Emily Pothast on Bean Dad and Gen X irony — Roderick posted an apology this morning, which is a start #

TabFS — mount your browser tabs as a filesystem (via) #

50 Years of Text Games — each week this year, Aaron A. Reed will profile a text-based computer game from 1971-2021 #

Today In Tabs returns — after five years away, Rusty Foster revives his excellent media newsletter on Substack #

Caitlin Dewey’s top 25 internet culture reads of 2020 — great list from one of my favorite linkbloggers #

MF DOOM, RIP — he passed away on October 31, but his family waited to disclose it publicly #

AI-generated Beatles album — created with OpenAI Jukebox #

Mike Davidson reflects on Flash in web design — go play with Vectorpark one last time #

PSX Party — play PS1 games with friends in the browser with ROMs loaded from the Internet Archive (via) #

Lubalin turns random internet drama into songs — don't miss part one (via) #

Museum curators react to 2020’s best video game museums — also great this year, the museum of lockpicking, Virtual Lo-Fi Museum, and the Gallery of Anything (via) #

Internal pay data shows Coinbase underpaid women and Black employees — at least 60 employees left after their CEO instituted a ban on political activism earlier this year (via) #

Perplex City’s Satoshi finally found after 14 years — the last of two unsolved challenges from the pioneering ARG was finally solved (via) #

The complexities of Covid vaccine prioritization — an interesting counter-argument, laying out the case for factoring in more than age #

The Boston Dynamics robots can dance now — adorable killbots #

Brian David Gilbert finally unravels Pokémon Edibility — after three years, BDG is leaving Polygon to work on new things (via) #

Throat Notes — Double King creator Felix Colgrave released another bizarre animated short; don't miss the computer UI at 3:40 #

How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor — NYT's visual reconstruction shows their negligence and reckless indifference to human life #

Why is there a bucatini shortage in the U.S.? — deep-dive into a low-stakes mystery that traces back to ramen noodles in World War II #

Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us — Ed Yong looks at the challenges facing the U.S. in its coronavirus response next year #

WSJ on how Amazon clones and crushes rivals and partners — the world's largest retailer routinely knocks off products and then suspends or hides their listings #

Disney made a plaza restaurant — the latest in Jack Plotnick's Disney studio satires, where he inserts himself into vintage footage #

“All I Want for Christmas Is…” — expertly done Star Trek remix #

Interview with an anonymous AWS engineer — plenty of speculation and gossip, but that just makes it more fun to read (via) #

Garbage Day explains Tumblr — a brief guide to how it works and what makes it special, along with some recommendations #

How Bad Is Your Spotify? — The Pudding and Mike Lacher made a music snob AI that mocks your listening habits #

Infinite Pizza — like Super Hexagon in a fractal pizza hellscape (via) #

Bloomberg’s Jealousy List 2020 — all the articles Businessweek staffers wish they'd written #

Underunderstood digs into the mystery of grocery store animatronic bands — this goes unexpected places, including the office of a sitting state senator #

Congress passes disastrous copyright measures without debate in coronavirus relief bill — opening the floodgates to a new era of copyright trolling #

Ghosthoney and Chansey donut — I love everything about this story #

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned — the full video of the call is unreal, detailing the FSB's failed assassination and attempts to cover it up #

The truth in Black and white — the Kansas City Star reports on, and apologizes for, its own racist history (via) #

Videlectrix finishes Stinkoman — days before Flash dies, the Brothers Chaps finished their 15-year-old game with help from Jez, SmallBu and Paul and Storm (via) #

Emoji Kitchen — made by Jennifer Daniel and Bhavik Singh #

Google hit with third major antitrust lawsuit from 38 states — their "bread on Bing" response is kind of laughable #

Cloudflare Pages launches — very competitive with Netlify's pricing and a generous free tier #

Brian Moore’s pull cord to end conference calls — flush your coworkers #

Substack launches RSS reader — good idea, but not too useful without the full text; alternately, read Substack newsletters as RSS feeds #

Works from 1925 entering the public domain next month — The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, The Gold Rush, Sweet Georgia Brown, The Trial, and many more #

Blob Opera — amazing David Li project lets you control machine-generated voices trained on 16 hours of audio from four opera singers #

Twitter shutting down Periscope — oh well, back to Meerkat #

Nicholas Quah’s Best Podcasts of 2020 — love seeing You're Wrong About getting the attention it deserves #

Taylor Lorenz on Atlanta’s all-Black collab houses — Black influencers are underpaid, and face discrimination from brands and recommendation algorithms #

nobody.live, random Twitch streams with no viewers — it's surprisingly delightful to be someone's only fan for a few minutes (via) #

Making a digital clock in Google Sheets — see also: analog clock in Google Spreadsheets (via) #

Hypha — grow letters by simulating the mycelium growth found in fungi (via) #

Polygon’s top 50 videogames of 2020 — some great picks including Blaseball, Spiritfarer, If Found…, and Wide Ocean, Big Jacket #

Scroobly — bring doodles to life with your webcam, made with Tensorflow.js, FaceMesh, and PoseNet models (via) #

Amazon-owned Goodreads quietly shutters API — killing countless apps in the process; Open Library's APIs may be a good replacement (via) #