Lyrebird — simulate anyone's voice with a 60-second voice sample and questionable ethics #

Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure — every Rube Goldberg machine needs a storyline and song #

Mat Honan on Facebook’s augmented reality aspirations — "You have to build for the reality we live in, not the one we hope to create." #

A Time Capsule for the World Wide Web — Tim Carmody's running a great series on Kottke.org this week #

Bloomberg on Juicero, Silicon Valley’s $400 juicer — investors dumped $120M into a "juicer" that squeezes bags of pre-made juice #

Cosmic Express — addictive and devious puzzle game for iOS/PC/Mac #

Things full of beans that shouldn’t be full of beans  #

Internet Archive adds early Mac emulation — launch a vintage Mac app in seconds in the browser; how it works #

Cal Henderson’s Webstock talk on the evolution of emoji — incredible deep dive into the technical and cultural history #

Like tweeting without the letter “e” — you can't say Mouse Reeve's name on her Mastodon instance #

Technical postmortem on building Reddit Place — this year's best April 1 project was a massive team effort #

Meme collectors using the blockchain to trade rare Pepe cards — using Counterparty to enforce scarcity for digital works (via) #

AutoDraw — Google Creative Lab made autocorrect for drawing #

Hyperallergic on Pippin Barr’s virtual museum of digital water — now available free for Mac and Windows; don't miss the process posts #

Burger King abuses Google Home and Wikipedia for Whopper ad — love the increasing desperation in the Wikipedia edit requests from their marketing head #

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI — nobody really knows how the most advanced AI works—only that it does (via) #

Glitch’s First Websites collection — remix retro replicas inspired by LiveJournal, MovableType, MySpace, and more (via) #

The Verge on the ethics of amiibo hacking — fans create nicely-designed cards for each amiibo bin; here's a good tutorial #

Scott Rosenberg on the status of Google Books — the internal priority shift was part of a larger trend I wrote about #

LOT 2046 — ARG or startup? you decide #

Windows 3.1 with networking support emulated in WebVR — it's multi-user too, try walking around (via) #

NYT on the booming CD market in Indonesian KFCs — "Music and chicken have become intertwined." (via) #

Resurrecting a 1986 BBS after a 23 year hiatus — they're a bit busy now, but there's no shortage of telnet BBSes online #

Russian-owned LiveJournal adds censorship policies, bans political speech — LJs with more than 3,000 daily visitors can no longer be anonymous or use obscenities #

Smash Mouth Fractal — using harmonics to compose a melody that repeats itself at 1024x the original speed (via) #

AI celebrity impressions — using deep learning with famous voices to generate speech-like sounds #

Deeply Artificial Trees — Bob Ross gets the Deep Dream treatment, the audio is a WaveNet model of Ross's voice #

Games that might have been — training a recurrent neural network on a list of 150k videogame titles #

Cards Against Humanity’s Pay What You Want experiment gone wrong — they did the same thing at XOXO 2013, but our attendees not only paid, they organized the cash #

An Oral History of Something Awful — "I'm obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999" #

Eye Gaze Warping — eyes generated by DeepWarp; click to change character (via) #

The /r/Place Atlas — 630+ contributors map the story behind nearly every pixel from Reddit Place #

Grid Garden — a game for learning CSS Grid (via) #

Riding a cat with 360° video and a Vive headset — it may not be VR, but it's adorable #

JODI’s Automatic Rain from 1995 — part of Rhizome's Net Art Anthology, works open in date-accurate web browsers (via) #

Casey Newton on Mastodon, the decentralized, open-source Twitter clone — I signed up on another instance and there's a learning curve; also: Yoz Grahame and Sarah Jeong #

How Uber psychologically manipulates its drivers — outstanding interactive viz from the NYT #

The Year in Memes — Select All goes deep with the internet's own calendar #

Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft — stunning feat of engineering, albeit at one frame every three minutes #

10×16 — artists reimagine the covers of their top 10 albums of the year #

Gomix — like the power of Heroku with IFTTT's remixing #

Hacker News bans political stories for a week — "the epitome of privilege" #

The Outline — Joshua Topolsky's new site makes some pretty bold design choices #

B.S. Detector — browser add-on to denote unreliable news sources on Facebook #

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." #

Bird Sounds — using machine learning to cluster and visualize audio (via) #

Reddit is tearing itself apart — the Trump subreddit is slowly dominating the site through manipulation and inaction #

Lois Lane on Facebook — face recognition is Superman's other kryptonite #

Slack client for the Commodore 64 — finally #