Notch on the Oculus acquisition — "I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook." #

Facebook buys Oculus for $2B — aw, nuts #

This Is A Generic Brand Video — a remake of the McSweeney's piece using stock footage, created as an ad for stock footage #

Microsoft releases early source to DOS and Word — a very restrictive license, but an interesting historical artifact #

BASE jumping the NYC Freedom Tower — it happened on September 30, but they were charged yesterday #

Callie goes to space — a three-year-old tries the Oculus Rift #

Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace — Mozilla's new CEO invented Javascript, but also helped fund anti-gay marriage legislation; his statement was pretty bad #

Patatap — try it on a touchscreen; by Lullatone and Jono Brandel #

Idea Channel on archiving the Internet — the Internet is perceived as both an archive and ephemera (via) #

Iconic History — Chrome extension visualizes your browser history as favicons #

Disney buys Maker Studios — the leaked details of their Ray William Johnson deal sounded pretty exploitative #

NYT feature on Wattpad — VC-funded fanfic platform, would be great if they let fans pay writers directly #

Fast Company on The Gig Economy — related: Ghosts with Shit Jobs #

Visualizing street grids — distribution of road orientations by city #

Greg Wohlwend on indie marketing for those who hate marketing — Max Temkin elaborates, "how people find out about your art is inseparable from the art itself" #

Basecamp under DDOS extortion attack — the same group that tried to blackmail Meetup #

How to break news while you sleep — the L.A. Times' Ken Schwencke on his bot that writes articles based on USGS earthquake reports #

The Machine To Be Another — The Verge on the Oculus Rift-based art project to swap perspectives #

The Office Time Machine — Joe Sabia indexed 1,300 cultural references from all nine seasons of The Office by creation date #

Teens Migrating From Facebook To Comments Section Of Slow-Motion Deer Video — deer me later, 'kay? #

Graph TV — graph IMDB ratings of the full lifetime of a TV series; Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Brady Bunch #

2048 Numberwang — you might need a refresher on the rules #

DNS graffiti in Turkey — spreading Google's DNS servers to bypass the Twitter ban #

Pietro Grossi's Computer Concerto from 1967 — reminiscent of a 1980s videogame arcade 13 years before Pac-Man (via) #

Vice's 20 Best TED Talks — by Crap Hound creator Sean Tejaratchi, who's pretty great at Twitter #

Flappy Arms — open-source experimentation with WebRTC and PeerJS #

Crafting link underlines in Medium — it's the small things #

Cards Against Humanity opens to indie game stores, bans big box retailers — the video is a nice encapsulation of their values #

Github Selfies — Chrome add-on takes a webcam snapshot with every pull request; earlier: lolcommits #

Edward Snowden speaks at TED — using a Beam robot #

After Dark in CSS — flying toasters for the modern age #

Return to Nib's Knoll — Robin Sloan reminisces about Micro MUSE #

Urban Jungle — turn street view into post-apocalyptic overgrowth using undocumented 3D depth data #

Feminist Frequency responds to fan artist's copyright complaint — even if it's commercial, the Dragon's Lair fan art was being used for commentary and criticism #

SoundSlice adds sheet music support — I'm stunned how well this works on mobile browsers #

What the Fox Knows — Nate Silver relaunched FiveThirtyEight as a dedicated site #

Dorian Sakamoto issues final statement denying Bitcoin involvement — sounds like he's gearing up to sue Newsweek #

Julie Ann Horvath on why she left Github — Github's response confirms much of her story, putting their founder on leave #

My Husband's Stupid Record Collection — a casual music fan reviews a library of obscure vinyl in alphabetical order #

DOGE2048 — now it just needs auto-play #

Edge on the decline of the iOS gaming revolution — I put much of the blame on the App Store's miserable discovery tools #

Build a Bird — make your own Flappy Bird clone; fun use of Tumblr #

Kickstarter's fan history of the Veronica Mars movie — it was released in theaters and on iTunes today #

The Verge interviews danah boyd about teen identity online — her new book is available for purchase or free download on her site #

Ballad of a WiFi Hero — animated adaptation of Mike Lacher's classic McSweeney's epic #

Interviewly — Reddit AMAs organized and reformatted as interviews #

Tim Berners-Lee's Reddit AMA — the creator of The Mesh looks back on the 25th anniversary of its proposal #

Is My Shift Key On or Not? — for confused iOS 7 users #

The Verge on SXSW 2014 — "Get high on hashtags and enjoy your digital cronut." #

Your Name in Life — turn any word into a Game of Life field (via) #