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 #

Behind the scenes of Cards Against Humanity's PWNMEAL prank at PAX — I love this so much, a group of people dedicated to spreading chaotic delight #

Making Games in a Fucked Up World — provocative thoughts from Molleindustria #

What is a photocopier? — the NYT Opinion section started staging courtroom dramatizations #

Darius Kazemi's interactive essay on J. Dilla's "Don't Cry" — the last button on the page is my new jam #

'JIF' Is the Format. 'GIF' Is the Culture. — my first post on The Message #

Hiding your pregnancy from Big Data — cash, Tor, a separate Amazon account, and unfriending loudmouth relatives #

Excavating the Atari landfill — Ars digs up meaning from the rubble #

Kickstarter Block Party — free event this Saturday; Kickstarter turned five years old today #

A Brief History of the "Not All Men" meme — its usage possibly represents a broader shift in male acceptance that sexism exist #

Google rumored to end forced Google+ integration — good riddance, I can't wait to read the tell-all case study in a year #

Maciej Ceglowski's Our Comrade The Electron — my favorite talk from this year's Webstock; here's the transcript #

Previously-unknown Warhol artwork discovered on Amiga floppies from 1985 — artist Cory Arcangel, on a hunch, digs up digital history #

Playing with privilege — thoughtful checklist on the benefits gamers get simply by being male #

FCC plans to gut net neutrality — commercial discrimination #

Project Naptha — Chrome add-on does client-side OCR, allowing you to copy text in images #

Tether — interactive manipulation of a Plaid song by Jono Brandel of Patatap #

Gaming in Color — full-length documentary about gaymer culture, pay what you like #

Introducing The Message — a new group blog collaborative writing experiment with some of my favorite people #

George & Jonathan III — the new album with a note-by-note WebGL visualization #

Leadership lessons from D&D — from Chaos Elf/Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler #

Magnetic Micro-Robots — I, for one, welcome our new tiny robot overlords (via) #

HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE — another gem by Porpentine #

To Be — GIF collage community, buying prints/shirts pays the artists #

Gorogoa — demo of a brilliant, beautiful hand-drawn exploration game for Mac/PC #

The Office Stare Machine — previously: The Office Time Machine #