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 #

Twitter's complete archives now available in search — official clients only, though; hope it makes its way to the API #

Steve Albini on the past and future of the music industry — this is all so great #

Protracker .MOD player for the Web Audio API — hit "load song," pick a song, and "play" #

Barbie's "I Can Be A Computer Engineer!" — prepare to be enraged #

Stupid Projects from the Stupid Hackathon — so much stupid #

The Sponsor — James Sturm's comic for The Nib stirred up some interesting debate #

The Bike Horn Collection Volume 1 — Careless Whisper is particularly touching; from April, but new to me (via) #

The Last Time — a musicomic from 2008 about time travel and love by the multitalented Lucy Knisley #

Handmade Hero — creating a game from scratch and streaming the process on Twitch, weeknights at 8pm PST #

0h h1 — like Sudoku stripped down to two colors #

Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away (lyrics) — Neil Cicierega's brilliant send-up of YouTube lyric videos #

Desert Bus VR — simulate the thrill of driving from Tucson to Vegas at a blistering 45 miles per hour #

Museum of Selfies (via) #

Yelp Prison Review Faxbot — another quality project from Sam Lavigne #

Stupid Hackathon — my kind of hackathon, like an extension of Worst Website Ever #

Space Age released — Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi's new iOS game inspired by classic point-and-click adventures #

Visual Orgasms — safe-for-work GIF metaphors #

Cabel Sasser on making the Space Age soundtrack — the 1992 article with a 15-year-old Cabel is just adorable #

A Birth Story — the funniest, most visceral story of labor I've ever read #

Peter "brokep" Sunde released from prison — never should've been there in the first place, a goddamned travesty #

MozVR — coming soon: the first VR rickroll #

Results of Offscreen's name-your-price experiment — a little above break even #

They Might Be Giants' Instant Fan Club 2015 — interesting direct-to-fan experiment, and a crazy deal #

Random Darknet Shopper — bot that randomly spends $100 in Bitcoin from Silk Road-like marketplaces #

50,000 Meows — convert text to meows, keeping its original punctuation and word length; here's Moby Dick #

Seraphs, Liza Daly's algorithmic Voynich Manuscript-inspired book — part of NaNoGenMo, a contest to algorithmically generate 50,000-word novels; more entries #

Corpora — JSON datasets for algorithmic play, like lists of sandwiches and rich people #

Generated Detective — comic algorithmically generated from public domain detective novels #

President Obama says FCC should reclassify Internet access as a utility — still a long road to net neutrality #

Holiday Bullshit 2014 — $15 for ten envelopes of randomness in December #

HarmonTown documentary for sale — the deluxe version is a whole lotta Harmon #

Oculus Rift 1980s arcade simulator — next step would be hooking it up to MAME, currently Game Boy Color only #

The Great Bitcasa Purge — just evil #