Twin Peaks returns — nine new episodes from David Lynch and Mark Frost #

List of actual, real ethical concerns in videogames — not on the list: the friendships and sex lives of indie game devs and writers #

New Homestar Runner: Fish Eye Lens — they appeared on Twitter last week, hope this means the return of Strongbad #

Serial — the first This American Life spinoff, tracking a story across an entire season #

Rolling Stone's profile of Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward — "having quality of life outweighed the need to control this project and make it great all the time" #

Emergent — a bullshit tracker, like Snopes meets Twitter #

Dollar A Day — clever subscription-based nonprofit project from Kickstarter's Perry Chen #

Cameron's Conference Rap — fantastic remix skills #

tilde.club — Paul Ford brings the old-school #

Emoji Map Markers — fun with Mapbox #

Thru You Too — Kutiman's followup to 2009's mindblowing Thru You is live #

Wonder.fm — gorgeous music discovery using Soundcloud charts #

StartUp Podcast — terrible name, great podcast; Alex Blumberg from Planet Money/This American Life tries to start a company #

#nettarot — an information age tarot deck #

The GIF's visual language in music videos — if you can't watch the playlist, which is preferred, try the full video #

bonernoise (via) #

Quilt Bot vs. Pixelsorter — two image bots get stuck in a loop with beautiful results #

Don Hertzfeldt's Simpsons Couch Opening — shades of Mastaba Snoopy #

Yahoo to close Yahoo directory — the original Yahoo product, killed off in a footnote #

The Problem with Ello — I wrote a thing about Ello on Ello #

Metafilter gets its first new design in a decade — as always, incredibly well-considered roll-out process #

Steam Curator Curator — solid recommendations at the bottom #

no its becky — Taylor Swift won at Tumblr #

For Yourself — Daniel Agee's photo project from XOXO #

Anil Dash's lessons from 15 years of blogging — solid advice for an evolving form #

Hitchhiker's "11" — love the Lawnmower Man aesthetic #

Gridland — incredibly addictive, deceptively simple match-three game from the creator of A Dark Room #

Twine 2 goes beta — now browser-based, but runs locally and works offline #

Steam revamps discovery with curators — this instantly made Steam better for me; though now they need a way to find curators #

Kutiman's "No One In This World" — second single off his upcoming followup to Thru You #

King James Programming — Markov chaining the Bible and programming texts #

The narrative lottery at XOXO — Glenn Fleishman's Boing Boing writeup, with a great roundup of reactions at the end #

Tilt Brush — like Photoshop VR #

The iPhone 6 black market in NYC — Casey Neistat documents 24 hours in line #

Jonathan Mann's "Are Video Games Sexist?" — an auto-tuned rebuttal to AEI's regressive stance #

Digital Amnesia — documentary about Internet archivists; interviews with Brewster Kahle and Jason Scott #

Wolfram's Tweet-A-Program — look at the results here #

BlockPlot — explore Minecraft worlds in the browser, uses Voxel.js (via) #

TwitPic blocking Archive Team's attempt to save it before shutdown — update: that explains it, they were in the process of getting acquired #

The Verge on XOXO 2014 — captures the mood nicely, "like a link blog come gloriously to life" #

Bennett Foddy's Speed Chess — no-waiting 16-player chess game at XOXO Arcade, now downloadable #

The Bézier Game — learned more about the Pen tool in 15 minutes than 20 years of futzing with Illustrator #

5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person — Zoe Quinn summarizes the insanely stupid manufactured "controversy" that is GamerGate #

The Manual, Everywhere — Andy McMillan's bringing his gorgeous design journal to the web #

Give It Up, first single off Kutiman's upcoming Thru You sequel — counting the minutes until October 1; Thru You stands as one of the best remix projects ever #

Apple releases U2 removal app — shocking that people don't like when bands they don't know or care about are forced into their collections #

Notch leaving Mojang, the public eye — Mojang confirmed the $2.5B Microsoft deal, which still feels like a steal #

Minecraft Geologic Survey — Leonard Richardson created a MInecraft world that combines thousands of player-created maps #

Power Dive into the Danger Zone — scored points for the Twitter username #

The Nicest Place on the Internet — you could use a hug right about now, I suspect #