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April 6, 2020
— I signed up this morning and canceled 10 minutes later, I expected more for the $1.75 billion they’re spending on it #
— come for the clever title hack, stay for the entropy #
— Jason Scott dug up some of the backstory #
— Increpare made a computer terminal for Toki Pona, a constructed language with about 120 words #
— lovely post-apocalyptic interactive short story for Windows/Mac #
— the UK games festival adapted to social distancing with virtual events inside games like Animal Crossing, Half-Life, and No Man’s Sky, all on their Twitch channel #
April 5, 2020
— the second episode of John Krasinski’s unusually good YouTube series features some impressive cameos #
— the You Look Nice Today boys are back with a new podcast after a seven-year hiatus #
April 3, 2020
— this 2009 documentary looks at the life and career of Bill Withers, who died Monday at age 81 #
— follow the hints to find stickers buried in the xkcd archives, then help others combine them into a massive collage #
— it had some great writers and interesting design, but agreed the editorial vision was confusing #
— an interactive multiplayer exhibition of Bitsy games, happening right now #
— devious game with a simple mechanic: you can only use the keys displayed on-screen to move via @bfod #
April 2, 2020
— could be forced to cease operations as early as June without emergency funding #
— you should use a password for any private Zoom call; related: Zoom announced a 90-day feature freeze to fix security issues #
— minimalist art gallery from Olly Bromham via It's Nice That #
— dozens of public domain movies from YouTube in a Netflix-esque interface #
— ideas of things to learn, make, and do while self-isolating #
— the writers and showrunners behind 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, and many more speculate on how their characters would react #
— completely obvious in hindsight, but this is the first I’ve seen this explained #
— voiced by Josh Gondelman, this very good episode was performed live at XOXO last year #
— Tony Ruth’s Richard Scarry parody is getting updated for 2020 #
April 1, 2020
— a little April 1 internet scavenger hunt from the creators of Emoji Mashup Bot #
— we need strong and consistent federal leadership on physical distancing, testing, and vaccine development #
— Donato Sansone edits out the second car from car crash footage via jwz #
— from the head chef at one of my favorite local restaurants, a heartfelt post about the experience of shutting it down #
— remote-friendly version of Frank Lantz’s brilliant party game played with smart speakers via @flantz #
— the level of visual planning and pacing is unreal #
— just don’t try any of these in real-life, because Internet Jackass Day is canceled #
— an important PSA from SmallBü #
— along with Spiral Jetty, The Umbrellas, and more #
— the 19-year-old meme community fell into disrepair after Google cut it off from ad revenue, and went offline last year #
March 31, 2020
— allowing unlimited copies feels like an overreach, violating the IA’s own Controlled Digital Lending policy #
— every horse is flipping you off four times #
— over $1,000 worth of incredible games and ebooks for $30, with 100% of funds going to support orgs #
— they’re also waiving fees for publications that donate their earnings to the fight against COVID-19 #
— DeepMind made a deep learning agent that can outperform humans at 57 Atari 2600 games #
March 30, 2020
— incredible starting point via Tom Armitage #
— turn screen captures into GIFs with cropping and trimming, entirely client-side in the browser via Simon Willison #
— Donato Sansone’s minute-long montage of overlapping stock videos via Colossal #
— outstanding video simulating how epidemics spread and the actions that are effective at mitigating them #
— John Scalzi wrote about the experience being on JoCoCruise as Covid-19 started exploding in the U.S. #
— after 15+ years of GIMP telling people to go fork themselves, someone finally did #
— MSCHF is simulating the lost NBA season as “hyper-realistic audio gameplay broadcasts” live, starting tomorrow via @Gabriel_Whaley #
— John Krasinski doing his best Ze Frank, way better than I expected it to be #
— delightful retroweb-inspired goodness from Nathalie Lawhead #
— try it on Google Colab or watch Two Minute Papers’ video to see more examples #
— interactive editor for making GLSL face filters with WebGL, click the arrows to see more via @maxbittker #
