PCE.js — very usable Mac Plus emulator running System 7 in the browser #

The Hill Valley Project — Back to the Future reenacted on Twitter #

Peak Ads — TIm Hwang and Adi Kamdar's paper on the shift away from online advertising (via) #

Nieman Lab on Ze Frank and Buzzfeed's video push — or: what Ze's been up to since A Show #

Jack Conte's low-tech 3D projection mapped music video — in case you missed it, his XOXO talk was pretty amazing (via) #

brbxoxo — art project searches sexcam sites and only shows feeds when performers are away (via) #

New Snowden docs claim NSA hacked links between Google, Yahoo datacenters — the smiley face is a nice kick in the teeth #

Selfies at Funerals — #Funeral #LongDay #RIPAuntTookie #

Victorian-era proto animated GIFs — many, many more on Dick's Tumblr #

BERG Cloud opens to the public — the hardware, software, and services behind Little Printer available to anyone; see the #Flock case study #

NYT Retro Report: Burned by McDonald's Hot Coffee — the NYT is revisiting old stories to get the full story (via) #

The Internet Archive launches its Historical Software Collection — with in-browser emulation thanks to the remarkable JSMESS project (via) #

Rhizome on Black MIDI — impossible-to-play computer music bordering on glitch art; try this one on for size #

The Decline of Wikipedia — this paper dives deep into the problem #

EMMA — random filtered Street View imagery and dream reports into an arthouse montage (via) #

Macklemore on the one-year anniversary of The Heist — how they managed to break mainstream, but stay independent and in control #

Emily Short's roundup of the IF Comp 2013 entries — a state of the union for modern interactive fiction #

Darius Kazemi on his @TwoHeadlines bot — also, his amazing interactive breakdown of Spelunky's level generation #

The Smash Brothers — stunning nine-part Kickstarter-funded documentary on competitive Super Smash Bros. players #

Truth for Humanity, winner of Comedy Hack Day — when hack days meet standup comedy; also great: MyRealPuppy.com and Clickstrbait #

Deep Into YouTube — some highlights from BuzzFeed, or just look at the most popular #

As We May Type — Paul Ford looks at the trend of new tools for writing online #

FriendFlop — randomly swap your friends' names and avatars on Twitter and Facebook (via) #

Shugo Tokumaru's "Katachi" — more info on how it was made, the structure was 10 meters long (via) #

Device 6, a stylish mystery game for iOS, now released — from the creators of Year Walk and Beat Sneak Bandit, also highly recommended #

Sad Etsy Boyfriends — "wretched creatures abused for economic gains by their Etsy girlfriends" (via) #

Tom Francis shares his Gunpoint development notes — the bits on work ethic and feedback apply to any indie, not just game devs #

Crowdfunding in the 17th century — a story of pre-Kickstarter backer issues #

XOXO Makes A Book — Kickstarter funded, published, printed, and distributed a book in three days at XOXO #

Blocktronics ACiD Trip — animation of the longest ANSI scroller ever; 3,266 lines made by 22 artists from 6 different countries #

Nick Bilton's NYT feature on the creation of Twitter — drama bomb! #

Full Screen Mario — HTML5 Super Mario Bros. with a level editor and random map generator #

Mike Monteiro's Webstock '13 talk on design and ethics — an absolute barnburner #

NES audio played real-time by player piano and robot drums — insane hack that I missed during the run-up to XOXO (via) #

Puzzle Script — elegant open-source engine for making tile-based puzzle games, and more #

Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator hits 4.0 — the team put together a video showing off ten years of incredible progress #

Reddit Metrics — the New Reddits Trending tab is most interesting; the current leader is a Silk Road replacement #

Ars Technica on how the FBI took down the Silk Road founder — he paid an undercover FBI agent $80k to torture, and then assassinate, an ex-employee #

Radio Free Earth, track songs in space — fun hack by Jeremy Keith and Chloe Weil #

Zach Klein on building the company you wouldn't sell — related: how about some fucking whimsy? (via) #

Daily Dot on 4chan's 10-year birthday — Moot recounts a tale of turning down an early acquisition offer #

Polygon video feature on indie games on next-gen consoles — focused on Sony and Microsoft, no mention of Nintendo #

Nested — older project from the creator of Cookie Clicker #

OUYA adds public game charts — any console with ten Terry Cavanagh games is my kind of console #

EFF on the W3C's decision to add DRM to the HTML spec — well, there's always the WHATWG's living standard #

Feds shut down Silk Road, arrest Dread Pirate Roberts — his identity was partly revealed on Stack Overflow; Techdirt digs into the criminal complaint #

Lavabit case unsealed, FBI ordered founder to give up SSL key — he defied the order, facing $5k/day in fees before closing the service; support his defense fund #