I could’ve really used that Automatic Proofreader utility in 1986
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ChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can solve their tech support problems
404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-telling-people-404-media-can-solve-their-tech-support-problems/
tech journalists are regularly getting spammed by meat proxies
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Apple Music’s iPod easter egg
it’s on their 404 page and really well done
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Local Wikipedia
“Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you”
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Critical PHP remote code exploits patched, update now
basically every PHP installation is affected, don’t wait on this one
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Dennis Crowley on the end of Foursquare
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qrsticks
scannable QR codes made of stick figures
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Ghostmashers
Bill McClintock mashes up Ray Parker Jr. with a dozen other ’80s songs
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The Pudding finds “The Real Kevin Bacon”
Samuel L. Jackson became the new center of Hollywood in 2006
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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ is the new wild west of AI
404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-new-wild-west-of-ai/
AI agents have hit the game decomp/recomp scene like a nuclear bomb
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Pillowfort closing in December
the user-funded Tumblresque platform never fully recovered after suffering three months of downtime in 2021
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(not) solitaire
Puzzmo made a “massively passively multiplayer solitaire,” coincidental to Nolen Royalty’s similar project
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How many shots are in the average movie today?
interesting analysis using shot boundary detection mapped against hand counts from the Cinemetrics project
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Inside the failed fight to unionize at Double Fine
kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755
outstanding reporting from Rebekah Valentine with an accompanying long interview with Tim Schafer
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Triple-A Minesweeper
Mike Lacher’s action-packed AAA reboot of the Windows 3.11 classic
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VECOS, a vector desktop OS for the Vectrex
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TV Simulator’s TV Poetry
make a generative poem on any subject from short TV clips
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StrawPage Explore
click “next site” to view a random personal retroweb-inspired website
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Destroy Any Website
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Solitaire Alone Together
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Thinky Dailies
charming ever-changing collection of free daily puzzles, now in its fourth season
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I Found Evidence Of My House Spinning
creepypasta in the form of a forum thread, don’t miss the “what’s new!” at the very end
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9/11 in Realtime
impressive archival project synchronizing TV broadcasts, radio traffic, pagers, newsgroups, and more
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Modern Day Typographer
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Usenet-Rewind
new commercial archive with deep full-text search of 982M posts going back to 1981
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Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader
Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them
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Kids Trends
Riley Walz analyzed 100 million children’s drawings over 20 years, try searching for your own name
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Rogue OpenAI agents using public wikis as message boards
in a week, a swarm of 3,700 agents made 13k edits with disposable email addresses to collude on tasks
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Unusual Suspects
Neal.fun’s latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony
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Inflight Simulator
like Airplane Mode, but multiplayer and in the browser
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