Why is Tucker Carlson mad about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? — Max Read's guide to the Content Cycle #

Shrek Retold — like Star Wars Uncut, Shrek remade in pieces by 200 different people #

The Alt-Right Playbook — ongoing video series by Innuendo Studios' Ian Danskin (via) #

Al Lowe puts his Sierra source code collection on eBay — the Leisure Suit Larry games, King's Quest III, Police Quest I, and more #

Later Alligator teaser trailer — the delightful creators of Baman Piderman are making a videogame #

Absurdly detailed recreation of the Titanic in Unreal Engine 4 — you can download the work-in-progress Windows demo #

GANpaint — draw with object-level control using a deep network (via) #

Internet Boy Band Database — The Pudding continues to pour effort and creativity into every post #

Browsh — modern text-based browser with full video, CSS3, and WebGL support (via) #

Downloading games on the radio in the ’80s — Datarama, a Bristol radio show, transmitted data to listeners (via) #

Stop treating Mastodon like a startup — it doesn't need millions of users to be useful (via) #

A Business With No End — Jenny Odell explores a sprawling dropshipping empire #

XOXO Holiday Market — a collection of goods made by folks in the XOXO community, courtesy of Lucy Bellwood #

IFComp 2018 winners — love seeing people push beyond the parser; related: Emily Short's picks #

Conway’s Webcam of Life — also on Glitch if you want to remix it (via) #

Ganbreeder — some incredible stuff made with BigGAN lately #

Vulture interviews Nancy’s Olivia Jaimes — rare interview with the pseudonymous artist behind the extremely online reboot (via) #

Ear Hustle’s Earlonne Woods gets prison sentence commuted — after serving 21 years for attempted robbery #

The Peach Pack — my wife Ami launched the first expansion to her card game, I helped with the design #

Caselaw Access Project — 360 years of U.S. court decisions available for download or via API; also, caselaw limericks! #

turtle.audio — make music with line drawing, inspired by Logo #

Slack on a SNES — one of the most impressive hacks I've ever seen #

dddance.party — GIF Dance Party goes 3D #

Everything Is Alive — charming podcast interviewing inanimate objects #

The Internet Archive’s Commodore 64 Software Library — in-browser emulation of over 13,000 disks #

CBS shuts down Stage 9, stunning fan-made virtual recreation of the Enterprise — setting confusing, different standards for Star Trek fan films vs. other media #

Building a Turing machine in PowerPoint — the paper and deck is available in the video description (via) #

Rejected — Apple rejected Greg Knauss's app for mentioning the names of the new iPhones they'd already announced #

3D Emoji Town in Pure CSS — so many nice touches #

Space Alert, an Apple Shortcuts text adventure — very short proof-of-concept, but shows potential #

How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village — misinformation, facilitated by easy social sharing, can be deadly #

The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2 — shhh, my XOXO co-organizer Andy McMillan gave them the edibles that kicked off the whole thing #

John Green’s surprise birthday gift for Hank — they never forget to be awesome #

GT Zirkon — creative promo site for Grilli's new typeface #

Motherboard on Hosni Auji’s upcoming Flight Simulator — like a hyper-realistic Desert Bus, but played as a passenger #

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared teases new series — very few details, but SuperDeluxe and Conan O'Brien's production company are involved #

Draw Out the Vote — a state-by-state comics guide to why voting matters #

Generative Artistry — simple and elegant interactive tutorials for generative art #

ENHANCE.COMPUTER — Nicole He's cyberpunk voice game; see also: Blade Runner's Esper Machine in the browser #

There’s Waldo — using Google's AutoML Vision and a creepy robot doll hand to find Waldo #

Self Draw  #

Animating “This Is America” on vintage Mac hardware — MacPaint on a Mac 128K for drawing, MacroMind Director on a Mac SE for animation #

itty bitty — microsites stored within their own URL fragment, how it works #

Google Reader Time Capsule — Mihai Parparita's snapshot of Google Reader before it shuttered five years ago; more on the project #

Below the Surface — stunning project to document 700,000 objects excavated from an Amsterdam canal #

Jon — a surprisingly touching Garfield fancomic about the life of Jon Arbuckle #

Matt Haughey interviewed me on Hobby Horse about interactive fiction — Matt's new podcast about our personal obsessions #

XOXO 2018 — our launch lineup is up and surveys open until next Friday, come on in #

Cameron Esposito’s “Rape Jokes” — her brilliant one-hour standup special about sexual assault, stream free or purchase to support RAINN #

Shinrashinge’s monster battle daydream — astounding paper animation filmed in one shot an iPhone; see more #