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 #

Retro-Daze's VHS cover collection — so much great '80s design #

GuriVR — like Inform 7 for WebVR; describe scenes with pseudo-natural language #

Kickstarter's Impact on the Creative Economy — academic study finds Kickstarter contributed $5.3 billion to the economy and 8,800 new companies #

Quadrilateral Cowboy is out — Brendon Chung's stunning cyberpunk hacking heist game, years in the making #

Texture — a WYSWYIG editor for making interactive fiction, simpler than Twine #

Jason Kottke closes Stellar — it's been touch and go for a while, and I miss it daily; thanks for making something great #

I'm With the Banned — ferocious and sad Laurie Penny piece on MIlo, Trump, and weaponized insincerity #

The Was — Soda_Jerk's astounding visual collage for The Avalanches #

XOXO 2016 launch lineup and registration — in case you missed it, we're not doing XOXO next year, or maybe ever again #

Cabel Sasser's annual 4th of July fireworks packaging roundup — likely the last time because Vancouver, WA banned fireworks #

Multi Entry — Christina Xu's project on the "creative young people of modern mainland China" #

DJ Jazzy Jeff + Mick's Summertime Mixtapes — seven years of perfect summer soundtracks #

Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing — "particularly" is the least metal word #

Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion — how it works, and more ambiguous objects #

Hillary Clinton's goodbye note to The Toast on their last day — hell of a way to send it off #

VRTX, 3D modeling in virtual reality — like the practical counterpart of Tilt Brush (via) #