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 #

One Day I Will Die on Mars — Paul Ford's near-future fiction where Uber rules the world (via) #

Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics — five-part video series on the history of game graphics #

I Will Only Bleed Here — "I finally saw the value of my life as others saw it: a cheap thing, so easily discarded between muzzle flash and hot asphalt" #

The rarity of a grand jury not indicting — from federal cases only, state data isn't available #

Darren Wilson's testimony is literally unbelievable — the mass of conflicting evidence so clearly should have led to a trial #

Reply All — first two episodes of the new podcast from the creators of TLDR #

Pomplamoose releases 2014 tour financials — a reminder to financially support artists you love, beyond just seeing them live #

Charted — Medium open-sources their internal charting library #

Highway at Night — crazy 1k JS demo, how it works #

Bay Area hip-hop dance veterans show off their signature moves — this should be a documentary #

Computer Engineer Barbie, remixed by an computer engineering student — a zillion times better #

Grandmas smoking pot for the first time — and playing Cards Against Humanity #

Crossy Road — addictive endless Frogger game for iOS #

NYT Mag on the Twine game scene — better tools for design and distribution lead the way to more diverse, interesting voices #

The Oral History of the Poop Emoji — ? #

Let's Encrypt — can't wait for this free, dead simple certificate authority from the EFF, Mozilla, and more #

The Good Web Bundle — I already pay yearly for four out of the five, and they're all worth supporting #