SEAPUNK NAMES — you can call me //djCTRL// from now on (via) #

Trailer for Spike Jonze's "Her" — Siri as love interest #

Missed Connection — Craigslist short fiction (via) #

One Second on the Internet — visualization of activity popular online communities #

Grantland feature on the legacy of Harry Nilsson — "a kind of pop culture Zelig" #

WebGL GPU Particles — one million particles, and open-source (via) #

First public taste test of a lab-grown burger — $325,000 to make, funded primarily by Sergey Brin #

Deciphering Beanish — trying to make sense of the artificial language from xkcd's time #

Save the Date — like Groundhog Day meets a dating sim #

Pan Man — every Major Bueno game is a simple treat; try A Second Chance and Moon Waltz (via) #

Califone.Stitches — music video constructed from random images off a subset of Tumblr blogs; sometimes NSFW (via) #

Molly Crabapple visits Gitmo — fantastic story of a disgusting situation #

Nelson Minar on fixing toxic behavior in online communities — most bad behavior comes from normally good people; great talk about the League of Legends tribunal system #

PaperDude VR — Paperboy remake powered by Oculus Rift, Kinect, and a stationary bike (via) #

The Door to the FISA Court — they should number it Room 641B #

Glenn Greenwald on XKeyscore, NSA tool to collect HTTP activity — bizarre to read the very matter-of-fact internal presentation #

Bret Victor's The Future of Programming — inspired by Alan Kay, a time warp back to 1973 to talk about programmer humility #

emojitracker — open-source visualization of emoji activity on Twitter #

Randall Munroe completes Time — 3,099 panels, an artificial language, animated starfields, and more (via) #

Penny Arcade on the Internet's war against creatives — when you live in public, it's hard to block out the tiny, but vocal, minority of assholes (via) #

Forbes on exploits for "smart" home automation systems — many of these are discoverable on Shodan #

NYT on Reddit's involvement with misidentifying the Boston Marathon bombers — includes some new bits about Aaron Swartz and Reddit (via) #

Jennifer Dewalt's learning to code by making a website daily for six months — the coding equivalent of Dance in a Year #

Wired Love — finding love online in the telegraph era (via) #

Sneak peek of Macaw — I'd never considered using a visual code editor until this #

Gamasutra feature on the ethics of "free-to-play" games — like in gambling, there are "whales" who devote huge chunks of their income to virtual upgrades #

The Pixel Painter — Hal Lasko, a 97-year-old pixel artist, draws entirely in MS Paint #

Shinseungback Kimyonghun's Portrait series — averaging faces detected in famous films #

About Pogo — short film on the Australian remix artist #

Scott Pilgrim's Bryan Lee O'Malley interviews Homestuck's Andrew Hussie — great interview that explains why Homestuck's cult following is so huge, but ignored outside of its fanbase #

The Fifth Estate trailer — Wikileaks isn't amused #

Finnegan's Spellcheck  #

Bee and PuppyCat — new original series from Adventure Time's Natasha Allegri #

Kids react to the controversial Cheerios commercial — this is what hope looks like #

Questlove on Trayvon Martin and race in America — also: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the irony of American justice #

EFF sues the NSA over illegal surveillance — this should be interesting #

Cancer by Ryan North — from This Is How You Die, the new sequel to Machine of Death #

SculptGL — WebGL sculpting tool (via) #

This American Life's best episodes — in honor of episode #500; Ira Glass's favorites and other staff picks #

SoundSlice launches Pitch Perfect, guitar tab store for artists — official transcriptions in the best UI ever made for guitar tab #

Guardian film analysis of critically-derided audience favorites — totally Rad #

Anagramatron — bot cleverly hunts for anagrams in near real-time on Twitter #

The era of constant photography — I keep waiting for a device that records audio or video constantly, stored remotely #

DefCon asks government to stay away — the feds were asked not to attend for the first time, in the wake of Snowden and Manning #

CanaryPW — a search engine for Pastebin and similar anonymous text services #

The Open Game Art Bundle — artists, inspired by Humble Bundle, roll their own #

Alan Moore on crowdfunding — producing work without compromising independence or creative vision #

QWERTY Hancock — interactive embeddable HTML5 vector piano (via) #

Surveillance Camera Man returns — interesting privacy issues of active vs. passive surveillance #

New Yorker profile of Desert Bus — didn't realize my 2006 post played a role in the charity; I've served 9.6 terabytes so far! #