Fauxfall is an attempt to recreate and expand upon the New York Times piece, "Snow Fall" using an Atlantic article and associated rich media. It is proof-of-concept, not a finished product, but, still, it should have an expansive feature set—ideally above and beyond what "Snow Fall" showed was possible.

Well, here's a sampling of what we're thinking:

• Highlights and Annotations a la Rap Genius
• Embedded HTML5 video and audio
• A UX that seamlessly supports learning more in the form of Wikipedia-esque "notecards" of further information
• Slideshows
• Quasi-infinite scroll
• Parallaxed/cutout background images

JavaScript through and through. Node.js on the back and Backbone.js on the front. CSS3 transitions and transforms, so modern browsers only—not even graceful degradation for IE <= 8. So there. Also, it runs on p 5000.

Fauxfall is the brainchild of @jswest and Karim, who doesn't, I don't think have a Github, with ample support from @gabeisman. @jswest and @gabeisman will be coding the crap out of it.