The history of #1 projects on Kickstarter — the new #1 is from Portland #

Video Games, Misogyny, And Terrorism — also: Leigh Alexander on gamer culture #

Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn't exist — the screenshot of her tweets is unbearably awful #

Fish Play Street Fighter — you can bet on the results #

Somebody — Miranda July made an app that delivers messages from friends verbally by strangers (via) #

PlotDevice — Processing-like Mac app to use Python for 2D graphics and animation #

Pixel-Drifter — software for making glitch art from images, breaking things on purpose #

Wired on Instagram's Hyperlapse — much simpler than Microsoft's technique, but free and instant #

Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 — brutal, important new entry in Feminist Frequency's series, predictably met with denial and anger #

Half Life 2 VR training demo — aiming by looking through a crossbow sight with each eye #

Real-time face tracking meets projection mapping — entirely creepy (via) #

Serendipity — two people playing the same song at the same time somewhere in the world #

The Last True Hermit — stunning profile of a man who lived alone in the woods for 27 years (via) #

John Oliver on Ferguson — Vox's coverage has been solid #

A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film — the newest episode of Tony Zhou's Every Frame A Painting is right up my alley; related: Jason Reitman's new film #

GIF Youtube — add "gif" to the beginning of any youtube.com URL #

I Want to Live — Erika Moen mourns Robin Williams, and reaches a very personal realization #

How to Be Polite — Paul Ford on empathy #

Humans Need Not Apply — robots and revolutions #

Which Picture Would They Use? — #iftheygunnedmedown #

Typ.io — fonts that go together, or font combinations that are played out? #

Marc Maron remembers Robin Williams — a 2010 interview that sets some context for today's sad loss #

Mat Honan experiments with liking everything on Facebook — this Chrome add-on would've made it easy #

First-Person Hyperlapse Videos — reconstructing a 3D world model and stabilized camera path from raw video footage (via) #

NYT on the Brazilian businessman amassing the world's largest vinyl collection — the guy mentioned in the lede was featured in this 2009 video #

Idleplex — another evil game from John Cooney #

Shark With Wheels (via) #

Microsoft recreates their first website — 20 years later; how it was made #

Some guy wrote a song about half-assed attribution online — Some Guy is the new Florida Man #

Jay Maisel's 72-room Bowery mansion hits the market — I hope they open an EFF office there with a fair use museum #

Fish Plays Pokemon — inputs determined by tracking a fish's position in an aquarium #

Mat Honan profiles Stewart "Dharma" Butterfield and Slack — one of the most talented groups of people I've ever known #

Twitch starts matching copyrighted audio, mutes gameplay footage — oh, and all archives will be deleted, shortly after Justin.tv nuked their archives and shuttered #

Redditor remixes Chris Pratt's Forgot About Dre rap — a billion times better than it needs to be, I admire the craft that went into this #

Particle Clicker — learn about quarks while cursing your life #

Uber for X — I wonder how many of this are SF-only #

P5.js — new JS library inspired by Processing, with add-ons for HTML5 video, webcams, and sound #

Belong.io — I made a Twitter-powered automated link aggregator that favors projects over articles #

Fast Company on VidCon — love the selfie assembly line video #

Potato Salad: By the Numbers — Kickstarter digs into the data behind its biggest meme #

Block Together — like The Block Bot, coping with Twitter abusers by building new tools #

Recovering audio from high-speed video footage — reconstructing "Under Pressure" solely from silent video of earbuds vibrating #

The Future of Iced Coffee — Alexis Madrigal on Blue Bottle's attempt to scale #

Restoring Sector Alpha for the ColecoVision — 30 years later, a fan realized every copy of the game was defective, and then fixed it #

Tim Carmody on the Facebook/OKCupid manipulation experiments — it's a larger symptom of social platforms treating users as customers, not clients #

Stellar, new decentralized payment network — partly funded by Stripe, supports transactions in arbitrary currencies #