Connections with James Burke returns 45 years after it first aired — streaming now on Curiosity Stream #

Recursive Recipes — click ingredients to expand them, giving you instructions on how to make Eggs Benedict from scratch in a mere 17.5 years (via) #

G/O Media shutters Jezebel after 16 years, lays off staff — they should give the domain back to Heather Champ (via) #

Omegle shuts down after 14 years over sexual abuse litigation — it boomed during the pandemic for live performance and personal connection, but has always struggled with sexual predators #

Barack Obama talks to The Verge’s Nilay Patel — on AI regulation, free speech on social networks, and the future of democracy and the internet #

Ex-Kotaku staffers launch Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported videogame news site — I love the trend of small journalist collectives going indie, like Defector, Hell Gate, and 404 Media #

When NYC Put a Celebrity in Every Taxi — David Friedman's outstanding oral history of NYC's Celebrity Talking Taxi program, also available in article form and on the Internet Archive #

Decker — heavily inspired by HyperCard, a free multimedia tool for making interactive documents on or off the web (via) #

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs — Cabel Sasser tells the history of a quirky 1980s electronics catalog, scanning 55 of them for the first time #

DreamerJazz covers “Now And Then” like the early Beatles — I think I like this one-man-band version better than the original song #

Making “Now and Then,” the final Beatles song — Peter Jackson's team used a voice separation model to isolate John's vocals from his muddy 1977 demo #

Muted.io — remarkable collection of interactive music theory tools #

Photo preservationist saves 4,000 glass plate negatives from the trash — selections from the archive documenting life in New England between 1850-1920 can be found on Cappucci's site, Facebook, and Instagram #

Let’s Get Creative — a growing collection of free online creative tools for all ages, open to submissions that meet the criteria (via) #

Blank Space (Johnny’s Version) — There I Ruined It delivers another voice-cloned masterpiece #

Searching for Humanity in Fortnite — playing a battle royale as a pacifist turns into a parable about survival in a world that discourages solidarity and mutual aid #

AI Seinfeld is broken, maybe forever — the stream is stuck in an endless glitchy loop #

CGP Grey’s interactive Rock, Paper, Scissors game on YouTube — deeper than it appears with over 100 unlisted videos and multiple secret endings #

Amiga ASCII Art — a 2015 thesis on the history of ASCII art focused on its use in the Amiga warez and BBS scenes, translated and updated for 2023 (via) #

Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT — their autonomous murderbots are much more fun with a top hat, googly eyes, and British accent (via) #

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3 — fascinating post by Simon Willison with details about how ChatGPT was instructed to use DALL-E 3 #

This woman on TikTok is building a tunnel system under her house — her side quest is building a castle from the stone she's quarried, I just wonder what her neighbors think #

Separating fact from fiction on social media in times of conflict — Bellingcat's tips for spotting misinformation and disinformation using real, recent examples #

The restaurant nearest Google — Mia Sato investigates whether the SEO-driven trend of naming your business "X Near Me" actually works #

Neal.fun’s Internet Artifacts, an online museum of artifacts from the early internet — including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation #

SANANDREAS.TXT — a GTA V mod that lets players leave floating persistent messages anywhere in the game world for others to find #

Simon Willison’s primer on embeddings — a great overview for the technically-minded about a powerful tool for search, recommendations, and classification #

subpar pool — obsessed with this chonky pool game from the creator of Holedown, out now for iOS/Android, Switch, and Windows #

Comic Anhs — a charming personal website with each section introduced by four-panel comics (via) #

An art critic reviewed TikTok’s most-followed visual artist, spawning a parasocial pile-on — the original review is worth reading, a thoughtful and nuanced take that makes the subway artist's reaction even more bizarre #

Puzzmo — Zach Gage launched a puzzle game community with 500 invite codes released every day by, of course, solving a puzzle #

Tom Cardy and Brian David Gilbert’s Beautiful Mind — two of my favorite internet weirdos joined forces to make musical madness #

Trust & Safety Tycoon — the followup to the equally-challenging Moderator Mayhem from Techdirt's Mike Masnick #

Katie Notopoulos on how decentralized federated networks can rebuild the social internet — "my toxic trait is I can’t shake that naïve optimism of the early internet"; same here, Katie #

Ghost Swing — Louie Zong is back with his annual Halloween ghost jam #

What the deal with juggling in animation? — Jasper's spreadsheet collects over 200 examples from 1919 to today, ranked by accuracy and difficulty (via) #

Meta in Myanmar — Erin Kissane completed her four-part series about the role of Meta and Facebook in the Rohingya genocide #

Whole Earth Index — a near-complete archive of the Whole Earth Catalog and related publications from 1970 to 2002 (via) #

QX82 — a tiny JS library for making retro games and experiences inspired by the ZX Spectrum and QBasic #

Satoshi Kon: The Lost Interview — Mark Slutsky interviewed the visionary director in 2007 about Paprika, published here in full for the first time #

Is Laufey jazz? — Adam Neely's fascinating breakdown of her musical influences, appeal to young audiences, and the modern state of jazz #

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival — open until Halloween, explore a spooky multiplayer world where a thousand ghosts have shared their pumpkin designs #

The Great Zelle Pool Scam — yet another Zelle horror story, this time with scammers hacking contractors' email accounts to solicit payments from their customers #

Control Panel for Twitter — browser add-on that reverses many of the most annoying changes under Musk, including yesterday's removal of link titles #

31 Days of Halloween — for the ninth year, Laura E. Hall's popup daily newsletter of spooky stuff is posting every day of October #

HONK — Cyriak made a new animation, his first in two years #

Rolling Stone’s oral history of School of Rock — charming inside story of making the movie from the cast and crew #

The Curse of Dialup World — inside story of a wildly mismanaged dialup ISP in the late '90s , the billing process alone made me scream (via) #

Songs That Stop on the Word “Stop” — Todd in the Shadows made a perfect supercut, over 30 minutes long! (via) #

Folding Ideas’ “This Is Financial Advice” — Dan Olson's new video essay is a 2.5-hour epic about the apocalyptic doomsday cult of GameStop short sellers #