Adrian Holovaty’s Melodic Guitar Music
— his first proper album, ten original guitar instrumentals inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins (via) #
Looking back at Aardvark’d, the Fog Creek Documentary, 18 years later
— several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion (via) #
Harry Styles fans debate the authenticity of possibly AI-generated leaked demos
— even the AI experts hired by 404 Media can't tell which, if any, are real #
Nour: Play With Your Food
— the surreal interactive food physics toy with reactive music is out now for PC/Mac and PS4/PS5 #
How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness?
— blame it on cheap artificial vanillin, which became the default flavor for ice cream across the U.S. (via) #
Kagi Small Web
— another reason to love Kagi is their effort to promote blogs and other smaller independent websites #
Teaser trailer for The Boy and the Heron
— Miyazaki’s first film in ten years, and reportedly his last, will be out on December 8 in the U.S. #
DJ Phonetic
— make beats with drum sounds found in phonemes from audio clips of public-domain historical speeches (via) #
Mr. Platformer
— VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh's latest is a free Pitfall-esque platformer that quickly turns masocore #
Endless Thread finds the previously-unknown illustrator for A Wrinkle In Time’s cover art
— picking up the phone and pulling every thread to solve a mystery (via) #
Dungeons & Dragons on Death Row
— heartbreaking story of how a group of Texas prisoners awaiting execution found escape and therapy in role-playing #
EXPI by @p01
— astounding graphic demo in 1024 bytes of Javascript, it won the Assembly 2023 1kb compo (via) #
You Say Potato, I Say Fuck You
— how have I never seen this 17-year-old crowdsourced collection of 2,500+ photos of anthropomorphic objects (via) #
Cliquart
— Philippe Caron's generative art experiments, each following a set of simple instructions reminiscent of Sol Lewitt's wall drawings (via) #
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
— Tyler Vigen investigates the existence of a seemingly-useless pedestrian bridge to a satisfying conclusion (via) #
Searching for Maura, an investigative journalism graphic novella
— uncovering the death of an Indigenous Filipino woman recruited for the 1904 World's Fair, her brain stolen by a racist scientist at the Smithsonian (via) #
Singapore in Colour
— finding the unique palettes of a neighborhood by analyzing colors in photos (via) #
a clock where the time is mentioned on YouTube
— the latest in Russell Samora's series of data clocks for The Pudding (via) #
The end of the Googleverse
— Ryan Broderick interviewed me and a bunch of others about the decline of Google's usefulness for The Verge #
Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee
— on the hypocrisy of big tech liberally scraping the web for AI, while legally blocking scraping from their own platforms #
Rewriting wipEout from leaked source
— the PSX classic now runs at about 3,000 fps in the browser on my aging laptop #
Nikita Diakur’s avatar learns to backflip
— bizarre and delightful short film about overcoming a fear with machine learning (via) #
Internet Archive’s Manuals Showcase
— Jason Scott curated a selection of unusual manuals from their library of nearly three million (via) #
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale
— 404 Media investigates the people and platforms profiting off AI generative porn, including non-consensual depictions of specific women #
404 Media launches
— four of my favorite Motherboard journalists started a new indie media company and it's already great, I subscribed instantly #
Thank Goodness You’re Here!
— teaser trailer for the latest Panic-published game, which looks extremely silly and good #
South Pole Electrical Infrastructure
— the anonymous writer behind Brr.fyi shares how power generation and distribution works at South Pole Station #
Internet Archive will remove publishers’ commercially-available titles from online lending program
— print-only and out-of-print books will remain available, but this is still a huge loss #
Good Tape
— free secure audio transcription, up to three 90-minute recordings per month or pay for more features #
a clock where the time is in a song title
— The Pudding's Russell Samora made a clock that plays 8,968 songs from Spotify based on your local time #
Two grad students unravel a widely believed math conjecture
— clear explanation of Apollonian circle packing and disproving the local-global conjecture (via) #
The unusual success of the harpejji, a hybrid guitar/piano/harp invented in 2007
— you have to hear this thing in action to appreciate it, try searching YouTube for harpejji songs (via) #
This London cookbook store tests recipes by cooking for customers
— the French chef/owner makes three-course set lunches from recipes found in the books they sell #
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
— Ronan Farrow reports on the U.S. government's unpredictable and dangerous reliance on Musk and his companies #
Record labels hit Internet Archive with new $400M lawsuit for preserving 78 rpm records
— absolute garbage lawsuit, every recording was pre-1978 from deceased artists digitized from the original 78s (via) #
The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year from 1973-2023
— Tracklib breaks down sample sources from the last 50 years #