Yahoo directory shuttered five days early — sad end to the index that opened my eyes to the wonder of the web #

Laurie Penny on nerd entitlement — the difference between nerd bullying and structural oppression (via) #

Solving the Holiday Bullshit 2014 puzzle — massive group effort to open a safe located on a Hawaii 2 #

Reply All on Keith Calder and One Direction shippers — consistently my favorite podcast #

Eric Meyer on Facebook's inadvertent algorithmic cruelty — their Year in Review app is a source of misery for several friends this year; don't miss his followup #

Supercut of Darlene Love on Letterman — 28 years of Letterman performances, her final appearance was last week #

Who invented the fake Ayn Rand film review? — I wrote a thing on plagiarism, comedy, and multiple discovery #

Updog — a revolutionary communications platform #

Jason Scott on DOSBOX in the browser — try ZZT, GODS, SEADRAGON, BREEZE, and many more #

Brandon Boyer's 20 Games You Shouldn't Miss in 2014 — every game I've played here has been gold, and the ones I haven't are high on my to-try list #

Sam Biddle on stirring and receiving Internet outrage — a rite of passage for every outgoing Valleywag editor, until Gawker stops funding their miserable behavior #

cinimated — animated remixes of scenes from live-action films (via) #

Said the Gramophone's Best Songs of 2014 — ten years of badass year-end mixes #

Notch outbids Jay-Z and Beyonce for $70M Beverly Hills mansion — indie 4 lyfe #

Yule Loggins — happy holidays from the Danger Zone (via) #

The Awl on Shitpics — the artifacts of any media format define its aesthetic like a cultural permalink #

Max Temkin on the logistics of Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Bullshit — the scratch-and-sniff poop button is an especially nice touch #

Reply All podcast tracks down Jennicam — don't miss the supplemental blog post #

NYT Mag on Yahoo under Marissa Mayer — worth reading if only for the "Bobbie Had a Nickel" anecdote #

The Nib's The Year in Garbage 2014 — so many of these are related to our ever-increasing interconnectedness #

O Human Star — this ongoing webcomic about robots and love is really, really good #

Lego Friends — how to make Lego sets more appealing to girls (via) #

Alexis Madrigal on Uber vs. Portland — compare that to its relationship with Airbnb #

Content, Forever — Darius Kazemi's thinkpiece generator powered by meandering Wikipedia entries #

Punch A Monet  #

Sortingh.at — interactive tool for game-making resources, built in Twine by Zoe Quinn #

Unedited Footage of a Bear — ask your doctor if Claridryl is right for you #

Motherboard on Computers Are People, Too! — bizarre Disney documentary on computer art from 1982 #

Auralnauts take on Terminator Genisys — every line of this slays me #

Decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 — uses the pop spreadsheet from the Whitburn Project #

What colour is it? — time represented as hex color; also: 1,000 Colours jigsaw puzzle #

The Old Pirate Bay — IsoHunt archived TPB for posterity after its seizure; Peter Sunde's thoughts on the closure #

Submarine Sandwich — amazing work by PES, as always #

Computers in Crisis — Perry Chen's archive of Y2K books and materials, presented at the New Museum this Friday #

Playing With My Son — before I let Eliot play any modern games, we worked our way through 25 years of gaming history first #

Sony, You Have The Wrong Dakota — Dakota Smith gets lots of entertaining misdirected email #

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea — hour-long documentary narrated by John Waters #

Entire Screen of One Game — my brain hurts now #

City of Portland sues Uber — they launched here illegally three days ago #

Parable of the Polygons — interactive visualization of segregation by Vi Hart and Nicky Case #

Casey Johnston on the vanishing Comp Sci classroom — she's been smacking down mansplainers on Twitter #

WNYC analyzes NYC police data to spot problem-prone officers — should probably factor in percentage of all arrests, since the dataset might include desk jobs #

Deb Chachra on the 25th anniversary of the École Polytechnique Massacre — "I don't think being a woman in technology is worth dying for, but I learned early that some men think it's worth killing for." #

The Doom that Came to Puppet — the Puppet documentation meets H. P. Lovecraft #

How anonymous chan culture shaped Gamergate — a collision of two sets of widely-different online community norms #

All the Minutes — like Christian Marclay's The Clock for tweets; compiled as a book for NaNoGenMo #

Comparing the UX of Apple vs. Google Maps on iOS — incredibly detailed breakdown of different tradeoffs #

God's Lonely Programmer — Vice digs into TempleOS #

PBS analysis of the Michael Brown shooting witnesses — 16 out of 18 witnesses said Michael Brown had his hands up when he was shot #

Berta Lovejoy And The Trolls Of /r/RedditArmie — seeing these goobers more and more often in YouTube comments #