December 6, 2016
Late Night Work Club’s STRANGERS
— lovely compilation of indie animators; don't miss Lovestreams at 21:08 #
Internet Archive to mirror Wayback archives in Canada
— "The history of libraries is one of loss." #
Reddit is tearing itself apart
— the Trump subreddit is slowly dominating the site through manipulation and inaction #
Auralnauts’ Attack of the Phantom Past
— fifth episode of their brilliant Star Wars remixes; worth it for the opening alone #
OK Go’s new music video was filmed in 4.2 seconds
— as usual, the behind-the-scenes is as interesting as the final product #
A Mathematician’s Perspective on the Divide
— Vi Hart argues that age was the critical factor for the election #
A Good Bundle
— absurdly great bundle of 151 indie games, 100% of proceeds to ACLU and Planned Parenthood #
Looking back at Homestuck, the “internet’s first masterpiece”
— I first wrote about it five years ago this month (via) #
Bandcamp traces the subgenres of vaporwave
— the Bandcamp blog is killing it; see also: Orange Milk Records, Japanese chiptune, Sammus #
Jason Scott on porting VLC to the browser
— like the Emularity, a project with huge potential to make archived works more accessible #
Possibilia
— an interactive love story set in the multiverse, directed by Swiss Army Man's DANIELS (via) #
Death and MetaFilter
— Josh Millard on coping with death and loss in long-running, close-knit online communities
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The Caretaker's "Everywhere at the end of time"
— the first in a six-album series about dementia and memory loss
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Bandcamp interviews Vektroid
— absurdly talented musician, impossible to easily categorize, and always evolving #
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey secretly funding Trump memes
— everything about this is gross; devs are cancelling their Oculus support #
The Festival Floppies
— incredible treasure trove of odd and beautiful DOS shareware, emulated in the browser #
Yahoo confirms pretty much every Yahoo Mail account ever exposed, two years ago
— at least 500 million accounts, the largest data breach ever #
Reigns' creator on making the indie hit
— "the result of contingent decisions mixed with an indecent amount of luck" #