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March 30, 2020

NBA.FM — MSCHF is simulating the lost NBA season as "hyper-realistic audio gameplay broadcasts" live, starting tomorrow (via)

Some Good News — John Krasinski doing his best Ze Frank, way better than I expected it to be

Mackerelmedia Fish — delightful retroweb-inspired goodness from Nathalie Lawhead

First Order Motion Model for Image Animation — try it on Google Colab or watch Two Minute Papers' video to see more examples

Shaderbooth — interactive editor for making GLSL face filters with WebGL, click the arrows to see more (via)

March 27, 2020

Google cancels its April 1 jokes — thank god

March 26, 2020

Yelp to stop auto-creating GoFundMe fundraisers without consent — Andy McMillan and I popped up in The Verge today

Stewart Butterfield on leading Slack during a pandemic — the unique first-hand perspective of seeing the world shift to remote work, including his own company (via)

Without social safety nets, desperate Americans turn to GoFundMe — like Jason Kottke said, "America is a rich country that feels like a poor country."

March 25, 2020

The Verge’s guide to watching movies with friends online — not mentioned: Rave, &chill, and ShareTube

Breaking Down The Disinformation Ecosystem Around Coronavirus — well-meaning people are accidentally spreading bad information, alongside profiteers and bad actors doing it deliberately

6 Feet Covers — I made some of my own, but these are really well done (via)

Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library — they've removed waitlists for over 1.4 million scanned books (via)

How the Pandemic Will End — well-researched feature on The Atlantic about what went wrong, where it's going, and what needs to happen next

Ben Gibbard’s Live from Home series — he's streaming shows daily on FB/Twitch/YouTube at 4pm PT/7pm ET, and it's really great

Color Push — collaborative artwork by Zach Lieberman lets you paint with your head (via)

Krisp — simple app filters out incoming and outgoing background noise for online calls

Home Screen — a playful new newsletter from The Verge's T.C. Sottek

SXSW 2020 Shorts — Mailchimp licensed 40+ SXSW-nominated shorts for streaming (via)

March 24, 2020

O’Reilly Media permanently ends in-person conferences — they don't plan to run a physical OSCON, Strata, Velocity, or anything else ever again

Concealed Spaces — José Manuel Ballester removes human figures from classic paintings

91-DIVOC — the best visualization I've found so far to track country-by-country growth of COVID-19, updated daily

Virtual Travel Photography in the Age of Pandemic — Noah Kalina is snapping moments from live feed webcams of public places around the world

it’s time to get good at darts — the dartening is near

March 23, 2020

Tom Scott on the problems with copyright — he mentions me and Kind of Bloop around the 5:50 mark

Skynet Simulator — new incremental game, like A Dark Room meets Telehack

March 18, 2020

Patent troll uses monkey selfie law firm to sue to block Covid-19 testing with Theranos patents — and they're funded by SoftBank

Substation — from the co-creator of CASH Music, spin up your own free paid subscription service on Glitch (via)

Best practices for locking down Zoom community calls — a troll ZoomBombed Casey Newton and Hunter Walk's livestream yesterday

Listen Together — communal music listening, like Turntable.fm rebooted for Spotify

Steam Game Festival — preview 50+ new and upcoming indie games, available through the weekend

March 17, 2020

Inklewriter is back — the powerful interactive fiction authoring tool is back online and now open-source

together. — John Green on how we'll get through this, with some useful links in the doobly-doo

CVS Bangers FOUR — bless you, Hennessy

Our Plague Year — new podcast from Welcome to Night Vale's Joseph Fink; first episode features Cory Doctorow and Nisi Shawl

The Green Fog — Guy Maddin's experimental recreation of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from found footage (via)

Flatter Me — my wife Ami just launched her followup card game to You Think You Know Me

March 16, 2020

XOXO 2020 is canceled — on the bright side, we launched this massive video archive for seven years of XOXO main stage talks

#Coronamaison — French cartoonists and illustrators are drawing cozy rooms to shelter in

March 15, 2020

The Bird Museum — Louie Zong crowdsourced over 1,000 bird drawings on Twitter and turned it into a museum for PC/Mac

Washington Post’s outbreak simulations — effective and interesting dynamic visualizations

March 14, 2020

Power Slides — Powerpoint Karaoke as a Glitch app, built on top of Neil Cicierega's excellent SlideShare Gems (via)

How Did It Feel to be Eaten? — a very good short sci-fi story by Amit Gupta

March 13, 2020

Glitch unionizes — the first modern tech company to voluntarily recognize an employee union, I believe

The Uncensored Library — Reports Without Borders built a massive open library in Minecraft to bypass government censorship (via)

Quarantine Book Club — virtual book events over Zoom with a $5 cover, upcoming authors include Heather Armstrong and Michael Bierut

March 11, 2020

Work in the Time of Corona — Alice Goldfuss's sensible advice for maintaining mental health while working from home (via)

March 10, 2020

Conversations with People Who Hate Me — very late to Dylan Marron's podcast where he connects people with those who wrote negative comments about them online

Pluralistic — Cory Doctorow's new daily digest of interesting links, also available as an email newsletter

Frank Force explains how to make a 3D racing game in 2KB of Javascript — detailed and readable breakdown; move with the mouse, double-click to jump (via)