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 #

What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? — the physics of silliness #

Internet Archive offers over a million torrents of books, music, and films — now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org #

How YouTube lets content companies claim public domain footage — five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA (via) #

The Onion's Sex House — it's quickly moving from simple reality show parody to dystopic scifi #

Visualizing the Racial Divide — old but new to me; more background #

NYT visualization on the history of the Olympic men's 100m sprint — love the auralization at the end #

Mat Honan on the Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to his hack — the scariest: all you need to hack an iCloud account is a billing address and the last four credit card digits #

Moot on 4chan's one billionth post — more a 4chan State of the Union, tracking the site's incredible growth and future #

Togather — fan-funded book tours with built-in scheduling; reminds me of my earlier post #

YouTube's Content ID from Scripps takes down NASA's Mars Rover video — automation run amok, NASA says "everything from imagery to music gets flagged" #

Little Techie — my five-year-old nephew's obsessed with Apple devices, so he makes his own #

NASA's Mars Curiosity landing livestream — bracing for the seven minutes of terror #

Touch Arcade's review of 10000000, brilliant puzzle/RPG for iOS — I was addicted to this all weekend #

"Dude. Will you marry me?"  #

Knight Capital accidentally deployed test suite into production — the trading software bug caused $440M in losses, wiping out a 17-year-old firm in 45 minutes #

Pareidoloop — generate random polygons, match with face recognition algorithm, and mutate #

Highlights from EA's The Sims cloning lawsuit against Zynga — the RGB values for skin tones were exactly the same #

Mat Honan's post-mortem on getting hacked — they bypassed his security questions for iCloud by phone with Apple tech support #

Nucleal — three.js demo decomposing images into particles (via) #

CLOP — new game by Bennett Foddy, creator of QWOP and GIRP #

This Is Now — real-time stream views of Instagram in various cities #

Sight, sci-fi short on augmented vision — related: Black Mirror's The Entire History of You (via) #

Animated Pizza Gifs — deal with it #

Alternate Scorsese Siri commercial — "I can find a picture of a stallion for you" #

Bahi JD, Iranian animated GIF artist turned Japanese pro animator — a uniquely Internetian story #

Slender — very unnerving five-minute game for Mac/PC; I got 5/8 pages, and was scared silly #

The Twitter Political Index — running sentiment analysis on tweets that mention the candidates; it tracks nicely to Gallup polls #

Headliner — using face detection on news photos from The Guardian #

Digg relaunches — editorial curation, no comments, and built from scratch in six weeks (via) #

Ascii Street View — by Peter Nitsch, of course; related: painting in ASCII with a paintbrush (via) #

Original Spelunky ported to Javascript — using GameMaker Studio's new HTML5 support; no sound, but very playable #

Fluid simulation with 512k particles  #

The first functional 3D printed gun — weapons are now disallowed from Thingiverse, but the model's still up there #

Cloud Atlas trailer — long trailer for the new centuries-spanning sci-fi epic by the Wachowskis #

Wired on the design of the Def Con 20 badges — crypto puzzle, viral game, and reprogrammable platform rolled into one #

How I hacked my brain with Adderall — reminds me of Limitless #

Diana Kimball's case study of Cards Against Humanity — going from an idea to a Kickstarter-funded Amazon bestseller #