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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 jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, 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
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 jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, 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