Device 6, a stylish mystery game for iOS, now released — from the creators of Year Walk and Beat Sneak Bandit, also highly recommended #

Sad Etsy Boyfriends — "wretched creatures abused for economic gains by their Etsy girlfriends" (via) #

Tom Francis shares his Gunpoint development notes — the bits on work ethic and feedback apply to any indie, not just game devs #

Crowdfunding in the 17th century — a story of pre-Kickstarter backer issues #

XOXO Makes A Book — Kickstarter funded, published, printed, and distributed a book in three days at XOXO #

Blocktronics ACiD Trip — animation of the longest ANSI scroller ever; 3,266 lines made by 22 artists from 6 different countries #

Nick Bilton's NYT feature on the creation of Twitter — drama bomb! #

Full Screen Mario — HTML5 Super Mario Bros. with a level editor and random map generator #

Mike Monteiro's Webstock '13 talk on design and ethics — an absolute barnburner #

NES audio played real-time by player piano and robot drums — insane hack that I missed during the run-up to XOXO (via) #

Puzzle Script — elegant open-source engine for making tile-based puzzle games, and more #

Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator hits 4.0 — the team put together a video showing off ten years of incredible progress #

Reddit Metrics — the New Reddits Trending tab is most interesting; the current leader is a Silk Road replacement #

Ars Technica on how the FBI took down the Silk Road founder — he paid an undercover FBI agent $80k to torture, and then assassinate, an ex-employee #

Radio Free Earth, track songs in space — fun hack by Jeremy Keith and Chloe Weil #

Zach Klein on building the company you wouldn't sell — related: how about some fucking whimsy? (via) #

Daily Dot on 4chan's 10-year birthday — Moot recounts a tale of turning down an early acquisition offer #

Polygon video feature on indie games on next-gen consoles — focused on Sony and Microsoft, no mention of Nintendo #

Nested — older project from the creator of Cookie Clicker #

OUYA adds public game charts — any console with ten Terry Cavanagh games is my kind of console #

EFF on the W3C's decision to add DRM to the HTML spec — well, there's always the WHATWG's living standard #

Feds shut down Silk Road, arrest Dread Pirate Roberts — his identity was partly revealed on Stack Overflow; Techdirt digs into the criminal complaint #

Lavabit case unsealed, FBI ordered founder to give up SSL key — he defied the order, facing $5k/day in fees before closing the service; support his defense fund #

Amanda Tiller's memory art — reconstructing films, facts, friends, and places #

Manyland — player-generated pixel art MMO by Philipp Lenssen #

Steve Albini's letter to Nirvana on producing In Utero — oi! #

Cookie Clicker — see also: Coinbox Hero #

Bot & Dolly's Box — projection mapping with large-scale robotics (via) #

Wired on XOXO's second year — or: why I haven't been blogging lately; see the official site and blog #

JAWS: The Text Adventure — I'm a lover, not a fighter #

The Perfect Music Hack — Johnny Cash has been everywhere, man #

The World in 1k — view source #

NOAH — short film taking place entirely on a teenager's screen; NSFW in the Chatroulette bits #

Anil Dash's Meeting with Pax Dickinson, online asshole — engaging with a troll can occasionally result in a great blog post #

Coder for Raspberry Pi — new project from Google Creative Lab #

The End of Kindness — The Verge on Weev, Kathy Sierra, and online harassment #

Nieman Labs' Riptide — an oral history of digital publishing from teletext to Twitter #

image glitch experiment — drag an image in, glitch it out #

Hot Pepper Gaming — videogames reviewed after ingesting miserably hot peppers #

Polygon on PewDiePie and the YouTube game commentary phenomenon — he's currently the most subscribed channel on YouTube, with nearly 13 million subscribers #

Zero to Sixty in One Second — Steven Wittens fuses WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML in his new redesign #

The Story of GIF — animated GIF tale from Kenyatta's talk; spot the vintage Waxy.org cameo #

Paypal freezes Mailpile's $45,000 funds from crowdfunding campaign — this goes out to everyone who complained Kickstarter doesn't take Paypal #

Topsy adds historical Twitter search — they claim all tweets back to 2006 #

thatgamecompany's Chris Bell on making friends in online games — designing for positive emotional interaction in social networks #

Eventbrite acquires Lanyrd — one of my favorite startup stories; I agree with Matt Haughey's post, this is a great fit #

Brawlin' Sailor — more awesomeness from Major Bueno; this guy needs to make a full-length game #

xkcd's Bee Orchid — clever alt text on that one #

NSA BANGERS — don't know how I missed this (via) #

Dizzee Rascal's I Don't Need A Reason — most GIF-friendly video ever? (via) #