Issue 60

Contemporary music stars get acid washed in these retro album covers. 🧷 Super cool Tumblr of Tokyo Fashion. 🇯🇵

Mar 12, 2019

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