Issue 60
Contemporary music stars get acid washed in these retro album covers. 🧷 Super cool Tumblr of Tokyo Fashion. 🇯🇵
FACEBOOK'S MIND READER AND BOTTOMLESS PIT 😱
Heya,
Everything has an illegal element to it nowadays; Lego was once just a torture device, then a toy, and now there are all sorts of illegal "builds" fracturing the community. Now, you can identify them all.
I also found some other stuff like anime-neoclassicism, an extension for messing with data tracking, Thanos, and the genuinely creepy things at Facebook.
Enjoy...
🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web
Contemporary music stars get acid washed in these retro album covers. 🧷
If you put a skeevy mustache on any celebrity and I will upvote; put it on Justin Bieber and you just got a new best friend. This is my favorite thing of the week; closely followed by these chubby Barcelona players.
Especially Piqué...it really cracked me up for some reason.
behance.net
Super cool Tumblr of Tokyo Fashion. 🇯🇵
I am not someone who can pull off "fashion", I am a man-child with a perverse fixation on t-shirts, but these fashion snaps from the streets of downtown Tokyo will take-yo on a journey to Cool Town.
tumblr.com
Cristina BanBan combines anime and neoclassicism in her depictions of the female figure.
itsnicethat.com
Blending your Lego pieces is more than a little shady; this is the guide to illegal Lego builds.
bramlambrecht.com
⚒️ Tools and Resources
You know I am always hungry for awesome CSS. This week, it's burgers in HTML/CSS + React. 🍔
github.io
Avataaars Generator is a free tool for building avatars. My demonic-heart-eyed-bearded weirdo is now my Slack identity.
getavataaars.com
AdNauseam clicks ads randomly and without honest intent to destroy any value the data could hold. 🕵️
adnauseam.io
In a similar vein, deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 40+ companies.
simpleoptout.com
SpriteStack.io: A tool and a community for making pixel art.
spritestack.io
Super CSS bonsai animation that gets to the art of website maintainence. 🌱
codepen.io
🕷️ Design & Development Arena
Thanos JS will reduce the size of your project by deleting files at random. 💣
thanosjs.org
Snake lives...Again!
Snake has more lives than a cautious kitty.
In the latest version, you write AI snake bots and then unleash them on other AI snake bots. This isn't your Grandma's Nokia, this is real life.
battlesnake.io
🤔 Articles of interest
What the hell is a blockchain phone? 🤷
Every phone is a blockchain phone; their value plummets the second you buy them, and you'll never get it back.
technologyreview.com
Zuckerberg's evolution into Bond villain gathers pace as Facebook's builds a mind-reader.
It would make for a great comedy sketch: A platform built to connect the world run by people that seem almost heroically disconnected from public perception.
futurism.com
"The Connector" also has a secret escape passage in his office.
Sure it is...
If you ever find yourself in his office and he asks you to step a little to the left, then you best go right or you're going to fall into the piranha-crocodile pit.
At best.
His trapdoor probably gives way to a bottomless pit...And then what?
Just don't go into his office.
businessinsider.com
Outro
Whoomp - there it is! Another week is done.
If you have a great Bond-villain name for M.Zucks, then please Tweet it at me.
If you could read mind, then you'd know that it's seductively whispering "forward the email".
And if you are a forwardee, then you can join here and save your buddy some work.
Have a great week,
Chris.