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Game Poems: like The HTML Review, a new publication of experimental interactive code poetry https://www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM
words.zip: infinite multiplayer word search https://words.zip/
WORDS.ZIP - Infinite Collaborative Word Search
An infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words. No account required.
words.zip
January 5, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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?...
i said a word a day for an entire year.
365 me's. instagram.com/henry____brown Every day in 2025, I said a word of what would eventually become Year Span, a 365-word essay on how I/we perceive time. I had the idea for a moving, talking Photo-A-Day project quite a few years ago, but I never had anything meaningful to say with it, and the project would always peter out after a few weeks. And even though other YouTubers have made things similar to this by now, I'm proud of myself for having turned my 2025 into an art project the way I always imagined. I wish you a fulfilling 2026. :) Transcript: What is a year? When I was younger, anything over a few minutes was inconceivable. Going somewhere “in an hour” might as well have meant tomorrow. These days, next weekend comes around before I’ve even finished processing last week; and my August is already fully booked at the start of the year. And a year sometimes feels like nothing at all. I suppose this is inevitable. Everyone laments that time speeds up as you get older. And it’s fair — units of time are like the routes you regularly travel. By the hundredth time you make the trip to work, or your partner’s house, or the grocery store, you know what comes after every turn. And the journey feels so much shorter than when everything was new. But— is time really flying? Right now, I’m t̶w̶e̶n̶t̶y̶-̶f̶i̶v̶e̶ twenty-six years old. In just 4 years, I’ll be 30. But how can I say that my twenties “flew past” if I can’t remember what I did on [June 15, 2025]? It’s impossible to hold all the moments of your life all the time. Sure. But pick a random date 5 years ago, and try to remember exactly what you did and felt. Chances are that it’ll start feeling a lot further away. Like I was a completely different person at 20. Still me, only a different me. So then— since when have I been THIS me? 14-year-old me was definitely someone else, but last February feels just as foreign to me sometimes. How much DO the circumstances of my life need to change before I can consider myself… evolved? Maybe I get to decide. Cause theoretically, I am not the me who wrote this sentence. Nor am I the me who’s uploading this video. And who knows who I’ll be by the time you watch/see this. All these versions of me may look similar, but there’s a new “me” in my skin every day, each carrying a different set of experiences, and a different outlook on life. Making decisions to the best of his abilities. It’s hard to imagine THIS me making meaningful changes to my life, but three hundred sixty-five me's might just make a difference.
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January 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
New Year Zone: count down to 2026 in every time zone https://newyear.zone/
New Year Zone
Why celebrate the New Year just once when you can do it 38 times? New Year Zone counts down to the New Year in every time zone, so you can share the fun with the whole world!
newyear.zone
December 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
45x45 Connections: an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 https://thomaswc.com/2025.html
2025
thomaswc.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
alliwantforchristmas.is: camera on, volume up https://alliwantforchristmas.is/
All I Want For Christmas Is...
...???
alliwantforchristmas.is
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
ssh tiny.christmas: tap space to sing along https://tiny.christmas/
ssh tiny.christmas · eieio.games
A global christmas carol over ssh
tiny.christmas
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Jmail.world adds tools to explore the new Epstein dump: including photos, files, Amazon purchases, flights, https://www.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.
www.jmail.world
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
annas-archive.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
DOGSPINNER: spin the dog https://www.pigenpalace.com/do...
DOGSPINNER
www.pigenpalace.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Infinite Ball Drop: the New Year's Eve ball is currently 2,301,120 feet above Times Square with 993,130 seconds to go https://infiniteballdrop.com/
Infinite Ball Drop
Where would the Times Square Ball be if it started dropping now? Made by Brian Moore and Will Lindberg.
infiniteballdrop.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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/...
Public Domain Day 2026
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US
web.law.duke.edu
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Neal.fun's Size of Life: definitely experience this on desktop for the dynamic cello soundtrack, which gets more complex as the lifeforms grow https://neal.fun/size-of-life/
Size of Life
From an amoeba to a blue whale
neal.fun
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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...
FIRST LOOK: The RoboCop Statue Arrives In Detroit
In Eastern Market, there's a statue happening
www.dailydetroit.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Desk Stops: creative technologists share their desktops, which seem to fall into extreme minimalism or utter chaos https://www.deskstop.computer/
Desk Stops
creative technologists and their desktop setups
www.deskstop.computer
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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 https://xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
xkcd.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
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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