interweb's comments

On: Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program...

[interweb]

Long ago, I made an UI Painting App (fun fact: it still works on MacOS). http://poxparty.com/InterFacePainter/

On: The Camera-Shy Hoodie

[interweb]

See also Becca Ricks https://beccaricks.space/Unidentified-Halo

On: Folders(2015)-an esoteric programming language enc...

[interweb]

"All Folders programs are 0 bytes if you're on windows as it interprets an empty folder as 0 bytes."

On: The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz ...

[interweb]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630526 made me think of this poignant documentary. As JSTOR virtuously opens their walled garden... We can't forget...

On: Open-Access JSTOR Database Accessible to the Publi...

[interweb]

Makes me think of Aaron Swartz RIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[ce4 → interweb]

I thought the same, the JSTOR incident initially brought me to HN. Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845

On: Windows93

[interweb]

One of my favorite pieces of software art! Jankenpopp and Zombectro are awesome artists... http://jankenpopp.com/ http://zombect.ro/

On: Ask HN: What's an Example of a Successful Rebrandi...

[interweb]

Brand New is a good resource: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

[plibither8 → interweb]

That's a great website, thanks!

On: Ask HN: What's an Example of a Successful Rebrandi...

[interweb]

The art collective Pox Party did a rebrand right around the time of Google's & Airbnb's (both successful in my mind). If the Pox rebrand is successful is up to you... They modeled their video after similar self-aggrandizing announcements. Their "identity program" PDF was modeled after the infamous 1M Pepsi rebrand: http://getpox.com/

On: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

[interweb]

https://www.google.com/teapot

On: Should you use interface builder?

[interweb]

Use Inter FacePainter! Expressive UI is the future... http://poxparty.com/InterFacePainter/