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January 6, 2025
— on its fourth anniversary, Jason Kottke revisits the attempted coup and attack on Congress #
— even if you don’t care about this conspiracy theory, Maia and Ryan’s OSINT research is an interesting read #
— Neal.fun‘s latest is an overstimulating idle game borrowing every form of online sludge and engagement bait via @neal.fun #
— Maggie Appleton reflects on “the strange experience of growing a human from scratch” in her new visual essay #
— sip wine, eat hors d’oeuvres, and peruse art from The Met’s Open Access collection in a reimagined version of E1M1 via MetaFilter #
January 1, 2025
— books, films, songs, and art published in the 1920s are now in the public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924 #
December 31, 2024
— kill three monsters to prove you’re human #
— the latest Bobby Fingers video is a wild ride of lost data, broken bones, and pitch-perfect parody #
December 24, 2024
— all but one of the sauces’ Scoville units are lower than their on-screen numbers, with Da Bomb 2.8 times hotter than The Last Dab #
— another amazing Bartosz Ciechanowski interactive explainer, this time on the motion, phases, and gravitational effects of the Moon #
— wild quest to rescue the last surviving Sony 43″ CRT, tracked down from one of only two known photos of the 440-pound behemoth #
— in other news, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is now richer than any musician, more than 4x Taylor Swift’s net worth via Paul Bausch #
— the app grew increasingly unstable, randomly drawing a black tire mark through the entire image on day four #
December 18, 2024
— the most common English words that never appeared in a book, like “woman” in Winnie the Pooh or “difficult” in Moby Dick via Web Curios #
December 9, 2024
— Nolen Royalty’s postmortem of the challenges making EveryUUID.com #
December 4, 2024
— Sarah Jeong was on vacation in South Korea (and pretty toasted) when their president declared martial law in a coup attempt #
December 3, 2024
— $50/year seems like a good deal for some of the best tech journalism around, plus full-text RSS feeds and a limited-edition print magazine #
— a simple but tricky puzzle game to find a word that makes every picky eater happy #
November 26, 2024
— Mia Sato talks to two women whose similar aesthetic was shaped by Amazon product options, social media algorithms, and other larger influencers via @miasato #
November 25, 2024
— Adam Aaronson made a printed calendar where each month is a crossword grid where each day is a square #
November 23, 2024
— the dedication and planning here is incredible #
— 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, this low-budget slapstick indie comedy is one of the best movies I saw this year #
— major media revolutions throughout history lead to predictable cycles of populism and the erosion of institutional trust #
November 22, 2024
— if you’re on a desktop Chrome/Chromium browser, go find yourself on the interactive map #
— I will never get tired of Bell Brothers transporting characters into different movies #
— crank the delay up to 120ms, pick the Mountain shape, and try the Heap Sort for a real banger via Hacker News #
— mapping 0-9 integers to button controls, it finally caught its first Pokémon in July after 80M digits of Pi and 973 days of nonstop play #
— retreat into private spaces can’t be the only option, ceding the public internet to predatory global mega-platforms #
— like Nuzzel was for Twitter and now out of private beta; I shared this too early and deleted it last week, sorry if you saw it twice! via @tylerjfisher.com #
November 21, 2024
— author Steven Johnson used Gemini Pro to make an interactive fiction game out of his latest book and wrote about it via @joningold #
— YouTube as TV channels, click the book icon for a channel guide #
November 20, 2024
— enter your birthdate, estimated lifespan, and choose from over 500 movies to see where you’re at in the movie via MetaFilter #
— calculating the difference between their birth and death place; George Mallory is high up there, but can you find the person with the greatest negative change? #
November 19, 2024
— 100M+ global places of interest now available for commercial use under an Apache 2.0 license #
— the full story of how two pallets of Playdates worth $400,000 were stolen in Las Vegas and eventually recovered #
— every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online via @anildash.com #
— Niantic leveraging its database of scanned real-world places and objects for “robotics, content creation and autonomous systems” #
November 18, 2024
— inspired by Ben Wallace’s recent blog post, Riley Walz crawled 5 million “IMG_XXXX” videos on YouTube and made a viewer for them #
— Alexander Graham Bell kicked off the event with a few words via Caitlin Dewey #
— someone needs to turn this into DOOM next via @theo.io #
November 16, 2024
— like Half-Life’s 25th anniversary, Valve commemorated it with a two-hour documentary, new commentary, and the games are free until Monday 1pm ET #
November 14, 2024
— don’t miss Deletion, the “questionable little app” that lets you glimpse deleted Bluesky posts #
— incredible standalone sequel for fans of detective deduction games like Obra Dinn #
— Elizabeth Lopatto investigates streaming music distributors profiting off royalty fraud by not policing bad metadata #
November 13, 2024
— short sci-fi story about a speedrunner in a game that lets you play through a human lifetime in 25 minutes via MetaFilter #
— crate digging through YouTube for homegrown videos with generic default filenames as titles; see also: astronaut.io via ben-mini.github.io #
— the love song may not be dying, but it’s changing #
November 12, 2024
— short fiction about “the near future of art and creative work” #
November 8, 2024
— useful Chrome/Firefox add-on that finds your X/Twitter friends on Bluesky via Web Curios #
— inflation was a painful global phenomenon, and every ruling party was punished for it regardless of political leanings #
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