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Late Night Work Club’s STRANGERS — lovely compilation of indie animators; don’t miss Lovestreams at 21:08

Internet Archive to mirror Wayback archives in Canada — “The history of libraries is one of loss.”

Bird Sounds — using machine learning to cluster and visualize audio (via)

Reddit is tearing itself apart — the Trump subreddit is slowly dominating the site through manipulation and inaction

Lois Lane on Facebook — face recognition is Superman’s other kryptonite

Slack client for the Commodore 64 — finally

Datalegreya — OpenType font that mingles charts with text

Seagulls! (Stop It Now) — the sequel to Bushes of Love, both masterpieces

SHOPAGEDDON.biz — your eyes are your wallet

Auralnauts’ Attack of the Phantom Past — fifth episode of their brilliant Star Wars remixes; worth it for the opening alone

OK Go’s new music video was filmed in 4.2 seconds — as usual, the behind-the-scenes is as interesting as the final product

Holiday Hole — this feels like a metaphor for something, but I don’t know what

A Mathematician’s Perspective on the Divide — Vi Hart argues that age was the critical factor for the election

Owlchemy’s Mixed Reality update is unreal — dynamic lighting and transparency with proper depth

PARADISE — animated 4K interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (via)

The Secret World of Stuff — compilations of animator Sean Charmatz’s Instagram shorts (via)

in/ex troversion — short student animation visualizes the feeling of social exhaustion (via)

Looking back at Homestuck, the “internet’s first masterpiece” — I first wrote about it five years ago this month (via)

Ask MetaFilter’s collection of interesting automated phone numbers — I recommend Here and There Along the Echo

Bandcamp traces the subgenres of vaporwave — the Bandcamp blog is killing it; see also: Orange Milk Records, Japanese chiptune, Sammus

Who Will Command The Robot Armies? — yet another amazing talk/essay from Maciej Ceglowski (via)

Everything Is Fucked (Keep On Going) — a 60-second song from MetaFilter’s Josh Millard

Full-color video player built in Factorio — this is just astounding; how it works

Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar — or just the HUD

Winter in America — a road trip through Donald Trump’s America in the days before the election

Quick, Draw! — train Google’s neural net with your crappy drawings

Washington Post interviews a fake news profiteer — “satire,” my ass

Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future — Christina Xu on fake viral news in China

Jason Scott on porting VLC to the browser — like the Emularity, a project with huge potential to make archived works more accessible

clickclickclick.click — adorably strange browser game about online profiling (via)

Possibilia — an interactive love story set in the multiverse, directed by Swiss Army Man’s DANIELS (via)

Death and MetaFilter — Josh Millard on coping with death and loss in long-running, close-knit online communities

The Caretaker's "Everywhere at the end of time" — the first in a six-album series about dementia and memory loss

Bandcamp interviews Vektroid — absurdly talented musician, impossible to easily categorize, and always evolving

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey secretly funding Trump memes — everything about this is gross; devs are cancelling their Oculus support

The Festival Floppies — incredible treasure trove of odd and beautiful DOS shareware, emulated in the browser

Yahoo confirms pretty much every Yahoo Mail account ever exposed, two years ago — at least 500 million accounts, the largest data breach ever

Sunlight Foundation winding down Sunlight Labs — sad to see, they did so much great work

A-Painter — Tilt Brush clone in the browser, with simple sharing and saving of drawings

botsplaining — dudes arguing with a Twitter bot

The Last Epiphany — Greg Knauss looks back on five years of XOXO

Reigns' creator on making the indie hit — “the result of contingent decisions mixed with an indecent amount of luck”

Toby Fox on UnderTale, one year later — solid perspective on a hit game

My LaCroix — fan project; my personal favorite, so far

Polygraph's visualization of Kickstarter projects by city — love their work so much

First look at Squanchtendo's Accounting — the creators of Rick & Morty and Stanley Parable are making a VR game

The Verge on five years of XOXO, and our hiatus — just need time to work on new things and rethink what XOXO is and could be

Jackson Hole Town Square — over 1,600 people are watching this stream and chatting relentlessly; it’s like Deer in real life

Printed by Somerset — modern take on the classic paper website design