I Want to Live — Erika Moen mourns Robin Williams, and reaches a very personal realization #

How to Be Polite — Paul Ford on empathy #

Humans Need Not Apply — robots and revolutions #

Which Picture Would They Use? — #iftheygunnedmedown #

Typ.io — fonts that go together, or font combinations that are played out? #

Marc Maron remembers Robin Williams — a 2010 interview that sets some context for today's sad loss #

Mat Honan experiments with liking everything on Facebook — this Chrome add-on would've made it easy #

First-Person Hyperlapse Videos — reconstructing a 3D world model and stabilized camera path from raw video footage (via) #

NYT on the Brazilian businessman amassing the world's largest vinyl collection — the guy mentioned in the lede was featured in this 2009 video #

Idleplex — another evil game from John Cooney #

Shark With Wheels (via) #

Microsoft recreates their first website — 20 years later; how it was made #

Some guy wrote a song about half-assed attribution online — Some Guy is the new Florida Man #

Jay Maisel's 72-room Bowery mansion hits the market — I hope they open an EFF office there with a fair use museum #

Fish Plays Pokemon — inputs determined by tracking a fish's position in an aquarium #

Mat Honan profiles Stewart "Dharma" Butterfield and Slack — one of the most talented groups of people I've ever known #

Twitch starts matching copyrighted audio, mutes gameplay footage — oh, and all archives will be deleted, shortly after Justin.tv nuked their archives and shuttered #

Redditor remixes Chris Pratt's Forgot About Dre rap — a billion times better than it needs to be, I admire the craft that went into this #

Particle Clicker — learn about quarks while cursing your life #

Uber for X — I wonder how many of this are SF-only #

P5.js — new JS library inspired by Processing, with add-ons for HTML5 video, webcams, and sound #

Belong.io — I made a Twitter-powered automated link aggregator that favors projects over articles #

Fast Company on VidCon — love the selfie assembly line video #

Potato Salad: By the Numbers — Kickstarter digs into the data behind its biggest meme #

Block Together — like The Block Bot, coping with Twitter abusers by building new tools #

Recovering audio from high-speed video footage — reconstructing "Under Pressure" solely from silent video of earbuds vibrating #

The Future of Iced Coffee — Alexis Madrigal on Blue Bottle's attempt to scale #

Restoring Sector Alpha for the ColecoVision — 30 years later, a fan realized every copy of the game was defective, and then fixed it #

Tim Carmody on the Facebook/OKCupid manipulation experiments — it's a larger symptom of social platforms treating users as customers, not clients #

Stellar, new decentralized payment network — partly funded by Stripe, supports transactions in arbitrary currencies #

@chillsitch — I was gonna write a description, but I decided to take a nap instead ;) #

Planet Money on self-published authors — I didn't realize the author earnings report was published by Wool's Hugh Howey #

Backwards televangelists listen to Stairway to Heaven forwards — if you feel unclean, chase it with the Invocation For Judgement Against And Destruction of Rock Music (via) #

One Thousands Pens — a chaotic collaborative story with each word decided by voting #

The Least Twitter Can Do — social graph-driven blocklists are pretty clever, though potentially expensive #

Font Face Ninja — fun way to explore and try web fonts #

Eloquent JavaScript — the second edition is free online in advance of its print publication #

Scorpion Dagger — James Kerr's digital collage GIFs made from Renaissance paintings #

Adam Carolla won't let podcast patent troll drop their case against him — they're clearly panicking that their crappy patent will be invalidated #

The Adobe Illustrator Story — 20-minute mini-doc on the app's history #

I Know Where Your Cat Lives — artist/coder Owen Mundy captured millions of location-tagged cat photos #

Tony Zhou on animator Satoshi Kon's warping of space and time — another stunning entry in Every Frame A Painting, his series on creative directing and editing #

Kevin Fanning responds to Bustle's 31 Questions About Kim Kardashian: Hollywood — "You don't have to like everything and everyone, but let people love the small things they love. They mean you no harm." #

The New Yorker on radical feminism vs. transgender rights — solid criticism of the piece; related: one trans woman's story of being ejected from MichFest in 1991 #

The American Room — Paul Ford on peeking into private spaces in shared videos online #

Marco Arment on the challenge of being an iOS indie — related: Jared Sinclair's sales numbers from Unread #

Neil Cicierega's Mouth Silence — absolutely brilliant mashup prequel to Mouth Sounds #

LifeLock CEO's identity stolen 13 times — you can't promise to secure a national ID system based on an insecure nine-digit number #

@valleyedits — anonymous edits from big tech, inspired by my request #

Andrew Sorenson live-codes music at OSCON — using Extempore, an IDE for live-coding multimedia #