes of fireworks in 15 seconds
- Comic Sans Everywhere for Chrome
- Giant Bomb's hour-long preview of Spelunky
- Charles Carreon dismisses his lawsuit against the Oatmeal
- Andrew Kim's proposed rebranding for Microsoft
- The Kid vs. Plants vs. Zombies
- Public radio reporter interviews his two daughters' "worst haircut ever"
- The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
- Reddit explains Obamacare
June 2012
- Salon lays off The Well staff, put it up for sale
- Political Screaming Match
- The Kleptones' Paths to Graceland mixtape
- Profile of Mike Merrill, publicly-traded person
- Evolution of the Web
- Anil Dash on clouds for people and EC2 for poets
- Color Coordinates
- Google Compute Engine launches
- Google Chrome and Drive launching on iPhone and iPad today
- Are We In the Future Yet?
- Google's Project Glass demo at I/O
- Source Filmmaker
- Idea Channel on mashups and the shifting value of genre definitions
- Rock-scissors-paper robot wins every time against human opponents
- Jess & Russ's wedding invitation
- Ze Frank walks a mile in another man's shoes
- Sorkinisms
- Louis CK selling complete tour direct through his site
- Symbolset
- Facebook switches all users to facebook.com email addresses
- Millefiori
- Top IAmA
- Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror
- Coins
- Daybreak, looped
- Ars Technica feature on the rise and fall of Winamp
- FuckItJS
- Jonathan Coulton on the future of music, 3D printing, and scarcity
- Kickstarter releases detailed stats page, updated daily
- Can't Wait for iOS 6? Renegade Developers Trade Access for Cash
- First Person Tutor
- Trailer for Perspective, a crazy first-person puzzler
- Robin Sloan's social experiment with choosing the lowest primes
- How Pogo makes an audio remix
- Owning Your Own Words
- Satellite Eyes
- Joshua Topolsky on the Microsoft Surface tablet
- Origami artist sues over abstract paintings of unfolded designs
- Progression of an animated scene from Tangled
- Netflix neuters its API
- Inventing a Problem
- FunnyJunk lawyer files suits against The Oatmeal, IndieGogo, National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society
- PBS Off Book's tribute to the animated GIF
- Jay Smooth on sexist gamer dudes
- Artists celebrate the 25th anniversary of the animated GIF
- Technology Review profile on Cameron Marlow and the Facebook Data Team
- Ze Frank's FacePunch
- Pattern analyzing the chord structures of 1,300 songs
- Reddit user's ten-year Civilization II war spawns a following
- The Complete Dan Harmon Channel 101 Canon
- Readability ends contentious paid publisher model
- Busting the iOS 6 Transit Map Myths
- Indie Game: The Movie available to stream or download
- Snakes on a Cartesian Plane
- Robert Hodgin's Eyeo 2012 demos
- Pointer Pointer
- NPR previews Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel
- Jonathan Lethem's "My Internet"
- Paul Ford's 10 Timeframes
- Turning Patrons into Producers: Fan-Commissioned Art on Kickstarter
- Brother Brain
- Cindy Au on the "Take My Money, HBO" campaign
- OK Cupid Enemies
- Content ID Run Amok: Isaac's Lip-Dub Proposal Removed from YouTube
- Reddit users collaborate to make the Community 8-bit game real
- Life After A Total Hack
- FM Towns Marty
- New trailer for Disney's Wreck-It Ralph
- Airtime
- Quora_ebooks
- The Ballad of the Psychotropic Robots
- Washington Post on the fall of CNET founder Halsey Minor
- Soundplay
- NYT on a Parisian food truck
- Emily Short's Bee, a story about work and spelling
- A Brief History of Video Games
- Kickstarter's Yancey Strickler on Amanda Palmer's $1M album project
- PBS short film on the culture of Reddit
- Museum of Endangered Sounds
- Clippy.js
- Report confirms Stuxnet created by U.S., Israel
- Blockly, a graphical programming language by Google
May 2012
- Politwoops, deleted tweets from politicians
- Meshu
- Make Good Art
- Jason Scott restores Internet Underground Music Archive
- Google+ Search API Weirdness
- Open Goldberg Variations released
- InstaCRT, fake camera filters turned analog
- NTK, 15 years later
- Isaac's lip-dub proposal
- Reggie Watts at TED
- Star Wars recreated by legendary voice actors
- Serendipitor, an app that creates serendipitous routes
- Ill Doctrine on why trolling needs to be legal
- Linespace
- DIY.org, a community of kids who make
- Soul Searchin'
- BlindSide, a 3D audio-only adventure game for iOS
- Robot arm grabs SpaceX Dragon
- The Depth Jam
- 19-year-old entrepreneur secretly lives in AOL's offices for two month
- Indie Game: The Movie, releasing worldwide on June 12
- Adam Savage's "Why We Make"
- Because We May
- SF Weekly profile on Tim Schafer and Double Fine
- Leno airs YouTube video without permission, Content ID takes down the original
- Double Fine announces The Cave, Ron Gilbert's new adventure game
- Introducing XOXO
- Neil Gaiman's commencement speech
- Metafilter user's "suicide" was a hoax
- Google Japan's HTML5 Moog synth
- XOXO Festival is live!
- SIGGRAPH 2012 technical papers preview
- Full album 8-bit tributes to Radiohead's Kid A and OK Computer
- E. chromi
- Jeri Ellsworth's C64 Keytar
- Makies
- Euphony
- Paul Lamere calculates the most musical American cities, per capita
- Endless, Nameless
- Community's 8-bit episode on Hulu
- Dan Harmon on getting fired from Community
- Benjamin Valentine's PERFECTION
- Super Chemical Bros.
- What Love Looks Like
- io9 charts how visions of the future changed over time
- How Facebook hacked the NASDAQ button to push an Open Graph action
- NYT visualization of the Facebook IPO vs. historical IPOs
- Nekogames' Parameters
- Law & Order & Food
- Ill Doctrine on hip hop conspiracy theories
- Ze Frank on finishing
- Trailer for Ed Piskor's WIZZYWIG
- Ignore Hitler
- Austin Seraphin on learning echolocation
- Mat Honan's feature on Yahoo's mismanagement of Flickr
- Make interviews Bunnie Huang on the end of Chumby
- Rebecca Sugar's Singles
- SMBC on hell
- GameBoy Color emulator in JS
- 60,000 Dominoes
- OAuth Is Your Future
- The Final ROFLCon and Mobile's Impact on Internet Culture
- Criminal Creativity: Untangling Cover Song Licensing on YouTube
- Fracuum
- History of Yahoo CEOs: Tenure vs. Stock Price
- Welcome to Life
- BusinessWeek on the post-Kickstarter life of Diaspora
- Anachronism detection in Mad Men episodes
- Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams
- Hartverdrahtet
- Mike Birbiglia's short film from This American Life
- Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon
- Robot butt that represents emotions
- Gina Trapani on the failings of "brogrammer" culture
- Dustin Curtis on pixel fitting rasterized vector images
- Mitt Romney bullied gay students in high school
- Walt Disney's Taxi Driver
- Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine
- Recursive Drawing
- The Forger
- Steve Albini AMA on Reddit
- Maurice Sendak, rest in peace
- Tinkercad
- Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade
- LA Times on American Airlines' attempt to revoke its all-you-can-fly passes
- Daniel Hooper's proposal for text editing on iPad
- Mineception
- Scumbag Steve's Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl
- Anil Dash on Popchips' racist promo with Ashton Kutcher
- Reddit users share their deepest, darkest secrets
- Doodle Music
- Deadspin investigates an ESPN freelancer's Internet scams
- Million Short
- Inc. profile on the Turntable.fm team's struggle to grow
April 2012
- The Data Journalism Handbook
- Maxgif
- Nyan Waits
- Yancey Strickler digs up never-before-seen Kickstartr (sic) designs
- NYT visualization of three years of Kickstarter projects
- Dan Hon on beating diabetes with data
- Go Right
- Original Atari developer ports Star Castle to the Atari 2600, 30 years later
- Super Mario Summary Shame
- First two seasons of Star Trek played simultaneously
- Music for Programming
- Nieman Lab on Gawker's new commenting system
- Steven Levy on algorithm-generated news articles
- Light Table, a reactive coding IDE
- Microscopia
- Building Animusic's Pipe Dream in the real world
- CSS 3D Tilt
- Descriptive Camera
- Best of Metafilter
- Google Drive launches
- "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
- A Super Mario Summary
- Scape
- VIM Adventures
- Tweenk
- Mmmmmm
- Valve's Handbook for New Employees
- Grow A Face
- 5th Ave. Frogger
- Ludum Dare 23 interactive keynote
- Botanicula released
- In a Rigged Game, Twitter's IPA Lets Developers Rewrite the Rules
- People Who Don't Know How to Spell "Cologne"
- Chinese hierarchies of snobbery and contempt
- Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs
- Summarizing the UC Davis Pepper Spray Report
- The History of #1 Projects on Kickstarter
- Marco Arment on Twitter's patent agreement
- How Fark's Drew Curtis fought a patent troll
- Twitter introduces the Innovator's Patent Agreement
- The centuries-old tech behind the Tupac "hologram" at Coachella
- The Republia Times
- SymbolHound
- Image Error Level Analysis with HTML5
- Ten Years of farbrausch Productions on GitHub
- MADMEN Bittorrent Edition
- Waxy.org Turns 10
- Google BBS
- Tug of Store
- Why Netflix never used the algorithm that won the Netflix Challenge
- Snowball
- Printer, an open-source kit for Internet-connected thermal printers
- The Intelligent Encyclopedia
- The Oatmeal's How to Get More Likes on Facebook
- Incredibox
- ASCII art animation on Twitter
- The Listserve
- Long, thoughtful interview with Peter Molyneux
- Instagram's Buyout: How Does It Measure Up?
- Campbell Whyte's 8-Bit Dreams
- InstaBackup
- Pongs
- The Fun Pass Is An Awesome Deal
- Chairlift's "Met Before"
- Paul Ford on Facebook and Instagram
- Github adds support for Notch's virtual CPU in 0x10c
- Hillary Clinton responds to Texts from Hillary Tumblr
- Froggatto level editor
- Adrian Chen tracks down the history and identity of Goatse
- Disasterpeace's FEZ soundtrack now on sale
- Caine's Arcade
- MMO Asteroids, for real
- Metafilter's link-rich primer of the demoscene
- RIP Jack Tramiel, Commodore founder
- Facebook buys Instagram for $1B
- Ze Frank's An Invocation for Beginnings
- LaserTube: Trapped in the Closet
- Photo Timeline
- The End of Expert Labs, The Start of Something New
- Rev. Dan Catt on the New Aesthetic
- Projection mapping on a human face
- Microsoft Research Cliplets
- Flashback Trojan Creators Scared of Xcode, But Not Norton Antivirus
- Crate-Digging Through YouTube
- Justin Watt discovers Javascript injection on his hotel's wifi
- Jonathan McIntosh's history of subversive remix videos before YouTube
- ADmented Reality
- Waiting for Molydeux: What the Web Could Learn from Indie Games
- Google announces Project Glass, their augmented-reality glasses
- Why $7.99 beats $0.99
- NYT Mag on casual gaming with an interactive illustration
- TypingClub
- Math for Makers
- Twitter in 1985
- Joystiq on Molyjam
- Linux Tycoon
- Rear Window remixed into a single panoramic shot
- You Are The Road
- Kill Screen interviews Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe
- Subtle Sans
- wanderdrone
- Codecademy adds HTML/CSS lessons
- Floating Shiny Knot
- I hereby resign
- Kinect Star Wars dance party
- How Etsy ships
- Soundtap
- MapsTD, tower defense game on Google Maps
- Mike Davidson on the Readability controversy
- FFFFFAT's subpixel
- MMOsteroids
- Criterion Collection releases Kindergarten Cop
- Reddit Timeline
March 2012
- 1-Bit Camera for iOS
- Google introduces 8-Bit Maps for the NES
- Sightseeing 8-Bit Maps with 1-Bit Camera
- Cult of Mac on a creepy app for stalking women using shared location data
- Minecraft Red Rock City timelapse
- Lost Prince of Persia source code discovered in dad's closet
- Glitchr
- Face.com adds age detection to the face recognition API
- DuckDuckGo's query stats
- The Verge reviews Paper, a gorgeous drawing app for iOS
- Kickstarter digs into the impact of blockbusters on smaller projects
- Jeff Bezos plans to recover Apollo 11 rocket engines from the sea floor
- NY Mag on the new young foodies
- Frank Cifaldi tries to track down the Super Mario Bros. release date
- Spotting anachronistic phrases in Mad Men using Google Ngram
- The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project
- Quora on watching characters in film based on people you know
- A Guide to Patterns and Forms in Trainyard
- Mega 64's Recut of Indie Game: The Movie
- Fame, a Twitter lottery
- Legit
- Skills.to
- BrowserQuest
- OMGPOP developer Shay Pierce explains why he didn't join Zynga
- Pippin Barr's Epic Sax Game
- Tambour
- The Fourth Dimension for iOS
- Racist Hunger Games fans disappointed on Twitter
- Apollo 18+20, an interactive fiction tribute to They Might be Giants
- Michael Jackson vs. Chris Watson
- Multiplayer Piano
- Screenshots of Despair
- AppBlock
- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to being a meme
- A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work
- Pentametron
- Fish: a tap essay
- Nieman Lab on Gawker's editorial strategy
- Stamen Maps
- Matt Haughey's Lessons from a 40-Year-Old
- Passagebalt
- Selfsurfing
- Big Lebowski F*cking Short F*cking Version Without F*cking
- Aziz Ansari pulls a Louis CK
- Wwwtxt
- How tweeting Deadmau5 led to one artist's big break
- Making a particle system in HTML5 Canvas
- Girl Walk // All Day
- Water
- Free Indie Games
- ChirpClock
- F.A.T. Lab's Free Universal Construction Kit
- Putting the I in Story
- Way
- Microscopic views of the iPad, iPhone, and other portable displays
- Austin Kleon on Bruce Springsteen's SXSW keynote
- This American Life retracts Mike Daisey's Apple/FoxConn episode
- Browsing the web from behind the Great Firewall of China
- Militarizing Your Backyard with Python and Computer Vision
- How Christian Marclay made The Clock
- The $8B iPod
- Slate on _why's disappearance and his impact on the world
- Twirdie
- Adam Savage on how simple ideas leads to major scientific discoveries
- Real-time speech synthesis in 1k of Javascript
- Kickstarter's Double Fine Day
- Why James Whittaker left Google
- Dancefloor Diplomacy's "We Are Ready"
- Stratocam
- Machine Pareidolia
- Encyclopaedia Britannica goes out of print
- Village Voice on the NYPD tapes, now confirmed by internal report
- Sounds of the Internet
- How OpenStreetMap handled Apple's unattributed switch
- Ben Brown on 12 years of SXSW Interactive
- David Friedman interviews videogame pioneer Ralph Baer
- Stephen Wolfram's personal analytics of his life
- Narrow the Gapp
- PBS short film on animated GIF art
- Biologic by Bloom
- Emojicons
- Classic Movie Scenes Subtitled for Bros
- Toy Shining
- 2SLEEP1
- Idle Screenings
- Tourney
- Square Register
- Mari0 released
- Insider gossip on how Disneyland underestimated demand for their 24-hour leap day event
- Aerial quadrotor bot creators at TED
- Jer Thorp on the Weight of Data
- Gorgeous visualization of movie profits and reviews
- Pixels and Polaroids
- 2 Player Productions' behind-the-scenes of the Double Fine pitch video
- Jake "virt" Kaufman's FX4
- YouTube's Content ID Disputes Are Judged by the Accuser
- Verisign seizes non-US .com domain on behalf of US authorities
- Cat Fountain
February 2012
- TV Is Broken
- Touch Arcade's behind-the-scenes on Beat Sneak Bandit
- Robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme
- A Year of Links
- Scott Schiller's HTML port of Survivor for the C64
- Jesse Thorn's 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success
- Ze Frank bringing back The Show
- Swear Cuts
- DrunkEliza
- Hexagon
- Admiral Grace Hopper demonstrates a nanosecond
- Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer discuss adventure games
- Adrian Chen unmasks the creator of @horse_ebooks
- Coinbox Hero
- Stripe's Capture the Flag
- Kickstumbler
- 10 Seconds from Every Top 100 Song Ever
- Google to sell HUD glasses by year-end
- Wired profile on the GitHub team
- Dutch scientists to create first lab-grown hamburger this fall
- Eternal copyright: a modest proposal
- 36 Copyrighted Suns
- Peanutty
- YouBeMom
- Twitter Friends Map
- Caterina Fake announces Pinwheel
- Unmanned, a game by MolleIndustria and Jim Munroe
- escapes.js
- Gawker digs up Facebook's internal content moderation guidelines
- John Gruber gets a one-on-one demo of Apple's Mountain Lion
- Everything Is A Remix, Part 4: System Failure
- 2qwop
- Introducing Playfic
- The Verge's analysis on apps that upload your contact list
- Paul Ford's 100 Ways to Say I Love You
- Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0
- Texting Level: Expert
- A Ship Adrift
- Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle
- iOS '86
- The Dark Room
- Eclectic Method recreates 99 Problems with film clips
- Reddit bans child porn subreddits
- Wildlife Control's Analog or Digital
- Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker
- Rise of the Independents
- The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
- Raiding the Lost Ark
- Chimp displays stunning visual memory skills
- MG Siegler on VEVO employees pirating a football game
- GQ on Terry Thompson and last year's exotic animal massacre in Ohio
- Game developers react to Double Fine's $1M fundraising success
- DataEast's Movie Opinion Meter
- Kickstarter's craziest 24 hours
- Horse_ebookmarklet
- The Puzzlejuice Emails
- Double Fine's Kickstarter project to make a new point-and-click adventure
- Interactive ASCII fluid dynamics animation
- What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You
- Path apologizes, deletes user address books
- BBC tracks down an Internet troll
- PressPausePlay
- Restored Disneyland footage from 1957
- Robot readable world
- Avería, the average font
- How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist
- Where's the Pixel?
- ARTINFO on the chilling effect of the Prince v. Cariou copyright ruling
- Darkness
- Nano quadrotors flying in formation
- Bootstrap 2 released
- Jeff Atwood on the risks of unmoderated communities
January 2012
- How and why J.D. Roth sold Get Rich Slowly
- Yahoo lays off in-house Flickr support team
- Mapstalgia
- Pirating the Oscars 2012: Ten Years of Data
- Shit Programmers Say
- Impressions of Corporate Logos by a 5-Year-Old
- Bellbot
- ScratchML
- Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
- David Carr on Kickstarter's film funding at Sundance
- Why ten-year attendee Mike Pusateri's skipping SXSW this year
- MegaUpload's user data set to be destroyed by Friday
- Blogging declines across the Inc. 500
- ChatChat
- Identifying Ice Cube's "Good Day"
- Milkshake
- Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2011
- Pirating the Oscars, 2012
- Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak
- Warby Parker's Annual Report
- Mario meets Tim from Braid
- Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback
- Method of Action's color matching game
- One Hour Per Second
- Nelson Minar on Microsoft 1995 vs. Google 2012
- Get Money, Turn Gay
- Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
- Focus on the User
- Plancast post-mortem
- Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and the overblown threat of piracy
- Anil Dash on the history and future of web protest
- Congress puts SOPA/PIPA on hold, Rep. Lamar Smith finally caves
- State of the demoscene, 1991-2011
- Star Wars Uncut: The Director's Cut
- TorrentFreak on the legal files lost in the MegaUpload shutdown
- Wat
- Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright public domain works
- Twitter buys Summify, shuts it down
- Feds shut down MegaUpload in global operation
- Zapatou's mashup of 71 "Rolling in the Deep" YouTube covers
- @grammer_man, a Twitter bot that corrects misspellings
- Where does Congress stand on SOPA/PIPA?
- Republic, Lost
- Sal Khan's explanation of SOPA and PIPA
- Amit Gupta found a bone marrow donor!
- PIPA supporters violating copyright
- Clay Shirky's TED talk on defending our freedom to share
- Herpderpedia
- Why Larry Lessig isn't at the center of the SOPA fight
- Alexis Madrigal on the SOPA blackouts
- The Day the LOLCats Died
- FARK goes white to protest SOPA/PIPA
- Stop the Wall
- The Oatmeal on SOPA
- The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing
- Visualizing Twitter conversations about SOPA
- BuzzFeed's 20 Images That Will Change Your Life
- Why SOPA and PIPA Must Die
- Algorithmic Search for Love
- Reddit's technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP
- The Fixie Bike Index
- Cut the Rope in HTML5
- NYT on productivity and privacy
- Mark Otto on building Twitter's Bootstrap
- Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo
- Spotify vs. Rdio, Part 2: The Billboard Charts
- Cluedb
- Elevator: Source
- Hello
- Mocality's sting operation to catch Google Kenya's poaching their listings
- Dying Fetus – Grotesque Impalement (Radio Disney Version)
- Making Love to WebKit
- Where the top 100 box office films of 2011 are streaming
- Google Image Search recursion
- My Guantánamo Nightmare
- Kickstarter's Year in Review 2011
- Key Features
- The Restart Page
- NASA goes open-source
- Kill Screen's top 25 games of 2011
- SOPA-supporting news networks uniformly ignored SOPA
- horse_ebooks: This is a romantic story. If you do not
- Vi Hart joins Khan Academy
- Google penalizes Chrome homepage after paid links debacle
- @StealthMountain
- Paypal hates violins
- Record MP3
- Robot avatar brushes a cat remotely in virtual reality
- Real-life Wipeout using quantum levitation
- Clay Johnson on confirmation bias and the election cycle
- Metafilter's Best Post Contest winners announced
- js.js, a Javascript interpreter in Javascript
- Clean Your App Permissions
- Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment
- Scrollorama
- Code Year, learn to code in 2012
- David Weinberger's Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Lists