Richard Dawkins's "Mutation of the Mind" at Cannes — laser owls, pizza, and an electronic wind instrument solo #

A Dark Room — for fans of Candy Box (via) #

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe — we need to go deeper; play it online with a friend (via) #

U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage — boooo #

Call in the Night — experimental project that calls you randomly at 2am and records it for a podcast #

XOXO Is Back — we're getting the band back together #

Kickstarter apologizes for Above the Game PUA book project — bans so-called "seduction" guides, donates $25k to RAINN #

Mat Honan's behind the scenes on the Digg Reader — launching this weekend; hopefully, some good comes out of the Google Reader shutdown (via) #

Feedly Cloud launches, freeing it from Google Reader — fast and solid feedreader alternative to NewsBlur #

John McAfee's NSFW video on how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus — I love that he snorts his bath salts through a krazy straw #

The Deletionist — bookmarklet turns any webpage into an erasure poem; examples: Daring Fireball and me #

Gunpoint recoups development costs in 64 seconds — linkbait headline for the delightful news that Tom Francis will be working on games fulltime #

Maciej Ceglowski on the NSA and modern surveillance — related: using metadata to find Paul Revere #

Battle for the planet of the APIs — "If those services don't trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?" #

Edward Snowden live Q&A — Cosmo asks the tough questions #

Instant Server — intantly spin up an Ubuntu server with a built-in terminal for 35 free minutes (via) #

Google's Project Loon — high-altitude balloons with Internet access for rural and remote areas (via) #

Matt Haughey on Gmail's Organized Inbox — just enabled it, and it's instantly useful #

The Internet of Actual Things — "Your light bulbs will narrate their agonizing deaths." #

Sci-Fi Corridor Archive — so many octagons (via) #

We See In Every Direction — Jonas Lund built a massively-multiplayer web browser (via) #

Filmmaker sues to prove Happy Birthday To You is public domain — and, best of all, they want Warner to pay back millions in undeserved licensing fees #

NYT on how Yahoo tried to fight PRISM in court — related: the story of one CEO that defied NSA wiretap orders #

Profile of NYC teen who speaks 20 languages — part of THNKR's prodigy series (via) #

Apple's short film on the personal impact of four iOS apps — helps to explain why this app can cost $220 and still have four stars #

Wemoji — reenact emoji icons with your webcam; more unlock as photos are added #

Foursquare Time Machine — don't miss the infographic it generates in the "Share My Stats" section #

Stamen's Map Stack — powerful photo filters for map design #

Venus Patrol's Horizon press conference — stunning lineup of upcoming artful indie games, an antidote to E3 ego and bluster #

Jony Ive Redesigns Things — apparently, I started a meme #

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the future of film — "out of that chaos will come some really amazing things... because all the gatekeepers have been killed!" #

John Martz ends Drawn — don't know how I missed this, but I'm sad to see it go #

Kyle McDonald's Caricature — automatically generating caricatures based on motion #

Geek vs. Nerd — analyzing 68k tweets to see how the terms are used #

Author Hugh Howey on the future of self-publishing — widely applicable across all indie art and tech #

ScummVM ported to Javascript — ported with Emscripten, audio's Firefox-only for now #

Frank Chimero on the iOS 7 redesign and perspective — also, Leo Drapeau's quick icon redesign #

In Defense of Art Games — fantastic Ignite talk by Owen Goss; links to the cited games #

The Pirate Cinema — turning film torrents into a cut-up art installation #

Dan Sinker on getting his phone tapped in 1999 — not a great feeling #

Apple's major WWDC announcements — new iOS and OS X, free ad-supported Pandora competitor #

Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, outs himself — don't miss the video #

Why phone call metadata matters — who you call is often as significant as what you say #

NSA secretly collecting cell phone metadata for millions of Americans — Glenn Greenwald with a huge exclusive leak; good summary from Politico #

Sharefest — mesh P2P file sharing in the browser with pure JS and WebRTC #

Phil Thompson's Copyrights — Chinese-produced oil paintings based on Google's blurred-out images of artwork #

Speed coding an NES emulator — fun to see the glitches get debugged #

Your Swimsuit Jumped Over Its Own Weathercock, You Liar! — "a (questionably) ero visual novel whose text is entirely driven by Markov chains" #

This American Life's followup on When Patents Attack — Obama's taking executive action against patent trolls #

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi — GQ interviews Kim Jong-il's sushi chef, a rare glimpse into his inner circle #