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 #

Supreme Court strikes down abstract software patents — hallelujah #

The Object, Offline — Yancey Strickler on the bleeding of objects between the digital and physical worlds #

Videogrep, automatic supercuts with Python — incredible work by Sam Lavigne (via) #

Friending the App Store — I wrote a thing on Medium about what the App Store could learn from the social web #

TLDR on Olivia Taters, robot teenager — Rob Dubbin is the best #

The Game That Time Forgot — an indie game 13 years in the making #

This is Phil Fish — brilliant examination of microcelebrity, the audience, and fame online #

YouTube to block indie labels — this seems so wrongheaded, it's hard to imagine it actually happening (via) #

Wavepot — algorave in your browser; related: Yaxu livecodes music #

OK Go's The Writing's on the Wall — this video explains one small section, a glimpse at the mad logistics of a production like this #

Poetica opens to the public — lovely app for collaborative writing and editing #

#Grieving — if you haven't, spend some time reading Rebecca's story #

Feminist Frequency's Women as Background Decoration — love this series; a neverending parade of shameful examples #

ArnoldC — Arnold Schwarzenegger quote-based programming language #

Modern Love — animation from Freddy Arenas for the NYT #

Matter vs. Shanley Kane — I'm a huge fan of Shanley's work on Model View Culture, curious to see how this plays out #

VVVVVV on iOS, Android, and Ouya — plus a free level editor and the brutally hard/good Super Gravitron minigame #

Clickhole — The Onion takes on Buzzfeed and Upworthy #

Metaphorgy — "My love is an inlaid fear." #

Tesla opens up patent library, promises not to sue — "good faith" feels vague in this context, but this is a great move #

Visualizing MBTA Data — for fans of Mini Metro #

Felix Salmon interviews Jonah Peretti — "Would you rather work for someone who's cynical, or someone who earnestly believes in what they're doing?" #

2 Player Productions' Grim Fandango retrospective — they're remastering it for the PS4; amazing internal design doc from 2.5 years before release #

Rex Sorgatz on the concept of "rare" in the Internet age — including the evolution of Comic Book Guy from artifact collector to Internet commenter #

Tim's Vermeer — see also: the NeoLucida #

Secret launching private version for workplaces and schools — contestant for the worst startup idea ever #

PaperLater — UK-only for now, Newspaper Club takes Instapaper to print #

Compyx, creating a multicolor 8-bit font for browsers — the font format is only supported by Firefox for now #

Calvin and Hobbes' Bill Watterson secretly returns to the comics page — start here #

Tom Francis releases Floating Point for free — the followup to Gunpoint couldn't be more different #

Deep dive into Alinea's ticketing system for restaurants — I fully expect this to idea to spread to other new, popular restaurants #

Reset the Net — and upgrade OpenSSL while you're at it #

TLDR on @SavedYouAClick — Twitter account summarizes the articles behind linkbait headlines #

11,000 word Q&A with Louis CK — I never thought I'd read a 43-minute long article on Medium, but here we are #

Chad Whitacre on Gittip's second year — surprised some people are making that much through the platform #

Internetopia — 220 people paid $1 each for 3,012 cubes, deciding what was drawn in each #

The Artist Survival Simulator — if only there was a funding alternative to artist grants... #

Xanadu releases transclusion prototype, 54 years later — a nice visualization, though links aren't supported yet (via) #

John Oliver on Network Neutrality — the FCC's site subsequently imploded #

ARST ARSW — all 11,684 words of English dialogue from Star Wars, isolated and alphabetized #

Flappy Swift — Flappy Bird clone in Swift #

SHRTURL — alter any webpage, designed for trolling but has big potential for satire #

Kickstarter simplifies rules, switches to algorithmic project approval — I agree with Fred Wilson's take, heavy curation makes sense until a community finds its legs #

One Tap Quest — Zelda meets Pachinko (via) #

@worrydream follows you  #

The Unearthing — Leigh Alexander digs up more truth in her fiction than in the Alamagordo landfill #

The Verge on Upcoming.org — it was the top story this morning #

emoji.zone — your new screensaver (via) #