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) #

Video Game Tumbleweeds — from Duncan Robson, who knows something about the subject #

Switching your dictionary to Webster's 1913 edition — sold #

Diary of a Corporate Sellout — my post on "selling out" online communities, and the rise and fall and rise of Upcoming.org #

How to Do Visual Comedy — the rest of his videos are fantastic too (via) #

Google reveals prototype self-driving car — no steering wheel, pedals, mirrors, backseat, or animatronic robot driver #

The Internet With A Human Face — Maciej Ceg?owski on privacy, "Investor Storytime" and the grim state of the modern Internet #

Neil Cicierega's Mouth Sounds — I hope you really like Smash Mouth #

Know Your Double — a doppelgänger field guide by John Martz #

What happens when @everyword ends? — nice profile of programmer/poet Adam Parrish, with a cameo by Darius Kazemi #

Aug(De)Mented Reality — drawing on the world with animation cels and an iPhone (via) #

Cycles Per Instruction — ambient album released as a Linux kernel module #

About Feminism — found on Model View Culture, which quickly became an essential read for me this year #

#RAPSHIRTSFORWHITEPEOPLE — FUND THE POLICE #

Arcade Story — this sounds so much like me as a kid, it hurts #

Ladar Levison explains why he was forced to shut down Lavabit — the FBI and legal system ruined his life and business to get access to Snowden and 410,000 others #

Matt Haughey on the future of MetaFilter — going deep on the beloved 15-year-old community's Google problems; help keep it going #

Hipster Bait — algorithmic generation of trolling shirts you can actually buy #

How the Internet Destroyed Tom Cruise — 2005 was a pivotal year for online video and celebrity culture #

Rumor: Google to acquire Twitch for $1B — because who really needs more than four big tech companies? #

Synthcu.be — also: 808Cube #

Gary Chou's Orbital Boot Camp — love the idea of a boot camp for independent side projects #

Metafilter downsizes because of Google penalties — an unfortunate casualty of Google's war against content farms #

Nieman Lab on the NYT's leaked innovation report — essential reading for every news organization #

Maze Tree — beautiful d3.js experiment by Mike Bostock; many more #

Emoji Fortunes — this doubles as a band name generator #