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 #

New Bee & Puppycat episodes debut — if you've never seen it, watch the pilot first #

Twemoji — Twitter open-sources their emoji icon library #

The Stewart — in which Matt Haughey commissions an oil painting of Stewart Butterfield from China #

Too Many Cooks — this is the greatest thing ever, hyperbole be damned #

Kim Asendorf's CSS Compositions (via) #

Crumbles — generate videos from TV/film dialogue, heavy on the Bee and Puppycat #

Bob Sabiston talks about turning down Steve Jobs, three times — the animation pioneer was the creator behind Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly #

Playing individual keystroke histories in Google Docs — I had no idea Google was saving revisions at this granularity #

The Diatomist — the sole practitioner of the Victorian art of arranging single-cell algae; more photos (via) #

Panic's LINE stickers — yet another reason why I love that company #

10 Things Only I Will Understand — eventually, all media will feel like this to you #

Independent Games Festival 2015 entries — 639 entries, some of the best of indie gaming on a single page #

The Other Side of Diversity — what it feels like to be a black woman in tech #

Steve Jobs photo essay by Doug Menuez — love the beach ball pic #

The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing — Paul Ford on emulation and the loss of a friend #

My Grandma The Poisoner — "People were always dying around Grandma" #

Terms of Service — Al Jazeera America's graphic novella on privacy and big data #

Guide to the Races of Star Warms — "it's a trick!" #