The 18th Annual Independent Games Festival
really great list this year from the igf! congrats to everyone! »
Tech Portrait Project — Call For Subjects — Medium
For the next three months I am looking for underrepresented folks in tech with stories to tell. Plz read and share: https://t.c… »
Beauty.AI First Beauty Contest Judged by Robots
this pretty much encapsulates everything that is wrong with how AI is framed, implemented and deployed »
Unite 2016
Come together and build the future of commerce with us at #shopifyunite. »
Swiss in CSS
I created a collection of animated posters that pays homage to the International Typographic Style »
Diversity in Games - Home
Excited to see the initiative for pre-GDC that aims to help under-represented people get better… »
NYPL Public Domain Release 2016 - Visualization
Hotness from our friends at the New York Public Library »
NYPL Public Domain Digital Collections
+180,000K hi res images of all public domain items are now free to download & reuse. https://t... »
Carly Usdin
updated my website or whatever. hire me? »
StrangCore
A Tumblr dedicated to the early-2000s normcore style of Dean Strang »
age of aquarium
Amazing communication under intense fire: #dontbearacistplease »
I built a chopping machine - YouTube
the future is great @SimoneGiertz »
Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy - The San Francisco Examiner : The San Francisco Examiner
BIG scoop: San Francisco’s largest taxi company, Yellow Cab co-op, to file for bankruptcy ht… »
Daring Experiment by a Waterworks Forman and a Renegade Journalist - IGNITION
There's a new Japanese magazine about the lifestyle of construction workers: @JesseThorn »
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT? | Edge.org
The 2016 @edge question : What do you consider the most interesting scientific news of the past year? #AlwaysGreat »
tafttest.com
SWEET! RT @NagleCode: The Taft Test is now real: Inspired by talk from @Pinboard #webdev #programming #webdesign #ux »
Machine Learning is Fun! Part 2 — Medium
super mario levels designed by a recurrent neural net, awesome description by @ageitgey https://t.co… »
Drummond Central on Periscope: "#DrummondPuddleWatch"
someone is livestreaming as people try to cross a giant puddle (pic via @stevencoleuk) https://t.c… »
Walk in My Shoes, White Mom
Why the "I'm raising my kids not to identify people by color" excuse is total bullshit and is dodging by far one... https://t.co… »
The Field Study Handbook
Scouting around for the right publisher for The Field Study Handbook. Leads and suggestions welcome. »
Channeling Your Energy : diesel sweeties by @rstevens robot webcomic & geeky t-shirts
Sending yourself an email is like pouring two coffees. »
Kodak is making a new Super 8 camera · Newswire · The A.V. Club
OK this is kind of awesome: Kodak is making new Super 8 film cameras. »
live.theverge.com/intel-ces-2016-press-event
Why did #Intel give me this erotic pleasure ring? Find out in my final liveblog of the day! »
noctuary - definition and meaning
TILT: the antonym of 'diary' is 'noctuary' »
We Are #Storytellers on Vimeo
Cool new video up from my brother at @OBSilence to kick off their 2016 film project »
Magic+ (Magic Plus)
Oh, Silicon Valley, never change »
lcdsoundsystem.com/main/archives/793
"i was lucky to start this band kind of fat and old" »
The Amazing Origin Of Cotton Candy Raccoon Has Finally Been Revealed
UPDATE TO SAD RACCOON: THEY GAVE IT MORE CANDY FLOSS AND IT FIGURED IT OUT thank fucking god I ca… »
Prisoner's Dilemma (by jrc03c)
Ludum Dare always bring smart stuff, but LD34's Prisoner's Dilemma is really simple and clever. »
Psychonauts 2 - Fig: Video Game Crowdfunding
We're funded! THANK YOU!!!! The video says it better »
The search for the killer bot | The Verge
So about that feature: Bots are here, they’re learning — and in 2016, they might eat the web https… »
TheLead Sports » The Surreal Story of StubHub Screwing Over a Kobe Fan
If this is true, shame on you, @StubHub. Gross. »
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: 10 Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role.
10 Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role: https://t… »
Why the Redskins’ Players Are So Frugal - WSJ
An interesting article about how some NFL players in D.C. don't get caught up in overspending »
Some Thoughts on the Oculus Rift's Pricing & Backlash (with tweets) · austin_walker · Storify
Here's a Storify compiling those tweets about Oculus Rift pricing (and the response to it) »
Twitter’s White-People Problem | The Nation
Twitter's board has more white men named Peter than women and people of color combined. https://t.… »
A one-of-a-kind marketplace from Steven Soderbergh. - Extension 765
Director Steven Soderbergh's list of everything he read and watched in 2015: (via @jamesfflynn) »
Robert Smith of The Cure Brilliantly Reimagined as a Variety Classic Horror Comic Book Monsters
These Robert Smith horror comic book covers by @billythebutcher are fantastic. »
NYPL Public Domain Digital Collections
Starting today, over 187k Digital Collections items are available in high res »
Building the Casper homepage - Destroy Today
Awesome writeup by @destroytoday on building the Casper homepage »
They’re right. The era of a $19 plastic disc is over. But a beautiful object matters. — Medium
Thoughts about @Prince3EG and the importance of making beautiful objects for your audience. »
What Tech Workers Can Learn From Harry Bridges
"What Tech Workers Can Learn From Harry Bridges" »
What I Learned From Pro-Gun Twitter | Trout Nation
What I Learned From Pro-Gun Twitter #StopGunViolence »
What I Learned From Pro-Gun Twitter | Trout Nation
What I Learned From Pro-Gun Twitter #StopGunViolence »
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In 82.5 Hours — Maxistentialism Blog — Medium
I hope you're happy @maxtemkin, you've made me want to watch DS9. »
Frank Chimero - Hi, I’d Like To Add Myself to The New Yorker
New post! About the time I “won” The New Yorker caption contest: ✎ Hi, I’d Like To Add Myself to The New Yorker »
Why Today Is The Most Popular Day To Look For A New Job
“One in two employees have left their job to get away from their manager.” »
Content Strategist (Brand Marketing) - Careers and jobs at Shopify - Shopify
Sweet #contentstrategy gig alert! Our team is hiring a brand marketing-focused CS for our Toronto office. »
GIBBERTON's post on Vine
2016 dog vines are pretty strong so far »
Bernie Worrell: Retrospectives | Indiegogo
Terrible news: Bernie Worrell has stage 4 cancer. But we can help the legendary artist by supporting his new album »
Forensic scientist gives Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka skull bottle a reconstructed face · Newswire · The A.V. Club
I love this facial reconstruction of Crystal head vodka by a forensic specialist »
xkcd: Judgment Day
Optimism defined: — »
Petition · Support Lemmy tribute, name newly discovered heavy metal 'Lemmium' · Change.org
Heh, a petition to name a newly discovered heavy metal element 'Lemmium' - \m/ »
Michael Bay quits Samsung's press conference - YouTube
@PatC @patr1ck I try to forget, but I sometimes wake in a cold sweat, dreaming I'm Michael Bay at CES. »
moleskine notebook — Medium
#5 in my series about beautility: moleskine notebook »
Gang Of Four-Entertainment! Exclusive LP – Newbury Comics
Exclusive coloured vinyl release of Gang of Four's Entertainment! »
How Conservatives Have Always Been Sucking at Big Cock — Medium
“This is the impulse of assholes. That’s it. That’s the whole take.” — @girlziplocked »
nydn.us/1VG6UWT
In 2015, American police killed a record 1,200 people. Not a single officer was convicted in any of those. ZERO. https://… »
Leslie Jensen Inman - Designing To Learn - YouTube
Here’s @jenseninman on how we should be educating our next generation of web designers »
The Thermals Announce New Album We Disappear, Share "Hey You" | News | Pitchfork
Stoked @thethermals are playing #NoisePop2016! New album on the way, and new single "Hey You" over at @pitchfork https://t.co… »
Negotiating with Clients Over Money | Work Made for Hire
If you worry about negotiating over money, this week's post is for you! »
Vox Media Terrorized by Pissroach - The Awl
Everyone on media Twitter is talking about urinal-bound vermin right now #pissroach »
Instagram
Check out the incredible custom logo sign that @realasa and @avoiceandname surprised us with! »
The Thermals - Hey You - YouTube
brand new thermals song "hey you" dropped today »
Women Are Learning About Herbal Abortion Online — Here's Why That's a Problem - Mic
TRAP laws are pushing women to self-induce abortions with herbs. Here’s why that’s very bad https:… »
TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Cattle Caliphate Invades Chagrin Falls, USA / Boing Boing
TOM THE DANCING BUG: The invasion of the Cattle Caliphate. #oregon #comics #yallqaeda »
TSA screener insists that full-body screening is mandatory / Boing Boing
TSA screener insists that full-body screening is mandatory »
Design Researcher at Mule ~ Authentic Jobs
We are hiring @muledesign! I'm looking for a design researcher »
Osama Been Loanin': head of Oregon terror-cell borrowed $530,000 from fed-backed loan program / Boing Boing
Osama Been Loanin: head of Oregon terror-cell borrowed $530,000 from fed-backed loan program »
nymag.com/thecut/2016/01/oscar-isaac-internet-boyfriend.html
'The internet’s boyfriend is a paragon of enlightened masculinity, constructed by committee.' @sula… »
NYPL puts 180,000 public domain images online
NYPL puts 180,000+ high-res digital images of its collection online for free download »
Instagram
@lauraolin Have some sad cow »
Do I work for David or Goliath? | Made by Eno
Do I work for David or Goliath? A brief guide for designers trying to decide what size company to work for »
ncase.me/simulating
@bitcraftlab I mean this link »
Dolce & Gabbana launched a line of beautiful, high-end hijabs and abayas - Quartz
Dolce & Gabbana Debuts Line Of Hijabs & Abayas - respect the smart business move. Muslims = 1.6 Billion. https://t.... »
Super Hexagon on the App Store
Super Hexagon is free on iOS for the first time ever »
Fund Diversity & Inclusivity in Tech
Tomorrow is my bday! I’m raising funds for diversity & inclusion work in tech »
Dying Trees Can Send Food to Neighbors of Different Species via ‘Wood-Wide Web’ - Scientific American Blog Network
People ain't shit #369: trees and fungi communicate and share resources in the forest. »
New from our lab: Kinematics Ties | Nervous System blog
Nervous Labs 2 is live! Kinematics 3D-printed Ties »
junk gallery | Planet Quest
if you forgot for a minute that @guinoir is the god damned best, here is today's reminder → »
nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/01/end-bullying-get-the-cool-kids-to-help.html#
Study uses high school thinkfluencers to fight against bullies - and it works. »
Conference Pass to the O’Reilly Design Conference 2016 Giveaway!
Conference Pass to the O’Reilly Design Conference 2016 Giveaway! via @designerhangout »
Incredible timelapse of Dubai skyscraper in flames / Boing Boing
An incredible timelapse video of that burning 63-story Dubai skyscraper »
White Feminism & The School To Prison Pipeline | Mikki Kendall
Black girls are suspended from school at six to ten times the rate of white girls, for the same offenses. »
DC TV news crew's car broken into while they covered anti-robbery press conference / Boing Boing
DC TV news crew's car broken into while they covered anti-robbery press conference »
Kodak introduces a new Super 8 film camera / Boing Boing
Kodak just introduced a new Super 8 film camera #ces #gadgets »
Charter schools are turning into the next subprime mortgages / Boing Boing
Charter schools are turning into the next subprime mortgages »
New York Public Library does the public domain right / Boing Boing
Not only are there 180K public domain items in NYPL's digital collections—you're encouraged to remix and reuse! »
DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Quadcopter with 2.7K Camera CP.PT.000160
dji dropped the price of the phantom 3 advanced to $800 too. that's a crazy good deal... »
The 18th Annual Independent Games Festival
2016 Independent Games Festival debuts Main Competition finalists »
World's Largest Meatpacking Firm Wants To Test Out Robot Butchers : The Salt : NPR
Note how "Robot Butchers" gets your hackles up in a way that "Automated Meatpack Processing" probably wouldn't. »
Paul Graham has accidentally explained everything wrong with Silicon Valley’s world view - Quartz
Paul Graham has accidentally explained everything wrong with Silicon Valley’s world view »
Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons January 11, 2016 - The New Yorker
A cartoon by Paul Noth. Find more cartoons from this week's issue »
We need alternative sources of bandwidth just like we need alternative sources of fuel / Boing Boing
We need alternative sources of bandwidth just like we need alt sources of fuel #8yrsago »
Watch つっちぃ's Vine "綿アメ洗おうとしたアライグマかわいすぎるw"
Watching this raccoon dissolve his cotton candy has really made me want to make a bot making fun of stolen content »
One Hundred Sixty-Eight Hours and One Second by Wafaa Bilal — Kickstarter
Kickstarter — Help Iraqi artist @Bilal3rdi rebuild the library at the College of Fine Arts at Baghdad University http… »
Harney County Sheriff: Armed Occupiers Will Face Charges . News | OPB
This poor guy. Listen to the pain in his voice. »
Wonderful wacky portrait of a very excited Donald Trump fan / Boing Boing
A wonderfully wacky portrait of a very excited Donald Trump fan [by @brian_photog @Reuters] »
Gamasutra: Liz England's Blog - "The Door Problem" of Game Design
REMINDER "The Door Problem" by @lizardengland brilliantly explains complexities of gamedev... and why we hate doors »
The Burner app saved me from PR hell at CES this year | The Verge
For those of you at #CES2016... cc: @BenPopper @Verge »
The beautiful geometric GIFs of Erik Söderberg / Boing Boing
The beautiful geometric GIFs of Erik Söderberg »
18F — Tips for adapting analytics.usa.gov from Tennessee, Boulder, and Philadelphia
Tips for adapting from Tennessee, Boulder, and Philadelphia /by @mkram… »
My favorite book of 2015 | dooce®
My favorite book of 2015 »
My favorite book of 2015 | dooce®
My favorite book of 2015 »
What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism - The Toast - The Toast
I wrote about the no-win scenario of experiencing and then trying to respond to casual racism in polite company: https:… »
Tension grows as Oregon militia occupies wildlife refuge for fourth night | US news | The Guardian
“These are excellent conditions compared to other standoffs I’ve taken part in" »
Intel invented rock 'n' roll's terrible opposite tonight at CES | The Verge
You guys hearing about this huge bomb? Well here it is: Intel’s keynote-closing performance band »
Uber fined $2,000 for violating Portland lobbying rules | OregonLive.com
Fuck everything about this garbage operation. Uber does not belong in Portland, much less anywhere else. ARGH »
Podcast 489: Comment Chameleon | Macworld
Join me & special guest @antichrista on this week’s @macworld podcast And…leave a comment. #foreshadowing »
Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday
What a wonderful way to start a new year: IE 8, 9, and 10 are being put to pasture »
Pinterest Hires Its First Head of Diversity - The New York Times
Pinterest hired a black woman to head up diversity! That's dope! »
How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers - The New York Times
Wrote about the three months and 1950 dollars I spent in the gassed up world of daily fantasy sports »
Spectacular Camera Drone Footage of New Year’s Fireworks Over Lima | Colossal
Spectacular camera drone footage of New Year’s fireworks over Lima by @JCremerPhoto. Watch: https://t… »
New York Public Library Invites a Deep Digital Dive - The New York Times
The New York Public Library has released 180K+ public domain images from its special collections. A treasure trove. https://t… »
Majority of Americans Want Gun Control; Majority of Republicans Want Checks from the NRA | Blogtown, PDX | Portland Mercury
92%—that's the percentage of Americans who favor background checks for all gun buyers. https:/… »
Lumosity to settle deceptive 'brain training' health claims - STAT
I have a really good rage going over this Lumosity thing. Please join me »
The Hear-Nothing Gun Crowd - The New York Times
We can't talk about guns as long as folks keep lying about them being "taken away." No one's doing that. Stop. https://t.co… »
Working while brown: What discrimination looks like now - Nov. 25, 2015
60% of Latinas surveyed said they experienced backlash when they expressed anger or weren't deferential. »
A top venture capitalist thinks startups are causing inequality. He’s wrong. - Vox
A top venture capitalist thinks startups are causing inequality. He’s wrong. via voxdotcom »
New York Public Library Invites a Deep Digital Dive - The New York Times
New York Public Library releasing over 180,000 hi-res photos, maps and other items for patrons to use as they wish. https:… »
The Dress Code for Power Lunching at the Four Seasons - The New York Times
OMG. First 9 people answer Qs about their "power lunch" outfit. And then there's Kissinger. https:… »
Shine Squad
#ShineSquad is an anonymous forum for sharing abuse, harassment, & discrimination @ work. Break your silence safely:... »
Internet Explorer End of Support
Just a reminder that in a week, Microsoft will no longer support Internet Explorer versions older than IE11. »
Kickstarter Fulfillment Report —Kickstarter
91% rewards delivered. The largest independent analysis to examine the Kickstarter community and project fulfillment »
fig
Psychonauts 2 is 100% funded! YAY @DoubleFine!!! »
Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper on Vimeo
Fascinating short doc on a designer who created an artificial tumbleweed to clear landmines https:/… »
Oculus - Oculus VR
If you're keeping score, the biggest news out of CES week happened on this morning at 8AM PST. »
Cassie Marketos
Hello world! Still avail for some short-term work this winter, pre-start of a new job. Would <3 to work w/ you: http... »
analytics.usa.gov | The US government's web traffic.
Tennessee, Boulder, and Philadelphia talked with 18F about how they adapted the code behind »
The 18th Annual Independent Games Festival Finalists
So many great selections in this year's IGF. SO MANY @offworld favorites! We know the good stuff <3 <3 »
Update Your Footer.
cuz it’s 2016, websites. »
t.co / Twitter
but for my emotions »
Job Openings at EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF has jobs at all three points of our eldritch triangle of power: tech, activism and the law: ▲ ▲‌ ▲ »
FACEBOOK ON THE OCULUS
Via @KOOPMode: We’re incredibly excited about the future of entertainment launching soon »
Pixar
Internship reminder! ALL Summer 2016 #Internship openings have been posted: #PixarIsHiring ht… »
iOS Games Worth Playing
Psst, I just updated my iOS game rec list. A few new games, but more importantly there are now filtering options! https://… »
Awesome Games Done Quick
*Super* exciting block of Donkey Kong Country & Mario games today at @GamesDoneQuick, including Kaizo Mario 3 (!!!) »