Jason Scott on porting VLC to the browser — like the Emularity, a project with huge potential to make archived works more accessible #

clickclickclick.click — adorably strange browser game about online profiling (via) #

Possibilia — an interactive love story set in the multiverse, directed by Swiss Army Man's DANIELS (via) #

Death and MetaFilter — Josh Millard on coping with death and loss in long-running, close-knit online communities  #

The Caretaker's "Everywhere at the end of time" — the first in a six-album series about dementia and memory loss  #

Bandcamp interviews Vektroid — absurdly talented musician, impossible to easily categorize, and always evolving #

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey secretly funding Trump memes — everything about this is gross; devs are cancelling their Oculus support #

The Festival Floppies — incredible treasure trove of odd and beautiful DOS shareware, emulated in the browser #

Yahoo confirms pretty much every Yahoo Mail account ever exposed, two years ago — at least 500 million accounts, the largest data breach ever #

Sunlight Foundation winding down Sunlight Labs — sad to see, they did so much great work #

A-Painter — Tilt Brush clone in the browser, with simple sharing and saving of drawings #

botsplaining — dudes arguing with a Twitter bot #

The Last Epiphany — Greg Knauss looks back on five years of XOXO #

Reigns' creator on making the indie hit — "the result of contingent decisions mixed with an indecent amount of luck" #

Toby Fox on UnderTale, one year later — solid perspective on a hit game #

My LaCroix — fan project; my personal favorite, so far #

Polygraph's visualization of Kickstarter projects by city — love their work so much #

First look at Squanchtendo's Accounting — the creators of Rick & Morty and Stanley Parable are making a VR game #

The Verge on five years of XOXO, and our hiatus — just need time to work on new things and rethink what XOXO is and could be #

Jackson Hole Town Square — over 1,600 people are watching this stream and chatting relentlessly; it's like Deer in real life #

Printed by Somerset — modern take on the classic paper website design #

John Scalzi on the University of Chicago, trigger warnings, and safe spaces — it's not coddling, it's just respect #

Interview with The Avalanches' sample clearance expert — not an easy job #

BlokDust, playful web-based synth toy — here's one complex example #

Peter Thiel and Y Combinator back startup to find and invest in lawsuits — I hate everything about this with a bright, white heat #

Zoë Quinn on life since Gamergate and her Chuck Tingle game — Project Tingler sounds perfectly, absurdly terrible #

Lister Gallery — love this guy's style, like watercolor pixel art #

Blackbox — maybe the best animated GIF I've ever seen, by pixel art legend Paul Robertson #

Nick Denton pens Gawker's final post — see also: Gawker was murdered by gaslight #

A-Frame brings room-scale VR to the browser — this is unreal, I'm walking around in a web page #

Justice Department plans to stop using private prisons — thank you, Mother Jones #

Gawker.com shutting down next week after 14 years — Univision paid $135M for Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Kotaku #

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing — modern animation techniques presented like a 1950s Disney short #

How to Be a Guy: Swimsuit Edition — from Jay Edidin's outstanding new column on transitioning #

Buzzfeed on Twitter's decade-long failure to address harassment — failure largely from the top down, it seems #

castles made of castles  #

Spaceplan — clicker game with a storyline #

Text analysis of Trump's tweets — he writes angry tweets on Android, gentler tweets authored by staff on iPhone/web #

Generating fantasy maps for Uncharted Atlas — beautiful Twitter bot; from the same author, how placenames are generated #

Desktop Ensemble — more from Soft Object #

Bicycling the length of Britain in VR — currently on day 58 #

Morbotron — the Futurama counterpart to Frinkiac #

Vlogbrothers' How to Vote In Every State — big project with 54 videos to get out the vote for the Nerdfighter/VidCon community #

Rick and Morty recreate State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen — this is a word-for-word voicing of an actual, incredibly NSFW court transcript #

Fan video for Macintosh Plus's "Floral Shoppe" — the 2011 remix album that defined the vaporwave genre #

This Is Not Fine — updated for 2016; related: new This Is Fine plush dogs #

webcomic name — oh no #

Tilt Brush adds audio reactive brushes — like anything VR-related, it really has to be experienced to appreciate it #

A Field Guide to China's Most Indispensible Meme — more remixable than reaction GIFs, and the most popular platforms don't support animation #

Only 9% of America chose Trump and Clinton as the nominees — elegant visualization from the New York Times #