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 #

Unsplash — ten new high-res copyright-free photos every ten days #

Short documentary about the Internet Archive — featuring Brewster Kahle, hero of the Internet #

Naveen's personal API — related: Federico Zannier's self-mined data project #

MadEye — remote pair programming in a Google Hangout (via) #

Kids Know Everything and We Ruin Them — a little boy philosophizes at the dinner table #

Local People With Their Arms Crossed — "Hey, look at me. I'm featured on the front of my local newspaper." #

Rollit, skee ball Chrome experiment — absurdly impressive WebGL experiment synced with your smart phone #

Help the EFF bust the podcasting patent — love seeing Stack Exchange used to find prior art #

Daily Dot on PeeJet's hip-hop photoshop photos — see also: Everett Hiller's holiday party #

Glenn Fleishman acquires The Magazine from Marco Arment — Marco's having a fire sale #

Humble Indie Bundle 8 — awesome lineup includes Hotline Miami, Dear Esther, Little Inferno, and Proteus #

Armikrog — funding a followup to The Neverhood on the day Kickstarter hit a big milestone #

A Band Called Death — documentary about the rediscovered protopunk band, the album's on YouTube #

Fretboard Heatmaps — famous guitarists visualized, data parsed from 30,000 guitar tabs (via) #

Polygon feature on LGBT indie games — Twine has been transformative for bringing new voices into the fold #

Jay Silver's TED talk on turning everyday objects into computer interfaces — the creator of Makey Makey, which I highly recommend (via) #

Steven Universe pilot — Rebecca Sugar, the artist behind Adventure Time's best songs, starts her own show #

The Lonely Island's "Semicolon" — catchy parody of hashtag rap #