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 #

Blue Feed, Red Feed — WSJ runs Memeorandum Colors-esque analysis on Facebook sources #

What's Your Pay Gap? — WSJ finds that "women earn less than men in 439 of 446 major U.S. occupations" #

Funomena announces Woorld — augmented reality toy with Keita Takahashi art #

Four Seasons — space to change seasons #

On rocky beginnings — visualization of music listened to in a difficult year, part of the Quantified Selfie project #

The Next Generation of Pokemon — don't underestimate Quakstak #

Comic: My Girl by Sophia Foster-Dimino — from the creator of the Sex Fantasy sketchzine #

Comic: Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin in couples therapy — surprisingly touching #

Shuffleboard At McMurdo — the first dispatch from Maciej Ceglowski's Kickstarter-funded trip to Antarctica #

Max Goodman goes on a picnic — Stupid Hackathon project orders a random food delivery to a random location and Ubers you there #

History of the Dat Boi meme — o shit waddup #

Jason Scott's archiving hip hop mixtapes — close to 4,000 so far #

How Does an Editor Think and Feel? — brilliant episode of Tony Zhou's Every Frame A Painting #

Craig Mod's archival plans for Hi.co — microscopic etching community contributions on a nickel plate with a 10,000 year lifespan #

How algorithmic news feeds help spread conspiracy theories — an extension of the filter bubble and the net's ability to affirm all your existing beliefs #

Curio — the best of the modern PC demoscene; the latest two 64k demos are incredible #

Neural Doodle — semantic style transfer turns doodles into fine art #

Luke Phillips's Theremin — works best on a touchscreen; excited for his upcoming BlokDust #

YACHT's stolen sex tape was a PR stunt gone wrong — misguided hoax from a group I admire; their apology doesn't help much #

ConnectedNES — Super Mario hacked into a Twitter client with a custom wireless "modem" #

Marco Arment on Apple's role on podcasting — the push for more behavioral analytics inevitably leads to centralization, and sacrificing control #

How browsers render emoji — I learned stuff here #

Christoph Niemann's augmented reality New Yorker cover — watch the video to get a sense of how it looks #

Magnets and Marbles — it's the speedrun of a nonexistent videogame I'd really like to play #

Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2015 — a little late, but great overview of the variety of the type world #

Mandy Brown on gendered bots — one of my pet peeves is naming every personal assistant app after women #

Pinboard wins Hacker News contest, disqualified for arbitrary reasons — fascinating thread that speaks volumes about Y Combinator culture #

waybackpack — command-line tool to download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a URL #

How Pop Music Evolved — audio/visualization of ?22,000 Billboard hits from 1956 to today #

Graphtreon — I'm familiar with most of Patreon's top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise #

GeoCities Forever — neural network-generated web nostalgia (via) #

Matt Haughey looks back on leaving MetaFilter, one year later — lessons learned running an online community turned business #

PocketCHIP — real micro hardware for playing and coding games for the wonderful PICO-8 fantasy console #

Vimeo acquires VHX — very smart acquisition, though I prefer more distribution options for indies #

Radiohead erase internet presence — faded away to nothing at all #

JayisGames closes after 13 years — sad to see it go, absolutely essential for everyone who loved casual/Flash games #

I Want Your Email Address — "Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?" #

Player Two — short film based on a YouTube comment #

Fullest House — recurrent neural network generating a new Full House script every day; how it works #

The Revelations of Lady Murderface — Backchannel on the whistleblower who outed low pay at Yelp, which led to raises after her firing #