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) #

Movie Code — on-screen source code in movies, and what it actually does #

The NYT editorial board argues clemency for Edward Snowden — "He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service." #

The Atlantic reverse-engineers Netflix's subgenre categories — awesome data journalism by Alexis Madrigal with a genre generator by Ian Bogost #

Levitating with sound waves in 3D space — the video is nuts (via) #

Lessons from DayZ's early access — the biggest innovation from Minecraft, and a growing model for all media #

Year in Metafilter 2013 — part of Metafilter Labs, data experiments from the 15-year-old community #

Ernesto, a quick RPG — a tiny game by Daniel Benmergui #

Song Exploder — new Maximum Fun podcast asks artists to break apart one of their songs with isolated audio #

Mat Honan on his year wearing Google Glass — glasshats, glasswipes, and glassholes #

Extracting reflected hidden faces from pupils in photographs — combine this with deblurring, and we're in "let's enhance" territory #

A Second Christmas Morning — Jason Scott announces the Internet Archive's Console Living Room project #

Voxel Mars — global-scale reproduction of Mars using voxel.js #

Kung Fury — one of the best movie trailers I've ever seen #

Anatomy of a Spelunky miracle — Doug Wilson's approachable breakdown of one of gaming's most insane feats #

Creative Applications' top 10 projects of 2013 — several new to me (via) #

Alexis Madrigal on soundboard telemarketers — reminds me of the celebrity soundboard pranks of the early 2000s #

Spotiamp — Spotify's Ludde pays a tribute to Winamp #

Zeno of Elea — I can't wait to play #

PKPKT — a social iOS game of pickpocketing #

The blog is dead, long live the blog — Kottke on blogging, with more on his blog #

Myulezak — Chrome add-on adds holiday mall sounds to e-commerce sites (via) #

Hatching Twitter optioned for TV show — start your fantasy casting now #

Traffic reorganized by car color — more details about how it was made (via) #

The Gold Factory — another frustratingly addictive incremental game like Candy Box #

Space Jam in three.js — the original is still frozen in time #