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!" #

Ironic Sans' Pop Culture Twitter Lists — 19 Doctor Who cast members, mainly Doctors and companions #

Long Hazlitt profile on Metafilter — 15 years in, still one of the most powerful examples of a true community online #

The Internet Arcade — Jason Scott just dropped a bomb: 900 classic arcade games emulated in the browser #

Stephen Colbert takes on Gamergate with Anita Sarkeesian — the biggest thing Gamergate has accomplished so far #

Hadean Lands, the release of Andrew Plotkin's new Kickstarter-funded interactive fiction game — four years in the making, read Emily Short's thoughts on what makes it so special #

P. Morris shares new EP as a Chatroulette-style site — you and a random partner must both turn on webcams to listen #

threaded — serious seizure warning (via) #

OK Go's I Won't Let You Down — Segway chairs, drones, and umbrellas as an LED display #

AdNauseum — browser add-on that works with Ad Block Plus, quietly clicking every blocked ad #

WINDOWS 93 — don't miss the bookmarks in Cat Explorer (via) #

Actually… — it's about ethics in game journalism #

The race to save TwitPic's 800 million photos — documenting a huge chunk of Twitter's history, the founder's ignoring all offers of help #

Ello takes $5.5M, binds itself to manifesto — unprecedented move, legally preventing them from running ads or selling user data #

Felicia Day on Gamergate — she was doxxed minutes later in her own comments, which she disabled #

Shia LaBeouf Live — Rob Cantor's classic track, with escalating insanity #