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- Game Poems: like The HTML Review, a new publication of experimental interactive code poetry gamepoems.com/issue01/
- words.zip: infinite multiplayer word search words.zip
- Year Span: a 365-word video essay on the perception of time, told one word per day through all of 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- New Year Zone: count down to 2026 in every time zone newyear.zone
- 45x45 Connections: an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 thomaswc.com/2025.html
- alliwantforchristmas.is: camera on, volume up alliwantforchristmas.is
- ssh tiny.christmas: tap space to sing along tiny.christmas
- Jmail.world adds tools to explore the new Epstein dump: including photos, files, Amazon purchases, flights, jmail.world
- Anna's Archive backed up Spotify: 86 million songs in 300TB representing roughly 99.6% of listens, the metadata alone is 4TB compressed https://annas-archive.org/blog...
- DOGSPINNER: spin the dog https://www.pigenpalace.com/do...
- Infinite Ball Drop: the New Year's Eve ball is currently 2,301,120 feet above Times Square with 993,130 seconds to go infiniteballdrop.com
- Public Domain Day 2026: works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/...
- Neal.fun's Size of Life: definitely experience this on desktop for the dynamic cello soundtrack, which gets more complex as the lifeforms grow neal.fun/size-of-life/
- Car Park: the latest from animation duo WZRDLORE, I love their animated shorts on TikTok https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- 15 years after a viral tweet, Detroit has its RoboCop statue: funded in 2011, the Kickstarter project overcame a host of problems, including securing the rights, finding a site, and the sculptor's battle with colon cancer https://www.dailydetroit.com/f...
- Desk Stops: creative technologists share their desktops, which seem to fall into extreme minimalism or utter chaos deskstop.computer
- xkcd's 15 Years: Randall Munroe reflects on the anniversary of his then-fiancée's 2010 breast cancer diagnosis, as he did at year two, seven, and 10 xkcd.com/3172/
- Strong Bad Email returns after a 3.5 year break: I love that they're still making these in Flash, played with the Ruffle emulator https://homestarrunner.com/sbe...
- Fran Sans: Emily Sneddon made a typeface inspired by the destination signs on SF light rail trains https://emilysneddon.com/fran-...
- Investing a possible scammer in journalism's AI era: yet another challenge for freelance journalists is the rise of AI hustlers competing for jobs at legitimate publications https://thelocal.to/investigat...
- America’s polarization has become the world's side hustle: 404 Media on how inauthentic overseas accounts pushing divisive/hateful content in the U.S. are largely the result of social media monetization programs https://www.404media.co/americ...
- How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life: profile of a burned-out facilities manager who changed careers after meeting a 92-year-old typewriter repair expert https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
- Microsoft open-sources Zork I, II, and III under MIT license: kudos to Stacey Haffner, Scott Hanselman, and Jason Scott for making this happen https://opensource.microsoft.c...
- Can you draw a Cool S?: easier on mobile than desktop, my best score is 5.34 vole.wtf/cool-s/
- Stonking News: unrelated to meme stocks, this is a link aggregator built on Bluesky's firehose in the style of Hacker News news.stonking.com
- Jmail.world: Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a Gmail clone for reading and searching the Epstein emails jmail.world
- Color Palette Pro: Ryan Feigenbaum made "a synthesizer for color" colorpalette.pro
- DOCTYPE Magazine: Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand vole.wtf/doctype/
- alive internet theory: Spencer Chang used millions of files from the Wayback Machine to make a chaotic (sometimes NSFW) collage of the personal web of the last 22 years alivetheory.net
- The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies: a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
- The Art of Interacting Incorrectly: Isabel Fish made 12 animated horses from Excel, Google Maps routes, desktop icons, GarageBand, screen fingerprints, and more https://interactingincorrectly...
- Egg: VVVVVV/Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh made a wonderfully strange free platformer terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
- Space Type Generator: don't miss the "Select" menu at the top for many more options spacetypegenerator.com
- Winners of the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition: always worth checking out ifcomp.org/comp/2025
- Channelvue: new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga's Prevue Channel software for the listings channelvue.biz
- My First Months in Cyberspace: Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then https://www.gyford.com/phil/wr...
- The Collector: made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies https://split82.itch.io/the-co...
- 50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation: click for a helpful interactive chart https://50centadjustedforinfla...
- Ghost Waltz: Louie Zong kicks off spoopy season with his annual ghost song https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- DFACE.app: Adam Harvey made a face redaction app that's entirely private with photos never leaving your device, and can hide up to 1,000 faces in a single crowd shot adam.harvey.studio/dface/
- Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film: from the creator of the Soviet animation Steamed Hams, German expressionist film Steamed Hams, and many more https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- Find My Parking Cops: Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day walzr.com/sf-parking/
- Dead already!
- TV Simulator Says: a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips tvsimulator.com/says/
- Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker's Guide prop from junk: plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay's The Clock: the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay's unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them https://kottke.org/25/09/a-clo...
- I'm Not A Robot: Neal.fun's latest is a game of increasingly ridiculous CAPTCHAs neal.fun/not-a-robot/
- Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas: YouTube's best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- HushCrasher's taxonomy of videogame production scope: instead of subjective terms like "indie" or "AAA," they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits https://hushcrasher.substack.c...
