Like roots in the soil — lovely post-apocalyptic interactive short story for Windows/Mac #

Now Play This (At Home) — the UK games festival adapted to social distancing with virtual events inside games like Animal Crossing, Half-Life, and No Man's Sky, all on their Twitch channel #

Some Good News: Zoom Surprise — the second episode of John Krasinski's unusually good YouTube series features some impressive cameos #

California King — the You Look Nice Today boys are back with a new podcast after a seven-year hiatus #

Still Bill — this 2009 documentary looks at the life and career of Bill Withers, who died Monday at age 81 #

xkcd’s Collector’s Edition — follow the hints to find stickers buried in the xkcd archives, then help others combine them into a massive collage #

The Outline lays off all staff — it had some great writers and interesting design, but agreed the editorial vision was confusing #

LIKELIKE Online — an interactive multiplayer exhibition of Bitsy games, happening right now #

Strange Keyworld — devious game with a simple mechanic: you can only use the keys displayed on-screen to move (via) #

USPS facing bankruptcy from coronavirus crisis — could be forced to cease operations as early as June without emergency funding #

zWarDial, Zoom war dialer exposes Zoom’s password problems — you should use a password for any private Zoom call; related: Zoom announced a 90-day feature freeze to fix security issues #

Implied Gallery — minimalist art gallery from Olly Bromham (via) #

Voleflix — dozens of public domain movies from YouTube in a Netflix-esque interface #

bored.solutions — ideas of things to learn, make, and do while self-isolating #

If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode — the writers and showrunners behind 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, and many more speculate on how their characters would react #

Toilet paper shortages can be explained by people using 40% more of it at home — completely obvious in hindsight, but this is the first I've seen this explained #

Everything Is Alive interviews Josh, a chainsaw — voiced by Josh Gondelman, this very good episode was performed live at XOXO last year #

Pandemic in BusinessTown — Tony Ruth's Richard Scarry parody is getting updated for 2020 #

Welcome to the Hunt — a little April 1 internet scavenger hunt from the creators of Emoji Mashup Bot #

Bill Gates on actionable steps to make up for lost time on Covid-19 — we need strong and consistent federal leadership on physical distancing, testing, and vaccine development #

Ghost Crash — Donato Sansone edits out the second car from car crash footage (via) #

Life, Death, and Dinner — from the head chef at one of my favorite local restaurants, a heartfelt post about the experience of shutting it down #

Hey Robot: Quarantine Edition — remote-friendly version of Frank Lantz's brilliant party game played with smart speakers (via) #

Bong Joon-ho’s detailed storyboards for Parasite — the level of visual planning and pacing is unreal #

Janelle Shane trained a neural net to generate prank ideas — just don't try any of these in real-life, because Internet Jackass Day is canceled #

Worthikids’ “Xylophone” — tough crowd #

Stay Safe with Bryan and Nicky Dee — an important PSA from SmallBü #

PICOHOT — official SUPERHOT port to the PICO-8 fantasy console (via) #

Shing Yin Khor recreated Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present in Animal Crossing — along with Spiral Jetty, The Umbrellas, and more #

YTMND resurrected with the help of fans, rebuilt for modern browsers — the 19-year-old meme community fell into disrepair after Google cut it off from ad revenue, and went offline last year #

Ars Technica on the backlash from authors on the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library — allowing unlimited copies feels like an overreach, violating the IA's own Controlled Digital Lending policy #

True Facts: The Wacky Giraffe — every horse is flipping you off four times #

Humble Conquer Covid-19 Bundle — over $1,000 worth of incredible games and ebooks for $30, with 100% of funds going to support orgs #

Substack launches $100k writer grant program — they're also waiving fees for publications that donate their earnings to the fight against COVID-19 #

Agent57 — DeepMind made a deep learning agent that can outperform humans at 57 Atari 2600 games #

Everest Pipkin’s open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup — incredible starting point (via) #

gifcap — turn screen captures into GIFs with cropping and trimming, entirely client-side in the browser (via) #

Concatenation — Donato Sansone's minute-long montage of overlapping stock videos (via) #

Simulating An Epidemic — outstanding video simulating how epidemics spread and the actions that are effective at mitigating them #

The Last Best Time — John Scalzi wrote about the experience being on JoCoCruise as Covid-19 started exploding in the U.S. #

Glimpse — after 15+ years of GIMP telling people to go fork themselves, someone finally did #

NBA.FM — MSCHF is simulating the lost NBA season as "hyper-realistic audio gameplay broadcasts" live, starting tomorrow (via) #

Some Good News — John Krasinski doing his best Ze Frank, way better than I expected it to be #

Mackerelmedia Fish — delightful retroweb-inspired goodness from Nathalie Lawhead #

First Order Motion Model for Image Animation — try it on Google Colab or watch Two Minute Papers' video to see more examples #

Shaderbooth — interactive editor for making GLSL face filters with WebGL, click the arrows to see more (via) #

Google cancels its April 1 jokes — thank god #

Yelp to stop auto-creating GoFundMe fundraisers without consent — Andy McMillan and I popped up in The Verge today #

Stewart Butterfield on leading Slack during a pandemic — the unique first-hand perspective of seeing the world shift to remote work, including his own company (via) #

Without social safety nets, desperate Americans turn to GoFundMe — like Jason Kottke said, "America is a rich country that feels like a poor country." #