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." #

The Verge’s guide to watching movies with friends online — not mentioned: Rave, &chill, and ShareTube #

Breaking Down The Disinformation Ecosystem Around Coronavirus — well-meaning people are accidentally spreading bad information, alongside profiteers and bad actors doing it deliberately #

6 Feet Covers — I made some of my own, but these are really well done (via) #

Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library — they've removed waitlists for over 1.4 million scanned books (via) #

How the Pandemic Will End — well-researched feature on The Atlantic about what went wrong, where it's going, and what needs to happen next #

Ben Gibbard’s Live from Home series — he's streaming shows daily on FB/Twitch/YouTube at 4pm PT/7pm ET, and it's really great #

Color Push — collaborative artwork by Zach Lieberman lets you paint with your head (via) #

Krisp — simple app filters out incoming and outgoing background noise for online calls #

Home Screen — a playful new newsletter from The Verge's T.C. Sottek #

SXSW 2020 Shorts — Mailchimp licensed 40+ SXSW-nominated shorts for streaming (via) #

O’Reilly Media permanently ends in-person conferences — they don't plan to run a physical OSCON, Strata, Velocity, or anything else ever again #

Concealed Spaces — José Manuel Ballester removes human figures from classic paintings #

91-DIVOC — the best visualization I've found so far to track country-by-country growth of COVID-19, updated daily #

Virtual Travel Photography in the Age of Pandemic — Noah Kalina is snapping moments from live feed webcams of public places around the world #

it’s time to get good at darts — the dartening is near #

Tom Scott on the problems with copyright — he mentions me and Kind of Bloop around the 5:50 mark #

Skynet Simulator — new incremental game, like A Dark Room meets Telehack #

Patent troll uses monkey selfie law firm to sue to block Covid-19 testing with Theranos patents — and they're funded by SoftBank #

Substation — from the co-creator of CASH Music, spin up your own free paid subscription service on Glitch (via) #

Best practices for locking down Zoom community calls — a troll ZoomBombed Casey Newton and Hunter Walk's livestream yesterday #

Listen Together — communal music listening, like Turntable.fm rebooted for Spotify #

Steam Game Festival — preview 50+ new and upcoming indie games, available through the weekend #

Inklewriter is back — the powerful interactive fiction authoring tool is back online and now open-source #

together. — John Green on how we'll get through this, with some useful links in the doobly-doo #

CVS Bangers FOUR — bless you, Hennessy #

Our Plague Year — new podcast from Welcome to Night Vale's Joseph Fink; first episode features Cory Doctorow and Nisi Shawl #

The Green Fog — Guy Maddin's experimental recreation of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from found footage (via) #

Flatter Me — my wife Ami just launched her followup card game to You Think You Know Me #

XOXO 2020 is canceled — on the bright side, we launched this massive video archive for seven years of XOXO main stage talks #

#Coronamaison — French cartoonists and illustrators are drawing cozy rooms to shelter in #

The Bird Museum — Louie Zong crowdsourced over 1,000 bird drawings on Twitter and turned it into a museum for PC/Mac #