4chan offers subscription service to cover costs — for the first time, accepting money for services; $20/year to bypass CAPTCHAs #

Internet Archive launches extensive TV news archive — 350,000 broadcasts since 2009, loanable on DVD; more from the NYT #

Wired on XOXO — also: Willamette Week, New York Times, Daily Dot #

No Evidence of Disease — staggering tale by Maciej about his girlfriend's battle with cancer, and an unusual friendship #

Venus Patrol launches — with all the old Offworld posts, too! just in time for XOXO Arcade, which Brandon curated #

Hyundai's Hyper-Matrix Wall — straight out of Portal 2 (via) #

Andy Rehfeldt's metal remix of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" — I could listen to a whole album like this #

Steve Streza's story of making the Gangnam Style/LMFAO mashup — crazy impressive for a first remix, especially how many weak attempts there were first #

How claw crane arcade machines work — just as much of a rip-off as video slots, the claw has a weakness variable setting (via) #

Boston Dynamics cheetah robot running 28.3 mph — nothing at all scary about DARPA funding a robot that runs faster than Usain Bolt (via) #

XOXO's lineup of fringe events — oh, did I mention we're running a big arts and tech festival next week? #

Wired on the Algorithmic Copyright Cops — "these technologies do an end run around fair use" #

4chan releases an API — one billion posts later; more from Moot about the changes #

Homestuck is the Internet's Ulysses — Andrew Hussie's project to turn his webcomic epic into an adventure game raised $700k in two days #

AntiSec leaks one million Apple UDIDs with device names — they claim it was found on an FBI agent's laptop (via) #

The Verge reviews McPixel for iOS — one of my favorite games of the year, absurdly silly point-and-click minigames #

Johann Sebastian Joust's new traitor mode — come try the game at XOXO Arcade #

Ustream copyright bots kill the Hugo awards livestream — didn't realize Ustream had its own version of ContentID #

Heather Champ brings back The Mirror Project — an artifact of the early web, preserved #

Greg Knauss on his 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite — it boggles my mind how anyone could be against affordable health care #

Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources — three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I've ever heard #

Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube — including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app #

Photo Hunt — proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter's new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform #

Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit — Reddit's under severe load now #

Coding.fm — the sound of coding #

The Waiting Game — a time-wasting simulator #

We Are Back — classic '90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework (via) #

The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive — they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players #

Insane in the Chromatophores — Cypress Hill visualized in color-changing squid cells (via) #

Brooklyn Integers — artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers #

Gangnam Style, Dissected — most of the heavy lifting from Onsemiro's blog post #

Super Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600 — really impressive fan conversion #

Twitter revokes Tumblr's friend finding privileges — this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter's the social network graph that matters most to me #

Uncertain Rainbow — replacing identity on Twitter with a color #

Give Up — a Flash game about failure and regret; after you play, watch this playthrough #

Case study of Indie Game: The Movie's distribution — opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control #

Awkward Stock Video — thumbs up to wind! (via) #

How Mat Honan recovered his data — he got his baby photos back, fortunately #

Kickstarter case study of Robin Sloan's book project — cameo by yours truly #

How Gasketball's free-to-play app business model backfired — if you make a free app, make it really, really easy to give you money #

Staggering Beauty — shake vigorously #

Obvious announces Medium, a new blogging platform — "this is good" #

Khan Academy's new interactive computer science program — created by John Resig, who wrote about the project #

Progressive Insurance defends policy holder's killer in court — a horrific new low for an insurance company, an impressive feat #

Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra — inspired by Kutiman's Thru-You, Gotye's remix of YouTube covers of "Somebody That Used to Know" #

A Long Drawn-Out Trip — Gerald Scarfe's pre-Wall 1973 animation, largely unseen because of music clearance #

Hieroglyphy, a tool to turn any JS code into ()[]{}!+ — try it here (via) #

Kirby Ferguson's Embrace the Remix talk at TED — nice distillation of the core ideas behind Everything Is A Remix #

Mixel to close in September — one of the only iOS apps to allow public remix, shutting down way too soon #

Beck's new album released only as sheet music — a collaboration with McSweeney's #