🐦🎶🎲 — Jer Thorp made a little game to help identify the calls of birbs in your neighborhood #

Zork source code from 1977 recovered from MIT tapes — compare to other Zork versions in the Historical Source collection (via) #

Dissolving Realities: Dong Xuan Market — part of RubenFro's series of hypnotic animations made from 3D point cloud data, see also: Dissolving Realities Vietnam #

Ars Technica on the massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code — Super Mario 64 was decompiled and ported to Windows, part of a two-year-long project motivated by speedrunners looking for new exploits #

Scunthorpe Sans — creative use of OpenType ligatures to automatically censor profanity #

TRENDS — playing off popular techniques in current motion graphics design #

GitHub announces Codespaces and Discussions — cloud-hosted dev environments and native Q&A-focused forums #

1loc — crowdsourced collection of favorite JavaScript one-liners #

Facebook open sources BlenderBot, a state-of-the-art conversational chatbot — pre-trained on 1.5 billion Reddit comments and fine-tuned with two-way conversational datasets, the transcripts feel very human #

This Fursona Does Not Exist — GAN-generated furry portraits (via) #

Ars Technica on art, fashion, and commerce in Animal Crossing — so much creativity coming from the ACNH community #

Augmented Reality Cut-and-Paste to Photoshop — using BASNet for object detection and removal #

Desktop Meadow — pay-what-you-like Windows utility lets you grow gardens on windows and receive kind notes delivered by birds (via) #

Tim Bray quits Amazon for firing whistleblowers — "a lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth and accumulation of wealth and power" #

Animal Talking — an adorable talk show "filmed" in Animal Crossing by screenwriter Gary Whitta (via) #

True Facts: Killer Surfing Snails — "look, it’s trying to eat a people" #

MPAA to end physical Oscar screener distribution in 2021 — so long, DVDScr #

A Parks and Recreation Special — very clever reunion working within the constraints of remote production (via) #

Consistent Video Depth Estimation — new algorithm for generating high-quality depth maps from video, but way too slow for real-time use for now #

The Songs of 1984 — Hood Internet resumed their weekly mashups, jamming 50 songs from a single year into one three-minute song (via) #

Shift Shift Forward — Glitch launched a podcast about their creative community; the second episode features a segment by the excellent Jenn Schiffer #

Space Songs, a YouTube concert from the National Air & Space Museum — songs about space with performances by Ben Gibbard, Grace Potter, Sting, Dan Deacon, John Roderick, and more #

ICANN rejects sale of .ORG to private equity firm — ridiculous that it ever got as close as it did #

OpenAI trained an AI to generate music, with singing, in the style of various artists and genres — this is absolutely unreal, check out the featured samples and then explore all 7k samples #

This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory — Kirby Ferguson's episodic documentary series, produced over eight years, is complete #

A History of Subversive Remix Video before YouTube — interesting 2012 survey of pre-2005 video mashups from Pop Culture Detective's Jonathan McIntosh #

Citizen DJ — Brian Foo's work-in-progress app to remix public domain audio from The Library of Congress (via) #

Got Your Back — attractive collection of virtual backdrops from designers, illustrators, animators, and more (via) #

World’s biggest film festivals unite for 10-day streaming event — curated by Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and many more, with all content streamed free on YouTube from May 29-June 7 (via) #

Alasdair Beckett-King’s Interactive Murder Mystery WHODIDIT? — a very silly, very funny game played entirely on Twitter #

Josh Gad reunites the cast of The Goonies in quarantine — including Richard Donner, Chris Columbus, Steven Spielberg, and Cyndi Lauper #

Spying on the Scammers — next-level exposé of tech support scammers with complete access to CCTV and internal systems, eventually ending in arrests (via) #

AR Face Doodle — doodle directly on your face with the help of Tensorflow.js, FaceMesh, and Three.js #

Severed Spots — MSCHF cut up a $30k Damian Hirst painting, sold each piece for $480 each, auctioned the empty canvas, and pocketed at least $138k  #

#KutimanComeTogether — dream collaborations from the creator of YouTube mashup albums ThruYOU and Off Grid (via) #

Auto Museum 64 — a virtual museum of cars, boats, and vehicles extracted from Nintendo 64 games #

Wolfman Museum of Art — strong '90s hypermedia vibes from this point-and-click art museum in space #

Jay-Z raps Hamlet — from Vocal Synthesis, a YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes like Sinatra singing ABBA #

If We Were Allowed to Visit — first-person 3D environment composed entirely of ASCII text and poems (via) #

Due to COVID-19 — project to collect temporary signage around the world related to the pandemic (via) #

Raymarching Fractals — source is available on GitHub (via) #

Drive and Listen — simulate car trips in cities around the world with street noise and radio (via) #

Porcupine Racetrack 2020 — The State reunites in quarantine to recreate their classic over-the-top musical number #

12.3M people watched Travis Scott’s psychedelic Fortnite event — more like a 10-minute massively-multiplayer music video than a concert, there are three more encores if you want to experience it yourself #

Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii — on YouTube for 24 hours only, the 1972 concert documentary filmed with no audience, studio-level live recordings, and an unreal setting #

“Parks and Rec” cast reuniting for one-off benefit special set in pandemic — airing next Thursday #

Do Not Draw A Penis — Moniker built a unique dataset for this absurdist project; some NSFW language #

surf.city — "a live network of 20 streams dedicated to nature, music, and things that fascinate" (via) #

The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment — The Pudding is randomly generating popular melodies from Für Elise to Sweet Caroline (via) #

Retro Japan Recreated In Animal Crossing: New Horizons — there's so much creativity coming from that community #