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 #

You Are Not Late — Kevin Kelly with a bit of techno-optimism that I happen to agree with #

OKTrends on OKCupid's experiments on people — Tim Carmody on why this doesn't bother people as much as Facebook's experiments #

GoPro duct-taped to a wheel going 45 mph — dizzying #

Grandpa's Photos — the comments identify nearly every photo #

Gentle Brain — "an interactive piece about the fleeting nature of digital pleasures"; try it on mobile #

Dancing in the Street, without music — more musicless music videos #

Anil Dash on the shifting meaning of "public" — some behavior may be legally public, but publishing it for profit subverts reasonable expectations #

Congress anonymously edits Reptilians article on Wikipedia — the edit was inspired by John Resig's tweet seven minutes earlier #

Musician slams his ex-label for suing YouTube star that used his music — Kaskade's post talks about his issues with Soundcloud #

Render Sketch Game — start with a 3D tool, set a ten minute timer, and render when time's up #

Foursquare rebrands, moving all checkins to Swarm tomorrow — a big gambit, I hope it pays off; I'm not a fan of the two-app approach #

Guy Walks Into A Bar — from last November, but rediscovered with the new New Yorker changes #

Weird Al scores first Billboard #1 album — first comedy album to hit #1 since Allan Sherman in 1963 #

Decoding Notch's vinyl tweet — next step, someone has to make a vinyl image generator #

The genius of Weird Al's video blitz — RCA refused to pay for music videos, so he partnered with a different portal for every one #

Robin Sloan on Minecraft — "A generative, networked system laced throughout with secrets." #

The Songs that Time Forgot — Clay Aiken has the most obscure top ten hit of the last 50 years #

Rejected Emojis — from Avery Monsen #

Verizon's Netflix throttling exposed — hiding Netflix activity through a VPN is 10x faster than connecting directly through Verizon #

Scully Likes Science — also: Jean-Claude Van Dance #

Alice Lee's Lettering with Lego — 7,600 bricks #

Human Clock TV — from the creator of the 13-year-old Human Clock #

Loop Findr — detect and export seamless animated GIFs from videos #

Databending with Audacity — applying audio effects to images creates badass glitch art (via) #

Weird Al's Word Crimes — by the creator of the fan-made, 1,000-hour Shop Vac video; Al's releasing a new video daily #

How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet — the FIFA Corruption hoax is an update to a classic confidence game #

College Humor on net neutrality — related: John Oliver's take #

Battle for the Net — your last few hours to comment to the FCC on Net Neutrality; DO IT NOW #

Ryan Block's Comcast disconnection call — the last eight minutes of an unbelievable 18-minute support call #

The disaster of DashCon 2014 — so bad, it spawned its own memes #

HODOR — also: Yo, Hodor #