Tommy Craggs and Max Read Are Resigning from Gawker
no blog post should ever be this long »
Fairly Random Thoughts on Ashley Madison & the Swiftly Moving Line — The Message — Medium
“there could be 35 million stories exactly like the one that was pulled.” »
To All of Edit at Gawker Media
Why Gawker will be gutted: the brand is too "damaging... too snarky for me to recommend to advertisers" »
Christie Blatchford is the Worst | CANADALAND
Lots of BS flying around about @amirightfolks's harassment case: here's what's *actually* going »
Baggywrinkles: A Lubber's Guide to Life at Sea by Lucy Bellwood — Kickstarter
Two great Kickstarter projects you must immediately throw money at today: @LuBellWoo’s new book Baggywrinkles »
Strange Shapes | In cyberspace no one can hear you scream
Spent like 10hr yesterday plowing through the archives on this Alien fan archive. Great work from a passionate dude. »
The New Full-Length Studio Album from Seth Boyer by Seth Boyer — Kickstarter
HEY @SETHBOYER HAS A KICKSTARTER @SETHBOYER HAS A KICKSTARTER »
Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority fires supervising investigator Lorenzo Davis, who found cops at fault in shootings | WBEZ 9...
For the first time ever, a review board investigator found Chicago cops liable for shooting someone. So he was fired. http… »
Introducing the new Twitter Safety Center | Twitter Blogs
We have a new online resource for all things safety. Read more about our Safety Center here: http://t.… »
Descent — The Message — Medium
In which @quinnnorton dissects and reports on depression, from the inside. Long read. Very worth it. »
When a Magazine Only Wants You If You're Willing to Pose Nude
The great @caitlinstasey wrote about a mag pulling a feature on her bc she wouldn't pose nude http… »
Rising Thunder: A PC-only fighting game from experts in the genre - PC Gamer
Sorry to talk about games today but Seth Killian's finally making the fighting game I've been amazed no one made yet htt… »
The UX of Alcohol Abuse: Reflections on a Year of Sobriety by Victor Yocco | Model View Culture
A very important and insightful piece on perpetuating the culture of drinking in »
fellowship.ycombinator.com
YC finds yet another way to make supporting early stage start-ups more scalable. Very cool »
CocoaConf Videos
If you haven’t yet, check out the first 8 videos from Yosemite—including talks by @jsnell, @settern and @drance! http://t.co… »
Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit by Smithsonian Institution — Kickstarter
I just backed Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit on @Kickstarter »
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked — Krebs on Security
The 37 million AshleyMadison users should chill about the big hack; after all, it's just metadata. »
Yay Python!
.@asendecka + @olasitarska are doing exemplary work growing inclusive Django community. Now they’re publishing a »
What Else Could Devastate Seattle? — Medium
Why stop at Earthquakes? Here's what else could devastate Seattle. »
Clementine Onboarding | Clementine
My onboarding work's on the @clementine blog! »
Cotton Bureau - We're Hiring a Design Coordinator!
★ We’re hiring a part-time design coordinator. Wanna work with us? »
bitterempire.com/on-social-media-culture-and-the-hellscape-of-writing-in-the-era-of-new-media
“Nobody cares about your normal opinion. Nobody cares. Not one person.” v »
In "Trainwreck," Amy Schumer Calls Bullshit On Postfeminism
"Trying to fulfill the contradictory demands of postfeminism would turn any woman into a dick." »
“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor | MetaFilter
I spent much of the weekend reading this astounding @metafilter thread on emotional labor: — you shoul… »
Baggywrinkles: A Lubber's Guide to Life at Sea by Lucy Bellwood — Kickstarter
Congrats to @LuBellWoo on her stellar @Kickstarter! Baggywrinkles: A Lubber's Guide to Life at Sea »
Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed "Googling Stackoverflow" - The Allium
Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stack Overflow” Source »
Ke$ha Crossing by The Insane Mastermind | Free Listening on SoundCloud
@sethboyer I need to make sure you see this: Also go digging through this person's soundcloud. It's amazing »
Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit by Smithsonian Institution — Kickstarter
I just backed Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit on @Kickstarter »
Accessibility Product Manager - San Francisco | Slack
Slack is seeking an Accessibility #ProductManager, San Francisco #a11y #productmgmt »
Freedom to Marry: Celebrating Victory - YouTube
Watch a 6-minute video history of the long, difficult road to marriage equality victory by @freedomtomarry »
How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity. — Medium
I just published “How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity.” Please Share »
The Greatest Fake Girlfriend Story Ever Told
Yo @Gawker, mind pulling your hitpiece on me from 2011? Kind of fucked my life over and still does in various ways. http:/… »
It's the Data, Stupid!
there are 595.2 TB of data exposed on the internet via publicly accessible mongodb instances without authentication: https://… »
October - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you've ever randomly wondered why October is the 10th and not the 8th month of the year - wiki's got you covered »
Smithsonian Launches Partnership With Kickstarter | Newsdesk
The @Smithsonian is working with @Kickstarter to launch a batch of projects. Release »
Instagram
A year ago, Relay FM was in the planning process. What a crazy ride so far. »
Morale over a project lifecycle — Medium
“Anyways, keep building. You are so close at this point you might as well finish…” — @iano »
A new, EPIC view of planet Earth from NASA satellite aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft - Boing Boing
Now thanks to the Deep Space Climate Observatory we're getting a ton of new data for climate change deniers to ignore:http://… »
What we talk about when we talk about "Internet addiction" - Boing Boing
What we walk about when we talk about "Internet addiction" »
The DNA Lounge Live Collection : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
The DNA Lounge collection continues to grow nicely - hundreds of hours of performances a month. »
A Midlife Crisis, By Any Other Name | Hazlitt Magazine
I wrote about my midlife crisis, or whatever it was, and second adolescence, and being a zombie ant »
The mobile web sucks | The Verge
Here is the Verge article: / Mobile browsers remain a marvel of computing to me. »
Google Online Security Blog: Google, the Wassenaar Arrangement, and vulnerability research
Wassenaar "would have a significant negative impact on the open security research community" - GOOG »
XO: a retro sci-fi strategy game for PC/Mac/Linux by Jumpdrive Studios — Kickstarter
more indie space games coming out of Portland! Support XO by @jmpdrv on @kickstarter! »
NASA Captures "EPIC" Earth Image | NASA
The first image from DSCOVR, our most distant weather satellite, is here. Home on 6 July 2015: http:/… »
How I Music — Medium
This is how I music. Thanks to @jeffleeds @seanbonner and @tara for lighting the fire. »
Homeless People Have to Pee, Too. Find a Place for Them Instead of Complaining About It, You Monsters - The Daily Beast
"Homeless People Have to Pee, Too. Find a Place for Them Instead of Complaining About It, You Monsters" »
US, Cuba restore full diplomatic ties after 5 decades
MORE: More than 5 decades of Cold War enmity ends as U.S., Cuba restore full diplomatic relations »
David Wheeler (Portland, OR)'s review of Proof: The Science of Booze
I absolutely loved “Proof.” You should read it! »
Watch a British prankster shower corrupt FIFA chief Sepp Blatter with fake bank notes - Boing Boing
Watch a British prankster shower corrupt #FIFA chief Sepp Blatter with fake bank notes »
Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious
Nope, don't need to adjust my monitor's settings: Twitter removed everybody's background images. Because reasons. »
A 1990s anti-piracy law is why you haven't seen the hacked list of Ashley Madison customers | Fusion
“Ashley Madison is in cornered-animal mode, and they are using every tool they can.” I spoke with @kashhill on DMCA »
A poem constructed entirely from verbs used in John Oliver video headlines | Fusion
I constructed a poem entirely from verbs used in blog posts about John Oliver videos »
Troy Hunt: Your affairs were never discreet – Ashley Madison always disclosed customer identities
Um. But..."Please remove my email from your database IMMEDIATELY. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY HACKED information." »
Learning and Making History
It’s my birthday, and there are 16 matches for “immigration” on @DonorsChoose. Let’s clear the board. Start here: http://t.co… »
Living History in Someone Else's Shoes
Here are the next three: , , Pitch in and pass it on! »
Los Angeles is selling off some very odd lots, including a sidewalk corner - Boing Boing
Los Angeles is selling off some very odd lots, including a sidewalk corner »
Hacking Team and Boeing planned flying malware-delivery drones - Boing Boing
Hacking Team and Boeing planned flying malware-delivery drones »
R2D2 Rollaboard - Boing Boing
#StarWars luggage for your kid's next spaceflight: R2D2 roller with flashing lights and beeps! »
Bridge collapse shuts down major California freeway after record-breaking July rain - Boing Boing
Bridge collapse shuts down I-10, a major California freeway, after record-breaking July rain. »
Oregon Sensibly Votes to Make Oral Contraceptives Available Without a Prescription | Mother Jones
Oregon sensibly votes to make oral contraceptives available without a prescription »
Offworld Monday roundup: Empathy, criticism and being filthy in the shower - Offworld
Here are the games you need to know about this week from @offworld's @leighalexander »
meetup.com/styleandclass/events/224029456
Announcing the Design & Content panel, in partnership with @dcontentconf. Tickets available at noon. »
Apollo 11 | NASA
#OTD in 1969, one giant leap for mankind was taken when the Apollo 11 crew landed on the Moon »
Prop Masters
Real. Too. Real. HD, prop masters, fake money and pogoing carrots, from me at Bloomberg @business »
Let the Ashley Madison hack remind you that no ‘secrets’ are safe online - The Washington Post
"There’s no erasing the digital past. It can only — precariously — be reined in." »
Summary Information | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
JUST IN: #June 2015 was warmest June on record for globe per @NOAANCEIclimate #StateOfClimate »
More tech swag than you: Dog has one gold Apple Watch per paw
Chinese man buys Apple Watch Edition for his dog's paws. All of them. /via @briansuda »
Ad tech is killing the online experience | Media | The Guardian
"… it won’t be Facebook and Apple who killed the news brands. It’ll be ad tech." - »
Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame
Fascinating how ideas flow between different languages. Dutch is a bigger hub than Chinese. »
Putting the digital keys to unlock data out of reach of authorities - The Washington Post
Really kind of concerned about the WaPo editorial staff tbh »
Comet probe Philae 'silent', ground control concerned - Yahoo News
Comet probe Philae 'silent', ground control concerned - Yahoo News »
Gawker's top editors resign on principle after controversy
It’s about appetizers in journalism. »
July 18, 2015, Part II. | ENORMOUS EYE
ft. @jwherrman, @PJVogt, @jennydeluxe, @jazzedloon, @alexmolotkow, @the_real_dreis, @BarackObama, and more. »
Vector Tiles preview | ArcGIS Blog
vector tiles in ArcGIS - open formats and roadmap #EsriUC »
musically.com/2015/07/20/spotify-discover-weekly-personalised-mixtape-playlist
In some ways this Spotify personalised 'mixtape' is a step closer to Spotify being used like radio - lean back »
Nesting in Sass and Less · @mdo
Wrote a quick post about nesting CSS and why it's mostly a bad idea »
Ren'Py Hypercard Framework by Eliot Gardepe
ICYMI, the Ren’Py Hypercard Framework is out over at Let’s make some Hypercard games! »
Baggywrinkles Now LIVE on Kickstarter! | Lucy Bellwood: Comics, Illustration, Boats
Baggywrinkles is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Here's the scoop on my blog. »
TimesMachine: Monday July 21, 1969 - NYTimes.com
In 1969, The NYT asked Picasso what he thought of the moon landing. Priceless »
ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/19/berkeley-protesters-get-naked-to-save-eucalyptus-trees
Naked people are inherently more interesting than clothed people »
Gawker's Denton: 'This is not the company I built' | Capital New York
'This is not the company I built'. Actually, yeah. It is exactly that: the company you built. »
8 months later, the Cleveland PD admits it was wrong to ever hire the officer who killed Tamir Rice
8 months later, @CLEpolice admits it was wrong when it ever hired the officer who killed #TamirRice Sigh. »
The Recurse Center: A Q&A; for Past Me
"The Recurse Center: A Q&A for Past Me" – a wonderfully thoughtful and detailed post by RC alum @jdherg: http://t.... »
TimesMachine: Monday July 21, 1969 - NYTimes.com
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind on this day in 1969. »
google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=allintitle%3Afinally
Finally, my favorite Google News query: "allintitle:finally" »
Please wait, post loading - Boing Boing
Please wait, post loading. »
Ad tech is killing the online experience | Felix Salmon | Media | The Guardian
Ad tech is killing the online experience. Which may end up driving users to Apple News or Facebook apps »
The “Brute Force” School of Design: Prototyping over Presentations - 99u
Why do we call our design process "brute force"? @WorkJoeStewart explains »
Colorblind man sees colors for the first time
Watch a colorblind man FREAK OUT when he sees vivid color for the first time. »
Putting the digital keys to unlock data out of reach of authorities - The Washington Post
Washington Post doubles down on its bizarre "Golden Key" argument for crypto backdoors »
DSCOVR's First Photo of Earth: Why the New 'Blue Marble' Is So Important - The Atlantic
In 1998, Al Gore dreamt of a “Blue Marble” satellite. Today, it’s a reality. I talked to him: http://… »
Escaping the new media cargo cult - Boing Boing
@xkcdbracket On that theme, this paragraph from a (fundamentally optimistic) @BoingBoing piece »
Explore – This timeline by Maximilian Kiener visualizes your...
The perceived pace of time speeding up as you age, visualized »
Orbital Biannual 2015
I'm officially announcing an ~exciting new project~ tmrw morning at the @orbitalnyc biannual. DM me for free tix! »
Silicon Valley struggles to hack its diversity problem - The Washington Post
If it's a pipeline problem, why don't tech have black or latino folks in marketing or legal? http://t.… »
Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch - The New York Times
"I don’t know if we could get it all in there in a way that feels good and works well" »
Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals | TechCrunch
Prismatic Pivots To B2B, Packaging Its Content Interest Graph Into APIs For Different Verticals »
Philae lander has fallen silent, Rosetta scientists say | Science | The Guardian
More details on the communications loss to the Philae comet lander: #rosetta »
Blame Society, Not the Screen Time - NYTimes.com
Responding to the internet addiction frame, I wrote in @nytimes about societal limitations: (Commenter… »
deferer – Opt-Out of Reddit (and Anywhere Else) | @dddagradi
deferer – Opt-Out of Reddit (and Anywhere Else) »
As Beijing Becomes a Supercity, the Rapid Growth Brings Pains - The New York Times
China embarks on a plan allowing Beijing to swell into a city of 130 million, covering a landmass the size of Kansas. http… »
What’s This “Orphan Works” Business About? | Work Made for Hire
Here's her first write-up on the Orphan Works proposal. And my guess is she'll circle back 'round on it »
KnitYak: Custom mathematical knit scarves by Fabienne "fbz" Serriere — Kickstarter
over 70K and over 70% funded! thank you all! 3 days and 21 hours left #computationallyfabulous »
Quote by Brian Eno: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortabl...”
Somebody tweeted this Brian Eno quote but then I lost the link so now I'm tweeting it »
Point Oh!
Tickets for Brooklyn 1.0 are available tonight at 12:00AM EST! We hope to see you there on October 8-9. »
Concert Against Humanity
Gen Con: Please come to our show with two of the funniest living human beings, @kumailn and @cameronesposito. »
Concert Against Humanity
Tickets to our Gen Con show include: air conditioning, plush seating, a $100+ swag bag, Ticketmaster fees, & more! http://t.... »
Fund Club
Don’t forget: Fund Club funding round #2 starts today! Support marginalized people in tech »
Bloomberg Graphics - Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes
A very good development: Oil consumption & GDP growth have become decoupled. (Source: http:/... »
Why is your millenial crying? A guide for parents and other concerned parties, by Gemma Correll. - Boing Boing
Why is your millenial crying? A guide for parents and concerned parties, by Gemma Correll. »
IE Warning: Tito
Tickets are on sale NOW! »
Relay FM
On Air: The Pen Addict with @imyke, & @dowdyism - »
Citizen Code of Conduct | A project of Stumptown Syndicate
.@todogroup @oscon Made that up all on your own did you? NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE? »
Apollo 11 Live TV Coverage
Reminder: watch the TV broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing as it happened 46 years ago »