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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...
Lappier Than Thou - Sbemails 210 - robots
The Cheat goes undercover to infiltrate the robot characters that hardly ever show up.
homestarrunner.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fran Sans: Emily Sneddon made a typeface inspired by the destination signs on SF light rail trains https://emilysneddon.com/fran-...
Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
Archive
emilysneddon.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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 use the internet, 1995
Computer consultant Cory Doctorow predicts video on demand while showing a CBC reporter some of the new medium's features. Aired on CBC's The National on June 19, 1995. ➤ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/CBC-Subscribe --- About CBC Gem: CBC Gem offers the full programming slate, from drama to documentaries to sports. CBC Gem is available for free via Apple TV and Google Chromecast and as an App for iOS, tvOS, Fire TV, Android TV, Android phones and tablets, LG and Samsung Smart TVs, Roku, Xbox One/S/X, and and online at https://gem.cbc.ca --- About CBC: Welcome to the entertainment side of CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster. CBC is dedicated to creating content with original voices that inspire and entertain. Watch sneak peeks and trailers, behind-the-scenes footage, full episodes, original web series, digital exclusives and more. Connect with CBC Online: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cbc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cbc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cbc Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbc --- We encourage thoughtful comments and respectful discussion. Before commenting, please review our community guidelines: http://www.cbc.ca/aboutcbc/discover/submissions.html
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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...
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Can you draw a Cool S?: easier on mobile than desktop, my best score is 5.34 https://vole.wtf/cool-s/
Can You Draw a Cool S ? 🆒⚡️
Only the coolest people can doodle it fast.
vole.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Stonking News: unrelated to meme stocks, this is a link aggregator built on Bluesky's firehose in the style of Hacker News https://news.stonking.com/
Stonking News
View the most popular and latest trending stonking news from popular social networks. Updated in real-time.
news.stonking.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Jmail.world: Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a Gmail clone for reading and searching the Epstein emails https://jmail.world/
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Color Palette Pro: Ryan Feigenbaum made "a synthesizer for color" https://colorpalette.pro/
Color Palette Pro — A Synthesizer for Color Palettes
Generate customizable color palettes in advanced color spaces that can be easily shared, downloaded, or exported.
colorpalette.pro
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
DOCTYPE Magazine: Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand https://vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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 https://alivetheory.net/
alive internet theory
alivetheory.net
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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 Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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...
Entrance
interactingincorrectly.online
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Egg: VVVVVV/Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh made a wonderfully strange free platformer https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Egg
why not be an egg
terrycavanagh.itch.io
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Space Type Generator: don't miss the "Select" menu at the top for many more options https://spacetypegenerator.com/
SPACE TYPE GENERATOR
a kinetic type generator from kielm Buy me a coffee to help support STG
spacetypegenerator.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Winners of the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition: always worth checking out https://ifcomp.org/comp/2025
IFComp 2025
Explore the remains of the derelict ship. From fragmented memories, discover what became of the crew and piece together the events that led to the disaster. Find codes, hack keypads, and make your way past biometric locks in order to get the engines back online.
ifcomp.org
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Channelvue: new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga's Prevue Channel software for the listings https://www.channelvue.biz/
⇨ ⇨ ⇨ CHANNELVUE
The global portal for the Datacore corporation and its subsidiaries.
www.channelvue.biz
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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...
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.
www.gyford.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
The Collector
Play in your browser
split82.itch.io
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation: click for a helpful interactive chart https://50centadjustedforinfla...
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation
109 Cent
50centadjustedforinflation.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ghost Waltz: Louie Zong kicks off spoopy season with his annual ghost song https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ghost Waltz 👻💃
new ghost vid! also out on streaming etc. happy spooky month!
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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 https://adam.harvey.studio/dface/
DFACE
Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app
adam.harvey.studio
September 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM