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 #

Responsive Man — resize your browser window #

The Hole Near the Center of the World — The Awl goes deep on Adventure Time, giving it its own single-serving site #

Transcribing piano rolls with Python — previously: making animated GIFs with Python #

A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross — so many happy little trees #

An & Ria's First Flight — I don't even care it's a Vodafone ad, this is the sweetest thing #

Bears on Stairs — a 3D-printed animated GIF (via) #

Daily Dot on GFYcat — though unlike HTML5 video, inline GIFs autoplay on mobile #

FreeIndieGam.es closes down — my favorite source for quirky experimental games, created by Terry Cavanagh #

Vi Hart's microwave countdown series — she's up to 13 videos #

Untrusted — clever game where you modify Javascript to advance #

Chris Dixon on the decline of the mobile web — Fred Wilson's response is worth reading #

Rise of the Patent Troll — Kirby Ferguson takes on fixing patent law; we need your help #

Kate Beaton's Ducks — her story of working at the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta; some context #

Heartbleed, major bug in OpenSSL — patch OpenSSL immediately, then renew your certificates #

Five Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital — from the fantastic Model View Culture #

Pando on Stewart Butterfield and Slack — the parallels to Game Neverending are so fascinating #

Mike Judge's Silicon Valley, first episode on YouTube — a simulacrum of startup culture, dead-on with many small details but lacks depth #

Comic Neue — now do Papyrus #

"Political Views" — Marco Arment on Brendan Eich and our rapidly shifting human decency #

My first post on Medium — hope I'm doing this right #

imitone, app that converts voice to synth instruments — currently funding on Kickstarter #

Monument Valley — gorgeous Escher-inspired game for iOS #

The Truth — Eric Meyer shares an unthinkably painful moment, as he's done since his daughter got sick #

Robot plays Threes in real-time — the robot arm sounds are strangely comforting #

Brendan Eich steps down as Mozilla CEO — as Rarebit says, a sad victory #

Musician Kim Boekbinder on the myth of DIY for indie artists — "Do-It-Yourself. With lots and lots of help." #

FiveThirtyEight applies the Bechdel Test — analyzing 1,615 films released from 1990 to 2013, looks at effects on budget and revenue #

Stripped: The Comics Documentary — 80 comics legends interviewed, including Bill Watterson; out now on iTunes, VHX tomorrow #

Slate on standup comedy's joke protection system — community-policed with escalating repercussions (via) #

Homestar Runner returns — first update in four years #

Jason Shiga's Demon — the creator of Meanwhile and Fleep's dark new webcomic; subscribe on Patreon #

OKCupid asks Firefox users to boycott Mozilla — I'm floored that Brendan Eich hasn't explained or apologized for his Prop 8 donation by now #

Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge — Google kicks off Internet Jackass Day with style #

Supreme Court revisits software patents — more information on SCOTUSblog #

Down Beat Touhou — shot-for-shot remake of a 1955 Tom & Jerry cartoon using Touhou game characters (via) #

Music Object, Substance, Organism — composer David Kanaga's GDC talk on music and games (via) #

Zelda in 16×16 — Ben Purdy explains how he made it in 48 hours #

Ben Sack's hand-drawn maps — the timelapse gives you a sense of how insane this is #

sql.js — try the demo #

Action Movie Kid — when your dad works at Dreamworks (via) #

Penguin Books targets UK artist for children's book parody — in most cases, parody still requires permission in the UK #

danah boyd's research on gender differences and VR — the subject of her 2000 bachelor's thesis #

Whatever goes up, that's what we do — Facebook's Julie Zhuo responds #

The Threes Mails — incredibly deep look into the development of Threes, and the clones spawned from it #

Choice Chamber — crowdsourced Twitch play as a new game mechanic #

One Human Heartbeat — artist Jen Lowe put her heartbeat on the Internet, with a 24 hour lag (via) #