Shia LaBeouf plagiarizes Dan Clowes for short film — then plagiarized his apology from Yahoo Answers #

Switched On Road Runner — classic cartoons rescored with a modular synthesizer (via) #

The Awl on the blog comment spam freakout — a direct result of Google's Penguin 2.1 changes (via) #

Inscrutable — the perfect webfont (via) #

All Rappers Love Connect Four — who doesn't? #

A Year of the New Disruptors — one of my favorite new podcasts revisits its first four interviewees, one year later #

On Susan's fate after Narnia — the author's followup is worth reading (via) #

Annalee Newitz on the linguistics of the doge meme — "Doges bring a subversive plurality to the LOLcat's stark, single statements." #

Anitype — animate letters with Javascript; browse the entries #

Glitch in the Afterlife — Stewart Butterfield writes about the decision to put Glitch's art assets into the public domain #

Samantha West, the robot telemarketer who denies she's a robot — that laugh creeps me out #

Matthew Rothenberg's behind-the-scenes of making Emojitracker — kind of intense how much went into creating it #

John Roderick on the Long Winters and his unlikely career — "An indie-rock label really did save my life." #

OriDomi — fold the DOM like paper #

WikiGIFs — every animated GIF on Wikipedia (via) #

Download all your Gmail and Google Calendar data — IMAP was an option for backups, but very cumbersome (via) #

Henry Smith on the success of Spaceteam — success is not always measured in dollars #

Ev Williams on Medium 1.0 — beautiful publishing platform; nice to see export already built in #

Meatspace — keep forgetting to link to this playful animated GIF-driven chatroom #

Moonjs — simulating the Apollo Guidance Computer in the browser (via) #

gifpop — turn animated GIFs into lenticular-printed cards #

Yule Log 2.0 — infinite loop of lovely fireplace animations #

Boys' Night, a comic about Mickey Mouse's mid-life crisis — written by Max Landis (via) #

Polygon's history of the boys-only stereotype for videogames — tracking the shift to heavily gendered marketing in the '90s (via) #

Buzzfeed report on ad licensing for indie musicians — "These big companies are the last people paying musicians what they are worth." (via) #

Rookie's Tavi Gevinson on teenagers and forever — "One way to avoid killing your heart is to decide that you will spend your whole life growing up." (via) #

Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt — tracking the creation of a shirt from funding to distribution #

explainshell — instant documentation for complex shell commands #

Amazon Prime Air — speculative corporate scifi; the 60 Minutes piece is fluffy but interesting #

Bringing back the beauty of Glitch locations — Rev. Dan Catt built a Glitch world viewer from the open-source release (via) #

Steven Wittens on Asm.js — "We really should aim higher than a language frozen after 10 days, thawing slowly over 20 years." (via) #

Hello Processing! — Daniel Shiffman's interactive video tutorial to learn Processing basics in an hour #

The Death and Life of Great Internet Cities — Geocities and Facebook through the lens of Jane Jacobs #

Beastie Boys threaten Goldieblox over "Girls" parody — Goldieblox sued for a declaratory judgement, so we'll actually get a ruling on this one #

Information is Beautiful 2013 Award Winners — the best of data visualization, the nominees are all great #

Feeling Cagey — a stream of Instagram selfies with a twist (via) #

Textual analysis of Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Twilight series — popular sentences, adjectives, adverbs distinct to each book #

GIF Dance Party — related: draw a character to appear in Major Bueno's party game #

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang — official free release of the full-length documentary about the most popular indie game ever #

AOL shuts down Winamp — Ars wrote the definitive feature on the decline of the MP3 player #

What Screens Want — Frank Chimero's thoughts on digital canvases from Build #

Upworthy Generator — when everything is upworthy, nothing will be #

Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" interactive video — genius, use your arrow keys to flip channels #

Incidental Comics — I'm an instant fan #

Alex Trebek Has Gone Insane, Vol. 9 — latest in a series of amazing remixes by Nick denBoer; he recently teamed with Cyriak for a Conan supercut (via) #

Alex Goldman revisits a BBS from his adolescence — still running, but in a state of quiet disrepair (via) #

Coloratura — haunting game played from an alien's perspective, winner of this year's IFComp #

Teehan+Lax's D.I.G.I.T. — seven-segment LED displays as a real-time mirror #

You Must Be — more random goodness from Darius Kazemi using the Wordnik API #

Chris Poole on Facebook and Snapchat — "ephemerality goes mainstream" #