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 #
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) #
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 #
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 #
anagrams.io elegant anagram finder with a sharable visualization for each #
NYPD Coppelgänger Sam Lavigne's used facial recognition on an archive of 10,000 publicly-available photos of NYC police #
Prompt Airlines practice AI prompt injection with a series of challenges breaking a fictional airline's customer support chatbot #