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 #

The Atlantic on the effort to restore Prodigy from cached files — if you have an old Prodigy install, send it in #

anon-edits, tweet about anonymous Wikipedia edits from IP address ranges — as seen in @congressedits and @gccaedits, inspired by @parliamentedits #

Breach — modular web browser with a hackable JS UI #

Origins of the hamburger icon — designed for the Xerox Star to look like three menu items #

Wagner Au's profile of AM Radio, the Banksy of Second Life — because of his anonymity, not art style; only one of his works survives #

New York Observer on Rusty Foster's Today in Tabs — an addictive daily read for me, I'm missing it during his summer break #

Seinfeld Emoji — courtesy of Seinfeld 2000, the bizarro-world Modern Seinfeld #

Pinboard Turns Five — on stability, burnout, and perspective #

Making Tweedy's "Summer Noon" video — how she made it in three weeks with no 3D, video, or animation experience #

Homestar Runner is coming back — time for Strongbad Runner to check his DMs #

Matter's Liz Spiers on Shanley Kane — related, Shanley's preemptive response on Model View Culture #

Redacted FBI photos — indistinguishable from art #

Yo used to alert Israelis of incoming rocket attacks — Red Alert gives 15 seconds notice before bombs hit #

A Better Place — only show happy tweets, a riff on Facebook's mood-altering sentiment study #

But What Can Be Done — Leigh Alexander's handy guide to combating online sexism #

GifLinks  #

Super Pixel Quest — delightfully minimalist 1-bit webcomic #

Maciej Ceglowski in Yemen — incredibly gripping writing; more on Sana'a water crisis #

BOOTSTRA.386 — my new favorite Bootstrap theme, here it is in the real world #