Noah Mittman

Web professional since '96; Technologist; UX and IxD; Survivor of the era of Internet Optimism; I wish all the bunk MCs turn to fish.

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Game Design
Casual Games and Storylets: Or, How to Make Game Mechanics Express Choice
emshort.blog - Author Emily Short
In a recent post about storylet-based narrative design, I briefly suggested that even games like Lily’s Garden could be understood as a case of …
Nov 30, 2019
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'Wattam' Is a Children's Guide to Eco-Radicalism
VICE - Lewis Gordon
Keita Takahashi’s games are always full of stuff. Playfully rendered and often crudely animated, the bright technicolor objects which populate the games he’s helped create have tended to function as fodder
January 6
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Geek
How An Overwatch Skin Left Some Of D.Va's Biggest Fans Feeling Betrayed
Kotaku - Nico Deyo
Overwatch hero D.va has been considered a symbol of empowerment by a lot of feminists in the Korean Overwatch community, representing how women could …
January 8
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Fast Food
What McDonald’s Has Meant to Black Americans
slate.com - Christina Cauterucci
In her new book, Marcia Chatelain explores the complicated history of how McDonald’s infiltrated black neighborhoods and sold them on a boneless …
5 days ago
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Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5”
The New Yorker - Troy Patterson
Some aficionados of Armando Iannucci—the creator of sturdy political farces including “Veep,” “The Thick of It,” and “The Death of Stalin”—will interpret his new science-fiction comedy as another statement
1 day ago
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Visualizing the effects of a YouTube apology on followers
YouTube
The Aftermath of a YouTube Apology
pudding.cool
January 1
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Xbox 360
All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen
Polygon - Blake Hester
In 2005, with the Xbox 360 a strong force in the market, the Microsoft senior software engineer is considering what’s next. He and his team are doing incubation work for the future of Xbox, figuring out
6 days ago
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Technology
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
The New York Times - Kashmir Hill
Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow hair on their own photos. Then Mr. Ton-That — an Australian
3 days ago
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Software
The browser wars are back, but it’s different this time
The Verge - Dieter Bohn
If you weren’t convinced we live in a new era for Microsoft’s consumer-facing software, the one-two punch of Windows 7 closing down and the new Chromium-based version of Edge officially launching ought
4 days ago
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"A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers"
Unicode
All – Tiny Helpers
tiny-helpers.dev
January 13
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Environment
Sex machine: prolific Galápagos tortoise saves his species
The Guardian - Jessica Glenza in New York
The Galápagos National Park has announced it is ending a captive breeding program for giant Española tortoises, after one tortoise produced more than 800 offspring, helping save the species. When the program
January 13
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Technology
Confirmed: Craig Wright doesn’t have keys to $8 billion of Bitcoin
decrypt.co - Tim Copeland
Craig Wright’s lawyer confirmed to Decrypt today that Wright does not possess—nor even claim to possess—the private keys that can be used to spend $8 …
3 days ago
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Business
Tesla cars are accelerating without warning, prompting government scrutiny
The Verge - Andrew J. Hawkins
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that it is weighing whether to launch an investigation into “sudden unexpected acceleration” of 500,000 Tesla vehicles, according to Reuters.
3 days ago
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Software
HTML5 Generation Gives Eulogy to Flash
tumult.com - Daniel Morgan
The year 2020 marks the end of an era for Flash. The story of Flash began about 25 years ago as a way to display vector animations on the early web. …
January 13
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Loneliness
The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’
The Guardian - Paula Cocozza
On Saturday morning, Peter got up and went to the supermarket. He carried his shopping home, and took care of his laundry and ironing. In the afternoon, he browsed a few record stores and later he cooked
4 days ago
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The Emotions Evoked By Music - interactive map
The Emotions Evoked by Music
berkeley.edu
January 8
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"Chrome will phase out all third-party cookies on the browser by 2022. Until then, Google intends to make third-party cookies more secure and to continue to find (and crowdsource, apparently) less inv …
Privacy
What Google’s Latest Data Privacy Announcement Actually Means
slate.com - Chloe Hadavas
4 days ago
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Cocktails
Nonalcoholic Cocktails’ Most Unexpected Fans: Kids
The New York Times - Marissa Conrad
Perhaps no one had more disdain for the Shirley Temple than the person for whom the kid-friendly cocktail was named. “Those saccharine, icky drinks? I had nothing to do with [them],” the actress told Scott
5 days ago
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Tech Industry
Peacock, NBC’s new streaming service, wants you to watch ads.
Recode - Peter Kafka
Apple showed up to the streaming wars with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Disney arrived with Baby Yoda and the Avengers. HBO Max is bringing Friends. Now it’s Comcast’s turn. And the cable and
5 days ago
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Web Design
The paradox at the heart of A/B testing
matthewstrom.com
In 1955, C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a book called Parkinson’s Law. It’s a satire of government bureaucracy, written when the British Colonial Office …
5 days ago
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Web Design
Progressive Web Apps in 2020
Medium - Maximiliano Firtman
It’s been more than 12 years since Steve Jobs originally presented the idea of web apps “that look exactly and behave exactly like native apps,” and …
January 2
Noah Mittman
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Exercise
Players Are Pushing Their Bodies to the Limit Speedrunning Nintendo's Fitness Game
VICE - Patrick Klepek
On December 15, a player in Tokyo, Japan calling themselves Sakinyan turned on their Switch and started playing Ring Fit Adventure, Nintendo’s terrific exercise game hybrid from last year. For most people,
January 13
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Chris Evans
Chris Evans Goes to Washington
WIRED - Arielle Pardes
The actor's new project, A Starting Point, aims to give all Americans the TL;DR on WTF is going on in politics. It's harder than punching Nazis on …
5 days ago
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"The Giuliani letter is a written confession of the president abusing his power."
Donald Trump
Trump’s Goons Were Up to Something Very Shady in Ukraine
New York Magazine - Jonathan Chait
5 days ago
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Politics
How We Lost the Right to Move Freely
slate.com - Kia Rahnama
And why it matters.
January 13
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It was formed 5 to 7 billion years ago 😮
Meteorites
The oldest material on Earth has been found in a meteorite
CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN
January 13
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Data Visualization
Criteria for good data visualization, according to design and statistics
Quartz - Anne Quito
The field of data visualization has become a tussle between accuracy and beauty. In one corner, designers say that data is fungible as long as the presentation is eye-catching. In the other corner, statisticians
January 12
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Asia
Middle Age Misery Peaks at Age of 47.2, Economist Says
Bloomberg - Simon Kennedy
Middle age is miserable, according to a new economic study which pinpoints 47.2 years old as the moment of peak unhappiness in the developed …
January 13
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Of *course*
New York City Real Estate
Manhattan’s Flood of New Condos Could Take Six Years to Sell
Bloomberg - Oshrat Carmiel
January 6
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"[Breitbart's negative] attention to the online encyclopedia only points to Wikipedia’s importance in political discourse today and highlights its role as an institution dedicated to factual reliabili …
Wikipedia
Why Wikipedia Is Much More Effective Than Facebook at Fighting Fake News
haaretz.com - Omer Benjakob
January 9

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