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 #

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 #