Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 3rd from 13:00 to 23:45:

• Animal eyes on Behance – The horse's eye is insane. Oh, and the lama.
• 1,400 ‘Samsung Experience’ shops in Best Buy locations spell more bad news for HTC | The Verge – "… the Experience Shop is a grim reminder of Samsung's enormous power, cash, and willingness to spend its way into consumers' minds at any cost."
• Gamasutra – News – Play folk games on the fly with Tiny Games app – Leigh on Margaret on Tiny Games
• An acquisition is always a failure – "Companies are conceived of, financed, and built with the hope of getting noticed by a deep-pocketed suitor and, literally, killed. Because although the human workers remain, the soul of the company – its vision – is discarded like an eggshell. Arguably, a company is nothing but a vision shared by a team of collaborators. And when the vision dies, the visionary fails." This. Really, this.
• [toread] Twitter / gknauss: Gotta admit, Siri’s natural … – Gotta admit, Siri's natural language processing is getting pretty good.
• [toread] Tiny Adventures Throw Pillow by Jón Kristján Kristinsson | Society6 – This adventure game themed pillow cover you made is adorable! RT @jonkristinsson @mossmouth Yes! :o
• [toread] (404) http://t.co/9DMv7 – RT @LaughingSquid: Super Spice Bros 2, Intense Old Spice Commercials to the Tune of the 'Super Mario Bros.' Video Game …
• [toread] Bookmarks for April 2nd through April 3rd : Extenuating Circumstances – Bookmarks for April 2nd through April 3rd