Siebe de Boer's 3D recreations of famous movie sets — this would be huge on the Oculus Rift #

John Gruber on Microsoft's past and future — lots of people in Redmond should be reading this today #

37signals rebrands as Basecamp, drops all other projects — I really love this approach, even the closures are being handled with love and care #

Mystery signal from a helicopter — parsing data from audio in a YouTube video (via) #

Attending.io — elegantly-designed service for listing free events #

Academic Torrents — community maintained, completely legal reuse #

The Machine Is Bleeding to Death — I wish the Super Bowl were more like this (via) #

Dictionary Domains — Portland's own Justin Thiele reboots a project I started 13 years ago #

Forgotify — listen to the 4 million songs on Spotify that haven't been played once #

Flagsmith — creative use of OpenType for flag creation, from the creators of Chartwell #

Adrian Holovaty on Chicago and bootstrapping — this could easily apply to Portland, or countless other nascent tech scenes #

hey are you cool — one player's encounters in DayZ #

Idle Game Maker — from the creator of Cookie Clicker (via) #

Alexis Madrigal tracks down the teen creators of @HistoryInPics — the only thing saving them from lawsuits, for now, is that it's non-commercial and poorly-indexed #

Candy Quest 3: Edge of Sweetness — Michael Brough takes on Twine; made for The Candy Jam, a statement against trademark trolls #

PBS Idea Channel on the experience of being trolled — Mike Rugnetta's epiphany makes for a very interesting episode (via) #

Boston Globe profiles Darius Kazemi — the prolific bot creator and one of my favoritest people on the Internet right now (via) #

Steve Jobs' first public demo of the Mac in 1984 — unreleased until now, similar to the famous shareholders' meeting (via) #

Backer, crowdfunding for features — originally built to gauge whether App.net should add Bitcoin, they extended it to everyone #

Polygon on the rise of "Early Access" in gaming — a trend that's leaking outside of games #

Greg Knauss on the reactions to Romantimatic — the iOS app sends periodic reminders to express your love, an idea that's proven divisive #

This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory — the first installment of Kirby Ferguson's followup to Everything Is A Remix #

ConferenceCall.biz — can someone recap what's been covered so far, thanks #

Downworthy — a browser plugin to take hyperbolic headlines down a notch or two #

Tracking 20 years of computer history using Law & Order — a preview on Jeffrey Thompson's blog, including every URL ever mentioned on the show #

Squarespace Logo — play with simple logo ideas using Noun Project icons and free typefaces #

Chris Poole shutters DrawQuest and Canvas — both found audiences, but not large enough for VCs #

Moving the Race Conversation Forward — Jay Smooth breaks down a new report on media coverage of race #

Real-time face substitution in the browser — be Bieber, Kim, or Cage #

Ask Metafilter decrypts a 20-year family mystery — pop in if you can help decode the rest #

Mathematician hacks OKCupid to find the perfect mate — scraping survey data with multiple accounts to cluster results himself #

Behind the GIFs — comic backstories for animated GIFs #

The Verge on angry smartphone fanboys — "But it isn't necessarily about loving the phone... It's about what the phone represents." #

craigslistmirrors  #

What Grantland Got Wrong — ESPN's Christina Kahrl on the disastrous article that resulted in the suicide of a trans woman; Bill Simmons' apology #

Frere-Jones sues Hoefler over ownership — the respected type foundry breaks up #

Losing Aaron — Aaron Swartz's father on his prosecution and tragic death, one year later (via) #

Coding Math — Keith Peters' free video lessons teach the math useful in coding; support his work (via) #

New Republic on the evolving usage of the period — ending sentences with a period can feel abrupt and harsh in text messages #

Everpix releases internal metrics, financials, VC feedback — after its recent closure, the ultimate postmortem; fun to see the rejections #

EMOJI IRL.LOL. — photo recreations of emoji #

Classroom Aquatic — finally, a free dolphin school test cheating simulator for the Oculus Rift #

The Museum of Simulation Technology — clever game mechanic that plays with forced perspective #

CAPTCHA Tweet — post tweets that the evil machines can't read #

The Year in Kickstarter 2013 — Oscars, helicopters, space, VR, and nearly 20,000 more funded projects in the world #

Steven Levy's How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet — the story of the Snowden leaks from inside tech giants #

OpenEmu — emulator framework for OS X #

lol my thesis — summing up years of work in a sentence; also on Twitter #

Content-Aware Typography — using Photoshop for algorithmic art #

HitRecord first episode debuts online — Joseph Gordon-Leavitt takes his community media project to TV (via) #