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 #

Microsoft trying to buy Mojang for $2B — I really hope not #

BERG closes its doors — Warren Ellis wrote a nice thing; Little Printer will try to live on open-source #

Quing's Quest VII: The Death of Videogames — defeat the misogynerds with pure sass (via) #

The history of #1 projects on Kickstarter — the new #1 is from Portland #

Video Games, Misogyny, And Terrorism — also: Leigh Alexander on gamer culture #

Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn't exist — the screenshot of her tweets is unbearably awful #

Fish Play Street Fighter — you can bet on the results #

Somebody — Miranda July made an app that delivers messages from friends verbally by strangers (via) #

PlotDevice — Processing-like Mac app to use Python for 2D graphics and animation #

Pixel-Drifter — software for making glitch art from images, breaking things on purpose #

Wired on Instagram's Hyperlapse — much simpler than Microsoft's technique, but free and instant #

Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 — brutal, important new entry in Feminist Frequency's series, predictably met with denial and anger #

Half Life 2 VR training demo — aiming by looking through a crossbow sight with each eye #

Real-time face tracking meets projection mapping — entirely creepy (via) #

Serendipity — two people playing the same song at the same time somewhere in the world #

The Last True Hermit — stunning profile of a man who lived alone in the woods for 27 years (via) #

John Oliver on Ferguson — Vox's coverage has been solid #

A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film — the newest episode of Tony Zhou's Every Frame A Painting is right up my alley; related: Jason Reitman's new film #

GIF Youtube — add "gif" to the beginning of any youtube.com URL #