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 #

The Girl Who Turned to Bone — how rare diseases are now treated, and how people support each other online (via) #

Daily Dot on the pre-history of Tumblr — interviews with the guys behind anarchaia and Projectionist #

SIGGRAPH's technical papers 2013 preview — someone show these people how to use Kickstarter #

Planet Online — the modern web meets early 1990s children's toy commercials #

How does copyright work in space? — Hatfield negotiated a license directly with Bowie, but it's otherwise complicated #

Limits & Demonstrations — standalone minigame set in the world of Kentucky Route Zero (via) #

Google Poetics — common human search queries as poetry (via) #

Jessica Hische on typography — great overall primer for selecting type #

It's Not About the Nail — "stop trying to fix it" (via) #

LEGO's full-scale X-Wing model arrives in Times Square — a 42:1 scale LEGO model of a LEGO model of a model #

Computer Beach Party — so bad it's good; don't miss Jason Scott's great backstory and interview with the director #

ROM CHECK FAIL — after five years, Farbs' classic retro gaming mashup ported to Flash #

Indie developers can't self-publish on the Xbox One — giving in to pressure from partners? #

NYT asks Scroll Kit developer not to use their name — asking him to take down the assets is fine, but this is overreaching #

Face morphing mirror at Maker Faire — simple idea, great effect #

Soylent, the post-food drink, raises $230k in a day — his blog is fascinating and, of course, there's a subreddit #

Amazon introduces Kindle Worlds, official licensing for fanfic — John Scalzi notes that Amazon gets exclusive copyright and licensors can use your new elements without compensation #

The History of YouTube by the Gregory Brothers — on YouTube's eight birthday #

Google Glass through a toddler's eyes — reminds me of Among the Sleep with Oculus Rift support #

Newsblur redesigns — my pick for a worthy Google Reader successor #

You Must Escape — clever echolocation game mechanic, second place in Ludum Dare 26 #

Dictionary of Numbers — Chrome add-on puts large numbers into human terms (via) #

Flickr launches major redesign with 1TB free space, new apps — looking pretty great #

Marco Arment on the Tumblr acquisition — great early personal history of Tumblr #

Yahoo approves Tumblr acquisition for $1.1B — the community isn't taking it well; let's hope Yahoo learned from their first billion-dollar mistake #

Doodal — now you're doodling with portals #

Bret Victor on drawing dynamic visualizations — I really wish Bret would independently release some of his work as products #

7min — dead simple timer for the Scientific 7-Minute Workout #