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 #
Do Not Draw A Penis
— Moniker built a unique dataset for this absurdist project; some NSFW language #
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 #
This Website Will Self-Destruct
— if 24 hours pass without new activity, the entire database of over 24,000 anonymous messages will delete itself (via) #
How the Memories 256 byte MS-DOS demo works
— I linked to this tiny megademo a week ago, and even after reading this, I'm still amazed #
How We Reopen
— mathemusician Vi Hart is working with a bipartisan group of experts working on a pandemic response plan #
We Are Living in a Failed State
— the coronavirus revealed what was already broken in America, exposing and exploiting its underlying conditions (via) #
Simone Giertz made a proud parent machine
— voiced by Adam Savage; don't miss the very sweet moment with her real parents at the end #
LIKELIKE’s Online Museum of Multiplayer Art
— a playful lo-fi multiplayer gallery of virtual installations #
Panic Podcast on Sidetalkin’
— Cabel Sasser was behind the delightful 2004-era meme mocking the Nokia N-Gage #
Fiona Apple’s Release the Bold Cutters is out tonight
— her first in eight years, and it's getting great early reviews #
Devs is very good and you should watch it
— just watched the series finale, the short-run series by Ex Machina/Annihilation's Alex Garland is the best since Russian Doll #
Ars Technica on the Half-Life improv scene
— games provide a perfect setting for endless comedy riffing #
Pass the Pepper
— over-the-top Rube Goldberg device made from household objects with incredible comedic timing (via) #
Naomi Kritzer reflects on her 2015 short story about a food blogger living through a pandemic
— it's incredibly uncanny to read now, like a parallel universe to ours (via) #
Glitch launches paid subscriptions
— boost Glitch apps so they never sleep, with additional resources and no rate limits #
ZOOOOOM.US
— a screensaver simulating a neverending Zoom call with a rotating cast of characters (via) #
Finland adds demoscene to National Inventory of Living Heritage
— "the first time that a digital culture is listed as UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage, anywhere, ever" #
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
— Wired profiles a Cloudflare cofounder whose personality shifted after a degenerative brain disease (via) #
Fan-made Minecraft Disneyland recreation is opening California Adventure on April 24
— can't recommend this enough, the Disneyland rides are incredibly charming #
Our Pandemic Summer
— another must-read Ed Yong piece on the near future and weathering the next stages of the pandemic #
DOMi and JD Beck
— fell into a deep YouTube hole, watching these two freakishly talented teens shred in video after video (via) #
Hyper P.T., P.T. recreated in HyperCard
— part of the Merveilles Hyperjam, a game jam to make short interactive monochrome games inspired by HyperCard #
Field Museum’s Emily Graslie giving live tour of Animal Crossing’s in-game museum
— watch it live on Twitch today at 2pm PT/5pm ET #
Memories by Desire
— DOS demo with eight effects, transitions and music in 256 BYTES, with executable and source code available #
Meteoriks Awards 2020
— celebrating the best of the last year's demoscene, I particularly loved Minim, Atlas, and Fallspire #
Russians recreate famous works of art in quarantine
— the Getty launched a similar project last month (via) #
Internet Archive releases stats on the National Emergency Library
— really limited usage and impact, which reinforces my belief that they risked the future of controlled digital lending unnecessarily (via) #