The Scythian - Positive Female Characters in Video Games - YouTube
The 1st episode of our series on Positive Female Characters features Sword & Sworcery's the Scythian. Watch it now! »
Amazon Dash Replenishment Service
apparently the future of the internet of things is appliances that have buttons in them that reorder consumables »
I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across The World, Became A Celebrity In China, And Found A Friend For Life
I might be crying -- I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across The World via @mattstopera »
Ladies' Night
Portland Women in Digital! Ladies' Night is back! #helloladiesnight »
Thanks Ellen Pao: Full page ad in Palo Alto Daily Post - Business Insider
Female tech workers raised money to buy a full-page newspaper ad thanking Ellen Pao. »
Amazon Dash Button - Official site - Request an invitation
…and this just came out. Amazon Dash button »
My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure — The Message — Medium
You know how I write things and they sort of knit the technological and emotional worlds together? NOT THIS ONE. »
The World's Most Famous Musicians Just Hosted a Bonkers Press Conference
"If you had any lingering sympathy for the struggling mega-famous, here's a video they made to make you hate them" »
Leisure Suit
I'm rill excited to release the album teaser I directed for Leisure Suit in Oslo. Watch. »
Nitflux | The Number 1 NZ TV show streaming site in the world
Nitflux finally comes to Noo Zillund. Too good. »
Postcards from the Futch — The Message — Medium
A million kisses for @jomc for this blinding article on bullshit 'futch' tech futurism & the spaces that incubate it »
The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch | The New York Times Company
NYT claims "new form of storytelling to help readers catch up in seconds on Apple Watch." It's called "a sentence." »
Arrested for same crime, in newspaper white suspects get yearbook photos, black suspects get mugshots - Boing Boing
Arrested for same crime—in newspaper white suspects get yearbook pix, black suspects mugshots »
A barrow by a beacon
I made a thing: ‘A barrow by a beacon’ – a short story about a walk, told in a radom order »
Ladies' Night
Fresh launch! Check it »
Nerduo presents: The Battle — T-Shirt
Original: Rip off 1: Rip off 2: Rip off 3 »
Battle Stats
Original: Rip off 1: Rip off 2: Rip off 3 »
zazzle.com/knowing_is_half_the_battle_tees-235832456409803562
Original: Rip off 1: Rip off 2: Rip off 3 »
Meetup on April 8th: Open Source and Testing @ Kickstarter » Backing & Hacking — Kickstarter
We are hosting an engineering meetup next Wednesday! I'll be presenting Kumquat, a new Rails / #Rstats plugin »
D.C.'s Top 50 Women in Tech 2015
“We're impact junkies" ~ @hillary, @18F deputy exec dir and one DC's top 50 women in #tech (via @fedscoop), http://t.co… »
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Student at @medialab discovers brain tumor through the collection of his own patient data. #quantifiedself »
Xeni on Periscope
LIVE on #Periscope: #ldsd at @nasajpl »
Stuck In Seattle | Bloomberg Business - Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes
is a pretty good article about the looming disaster of seattle's new highway tunnel »
News and Press Releases | Square
(put simply: if you refuse LGBT's business, we don't want your business) #WeAreIndiana »
The Effective Engineer has launched!
The Effective Engineer, a collection of insights on how to become a more impactful engineer, is now available! »
Projects They Love: Bikes » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
We asked @mathowie to list some of his favorite bike-related @kickstarter projects. He shrugged and said 'Sure.' »
With Amazon's New Device, You Can "Buy With 1-Click" IRL
Amazon releases a physical version of its 1-click feature: the Dash Button. And even wider, Dash Replacement Service »
China's Man-on-the-Side Attack on GitHub - NETRESEC Blog
The ongoing DDoS against GitHub is equal parts terrifying and fascinating. Here's how it works »
Watch WORLD OF TOMORROW Online | Vimeo On Demand
Don Hertzfeldt's new short World of Tomorrow is now available to rent online / cc: @larissascordato »
GDC Vault
Fine, fine, you all noticed, GDC 2015 Vault talks are up (140 videos for free, slides finish uploading tomorrow) »
Slumber Party! Inside The Unlikely Mattress Startup Boom - BuzzFeed News
Slumber Party! Inside The Unlikely Mattress Startup Boom »
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Here’s Joel & Ethan Coen’s effusive endorsement of the “I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski” book. »
Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Main Trailer [HD] - YouTube
Tom Hardy estimates he has between 4 and 20 lines in the whole movie. »
Today Is The International Transgender Day of Visibility, And Here’s Why It Matters | The Mary Sue
Today Is The International Transgender Day of Visibility, And Here's Why It Matters #TransDayOfVis… »
Meetup on April 8th: Open Source and Testing @ Kickstarter » Backing & Hacking — Kickstarter
We are hosting an engineering meetup next Wednesday! I'll be presenting Kumquat, a new Rails / #Rstats plugin »
Hillary Hartley – D.C.'s Top 50 Women in Tech 2015
One of the masterminds behind @18F, @hillary is celebrated on @FedScoop's Top50 #WomeninTech list. Congrats! @USGSA h… »
The Brave Little Toaster, from TRSF : Cory Doctorow : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
"The Brave Little Toaster" by @Doctorow is still a great description of Internet of Things gone awry (at about 7:00) »
nina's games
When people say a game is 'gritty' or 'edgy' they usu mean Hotline Miami etc but this should be what they really mean http… »
F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay - YouTube
#everyframeapainting tackles Orson Welles’ masterpiece, F for Fake, and how to structure a video essay. NO SPOILERS https://… »
Trippy DEA agent patches - Boing Boing
Trippy DEA agent patches via @BoingBoing »
Introducing Curator, a new way to find and display great Twitter content | Twitter Blogs
Introducing Curator, a new way to find and display great Twitter content »
Mediagazer: The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch (The New York Times Company)
Only the NYT would claim that clear, informative headlines are "a new form of storytelling": http://… »
2015 Nomination Ballot | Harvey Awards
Comic Pros! Harvey Award noms are due! STRIPPED’s up for “Best Bio, Hist or Journalistic Work” htt… »
Google Maps Will Now Turn Any Street Into a Playable Pac-Man Level | The Mary Sue
#GoogleMaps Will Now Turn Any Street Into a Playable Pac-Man Level #Google #AprilFoolsday2015 http:/… »
Designing a Bitcoin system to use in prison | Motherboard
“[Bitcoin] transparency keeps everyone honest and the ledger decentralized.” Charlie Shrem, on his way to prison »
Police Abuse of Uber Driver in New York City - March 30th, 2015 - YouTube
FIRE THIS OFFICER! “@AntDeRosa: Police verbally abuse Uber driver in NYC via @abimlebt” »
Everything I needed to know about writing, I learned from “Paid In Full” — The Message — Medium
"Other rappers are better known, many made much more money. But nobody is a better *writer* than Rakim." »
GDC Vault - Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
Recommended: @itayke’s talk on 2D cameras for games is crucial if you’re making any 2D game—Best games talk I’ve seen »
steeve/france.code-civil · GitHub
French Civil Code on GitHub Not official, but a great initiative from @steeve. »
It’s a Trap! TIDAL and the common fallacy of music royalties — Medium
“It’s a Trap! TIDAL and the common fallacy of music royalties” by @revrev »
Watch Trench's Vine "Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes w/ Maple
The medium of Vine has been perfected. Shut it down. »
yah | Someone put this up in my school after an...
Teen girls just straight killing rape culture in their schools »
Are You Caught Up? - YouTube
What do you mean you haven't seen The Wire?! What the fuck is wrong with you!? »
Instagram
A #selfie to brighten your day ❤️ to all my #sweet followers when u see this u will have great #luck… »
Amazon.com: Jawbone BIG JAMBOX Wireless Bluetooth Speaker (Certified Refurbished) - Graphite Hex: Electronics
the big jambox bluetooth speaker is 50% off on amazon! i love mine so so much. (now $159, normally $299) »
Issues · maxogden/screencat · GitHub
I've marked some issues as 'help wanted' on ScreenCat in case you are looking for an open source project to hack on! https://… »
Preparing Your App Submission for Apple Watch - Apple Developer
Preparing Your App Submission for Apple Watch »
Eat the Mango (No, Not That One) - The Awl
Maybe if white people knew how to eat mangoes we'd stop fucking up salsa. @dannosowitz »
Kimiko Ishizaka plays Chopin on an 1832 Pleyel by Robert Douglass — Kickstarter
I just backed Kimiko Ishizaka plays Chopin on an 1832 Pleyel on @Kickstarter »
Making Care of Business
We talked to @gabesmed about his work making custom wood-inlay maps at @woodcutmaps: http://t.c… »
Gaming Suit - SteelSeries
The SteelSeries Pro Gaming Suit: Soylent for the outside half of your body. »
YOU CAN FINALLY MAKE A RESERVATION AT POK POK NY
YOU CAN FINALLY MAKE A RESERVATION AT POK POK NY »
Undercurrent Spring-Summer 2015 Fellowship Announcement — Medium
Proud of the work @thisisdara and I have been doing for the @undercurrent fellowship. We officially launch tomorrow! »
Amazon has invented tiny plastic buttons that allow for instant product ordering | The Verge
Can’t help but think @bigmediumjosh would approve of these adhesive ordering buttons Amazon launched today »
Undercurrent Spring-Summer 2015 Fellowship Announcement — Medium
I just published “Undercurrent Spring-Summer 2015 Fellowship Announcement” »
GDC Vault - Designing with Physics: Bend the Physics Engine to Your Will
It looks like they put my GDC talk on tuning physics games online for free »
netflix.com/WiMovie/80025391
The Studio Ghibli documentary that I've been blarfing about all year is now streaming on Netflix »
The world will only get weirder | Steve Coast
"The world will only get weirder" »
How the Whole Earth Catalog jumpstarted west coast publishing - Boing Boing
How Whole Earth Catalog jumpstarted west coast indie publishing—including early bOING bOING. »
What lamb? March goes out with a raucous boom in Seattle | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News
WOW! A tree literally exploded from a lightning strike inside the Washington Park Arboretum! http://t… »
Portland, March 31, 2015 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Portland had some pretty cool weather today. »
Tindie Blog | Three Weeks in Shenzhen
Three Weeks in Shenzhen - a blog series on my experiences in China over the last 3 weeks »
On vacation in rural Ohio, found where they keep the racism - Boing Boing
Our @beschizza is on vacation in rural Ohio, found where they keep the racism. All of it. »
This Week's Winner of the Happy Kitchn Contest with Zwilling — March 21 – March 27 | The Kitchn
This Week's Winner of the Happy Kitchn Contest with Zwilling — March 21 – March 27: @jenmakesthings ... »
Half the Battle | ThinkGeek
Original: Rip off 1: Rip off 2: Rip off 3 »
Jay-Z’s new Tidal music service respects the artist, but rips off Spotify’s UI | 9to5Mac
Jay-Z's TIDAL rips off Spotify UI. This keeps getting better and better »
TopatoCon Exhibitor and Performer Application
Applications are open until 4/30, but we have some TopatoCo creator announcements for you starting tomorrow! (0_0) http:… »
Tech companies are sending your secrets to crowdsourced armies of low-paid workers | Fusion
That awkward moment when you think you’re spilling secrets to a bot, but it’s really a low-paid human worker. »
Most users of online worlds do sex stuff - Boing Boing
Leigh read an interesting, massive new study on virtual worlds and online games. She skipped right to the sex stuff. http://t… »
The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator - SBNation.com
31 March 2015: the day Vox Media publishes its first Twine Game »
You're the writer of a terrible videogame. Can you save it? - Boing Boing
You're the writer of a terrible videogame. Can you save it? That's the premise of a new game. »
Lost Boys | The Campo Santo Quarterly Review
yes, employers are allowed to not hire you for being in #gamergate. »
Alaska Robotics » Archive » Alaska Robotics Gallery, Call for Exhibits
Do you know an amazing artist or illustrator we should host at the Alaska Robotics Gallery? Call for exhibits »
Net neutrality emails raise suspicions - Tony Romm - POLITICO
BREAKING: Koch-funded group that sent thousands of anti-#netneutrality emails to Congress accused of identity theft htt… »
How to delete all your embarrassing tweets before you become famous
This is the best line I've snuck into a story in forever. »
Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak
Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak via @HuffPostPol »
The Apple Watch Will Make Me Cool Or Die Trying · trenchant.org daily
"the apple watch will make me cool or die trying" »
TWO5SIX 2015
Come to #Two5six, a conference connecting videogames to art, media & culture »
I'm taking a break. It's not you, gaming, it's me | Polygon
What do you do when you're not excited by gaming? »
After Snowden, The NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge : NPR
NPR tells the moving plight of how the NSA is suffering recruiting troubles after the Snowden leaks »
Fan-made Super Mario 64 HD replaced with Nintendo-made takedown notice | Polygon
Another Mario fan project—here, an incredible Unity remake of the first level of 64—gets the takedown treatment »
Baby born in back of Uber on way to hospital | New York Post
Its 1 thing 2 take an Uber 2 hospital 2 have a baby, its a whole other thing 2 give birth in uber on way 2 hospital! http://t… »
Exhibition Launch Party: All of This Belongs to You | What's On | Victoria and Albert Museum
Everything is in place for tonight’s exhibition launch party for #ThisBelongstoYou! »
Messaging and mobile platforms — Benedict Evans
"is [WeChat] what Yahoo would have achieved if it hadn't gone to sleep for a decade?" »
Tidal, Apple, Beyonce, and the Future of Streaming Music | NextDraft Originals
Jay Z, Tidal, Beyonce, Apple, and an amazing post on the future of streaming music that goes to Eleven. »
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My pal made this 'Country Funk & Swamp Rock' playlist on Rdio and it is »
Volvo designed a reflective spraypaint to make cycling safer at night | The Verge
Y'all doing vision-based tracking need this new (clear) retroreflective spray (cc @kcimc @zachlieberman @atduskgreg »
De La Soul's NEW ALBUM by De La Soul — Kickstarter
De La Soul came to Kickstarter before they launched their project and made a really sweet video »
Criminal Charges Against Agents Reveal Staggering Corruption in the Silk Road Investigation - Forbes
Crooked agent steals bitcoin from Silk Road. DPR blames employee. DPR issues hit from OTHER crooked agent. »
U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure — The Atlantic
U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure GPS trackers “could be violating the 4th”. No way! »
Everyone who cares about free speech should care about the attacks on Github - Vox
Everyone who cares about free speech should care about the attacks on GitHub via @voxdotcom »
After a story is published, a minimum wage worker loses her job - The Washington Post
Minimum wage worker fired for talking to the press, by boss who suggested she talk to the press about her job: http://t.c… »
Millennials Are the Gayest Generation - The Daily Beast
Congratulations, everyone. Our agenda worked! »
NPR Media Player
@jimmymarks You can stream it! »
A deceased brother, and The Star's editorial
Wow. RT @matthewltully: You absolutely must read this letter to the editor. Sit down and soak it in. »
First Alan Adler Invented the Aerobie. Now He’s Created the Perfect Cup of Coffee — Backchannel — Medium
I was told by coffee snob friends to use the inverted AeroPress method. Did so. Then read this Alan Adler interview »
The mighty Bearalope shirt!!! | Teespring
One more order needed! And just 12 hours to go! Who's gonna push the bearalope into existence??? »
The science of protecting people’s feelings: why we pretend all opinions are equal - The Washington Post
The science of protecting people’s feelings: why we pretend all opinions are equal »
finding the Mishawaka font for 20Links
@jah less than a month after I posted a plea here, John Faulkenbury sent a version of #MishawakaFont & u can get it »
California Four O'Clock: A novel about the lore of pinups by Martin McClellan — Kickstarter
And @gingyanna put us over the first stretch goal! 13 hours left to grab your copy. »
Why Airbnb's New Head of Design Believes 'Design-Led' Companies Don't Work | WIRED
related: the base premise of this article everyone has been tossing around is completely false. »
#fortune
So ham #eveningfortune »
Pop-Up Magazine
#SF & #LA: Remember to get your @PopUpMag tickets today at NOON!! You're welcome. ;) »
Amazon Dash
finally another product in the wildly-successful amazon dash line, home of the by-invitation-only barcode scanner »