3D Workers Island short horror story in the form of a series of 1999-era screenshots about a Windows screensaver simulating life on an island (via) #
Moida Mansion Papers Please/Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope dropped a surprise spooky free web game inspired by 1980s LCD handhelds #
BLIB’s “Silent Love” Louie Zong, Worthikids, and Brian David Gilbert formed a supergroup making Steely Dan-inspired music and are playing L.A. next month!? #
The RIP Off BRAIN scraped 16 years of Twitter to find the first people to post "RIP" when celebrities died, turning it into a morbid competition #
This Must Be The Place lyric tattoos Liverpool tattoo artist Rachel Baldwin made charming tattoos for each line of the Talking Heads classic and made it into a music video #
Dookie Demastered Green Day collaborated with BRAIN to demake their 1994 album in 15 obscure formats, including Game Boy, Teddy Ruxpin, wax cylinder, and player piano roll #
Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival the creator of A Short Hike relaunched his charming interactive ghost town where players design and share jack-o-lanterns #
31 Days of Halloween for the tenth year, Laura E. Hall brings back her popup newsletter sending a gently spooky email for each day of October #
Bop Spotter an Android phone hidden in the Mission is set to Shazam all audio 24/7 and post the roughly 120 songs/day it can identify #
Guided by Vices Nick Heer on the ever-increasing user-hostile demand for your attention from the biggest social platforms #
DOOM in the iOS Photos app a technically-playable (but just barely) hack using iOS Shortcuts to download remote screenshots compiled into videos #
all text in nyc a search engine using OCRed text from map imagery across Brooklyn, expanding to all of NYC soon (via) #
How to Monetize a Blog you'll just have to trust me on this one; recommended for desktop browsers (via) #
Celebrity Number Six was found the low-stakes internet mystery to identify the only unknown celebrity on a shower curtain pattern is solved after four years #
The Bumpin’ Sticker Guy Dupont made a "Keep Honking! I'm Listening to…" bumper sticker-sized LCD display that updates in real-time #
Song Pong open-source music visualizer that synchronizes MIDI to bouncing balls in a modified game of Pong (via) #
Departure Mono free monospaced pixel font with a very nice website to promote it #
Shutterbug free desktop-only browser game where you photograph bugs by resizing and moving the browser window (via) #
Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From Facebook is paying bonuses for viral content, no matter how terrible, while laying off the content moderators who can prevent it #