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The latest HTML trickery for web designers
3+ week, 2+ day ago (365+ words) HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that…...
Zuckerberg polls so badly that only Putin ranks lower
1+ week, 6+ day ago (387+ words) No? What about everyone's hate for Mark Zuckerberg? Can we all rally around that? That feels like it'd be hella healing too. Instead of being adored by one faction and reviled by the other, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is simply…...
ASCII CITY: a cyberpunk city explored in pseudo-3D plaintext
1+ week, 6+ day ago (349+ words) ASCII CITY is an explorable cyberpunk city rendered in three dimensions with plain text characters. You can run the streets, enter buildings and take lifts to see it all from different elevations. There's no audio, story or "game" in there…...
There's a pretend country hiding in every book's barcode
5+ day, 17+ min ago (349+ words) There's a pretend country called Bookland. If you're an avid reader, there's a good chance that you have a book on your shelf that has been labeled as being from this pretend land. Bookland was created to serve as a…...
Decades before ChatGPT, video games were sold as having AI
2+ week, 2+ day ago (298+ words) A lot of video games from the 1970s and later were touted as having AI. Jason Scott of the Internet Archive has a fun retrospective about these games, with links to playable versions. Here's what Scott says about a title from…...
Beholden to Big Tech, Grandpa Pudding Brains demands more data centers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (342+ words) Don't want a giant ghost building full of power-sucking, heat-generating computers at the end of your street? Enjoy being "backwards and poor," says Diaper Don. Folks building data centers for the AI bubble now eye neighborhoods with excess power and…...
"Content creator" claims to have taken Pittsburgh's iconic Phantom Menace vending machine
1+ week, 6+ day ago (417+ words) A Star Wars: The Phantom Menace-cobranded Pepsi vending machine somehow survived decades outside a Pittsburgh fire station to become an ironic tourist attraction. Pepsi, alert to its growing fame, donated $10,000 to the firefighters who kept it stocked. But it disappeared…...
The Rebrand Registry tracks Microsoft's endless brand gyrations
2+ week, 4+ day ago (462+ words) Google regularly murders fine products and leaves them for others to bury. Microsoft, though, just renames theirs constantly. The Rebrand Registry now exists to help us keep track of Redmond's insatiable taste for fresh paint. Compare current and former product…...
Ominous Cat in the Hat videos alarmed school officials, so the local Sheriff made one too
1+ week, 3+ day ago (445+ words) Officials have shared an image demonstrating what the threatening reel could look like. [Assumption Parish] Sheriff [Leland] Falcon stresses that this attached image was created by the sheriff's office strictly as an example and is not an actual threat that…...
Book about every video game set in the Alien universe
1+ week, 2+ day ago (446+ words) In-depth accounts of each title, from creative processes to critical receptions, are complemented by over 20 all-new interviews with the developers who made these incredibly varied video games. I've not played all of them, but I'm confident that the best for…...