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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtxmE-lAoHk
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Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words and definitions. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere. https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/
Publishers prepare to opt-out of Google search over AI training: I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15 https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-google-search/
NYT on how Google’s AI search is hurting the open web: starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.A1LZ.AwMkNDLrNcPc&smid=url-share
The AI Bubble: disturbing post on the leveraged financing of the AI infrastructure buildout from No One's Happy, a new anonymously-authored blog https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble/
Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?: Anil Dash on Flickr Commons' enduring legacy as a home for public domain photos from institutions around the world https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/
Last.fm goes independent after 19 years at CBS Interactive: no info about how the ownership change happened, though they say it will be run by the same team https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591
Hallucinate.site: a massively-multiplayer online rave https://hallucinate.site/
We launched a permanent archive for all eight years of XOXO, along with some ridiculous merch, and we're really proud of it. https://waxy.org/2026/04/launching-a-permanent-archive-for-xoxo/
clipart.studio: make and share collages from the Internet Archive's magazine collection or upload your own PDF https://clipart.studio/
How AI agents forced a 30-year-old movie box office stats website offline: an escalating flood of agentic traffic, plus attempts to hack the server to manipulate prediction markets https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
Transfer Point: a new point-and-click text adventure made with World Builder, a game creator for the Mac first released in 1986 https://robotspacer.software/transfer-point.html
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links: the anonymous creator used the archiving site to DDOS a blogger and tampered with screenshots to hide their identity https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
“This Is Not The Computer For You”: Sam Henri-Gold on the MacBook Neo and how beginners get creative, pushing imperfect machines past their limits https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
Launching XOXO Explore, the complete XOXO archive: we're making a bunch of limited-run XOXO merch to celebrate, including new shirts, pins, stickers, LEGO kits (!), and more https://xoxofest.com/blog/2026-launching-xoxo-explore/
off the map: first new Bill Wurtz song in almost four years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH_CUSu7M1Q
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher: Stephen Totilo writes about what happened when Panic started prompting players who finished the games they published to send them a SASE https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
the html review 05: 15 new pieces of experimental web poetry and art, my personal faves are milkfish, Banner Highway, and Cursor Park https://thehtml.review/05/
After 14 years, I decided to retire Playfic, an online community for writing and sharing interactive fiction made with Inform 7. All the games will stay online indefinitely. https://waxy.org/2026/08/waxy-refresh-the-end-of-playfic/
Daniel Linssen’s Print Gallery Of An Artist: mind-bending recursive game inspired by 3Blue1Brown's recent video on the math behind Escher's Print Gallery https://managore.itch.io/print-gallery-of-an-artist
Payphone Go: win points by calling from one of California's remaining 2,203 payphones https://walzr.com/payphone-go/
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: it went rogue after having a code change rejected on GitHub, an early example of the chaos to come when AIs autonomously access the web https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
Dan Sinker on the time Notre Dame students fought the Klan: another 100-year-old story that rhymes with today's current events https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-04-17-notre-dame/
TasteBuds NYC: every week, two guys spin a wheel of countries and find a restaurant in NYC serving that cuisine, random joy ensues @tastebuds_nyc@www.youtube.com
Bubble Sorted Amen Break: from 10k Drum Machines, which recently featured drum machines made from Donkey Kong, billiards, and the current time https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
Glasses Cleaning Simulator: you can get it 80% clean but not much more, making this extremely unsatisfying https://vole.wtf/glasses-cleaning/
Unsung: Marcin Wichary launched a new blog about "software craft and quality" last month and it's excellent https://unsung.aresluna.org/
Razor 1911’s 40-year retrospective for Revision 2026: a whirlwind tribute to the legendary warez/demo group, this PC demo touches on a lot of scene history since 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnbYNudAyM
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Game Poems: like The HTML Review, a new publication of experimental interactive code poetry https://www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
As Slow As Possible: Pippin Barr tests your attention span with weirdly meditative slowed-down remakes of Pong, Breakout, and Missile Command https://pippinbarr.com/as-slow-as-possible/
JS Crossword: for the JavaScript sickos, a cursed crossword puzzle where every clue is an eval of its answer https://lyra.horse/fun/jscrossword/
ssh snakes.run: Nolen Royalty made a massively-multiplayer Snake game played over SSH https://eieio.games/blog/secure-massively-multiplayer-snake/
Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural: Cabel Sasser tells the full behind-the-scenes story of one of the best XOXO talks ever https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/
Number Gacha: like RNGdle, a minimalist experiment in addictive game mechanics https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
Lynn Fisher’s Concert Archive: charming personal archive of memories with photos, videos, and posters collected from around the web https://concerts.lynnandtonic.com/
The Pudding looks at women’s clothing sizes and body types: over half of all adult women are excluded from standard size ranges https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
RNGdle: what's the least amount of interactivity you can have in a game and still have it feel like a game? https://www.rngdle.com/
NYC Street Clock: telling the time using more than 20,000 Google Street View images found around NYC https://clock.alltext.nyc/
the entire beatles discography but it’s just numbers: the same creator also made supercuts of every name, color, animal, vehicle, "she", "girl", "love", "yes" and "no" in every Beatles song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR68Zq4-Rs
Channel Surfer, watch YouTube like it’s cable TV: 40 channels with a TV guide and fixed daily schedule https://channelsurfer.tv/
X86CSS, an x86 CPU emulator written in CSS: from Lyra Rebane, creator of CSS Clicker and the brilliant Antonymph music video https://lyra.horse/x86css/
Dragonsweeper: brilliant free Minesweeper-inspired roguelike by Daniel Benmergui https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
Anil Dash on coding after AI: like Clive Thompson's NYT feature yesterday, this talks about why many devs are experiencing AI differently than other industries https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/
Cursor Camp: you'll want to try Neal Agarwal's latest on desktop https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
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@exquisitecorp Funny, I was just reading about that game. It was also made with World Builder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%27s_Maze
In Every Language: compare the key images used to illustrate a topic in 300+ different language Wikipedia editions around the world https://walzr.com/in-every-language/
your ai slop bores me: prompt an "ai" for answers and drawings, or fulfill prompts yourself for more credits https://youraislopbores.me/
Number Research Inc: help these intrepid researchers find all positive integers; they should team up with Brooklyn Integers https://numberresearch.xyz/
Boss Fight 3D Render Challenge: hypnotic montage of CG artistry with music by Disasterpeace, if you want more, the full video with all 2,880 entries is over 3.5 hours long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgiRK8_iKdg
A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS: Misty De Méo writes about a 1994 Japanese BBS preserved forever on CD-ROM and browsable in Infinite Mac https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/05/30/xd.html