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June 7, 2021
— Jesse Barron figures out the mystery of a New Jersey sandwich shop with a ridiculous valuation #
— Yale history professor Timothy Snyder on the big lie, anti-voter laws, and the end of free U.S. elections via Kottke #
June 4, 2021
— anything and everything all of the time #
— donate at least $5, get 1,000+ games including Minit, Calico, GNOG, Pikuniku, VVVVVV, Windosill, Luna, and Art Sqool #
June 3, 2021
— astounding story of the “Game Mistresses” of St. Bride’s School, who released eight full-length text adventures from 1985 to 1992 #
June 2, 2021
May 29, 2021
— Marcin Wichary’s Ignite talk about looping videos, told as a live looping video; how it was made #
May 28, 2021
— found by, uh, searching Google #
— 3F Music decided not to take it offline after all #
— a companion piece to Zeynep Tufekci’s NYT new op-ed urging world leaders to take action against new variants #
May 27, 2021
— Blender virtuoso Ian Hubert’s absurdly detailed CG-rich short film about a salad vendor in a cyberpunk city via The Verge #
— Nicole He and Eran Hilleli’s delightful AR prototype imagining the secret lives of smart devices #
— remarkable reporting using internal documents, messages, and roadmaps #
— from 2012, a very silly new-to-me Conan sketch that made me laugh #
— they prompt OpenAI’s GPT-3 model with the cartoon description, you vote on the output #
May 26, 2021
— a filmmaker makes some bets with his conspiracist mother #
May 25, 2021
— bought by the same NFT whale who bought Disaster Girl, Overly Attached Girlfriend, and Kevin Roose’s NYT article #
— yes, this morning got away from us via Today in Tabs #
— reconstructing the Greenwood neighborhood from archival photos, insurance maps, city directories, Census data, and survivor accounts via @singhvianjali #
— exploring the creative use of YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter for studying, built for and by students #
— a party invite went viral on TikTok, drawing thousands of teens and content creators to Huntington Beach #
— their Rebel Girl cover just kills me #
May 24, 2021
— from 2017, a stunning Commodore 64 demo made in 256 bytes #
— using Tacotron, generate synthetic speech using dozens of famous voices, such as rappers, politicians, and cartoon characters #
— CGP Grey digs into a London art group’s hilarious battle with a city council #
May 22, 2021
— short doc about two friends who illicitly explored every inch of the Horizons ride at Disney World #
— Gina Cherelus and Caity Weaver interviewed several of the people behind it #
May 21, 2021
— 6% of deep links in NYT articles from 2018 are dead, 43% from 2008, and 72% from 1998. via The Verge #
— a game where you try to opt out of everything #
— a collection of queer and trans works accessible only via telnet via Web Curios #
— follow a raindrop placed anywhere in the contiguous U.S. and see where it ends up via Web Curios #
May 20, 2021
— Coopertom isn’t impressed #
— photographers using Creative Commons and the courts “as a blunt object with which to coerce nuisance value settlements from unsuspecting parties” #
— anxiety, grief, and psychic numbing from a self-reinforcing disaster #
— their song “Racist Sexist Boy” is blowing up on Twitter, but the whole set’s great via @BeckTheGirl #
— yet another brilliant Tom Scott video via MetaFilter #
— collaboratively translating Kairosoft’s used bookstore simulator after 24 years via MetaFilter #
— if you know the location/date and have a clear, straight shot, you can estimate within 30 minutes #
— a “documentary travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds,” interviewing people trying to preserve them via MetaFilter #
— it’s stayed running continuously for over 30 years, still easily accessible today #
May 19, 2021
— ding dong, AMP is dead via Jeremy Keith #
— the 153 Mile Store opened in 1914 and closed in 1963 with everything inside, a time capsule of the early 20th century #
— wild that the Commodore 64 passed Windows for the last two years, albeit with smaller prods #
— please do Electronics Boutique in 1988 next, thanks #
— they found it favored white faces, leading to the cropping changes this month #
— the holding company for the world’s largest IRC network was sold under false pretenses #
— “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.” #
— a headline I didn’t expect to see in 2021 #
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