The Pudding’s interactive explainer on Crokinole — like curling meets shuffleboard on a tabletop board #

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 #

2004 Week on The Verge — a series of articles looking back 20 years, worth exploring just for the playful article design inspired by early Gmail, Digg, Kazaa, and more #

Cabel Sasser’s XOXO 2024 talk — 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 #

Who gets shipped and why? — The Pudding's deep analysis of 10 years of fanfic ships on AO3 #

Aftermath’s list of discussion forums — Chris Person compiled a list of active forums, grouped by subject area, hosted outside of the major platforms (via) #

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 #

Scripting News turns 30 — there's a nice companion piece for Dave Winer's milestone in The Guardian #

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 #

Rest of World’s Digital Divinity — feature package on new ways religious believers are using new technology, from Muslim VR simulators to Buddhist monks on TikTok #

Guided by Vices — Nick Heer on the ever-increasing user-hostile demand for your attention from the biggest social platforms #

Making 8-bit music from scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC prompt — Linus Åkesson just casually being amazing again #

DOOM in the iOS Photos app — a technically-playable (but just barely) hack using iOS Shortcuts to download remote screenshots compiled into videos #

The data on extreme human ageing is flawed — most "blue zones," concentrated areas of supercentenarians, can be attributed to pension fraud or bad record-keeping #

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) #

Cohost to shut down at the end of the year — very sad to hear this but I'm grateful for their effort, and loved having them at XOXO to talk about their weird and special community #

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 #

404 Media on the anarchist collective teaching people to DIY expensive medicine — the course of medication that cures Hepatitis C costs $84,000 at $1,000/pill, but can be produced for only $700 or $0.83/pill #

TechDirt’s Mike Masnick on the Internet Archive decision — the ruling is "a knife in the back of libraries," claiming that authors won't write new books if libraries lend digital books for free #

Internet Archive loses its appeal against book publishers — the appeals court ruled that, despite being a nonprofit and no evidence of market harm, its implementation of Controlled Digital Lending isn't fair use #

Song Pong — open-source music visualizer that synchronizes MIDI to bouncing balls in a modified game of Pong (via) #

The rise and fall of OpenSea — the SEC notified them last week that NFTs on the struggling platform are unregistered securities #

The Pentium as a Navajo weaving — 1994 replica of a printed circuit board handmade on an upright wooden loom (via) #

Departure Mono — free monospaced pixel font with a very nice website to promote it #

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes — Nolen Royalty tells the story of how a group of teens were writing secret binary messages on the Tiny Award-winning multiplayer experiment #

SNAKEBYTE — impressively deep sequel to STRG.SNEK, a stylish Snake-inspired ASCII adventure (via) #

Shutterbug — free desktop-only browser game where you photograph bugs by resizing and moving the browser window (via) #

Sun vs. Moon — a clicker battle from Neal.fun #

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 #

One Million Screenshots — a zoomable explorable rendering of 1M+ homepage screenshots, updated monthly (via) #

La Sentinelle — French embroidery artist Marine Beaufils finished her needlepoint project recreating screenshots from The Sentinel #

Eyechat — Neal.fun's latest project pairs random strangers in a video call using only your eyes, no chat or audio #

Tulip Creative Computer — The Echo Nest's Brian Whitman new project is a $59 portable computer for creative coding, first batch is sold out with more shipping in late August (via) #

The Mystery of Detective Barbie’s Audio — can any audio codec nerds out there help extract the staggering 9,342 sound clips of girls' names from a 1999 Barbie game #

Beyond the C — Louie Zong used Melodyne to change every note of Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" to C (via) #

Destroying LEGO Towers — the amount of effort that goes into every Brick Technology video is staggering #

Adding humans to Minecraft — Dream spent a year making an elaborate rig for inserting real-time full-motion video of people into multiplayer games #

How Portland’s Sports Bra kicked off a women’s sports bar movement — opened in 2022, Jenny Nguyen proved that a sports bar could succeed showing only women's sports, inspiring others across the country (via) #

The AI Keeps the Score — long Verge feature on the development of AI-assisted aids for judging gymnastics #

Public Work — a nicely-designed visual search engine for public domain images, but they could do a better job linking to sources #

The Many Lives of Null Island — I never knew the shape of the in-joke for geospatial data geeks was based on the island from Myst #

Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650,000,000 checks — wild story of scaling a ridiculous side project #

anagrams.io — elegant anagram finder with a sharable visualization for each #

Generating sudokus for fun and no profit — interactive explainer for the various ways to code a Sudoku solver (via) #

The best video game documentary ever just got better — the excellent Double Fine PsychOdyssey just got a surprise 90-minute epilogue and a limited Blu-ray release #

Imitating the surreal transitions of AI-generated videos in real-life — I love watching a new subgenre of shitposting appear in real-time (via) #