Holy moly, Pixar just open sourced their high-performance subdivision evaluator. It’s on @github: https://t.co/sMFfUkOY

Rover lands on Mars, guy with artificial legs runs in the Olympics, Brits broadcast a lesbian kiss to Saudi Arabia. It’s future week!

Pretty cool. A twitter bot that creates 3D architectural forms based on commands you send it: @tweet2form  http://heumanndesigntech.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/tweet2form-the-formalist-tweetbot/ …

“Startups are a small elite of young people working for Baby Boomer financiers to destroy the middle class and the nation state.” -- @bruces

Kinda seems like NASA found extraterrestrial life: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

Remember when Web 2.0 was about open APIs? Now we’re fighting over proprietary ways of embedding images:  http://nyti.ms/WJ8kjf  @timoreilly

“I liked crowdfunding better when it was called taxation.” — @anildash

Did you guys know there's a 3D model of the Earth scanned from space with lasers by NASA that you can download free? http://t.co/2YXB2vPH

Steve Jobs died. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore are splitting up. It's like the season finale of whatever HBO show we're all characters in.

Chinese trend for wearing ski masks to the beach to preserve fashionable pale skin: http://t.co/pp8KLHr1 Should be in a @greatdismal book.

The Internet: where Borges comes up with the ideas, but Kafka does the implementation.

Wrote an epic post on making photomosaics in Processing:  http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2013/01/14/making-photomosaics-in-processing/ … //cc @mathpunk

@greatdismal I had friends who were hired to build a system to generate bulk YouTube accounts to post fake buzz for Hollywood movies.

@andrewjskatz @doctorow Some of the software already is! https://t.co/hEddqQcj

@greatdismal Accounts had persona types set from demographic data, would upload “leaked” trailers, the studios could do takedowns on.

Today, @kellan and I coined a word for the opposite of the New Aesthetic: Thingpunk, the fetishizing of the stubbornly non-digital.

Programming is amazing. One tiny bug can take two days. One giant feature can take two hours.

New post: AI Unbundled. Hunting for new ways of thinking computer vision, machine learning, et al after the death of AI http://t.co/nDLdlO6e

Stack Overflow is one of the most common thank yous on ITP thesis slides. Don't remember that being true in past years.

Wrote a blog post about how I connected the @github stoplight to their continuous integration system with Arduino: http://bit.ly/9LNglI