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 #

iMessage purgatory — switching from iPhone sends your texts from iOS users to a black hole #

SIGGRAPH 2014's technical papers preview — links to the papers, videos, and code #

Paul Ford on amazing military infographics — "everything has parts, everything has subtypes, anything can have measures" #

Transform any text into a patent application — here's one I just generated for Alice in Wonderland #

Don ZanFagna's collage art — linkbait headline aside, this guy's work is just fantastic (via) #

Historical Maps in Minecraft — converting an 1860 map of Fort Washington in Manhattan #

Mike Merrill rewrites Monopoly for the modern economy — the banker as a playable character, convertible notes, and Series A financing #

How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company — frustratingly familiar story of a talented creator losing control #

DUMB.domains — so many options for Dillon-Edwards Investments #

Spurious Correlations — make your own! #

NeoCities rate-limits the FCC to dialup speeds — that's okay, they can pay to use the "fast lane" #

WhatsApplebee's?  #

App.net stops full-time development, will continue running indefinitely — I actually prefer this approach to nuking or selling it #

Justin Bimmer's Twitter account — doing it right #

Chicago's Last Tannery — from The Distance, a new publication from Basecamp celebrating 25+ year indie businesses #

MLKSHK shutting down in September — always sad to see indie communities I love go away #

May One — Lawrence Lessig's Super PAC to end all Super PACs #

Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork — classic computer science algorithms as Arabic tile calligraphy #

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip-Hop — I wish more visualizations included a "Just Wu-Tang" mode #

Heiankyo Parameters — English-translated followup to the minimalist browser game #

Drowning in Problems — Ludum Dare entry by Notch #

Privacy Badger — the EFF's browser add-on to block spying ads and invisible trackers #

Chrome hides the URL — not. okay. #

The Great Works of Software — Paul Ford on Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix, and Emacs #

Facebook introduces anonymous login for apps — one auth to rule the world #