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November 4, 2024
— Aardman Animation worked with Patrick McHale and the original voice cast for an elaborate stop-motion tribute #
November 1, 2024
— short horror story in the form of a series of 1999-era screenshots about a Windows screensaver simulating life on an island via Web Curios #
— Papers Please/Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope dropped a surprise spooky free web game inspired by 1980s LCD handhelds #
— for the last 19 years, Michael Pusateri has tracked children’s Halloween costumes at his front door and published the stats online #
— a dozen surprise new games released to everyone at the same time on a regular schedule #
— look in the direction you want to move, open and close your mouth to go faster #
— Louie Zong, Worthikids, and Brian David Gilbert formed a supergroup making Steely Dan-inspired music and are playing L.A. next month!? #
October 31, 2024
— Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines #
October 30, 2024
— he has an extraordinary memory, reliving the stories behind a beautifully simple song #
— grateful to Mia Sato for staying on this beat, which affects so many smaller sites I care about #
— getting it to run DOOM is only a matter of time #
— BRAIN scraped 16 years of Twitter to find the first people to post “RIP” when celebrities died, turning it into a morbid competition #
— the BBS goes read-only on Friday, replaced by Substack comments, and the community is not happy #
— a useful case study given the current debacle stemming from WordPress’s “benevolent dictator for life” model via @johnonolan #
— in some cases, Meta is automatically creating the pages via Garbage Day #
— research and short essays about cultural loss and the critical importance of preservation and access #
October 29, 2024
— The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel’s clearheaded “endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris” #
October 20, 2024
— like curling meets shuffleboard on a tabletop board #
October 16, 2024
— Liverpool tattoo artist Rachel Baldwin made charming tattoos for each line of the Talking Heads classic and made it into a music video #
— a series of articles looking back 20 years, worth exploring just for the playful article design inspired by early Gmail, Digg, Kazaa, and more #
October 11, 2024
— all of this year’s XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork #
October 10, 2024
— The Pudding’s deep analysis of 10 years of fanfic ships on AO3 #
October 9, 2024
— Chris Person compiled a list of active forums, grouped by subject area, hosted outside of the major platforms via Garbage Day #
— Green Day collaborated with BRAIN to demake their 1994 album in 15 obscure formats, including Game Boy, Teddy Ruxpin, wax cylinder, and player piano roll #
October 7, 2024
— there’s a nice companion piece for Dave Winer’s milestone in The Guardian #
October 2, 2024
— the creator of A Short Hike relaunched his charming interactive ghost town where players design and share jack-o-lanterns #
— for the tenth year, Laura E. Hall brings back her popup newsletter sending a gently spooky email for each day of October #
September 30, 2024
— an Android phone hidden in the Mission is set to Shazam all audio 24/7 and post the roughly 120 songs/day it can identify #
— feature package on new ways religious believers are using new technology, from Muslim VR simulators to Buddhist monks on TikTok #
September 27, 2024
— Nick Heer on the ever-increasing user-hostile demand for your attention from the biggest social platforms #
— Linus Åkesson just casually being amazing again #
— a technically-playable (but just barely) hack using iOS Shortcuts to download remote screenshots compiled into videos #
September 17, 2024
— most “blue zones,” concentrated areas of supercentenarians, can be attributed to pension fraud or bad record-keeping #
— a search engine using OCRed text from map imagery across Brooklyn, expanding to all of NYC soon via Naive Weekly #
September 10, 2024
— you’ll just have to trust me on this one; recommended for desktop browsers via MetaFilter #
September 9, 2024
— very sad to hear this but I’m grateful for their effort, and loved having them at XOXO to talk about their weird and special community #
September 8, 2024
— the low-stakes internet mystery to identify the only unknown celebrity on a shower curtain pattern is solved after four years #
September 6, 2024
— Guy Dupont made a “Keep Honking! I’m Listening to…” bumper sticker-sized LCD display that updates in real-time #
September 5, 2024
— the course of medication that cures Hepatitis C costs $84,000 at $1,000/pill, but can be produced for only $700 or $0.83/pill #
— the ruling is “a knife in the back of libraries,” claiming that authors won’t write new books if libraries lend digital books for free #
September 4, 2024
— the appeals court ruled that, despite being a nonprofit and no evidence of market harm, its implementation of Controlled Digital Lending isn’t fair use #
— open-source music visualizer that synchronizes MIDI to bouncing balls in a modified game of Pong via The Verge #
September 2, 2024
— the SEC notified them last week that NFTs on the struggling platform are unregistered securities #
— 1994 replica of a printed circuit board handmade on an upright wooden loom via MetaFilter #
— free monospaced pixel font with a very nice website to promote it #
August 29, 2024
— Nolen Royalty tells the story of how a group of teens were writing secret binary messages on the Tiny Award-winning multiplayer experiment #
— impressively deep sequel to STRG.SNEK, a stylish Snake-inspired ASCII adventure via Web Curios #
August 27, 2024
— free desktop-only browser game where you photograph bugs by resizing and moving the browser window via Naive Weekly #
August 14, 2024
— a clicker battle from Neal.fun #
August 6, 2024
— Facebook is paying bonuses for viral content, no matter how terrible, while laying off the content moderators who can prevent it #
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