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 #

We R Cute Shoplifters — Good Magazine on the online subculture of shoplifting teen girls #

ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ — my aesthetic #

xkcd's Guide to Dating an Undated World Map — oh wait, this is a tuba #

Y Combinator's Basic Income Project pilot — not a huge YC fan, but I like this #

Shining360 — reconstructing 3D space using film stills from The Shining for VR (via) #

The Upcoming.org Archives — 7.6 million event pages back from the dead from Upcoming's first ten years #

Amen, a toolbox for algorithmic music remixing — today's the effective last day of the Echo Nest's pioneering Remix API #

Mosh Pit Simulator trailer — the future of VR #

Mu Cartographer — experimental game of colorful landscapes and exploration #

Don't Get Rich, Don't Die Trying — The Thermals' Hutch Harris on day jobs, money, and ego in indie music #

Browsing Wikipedia with WebVR — I'm getting VRML flashbacks #

Reddit replacing Imgur — more than half their most popular posts go to the image-hosting service #

Thngs — a visual index to human-made objects #

scribble.audio — draw looping sounds, from the creator of typedrummer #

Terrapattern — visual search engine for satellite imagery; example: baseball in Detroit, planes in NYC #

Peter Thiel secretly funding Hulk Hugan's lawsuit against Gawker — whaaaaa #

Oculus adds DRM to block Vive users, broken in a day — surprising how similar the two competing headsets are #

Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow — machine learning for dumb coding interview questions #

Pixelsynth — turn images to sound #

Quantizer — auralization of real-time collision data from the ATLAS detector at CERN #

Miranda July and Paul Ford at Seven on Seven — with the help of Mystery Show's Starlee Kine, they researched every attendee in the room #

The Evolution of an Accidental Meme — how an illustration about equality transmuted and spread #

Family Guy uses a 7-year-old YouTube video, then blocks the original — you'd think Content ID would factor in the publication date of copyrighted works, but I guess not #

Hyper-Reality — from the creator of the popular Augmented (hyper)Reality short #

Everything is a Remix: The Force Awakens — finding a balance between copy, transform, and combine #

Rapping, deconstructed — great Vox explainer on creative rhyme schemes in rap #