Annalee Newitz leaves io9 after eight year run — the site she founded and defined its voice; excited to see what she does at Ars Technica #

Extra Ordinary's The Case of the Marked Man — Li Chen celebrates comic #400 with a special full-color detective story #

The Serial Swatter — the NYT goes deep on how armchair terrorists exploit America's over-militarized police #

Inside China's "memeufacturing" factories — massive, chaotic infrastructure for producing this year's cultural fads #

xkcd's Hoverboard — it's bigger than it looks #

Bret Victor goes deep on what technologists can do about climate change — "despair is not useful. Despair is paralysis, and there's work to be done" #

Donald Trump's skid towards outright fascism — I hope Nate Silver's right, but Trump's gone from mildly amusing to scary pretty quickly #

Jason Scott on the Infocom Cabinet — staggering collection of Infocom history, now on Archive.org #

NeuralTalk and Walk — Kyle McDonald walks around Amsterdam with a neural net trying to describe what it sees #

How Reddit Talks — n-gram analysis of Reddit comments from 2007-2015 #

Operation Wonderland — re-enacting reference footage for Alice in Wonderland; actual reference shots here #

Line of Sight — live visualization of satellites in the line of sight above us; more info here (via) #

Gay Island — homophobic Tumblr post turns into dystopian young adult sci-fi #

Behind-the-scenes story of Google Pac-Man background audio bug in 2010 — bizarre confluence of browser plugin and bad design choices #

Paint Drying — force the British film board to watch paint drying; currently at six hours, six minutes long #

Valleywag "permanently shuttered" in Gawker refocusing — I fully expect someone else to fill this niche soon #

Unfollow — Adrian Chen on Megan Phelps-Roper, a former Westboro Baptist member that found empathy online #

Rdio to shut down in wake of Pandora acquisition — I always preferred Spotify's listening model, but the loss of a good competitor is a bummer #

Maciej Ceglowski live-tweets the Next:Economy conference — if the whole bookmarking thing doesn't work out, he has a great future in conference coverage #

VR Guitar — the race is on for the first full VR band #

mirror lake — stunning generative art by Katie Rose Pipkin #

Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah — always fun to receive little surprises in the mail from a bunch of weirdos #

Emoji Party — make your own, click to party #

Photojojo's Amit Gupta at XOXO — one of the most moving talks we've ever had #

Vox Product's employee Code of Conduct — on Github, too (via) #

#ALLMYMOVIES — watch Shia LaBeouf watch every Shia Labeouf movie in reverse-chronological order, 24 hours a day #

Max Temkin on why Hello from the Magic Tavern is amazing — they performed live at XOXO this year, and it was glorious #

12 Weird, Excellent Twitter Bots Chosen by Twitter's Best Bot-Makers — several of my favorites are in here #

Dumb Cuneiform — convert tweets to actual clay tablets; yes, this is real #

Robin Sloan on the dystopian vibes of Uber-for-food startups — there are alternatives, empowering indie cooks and bringing neighborhoods together #

Keynote Motion Graphic Experiment — Linda Dong shows off animation tools in Keynote, and the file for download #

Reconsider — DHH's epic rant against disruption culture; related: Jennifer Daniel's Design Is Capitalism #

Suck, Again — fan-made newsletter reissuing Suck.com columns, 20 years later to the day #

iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel — the complete legal agreement, drawn in the style of famous cartoonists #

Daily Dot on @1995regi, a webcomic told on Instagram — related: the newly-launched Glitched, a comic told entirely through Twitter #