weekly reel November 19, 2023
Bonjour bonsoir, nerdz. Have some DJ Shadow.
Action Adventure by DJ Shadow (bandcamp.com)
News
Bobby Fingers: Jeff Bezos rowing boat, 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.
LambHoot: The dead game in Hedbanz. Cool story around kids remixing a found board game lacking a rulebook, into a non-competitive social game reminiscent of Cards Against Humanity.
A perfectly designed Climate Report cover.
[fr] L’Histoire nous le dira #227 - La saga de l’avortement au Québec : Chantale Daigle.
Winners of the Landscape Photo Awards 2023, via Kottke.
SMBC: Discrete.
Tech
Linus Akesson: C64 Vivaldi summer presto (“The storm”)
Heyyy, raise a glass to feudal Big Tech bending a micrometre to EU regulation! No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (HN), RCS support is coming to iPhones (HN).
Games
Quake Speedruns Explained: 19 years to beat Quake’s E1M6 record.
Friends Per Second #34: How The Escapist died and Second Wind was born.
Valve: Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary.
Shitty tech ℹ️
[fr/qc] Le Devoir : L’IA en santé, entre conflits d’intérêt et millions de dollars perdus.