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October 31, 2024
— Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines #
October 30, 2024
— he has an extraordinary memory, reliving the stories behind a beautifully simple song #
— grateful to Mia Sato for staying on this beat, which affects so many smaller sites I care about #
— getting it to run DOOM is only a matter of time #
— BRAIN scraped 16 years of Twitter to find the first people to post “RIP” when celebrities died, turning it into a morbid competition #
— the BBS goes read-only on Friday, replaced by Substack comments, and the community is not happy #
— a useful case study given the current debacle stemming from WordPress’s “benevolent dictator for life” model via @johnonolan #
— in some cases, Meta is automatically creating the pages via Garbage Day #
— research and short essays about cultural loss and the critical importance of preservation and access #
October 29, 2024
— The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel’s clearheaded “endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris” #
October 20, 2024
— like curling meets shuffleboard on a tabletop board #
October 16, 2024
— Liverpool tattoo artist Rachel Baldwin made charming tattoos for each line of the Talking Heads classic and made it into a music video #
— a series of articles looking back 20 years, worth exploring just for the playful article design inspired by early Gmail, Digg, Kazaa, and more #
October 11, 2024
— all of this year’s XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #
October 10, 2024
— The Pudding’s deep analysis of 10 years of fanfic ships on AO3 #
October 9, 2024
— Chris Person compiled a list of active forums, grouped by subject area, hosted outside of the major platforms via Garbage Day #
— 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 #
October 7, 2024
— there’s a nice companion piece for Dave Winer’s milestone in The Guardian #
October 2, 2024
— the creator of A Short Hike relaunched his charming interactive ghost town where players design and share jack-o-lanterns #
— for the tenth year, Laura E. Hall brings back her popup newsletter sending a gently spooky email for each day of October #
