- AI by fax. Incredible things are happening in Germany.
- A fun little web sandbox… thing where you mess about with a grid of squares.
- Three Letters Game. Is this the new Wordle? Who knows!
- An hour-long recording of a drive through central London in 1999. Soundtracked, naturally, by nothing but the utmost tunes.
- Choirs are facing a tenor shortage
- test
- The first world leader to circumnavigate the globe was… King Kalākaua of Hawaiʻi???
- Wikipedia is available in over three hundred languages, and each one picks different images to illustrate its pages for the same topic. You can compare them here!
- Operation Burnt Frost
- Making Software: A beautifully illustrated website that will, apparently, eventually be a book, but i don’t know how the printed page could ever capture the intricacies of its animations.
- “They say the internet is dead, full of robots talking to one another. On the contrary—it is furiously, psychotically alive. It is a vortex of this new psychosis, tightening around a single axel, spinning faster and faster as it does. Log on, and that is all there is.”
- Street Race
- The Alabama Booksmith sells exclusively signed books, at publishers’ prices, in suburban Birmingham. Somehow it makes money.
- A synthesiser for colour palettes
- Ways we can fail to answer a question
- Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a twenty-year-old game
- I promise you you will not in a million years guess what “Maximum/Minimus” is without opening the page.
- “Gen Z lives in the archive.” Seems to line up with my experience as a zoomer — old music is just accessible as new music, so why discriminate?
- Vintage Hobbit recordings unearthed on Tyne and Wear Metro line
- There is no official web API for haptic feedback. Checkboxes, however, do generate a haptic buzz on your phone whenever ticked and unticked… even if they’re hidden… and even if it’s the computer doing the ticking. Behold the greatest bodge in web-dev history.
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If anyone else loves watching programmers argue about boring international standards as much as
i do,
here’s the maintainers of the
tzdatabase desperately trying to figure out what to call British Columbia’s time zone when it switches to permanent DST.
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