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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
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/
The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies: a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies: a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
The Art of Interacting Incorrectly: Isabel Fish made 12 animated horses from Excel, Google Maps routes, desktop icons, GarageBand, screen fingerprints, and more https://interactingincorrectly...
Entrance
interactingincorrectly.online
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Art of Interacting Incorrectly: Isabel Fish made 12 animated horses from Excel, Google Maps routes, desktop icons, GarageBand, screen fingerprints, and more https://interactingincorrectly...
Egg: VVVVVV/Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh made a wonderfully strange free platformer https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Egg
why not be an egg
terrycavanagh.itch.io
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Egg: VVVVVV/Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh made a wonderfully strange free platformer https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Space Type Generator: don't miss the "Select" menu at the top for many more options https://spacetypegenerator.com/
SPACE TYPE GENERATOR
a kinetic type generator from kielm
Buy me a coffee to help support STG
spacetypegenerator.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Space Type Generator: don't miss the "Select" menu at the top for many more options https://spacetypegenerator.com/
Winners of the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition: always worth checking out https://ifcomp.org/comp/2025
IFComp 2025
Explore the remains of the derelict ship. From fragmented memories, discover what became of the crew and piece together the events that led to the disaster. Find codes, hack keypads, and make your way past biometric locks in order to get the engines back online.
ifcomp.org
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Winners of the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition: always worth checking out https://ifcomp.org/comp/2025
Channelvue: new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga's Prevue Channel software for the listings https://www.channelvue.biz/
⇨ ⇨ ⇨ CHANNELVUE
The global portal for the Datacore corporation and its subsidiaries.
www.channelvue.biz
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Channelvue: new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga's Prevue Channel software for the listings https://www.channelvue.biz/
My First Months in Cyberspace: Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then https://www.gyford.com/phil/wr...
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.
www.gyford.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My First Months in Cyberspace: Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then https://www.gyford.com/phil/wr...
The Collector: made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies https://split82.itch.io/the-co...
The Collector
Play in your browser
split82.itch.io
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Collector: made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies https://split82.itch.io/the-co...
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation: click for a helpful interactive chart https://50centadjustedforinfla...
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation
109 Cent
50centadjustedforinflation.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation: click for a helpful interactive chart https://50centadjustedforinfla...
Ghost Waltz: Louie Zong kicks off spoopy season with his annual ghost song https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ghost Waltz 👻💃
new ghost vid! also out on streaming etc. happy spooky month!
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ghost Waltz: Louie Zong kicks off spoopy season with his annual ghost song https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
DFACE.app: Adam Harvey made a face redaction app that's entirely private with photos never leaving your device, and can hide up to 1,000 faces in a single crowd shot https://adam.harvey.studio/dface/
DFACE
Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app
adam.harvey.studio
September 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
DFACE.app: Adam Harvey made a face redaction app that's entirely private with photos never leaving your device, and can hide up to 1,000 faces in a single crowd shot https://adam.harvey.studio/dface/
Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film: from the creator of the Soviet animation Steamed Hams, German expressionist film Steamed Hams, and many more https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
MY DINNER WITH SKINNER (1996)
featuring
Reegan Bourgeois as Principal Skinner
Terrence Ferguson as Superintendent Chalmers
NO AI POLICY:
The models powering generative AI platforms have been trained on the work of countless artists, generally without consent or compensation. This questionable provenance aside; it is arguable the most effective use cases for these tools are misinformation, manipulation, defamation, theft, and fraud. There is also an environmental impact to expending massive amounts of computational power on something of such dubious value. Even if these ethical, economic, social, and ecological issues were to somehow be resolved – I will continue to reject their use in my work as they are artistically worthless.
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film: from the creator of the Soviet animation Steamed Hams, German expressionist film Steamed Hams, and many more https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Find My Parking Cops: Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day https://walzr.com/sf-parking/
Find My Parking Cops
Map of San Francisco parking cops and their recent tickets
walzr.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Find My Parking Cops: Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day https://walzr.com/sf-parking/
TV Simulator Says: a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips https://tvsimulator.com/says/
TV Simulator Says
tvsimulator.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
TV Simulator Says: a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips https://tvsimulator.com/says/
Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker's Guide prop from junk: plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Making a working Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy prop from junk
Ep 42: Making a working Guide prop, from 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy' by Douglas Adams. With bonus short film! Watch the short in 4K here –
https://youtu.be/-431pDOiYRQ . And here's where you can support and follow my channel:
PATREON — https://www.patreon.com/GreigJohnsonMaking
KO-FI — https://ko-fi.com/greigjohnsonmaking
ETSY — https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/GreigJohnson
WISH LIST – https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/I9ZCPS4VHZR/
INSTAGRAM — https://www.instagram.com/greigjohnsonmaking
FACEBOOK — https://www.facebook.com/greigjohnsonmaking
BANDCAMP — https://greigjohnson.bandcamp.com
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
04:05 – Making the buttons
08:25 – Making the body
19:15 – How To Make A Babel Fish
21:00 – Making the cover
25:25 – Making the animation
26:58 – The Short Film
32:00 – Outro
34:10 – Patron thanks
34:37 – The Finished Thing
#hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #babelfish #movieprops
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker's Guide prop from junk: plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay's The Clock: the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay's unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them https://kottke.org/25/09/a-clo...
A Clock: An Online Remake of Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Christian Marclay debuted his 24-hour film The Clock 15 years ago. The film is made up of thousands of clips from movies and TV shows that show timepieces or otherwise make reference to the time of day. I’ve seen chunks of it in a few museums & gall
kottke.org
September 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay's The Clock: the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay's unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them https://kottke.org/25/09/a-clo...
I'm Not A Robot: Neal.fun's latest is a game of increasingly ridiculous CAPTCHAs https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/
I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity
neal.fun
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm Not A Robot: Neal.fun's latest is a game of increasingly ridiculous CAPTCHAs https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/
Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas: YouTube's best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Forcing Scammers To Solve Impossible Captchas
I asked the community to build captchas that would be impossible for scammers to solve...
► Try Kraken: https://kraken.com/kitboga
0:00 Code Jam
2:05 $1MM Captcha
7:00 Scammers Hate Captchas
15:00 Impossible
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas: YouTube's best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
HushCrasher's taxonomy of videogame production scope: instead of subjective terms like "indie" or "AAA," they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits https://hushcrasher.substack.c...
By the way, what’s a AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.
hushcrasher.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
HushCrasher's taxonomy of videogame production scope: instead of subjective terms like "indie" or "AAA," they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits https://hushcrasher.substack.c...
Tunnel Girl recaps three years of her underground tunnel project: after the city stopped work for over a year, Kala finally got official permits in March and kept digging https://www.tiktok.com/@engine...
Shall I go still deeper? #engineering #minecraft #tunnel #mining #construction
www.tiktok.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Tunnel Girl recaps three years of her underground tunnel project: after the city stopped work for over a year, Kala finally got official permits in March and kept digging https://www.tiktok.com/@engine...
Trucker built scale model of NYC over 21 years: constructed alone in his basement, the 50' x 30' model grew to cover all five boroughs and their surroundings https://gothamist.com/arts-ent...
This trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years. It’s drawing museums’ attention.
Joseph Macken said he did the project as a hobby in his upstate basement.
gothamist.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trucker built scale model of NYC over 21 years: constructed alone in his basement, the 50' x 30' model grew to cover all five boroughs and their surroundings https://gothamist.com/arts-ent...
Hosting a website on a disposable vape: the vape server is overloaded right now from Hacker News traffic, check it out later https://bogdanthegeek.github.i...
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
bogdanthegeek.github.io
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hosting a website on a disposable vape: the vape server is overloaded right now from Hacker News traffic, check it out later https://bogdanthegeek.github.i...
how to use the subway: a minimalist chill subway system simulator https://quewon.github.io/subway/
how to use the subway
quewon.github.io
September 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
how to use the subway: a minimalist chill subway system simulator https://quewon.github.io/subway/
chyrons: Riley Walz extracted live lower thirds found on ten TV news channels https://walzr.com/chyrons
Chyrons
walzr.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
chyrons: Riley Walz extracted live lower thirds found on ten TV news channels https://walzr.com/chyrons