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 #

AMC's new port of Colossal Cave Adventure — to promote Halt and Catch Fire, which is worth checking out #

Emoji Daydream — did you sign up for Emojli yet? #

Yahoo greenlights Community's sixth season — full budget, full cast, and Dan Harmon #

Mike Bostock's Visualizing Algorithms — I'd seen several of these on Mike's bl.ocks, but this ties it all together (via) #

New York City after global warming — speculative near-future journalism from Paul Ford #

Yo Server Is Down — yes, there's a Yo API and it's beautiful #

Slack plays Pokemon — I've fallen in love with Slack, but that shouldn't be too surprising #

The Internet's Own Boy — the Aaron Swartz documentary is now available #

Facebook's emotional contagion experiment on 600,000 users — changes to emotional content in news feeds affected mood and behavior, raising ethical issues #

The Gunfighter — the interactive narrator in action (via) #

Buzzfeed tracks down the sex offender that started DEN.net — inside baseball for anyone who was around for the dot-com boom #

An Eagle Named MeFi — name collisions between MetaFilter and a French sports mascot #

Courtney Klossner on Prodigy's early '90s fan community — great details about cheating per-minute fees #

8088 Domination — Trixter did the impossible: full-motion video in CGA graphics mode on a 1981 IBM PC (via) #

NYT to close or merge half its blogs — death of the blog, or just part of the ongoing death of the homepage? #

Google's Material Design style guide — interesting read, once I discovered the navigation hidden in a hamburger button #

Cardboard — clever DIY VR with an Android phone #

A comparison of diversity at Google, Facebook, and Yahoo — technical employees average 84% male; here's the data #

The story behind Woot.com's sale to Amazon — the Meh project video is much better than it should be #

Internet of Newsletters — I totally think webrings are due for a comeback #

Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem — Parker Higgins gets a bogus copyright claim #

XOXO 2014 Is Live! — our initial launch lineup, open registration, and more surprises to come #

2000 Songs in 2000 Days — "Make something every day. Just start." #

Analysis of hardware/software from 373 interviews on The Setup — a year old, but new to me; since then, The Setup added a lightweight API #

Jeff Covey on the end of Freshmeat — the Slashdot/Andover acquisition was all Eric Raymond's fault #

Timesify — disguise trashy listicles and gossip as NYT articles #

XOXO 2014 registration starts Tuesday — so excited and nervous, it makes my jaw ache #

Paul Ford tests the limits of the Kinja CMS — can we pay Paul to do this for every major writing platform please? #

The Sun and Moon — elegant game mechanic #