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) #

FiveThirtyEight launches 2016 U.S. election forecast — don't miss the methodology, including lessons learned from forecasting the primaries #

Auctioneer Beats  #

Mother Jones' Shane Bauer's investigation as a private prison guard — astounding work of journalism, four months of life in the prison system #

Felix Salmon on Brexit — a "senseless, self-inflicted blow," "isolationist catastrophe," and a grim warning for the U.S. #

C-SPAN broadcasts Periscope from House members — Republicans turned off the cameras during the sit-in on gun control #

Crows Crows Crows' The Temple of No — a very good use of Twine #

Seinfeld recreated in Doom 2 — downloadable here #

Vi Hart on internet fame, violence against women, and dealing with tragedy — in the context of Christina Grimmie and the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando #

Zach Gage's Glaciers — poetry made with Google autocomplete and Raspberry Pis #

The Atlantic on Ev Williams and the open web — the open web's fading away in favor of consolidated convenience and algorithmic relevance #

Animated evolution of the NYT homepage during the Orlando shooting — breaking crises are one of the few times a homepage still matters #

Thoughts & Prayers: The Game — making a real difference there, GOP #

The Guardian looks back on lonelygirl15 — nicely timed, the channel posted its first new video in seven years #

Field Trip to Mars — Lockheed-Martin's school bus motion ride with real-time imagery based on geolocation #

What happened to Yahoo's 53 acquisitions under Marissa Mayer — at least 41 were shut down #

Bandcamp's feature on the cottage industry of indie game soundtracks — interviews with Jim Guthrie, Chipzel, Toby Fox, Chris Remo, and Disasterpeace #

Interview with a woman who recently had an abortion at 32 weeks — losing a child is tragic enough, but the pro-life right insists on compounding women's suffering #

Silicon Valley's Scapegoat Complex — Buzz Andersen on Gawker and Peter Thiel #

Samantha Bee on the Orlando murders — prayer isn't cutting it #

Who Is My Voice? — nice to see my representatives refused NRA cash #

ThinkUp closes its doors — sad to see, I had fun working on its open-source incarnation #

Visually-indicated sounds predicted by AI — algorithmically creating soundtracks for silent video; related: water sound synthesis #

2016 AICP Sponsor Reel — mesmerizing motion capture and material rendering; this should be fun when the metaverse arrives #

Gawker files for bankruptcy, likely selling to Ziff Davis — no heroes in this story, but I worry about other billionaires using this technique on smaller publications #

Building an emoji translator with deep learning — this is fun to play with #

2001: A Picasso Odyssey — also: Blade Runner meets Starry Night #

Cracking Broderbund's Gumball for the Apple II — including an easter egg hidden for 33 years; now you can play it in the browser #

Mapping Silicon Valley characters to their real-life counterparts — I can't watch the show without triggering flashbacks #

Tracking the most popular YouTube video in the world — behind the single-serving site #

Fatal Migrations — tracking where migrants died crossing from Mexico to Arizona; more on the project #

Twinklr — a modern music box #

WSJ's Hamilton rhyme analysis — here's the methodology #

The Stanford victim's statement to her attacker — incredibly powerful indictment of rape culture on campus and in the courts #

Frame-by-frame reconstruction of Blade Runner with a neural network — like a computer's memory after "watching" it six times; of course, it got a DMCA takedown #