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2024-08-27 20:37:34

Shutterbug: free desktop-only browser game where you photograph bugs by resizing and moving the browser window https://vividfax.itch.io/shutterbug

2024-02-27 21:29:31

SDXL Lightning: generate janky 1024x1024 images nearly as fast as you can type, try random strings and nonsense https://fastsdxl.ai/

2024-02-16 19:23:49

Persistence of vision in black-and-white noise: an interesting effect used in the 2007 game Lost in the Static https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdTMeNXCnTs

2023-12-14 20:38:44

Pipe Dreams: The Life and Times of Yahoo! Pipes: Glenn Fleishman interviewed the original team, among others, for this beautifully-designed history of the Web 2.0 app https://retool.com/pipes

2023-09-17 17:38:54

A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials: Max Read sifts through the Wayback Machine to go back to 2011 with the launch of iMessage in iOS 5 https://maxread.substack.com/p/a-literary-history-of-fake-texts

2023-08-13 20:34:01

Record labels hit Internet Archive with new $400M lawsuit for preserving 78 rpm records: absolute garbage lawsuit, every recording was pre-1978 from deceased artists digitized from the original 78s https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/

2023-08-10 18:28:35

Billionaires gifted Clarence Thomas at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, box seats, and more: ProPublica continues their investigation into undisclosed bribery on the Supreme Court https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

2023-08-09 19:25:31

The Nib made all 15 issues free for PDF download this month: you can donate to keep the archives alive or buy print copies before it closes this summer https://membership.thenib.com/donate-free-pdf-downloads