Year: 2017
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Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Now Digitized in High-Resolution and Available Online
[Open Culture has the rundown][link]. You can buy back issues for [$2.99 a pop][amazon], or read them all with Kindle Unlimited. But that’s not all: >Jerrick Media, owners of the Omni brand, have also begun to make available on [Vimeo on Demand episodes of Omni: The New Frontier][vimeo], the 1980s syndicated television series hosted by…
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New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network
[My favorites include “Mind Blark”, “Farming”, and “Barking Sphere.”][link] [link]: http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/159363915392/new-dd-magic-spells-designed-by-neural-network “Postcards from the Frontiers of Space”
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WebGL demo: What Are You Syncing About?
[Quite the demo][1], in-browser live rendered 3D animation and music using Three.js. Just press start. (via [waxy][waxy]) [1]: https://stianj.com/what-are-you-syncing-about/ “What Are You Syncing About?” [waxy]: http://waxy.org “Andy Baio’s blog”
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Wireframe Skull (For The Love of Dog) Prints Now Available For Purchase
My surprisingly popular 3D wireframe skull is available for purchase from Shapeways. I’ve done a test print through them, and it definitely works! The prices range from $40 for white plastic, to $100,000 for one in platinum. I’m not joking, you can buy this thing in solid platinum. Eat your heart out, Damien.
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Duke Nukem’s Dystopian Fantasies
[Liz Ryerson for Jacobin magazine][1]: [1]: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/duke-nukems-dystopian-fantasies/ “Duke Nukem’s Dystopian Fantasies – Jacobin” It’s hard to think of a piece of media that understands itself less than Duke Nukem 3D. Hard to argue with that.
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The web’s most useful tools and sites
The web’s most useful tools and sites according to the readers of Kottke.org.
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Stop using device breakpoints
[Adam Silver with some good horse sense][1]. This is a surprisingly common practice here in the Year of Luigi 2017. It’s mostly surprising because we spent so much time talking about this during the original web standards push that I’d hoped it had sunk in. [1]: https://medium.com/simple-human/stop-using-device-breakpoints-b11a87e2625c “Stop using device breakpoints – Simple = Human…
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Where To Find Phil Nelson On The Internet, March 2017 Edition
It’s been awhile since we’ve done one of these, eh? I, Phil Nelson, am a web developer, designer, game tinkerer, professional wrestling aficionado, and son of the once-great state of Michigan. Lately you can find me standing too close behind you in line at the following places: * Making/playing games over on Itch.io * Making…
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*inception noise*
Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş creates ‘Inception’-esque composite images of American landscapes. Source: Mind-Bending Drone Photo Manipulations Turn America into a Roller Coaster – Creators
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New Game: Duck Jumper
Rediscovered after being lost since 1987, and now available for download [on itch.io: Duck Jumper][1]. Jump on ducks! Keep doing it! Name your own price, and yes, $0.00 is a price. [1]: https://philnelson.itch.io/duck-jumper “Download Duck Jumper”
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An annotated digest of the top “Hacker” “News” posts.
“Not discussed: how to start a startup without ruining anyone else’s life.”
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How to Design a Cheap Plant Watering Sensor
The thoroughness of this post is inspiring. Cool project, too! A $5 plant moisture sensor designed from scratch. In this article I will talk about how I designed a cheap plant watering sensor. My goal is some kind of meta tutorial, where you can see the steps involved from the initial idea to the final…