2015 Police Violence Report — Mapping Police Violence
Today we released the 2015 Year-End Police Violence Report. Learn more »
Shield: The World`s First Signal Proof Headwear by Shield Apparel — Kickstarter
OH MY GOD THEY ARE LITERALLY KICKSTARTING TINFOIL HATS »
Dropbox Cafeteria Awarded A Michelin Star — Halting Problem — Medium
Of course, the Known cafe would earn a Michelin star too, if anyone would visit. (The Known cafe is my kitchen.) »
What would feminist data visualization look like? | MIT Center for Civic Media
Reupping some genuinely forward thinking posts on data visualization »
registermyuas.faa.gov
FAA's drone registry is live. Register if your drone weighs >0.55lb (half a small lobster) »
Worldbuilders Bread Face Challenge on Vimeo
We told @Worldbuilders_ if they raised $1,150,000, we would put our face into bread. Then they raised $1,150,000. »
Please Stop Spreading This Nonsense that Rey From Star Wars Is a “Mary Sue”
this is a good takedown of the rey/mary sue stuff from @charliejane »
Background
Is federal software procurement your passion? If so, comment here: If not, it's $9 billion of… »
The HTTP 451 Error Code for Censorship Is Now an Internet Standard | Motherboard
'451' (after FAHRENHEIT 451) is now the official code for a webpage that can't be shown because of censorship. »
TV Carnage
Watch @tvcarnage for a whole pile of found footage weirdness »
Game communities now available
Hey devs! Communities are now available for your game pages! #gamedev #indiedev »
Sampler
Check out this sneak preview of @SamplerShow. Our new show dives into the best moments from the world of podcasts. »
kosamari/observer · GitHub
I made Observer - JS REPL menubar app made w/ @electronjs ✏️ It shows sate of Grobal scope »
Secret Hitler is mercifully not a joke | Kill Screen
72 hours left to get my new game! KillScreen: The Verge: TechCrunch »
THE FORCE AWAKENS is deeply broken (SPOILERS) — Medium
After much thought, I wrote about my central problem w/ #TheForceAwakens, a deeply broken film (WARNING: SPOILERS) https://t… »
On Net Promoter and Data Golems — On Human-Centric Systems — Medium
We've created a monster. On Net Promoter and Data Golems »
Star Wars Episode IV Death Star explosion - YouTube
tfw OpenEmu 2.0 releases later this week »
#BBGate
It’s STAR WARS WEEK on @roboismcast ! Today, @BricePuls talks to us about Robot Revolution, dinosaurs, and #bbgate »
medium.com/@shl/schr
San Francisco! »
Making of Holochess for Star Wars: The Force Awakens! - YouTube
Working on a Star Wars: Force Awakens behind the scenes video was definitely a major highlight of this year. »
How to Contact The Intercept Anonymously — The Intercept
Keen to speak w/ any Juniper developers 2006-present. If you can, please contact via It's importa… »
Liftoff #10: The Solstice - Relay FM
Today marks the Winter Solstice, but what does that actually mean? How do seasons work? Well, we have answers! https:/… »
Fast sites do not require insults
I’m 100% behind sensitivity for the metaphors you choose, and @marcdrummond’s article hits on one a lot of us miss »
'Harry Potter and The Cursed Child' casts its Harry, Ron, and Hermione
'Harry Potter and The Cursed Child' casts its Harry, Ron, and Hermione - »
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' grosses whopping $120.5 million for opening day - Chicago Tribune
First day ‘Star Wars’ box office figures are… ...out of this world. »
Womb for improvement — Medium
One of my favorite @evany stories: Push. »
Embarrassing: The U.S. Is Ranked 182nd In The Wor... | ClickHole
Embarrassing: The U.S. Is Ranked 182nd In The World Alphabetically »
priceonomics.com/how-esurance-lost-its-mascot-to-the-internet
“‘Do we make the zebra a woman or a man? Let’s make it a man, because there won’t be as much porn of it.’” »
RTFM: White Elephant Variant: Barter HolidayTown
I created my first game! It's a White Elephant Variant, called Barter HolidayTown. Try it out this holiday season! »
I was Hillary Clinton’s thank-you note ghostwriter - Quartz
Wow seriously questioning Clinton's judgment now »
Making of Holochess for Star Wars: The Force Awakens! - YouTube
watch how Phil Tippett and his team created the new stop-motion effects sequence for Star Wars: The Force Awakens »
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font - Quartz
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font »
CERN Url Shortening Service
25 years ago today, the 1st webpage went online. Find out more »
because birds! — Yawning pelican. [imgur]
Even if you considered what a pelican yawning might look like I promise you the reality will still blow your mind »
#DoubleclicksLive online show: DECEMBER w/Meri Amber | Facebook
You can still request songs for our LAST ONLINE SHOW of 2015! Join us Tuesday! »
Gigabit Internet Prices in This Small Town May One Day Beat Google Fiber | Motherboard
A tiny town is getting twice the speed of Google Fiber for nearly half the price »
Unity Progress | Breaking The Code
New blog post about the Spaceteam Unity rebuild, and some questions »
With Secret Hitler, Cards Against Humanity's co-working space becomes an idea machine | The Verge
72 hours left to get my new game! KillScreen: The Verge: TechCrunch »
Comments
This is the coolest thing. Muslim Star Wars cosplay »
A Year in Books — Medium
Wrote a post this weekend about my favorite reads from 2015. Check it out »
The first website went online 25 years ago today
The first website went online 25 years ago today. »
Martin Shkreli is right: fraud charges only arose because of pharma scumbaggery / Boing Boing
Martin Shkreli is right: fraud charges only arose because of pharma scumbaggery »
IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship / Boing Boing
IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship »
500 computer-generated novels: the Nanogenmo 2015 entrants / Boing Boing
500 computer-generated novels: the Nanogenmo 2015 entrants »
Temporary Constellations — Buckley Williams — Medium
What if you could see GPS satellites? We’ve made a thing to find out what it might look like h… »
Instagram
Lol. Using a new app called slide. Digging it. »
CAH’s Max Temkin On ‘Secret Hitler’ And Making Fun Games For Money | TechCrunch
72 hours left to get my new game! KillScreen: The Verge: TechCrunch »
History of the Web | World Wide Web Foundation
The 1st website went live 25 years ago today at @CERN. "This is for everyone…" #openscience https:… »
sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf
More people sleep on the street in SF than in *England*. ~4,400 v ~2,700. 1: 2 »
At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Best Things We Read Online in 2015 | Brooklyn Magazine
For @brooklynmag, I rec an A+ essay by @nzle about IUDs & how hard it is to listen to one's own, female, body https://t... »
Adding Automattic by m · Pull Request #255 · triketora/women-in-software-eng · GitHub
Nice to see CEO of a "unicorn" personally adding info about inclusion to the women-in-tech repo, /cc @photomatt »
42 – Winter Solstice | Hello from the Magic Tavern
It's the special holiday episode of @MagicTavern! @ghostydiddy & @Mellowchihuahua play a bunch of great new songs! »
Jon Ronson: How the online hate mob set its sights on me | Media | The Guardian
Ronson on abuse he received following book on public shaming. People behave badly all along political spectrum: https://t.… »
The first website went online 25 years ago today
The first website went online 25 years ago today »
Obscura Camera on the App Store
Obscura 2.0 is available now. Get it while it’s hot »
The rapid rise of a research nation : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Ask the candidates about this. "High quality science output since 2012" »
Unwrapping the Mythos of Mast Brothers Chocolate in Brooklyn - The New York Times
The Masts speak at last: the criticism is untrue --mostly."Unwrapping the Mythos of Mast Brothers Chocolate in Bklyn ht… »
Emotional Labor - The MetaFilter Thread Condensed.pdf - Google Drive
The condensed @metafilter thread on emotional labor is a must-read. (h/t @amyoleary) »
The Golden Horseshoe Review: A Disney Theme Park Podcast by Alex Pasco, Greg Maletic, and Louie Mantia on iTunes
NEW EPISODE: More Florida, including Louie at the Hangar Bar and Greg not liking Be Our Guest. And FastPass+ :(. https://t… »
APPAREL K — NERV x PIZZA TSHIRT
Guys, I'm gonna need this. We all are. »
How George Lucas Won Control of the ‘Star Wars’ Movie Franchise | Deadline
Fascinating interview with George Lucas’s former attorney, who worked up the contracts for STAR WARS »
gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/407030/Rough_Sleeping_Statistics_England_-_Autumn_2014.pdf
More people sleep on the street in SF than in *England*. ~4,400 v ~2,700. 1: 2 »
Unwrapping the Mythos of Mast Brothers Chocolate in Brooklyn - The New York Times
"Hipster ouroboros". So good. Unwrapping the Mythos of Mast Brothers Chocolate in Brooklyn, via @nytimes »
Why Do I Have to Call This App ‘Julie’? - The New York Times
omg I second this motion. (From that @jomc piece »
The Year in Pictures 2015 - The New York Times
The NYT’s year in pictures is always, always one of my fave features. »
The iPhone's camera is so good because 800 people are working on it | The Verge
The iPhone's camera is so good because 800 people are working on it »
How Donald Trump is breathing life into America’s dying white supremacist movement - The Washington Post
How Donald Trump is breathing life into America's dying white supremacist movement HT @Mr_Mubin_Shai… »
Why Do I Have to Call This App ‘Julie’? - NYTimes.com
Facts: 1) I hate gendered AI assistants 2) @jomc is really smart. Recommendation: 1) read her article on this topic. h… »
'Satoshi' and the Fantasy of Anonymity — Kate Losse
I really liked this short piece about anonymity by @katelosse; check it out if you didn’t last week »
We’re Looking for Contributors for Issue 3 | The Recompiler
Just two weeks left to send us your ideas for Issue 3! Tell us what you worked on this year, what you learned https://t.… »
Secret Hitler by Max Temkin — Kickstarter
The best part of the game's success is that I get to keep making games with @tommygents and @fucrate. »
Fund Club
Join Fund Club if you haven’t already. All money goes directly to the amazing orgs improving the tech industry. https://t.c… »
The Himalayas from 20,000 ft. on Vimeo
“Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as Sagarmāthā and in Tibet as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain.” »
Rewired: Post-Cyberpunk Anthology shows how sf has changed since the Mirroshades era - Boing Boing
Rewired: Post-Cyberpunk antho shows how sf has changed since the Mirroshades era #8yrsago »
Book from the Ground: from point to point: Bing Xu: 9780262027083: Amazon.com: Books
Modern iMessage/Slack conversations were basically foreseen by Xu Bing. »
http://info.cern.ch
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