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 #

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 #